For Honor - Inside the Dominion Mode of Ubisoft's New Innovative Title

Ubisoft has released a new video for their upcoming game For Honor, in which Gameplay Designer Bio Jade Adam Granger, sheds some light on some of the dominion way's intricacies, too as For Honor'south three factions and the Art of Battle organization that drives its swordplay.

For Honor's multiplayer skirmishes between knights, samurai and Vikings are more than than simply encarmine spectacle, they're likewise a refreshingly fast and complex approach to medieval warfare, combining melee crowd-battles that require intense focus and quick thinking, and the battlefield rhythms of a multiplayer shooter. It's a alloy that really shines in Dominion mode, which challenges four-knight teams to capture and hold command points while slashing each other to ribbons.

For Laurels blends strategic thinking and swordplay with shooter like pacing

For Honor'due south action blends strategic thinking and deliberate swordplay with shooter-like pacing and melee oversupply control. Hurling players into chaotic scenarios equally a powerful special-ops warrior, it takes a unique approach to medieval warfare.

Artistic Manager Jason Vandenberghe explains:

"Our vision with Sanctuary is to create a game that ignites the same emotions that a warrior would feel on a real battleground. The tension of face-to-face encounters with deadly enemies, the adrenaline of charging alongside your army against the opposition, the danger of a chaotic boxing when you don't know where the side by side strike will come from,"

"It's a game that celebrates the fine art of sword-fighting and the legacy of the legendary warriors from those bully legacies, the knights, the Vikings and the samurai that we brought together in one single feel."

For Accolade offers 3 factions, the Vikings, the Samurai and the Knights

Playing equally legendary heroes from 1 of three factions, the Viking Warborn, the Chosen Samurai or the knightly Legions, you'll spend much of For Laurels's single-player entrada and multiplayer matches stomping through enemy infantry and archers, clearing a path for your own troops to pour through, while too taking part in lethal duels with other champions.

"Y'all're the top i percent. The characters you play in For Honor are the difference makers. They're the ones who get chosen in to finish the fight," says Vandenberghe.

"You demand to brand tactical decisions most which pieces of this ground you're going to fight over. And then you encounter other badasses who are equally equally important every bit you, and you duel them to find out who'due south the bigger badass. If y'all're dead, it was them."

For Honor'due south duels accept advantage of the Art of Battle combat system, a key features' of which is to permit you adjust your stance with the correct analog stick, which blocks incoming attacks and lets you strike at openings in your opponent'south defenses.

"Wherever yous're property your weapon, that's where you're blocking automatically," says Vandenberghe.

"So if I'm holding my sword to my left and yous set on me on my left side, I'm going to block information technology. But if you assail me from the right or from above, I'g going to become striking. It takes fourth dimension to change my stance, so I demand to anticipate what yous're going to do."

For Honor will exist coming to PS4, Xbox One and PC. We will bring you any new data equally shortly as it becomes available.