FOUR NEW HEROES FROM THE FAR EAST ENTER THE BATTLEFIELD IN FOR HONOR® MARCHING FIRE, LAUNCHING OCTOBER 16
Includes New Faction, 4v4 Game Mode, Unlimited PvE Content, Significant Graphical Enhancements and more on dedicated Australian servers
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — June 13, 2018 —Ubisoft has announced Marching Fire, a new update coming to For Honor®. Marching Fire introduces the game’s largest post-launch content update and includes the new Wu Lin faction, a new 4v4 PvP mode, unlimited PvE content and more. The update will be available October 16 on PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system, the Xbox One family of devices including Xbox One X and Windows PC.
Available as part of the Marching Fire update are four new heroes of the Wu Lin – a new faction inspired by ancient Chinese martial arts. The four new heroes include the Tiandi, the Jiang Jun, the Nuxia and the Shaolin, who have traveled from the east to escape a civil war that has consumed their homeland following the cataclysm. Each consumed by their own motivations, ranging from betrayal to personal tragedies, these Wu Lin heroes bring a brand-new set of weaponry and fighting styles to add more versatility to the battlefield. All Wu Lin heroes can be recruited using in-game Steel following an initial exclusivity period.
Players will have access to the four warriors of the Wu Lin, alongside the existing roster of 18 heroes in a brand-new 4v4 PvP game mode, Breach. The mode will be free for all players and is playable across three new maps, allowing players to live the fantasy of storming or protecting a well-fortified castle armed with ballistae and cauldrons of fire as well as archers and a heavily armoured ruler looking to protect his land. Attackers and defenders must strategically maneuver the battlefield as they escort or attempt to destroy a battering ram to gain access to the castle.
Marching Fire will also introduce new unlimited PvE content playable in single-player and two-player online co-op. This new PvE mode will be available as part of the paid bundle, which also includes the Wu Lin heroes. More details about the PvE content and the paid bundle will be revealed soon.
Finally, all players will also benefit from free graphical enhancements that will improve the in-game textures, introduce a revamped lighting system and new sky gradients and also provide further quality of life improvements including an updated user interface
In celebration of the Marching Fire announcement, all PC players can get the For Honor PC Starter Edition for free via Uplay or from the Ubisoft Store June 11–18. The PC Starter Edition gives players full access to all multiplayer game modes and the campaign mode, as well as the three Vanguard heroes with additional heroes being recruitable using in-game Steel. All PC versions of the game will also be on sale for up to 75% off through June 18. Console players can take advantage of the up-to-75% discount on For Honor on Xbox One until June 17 and PlayStation®4 system until June 19.
Developed by Ubisoft Montreal in collaboration with other Ubisoft studios,* For Honor offers an engaging campaign and thrilling multiplayer modes. Players embody warriors of the three Great Factions – the bold Knights, the brutal Vikings and the deadly Samurai – fighting to the death on intense and believable melee battlefields. The Art of Battle, the game’s innovative combat system that puts players in total control of their warriors, allows them to utilise the unique skills and combat style of each hero to vanquish all enemies who stand in their way. With new training modes and dedicated servers, there has never been a better time to play For Honor.
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It is interesting to note that this marks the first time that, even with previous collections being released in the past, three of those four titles are available for online play making this a great way for fans of the classic arcade games to take their retro skills and pit them against other fans of the series. These lobbies can be filtered by game or allow you to search for matches in any of the games at a time if you aren’t picky. Thankfully these online matches remain lag free no matter what game you end up fighting in, and if you do end up having to wait for a match players can still take part in arcade battles and even newly added training modes (exclusive to the online capable games) until you come up against someone.
As for the actual games included in this release, fans will be delighted to hear that they have all retained their same classic style of gameplay. Of course this does mean that the original Street Fighter is a game that you will only tend to revisit when you want to see how the series started, or want to punish yourself since the original is quite terrible compared to everything else on offer. In many ways this does demonstrate just how much of an improvement Capcom made with Street Fighter II as you can only see small glimpses of what made the series so memorable in the first game while its sequel capitalizes on those in almost every regard.
While the wide and varied roster of Street Fighter III may not be the most approachable for some fans of the series, the in-depth combat system still makes it one of the best games in the franchise, though since this collection contains so many earlier iterations as well, there is something for everyone here.
The games themselves all retain their original sprite work, once again showing the improvements made over the course of the series’ life as Street Fighter III still stands the test of time as being a gorgeous and fluid looking sprite based fighting game. The soundtrack also features all of the classic theme songs that players remember and, thanks to the aforementioned music test in the museum, can be easily revisited at any time.
