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why not play the AI?
i hardly ever play PVP

and lets be fair, 4 vs 1 of any class is a hard if not impossible match up.

i'm sure we'll see those 2 fall off after a while... theyre the new kid on the block so everyone wants to play them.

I personally don't find any fun in fighting the AI and I haven't done so since the campaign. It's like a whole different game really. Things like feinting into guard break often works on people but never works on a bot unless they were programmed to fail a guard break anyway.

i can see that.
i suppose i've just gotten used to it because it seems a whole lot easier to get into a game.

I honestly sometimes prefer to fight the bots. I can actually practice chains and combos against them without risking getting ganked by 3 Shinobis and a Peacekeeper

definitely... if i want to practice i always duel AI
a little practice, a little steel...

its not the same as people i know but it helps you work out the combos like war kitten said.

you can work on speed after that.

I've discovered there's basically no one on the xbone playing PvP, so bots are essentially all there.

I tried something different today. I dueled my usual FH friend for an hour or two, but to spice things up we set it to single round, low damage, no gear or revenge, and the UI completely disabled.

The result was very fun. No health bars so you couldn't be sure who was ahead, no stamina bar so you had to estimate whether throwing or just doing gb>heavy is better (but poor shugoki, at least three times he missed a hug due to having just thrown me prone) and no guard indicators made parrying a challenge.

hey guys, do any of you know why as a centurion sometimes i knock people down and sometimes i dont when doing the special uppercut move after landing a heavy attack?
does it have something to do with their stamina?

i thought i recall knocking guys down with stamina on their bar but i cant be sure.

You have to charge it (hold the button) to knock them down.

Alternatively, all stagger attacks become knockdowns when you have revenge, which is true for all classes.

Hmm ill have to try holding it longer.
You have to hold it just to activate it.

After some time I have come to the conclusion that I despise the Shinobi. As a Conqueror main the sheer number of ways the Shinobi has to feth me over is unbelievably painful

The free For Honor weekend has begun! Come one, come all!

I play on a PS4. Having said that is anyone having connection issues. Season one I had a little. Season 2 it was rare for me. Ever since season 3 started it's been bad. Half my attempts to start a match fail.

Yeah, I had some before. Seems like I don't have those issues as much anymore, though.

I have had all kinds of errors and connectivity issues since the game came out. It's what you have to live with.

Thankfully the game is worth it. I am more displeased with the time snap issue.

I had almost zero issues during season 2. But season 3 has been bad, at least for me anyway.

Ubisoft's servers tend to be just awful.

It's really funny to have watched their Rainbow 6 "pro league" events and see people lagging out while in the same room.

Anyone still playing this?

I am 450+ hours in and I am not even close to tired. Lowering my settings a bit to increase FPS made light parrying easier and did not impact the game's appearance as much as I expected.

The game is not free of issues but the fighting system is so good it feels downright difficult to go back to simpler games.

The halloween event is also almost over. Better grab the howl at the moon emote and the mask outfits before they're gone!

I see you every so often. I don't jump on as often (though I still enjoy the heck out of it) because I don't seem to matchmake properly. Takes me upwards of 30 minutes per. I'm curious if it's because I'm so under-leveld compared to the average player, now, or if it's because I haven't finished the Singleplayer yet.

I wish I could do more Duel and Skirmish matches- the presence of minions and objective points, while very good for interesting tactical group combat, takes away, I think, from the joy of the sheer visceral one-on-one the game is built for.

Skirmish and elimination seems mostly dead on PC. When I get orders for them I just do matches vs AI with matchmaking off.

Dominion, duel, brawl and endless march seem to have fully acceptable queue times of a couple minutes at most, though. Curious that it would take you so long.

Like I said, I think it's something to do with my level. Nothing in particular is saying that, it's just gut instinct.

Very odd. Even when I am playing with two of my friends (rep1 and rep0 respectively) queues are very fast.

Must be unlucky.

So the new characters are out for season pass holders. I enjoy both of them but the shaman is definitely my new favorite character.

How... magick-y is the Shaman? I mean, I'll see it soon enough, but I'm just curious.

I've been wondering if they were going to start bringing in less 'burly-hit-them-with-things' Heroes. Is this a step in that direction?

Anvildude wrote:
How... magick-y is the Shaman? I mean, I'll see it soon enough, but I'm just curious.

Not very. She's just an insane berserker type character. She's basically berserker 2.0 in all honesty.

Except, unlike berserker, she is also insanely overpowered. To put it in warhammer terms, being a shaman player vs a kensei is like being that guy who brought revenant titans against a foot CSM player back in 6th.

I can imagine she's fun to play (as noted above) due to how she has basically everything. She has fast double lights, she has good heavy attacks soft feintable into a bleed stab from any direction (whereas peacekeeper's bleed stab soft feint can only be done in the direction of the original attack and also does 15 damage against shaman's 25), she has 500ms dodges in all directions (the best in the game), she can cancel just about everything into everything else making her mixup game completely nuts, oh and her pounce attack is a faster and feintable version of the warlord's headbutt (which was already one of the best openers in the game) with better range and that gives a shaman double light instead of warlord's measly 10 damage poke. Said pounce has broken tracking (you can often flawlessly dodge it only to have the shaman turn 90 degrees in mid air and have it hit you anyway) and if you happen to be bleeding the pounce will stunlock you and do a monstrous 50 damage, while also healing the shaman for 20 and restore all her stamina. (To put in perspective, imagine if shugoki's hug was 3 times faster, had better range, was feintable and did not hurt shugoki if it misses...) She also has great dodge attacks (considered as heavy attacks for some reason despite their speed making them less punishable than other dodge attacks for everyone but peacekeeper), including a lightning fast front dodge attack that can come from any attack direction and can be canceled into a pounce or vice versa. Even if she misses a pounce she can cancel her recovery into another pounce. She also has one of the best OOS punishes in the game (70) thanks to her unblockable left finisher (why the hell does she have an unblockable finisher?)

Oh, and if the opponent is bleeding she also heals on every hit. That's a level 4 feat for other heroes (shinobi) but it's baseline for shaman because that's fair.

Simply put, she is utterly cancerous beyond what even centurion was on release and the salt she gets is 100% deserved.

In case you doubt me, here is a fun example (and there are tons more).

What.

Okay, if you have attack speed, you don't get unblockables. If you have recovery, you don't get dodge speed. If you have heavy damage, you don't get attack speed.

Just... I mean, I know why they've done this- it's a new character, and so they're looking for the early-adopters to shell out for the pass before they nerf her down, but seriously.

Her pounce also wallsplats giving you a heavy attack instead of a double light.

Seriously, they removed wallsplat from centurion punches for a fething reason...


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On the bright side bots are now smarter. AI matches offer more challenge (though counter guard break is still not their strong suit) and having teammates quit is no longer the certain doom it once was.

I am bringing out my lawbringer again. There's so many shaman running around used to just rolling over everyone that they don't know how to deal with the shove mixup.

Still, I hope to the gods that they nerf her soon...

She does seem more tanky than my previous main, the highlander. I only tend to play bots but yeah its pretty insane the damage I can manage to inflict with her being that shes an assassin class.

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