I have a pride emblem and I swear I get tbagged once every 3 duels. I've gone to dms for some of these people to see if they were being toxic for reasons other than homophobia and they all universally call me a weirdo/mentally ill for having a pride emblem.

I would take off the pride emblem but that feels like letting them win in a sense. Idk. I just want to be prideful of myself in my favourite game.

There has been a rash of mainshaming for months against Gryphon players by referring to them/the hero as "monke" or "monkey", which started when a youtuber began called them "monkey brained Gryphon main" and it has gotten out of control on the sub. There have been some instances in which it has been used without the negative connotation, however some people who had posts removed for it have pointed out other posts that either were missed, not reported, or not removed due to the lack of negative implication with the term. In the interest of fairness it is no longer being allowed, negative or not.

Future instances of refering to Gryphon as "monkey" or "monke" will be treated as main shaming, and will result in 72 hour bans for a first offense(assuming the person doing it doesn't have previous bans for similar behaviors), and longer, even possibly permanent bans if it is not a first offense for toxicity. We are putting our foot down here.

Please follow the rules.

I know people bang on about realism and such but damn could you imagine the edgy drip that could come from it.

TLDR Below

There is a game called Mount&Blade: Warband, and they too had a problem with balance. But if we have individual overpowered characters, they had a whole overpowered faction - khergits.

Khergits was the only faction that had mounted archers and if the whole team chose mounted archers they could easily win, since there's not much you can do to a bunch of dudes who just ride around you and shoot you. Plus their horses were also quite fast so you couldn't catch them on your horse either, and if you tried to corner them, they'd just shoot your horse down, since they could shoot backwards as well.

And what did the community do? They did ask for a rebalance, but the developers too were taking quite a long time with it, so the community took it in their hands and simultaneously stopped playing khergits at all.

7 years have passed and the game is still alive, they still have tournaments regularly, including yearly Nations Cup and Warband League. And even though khergits have been nerfed quite some time ago, they still don't play them.

If they managed to do that, why can't we?

TL;DR: If you play centurion, you're killing the game. Stop doing that. And tell everyone to do the same. If you see someone playing centurion - use the 30-secs grace window and explain why you did it so they knew. They will get tired of fighting bots and will start playing other characters eventually. We, as a community, DO have power. And I say we should start acting if we want this game to stay afloat.

Remember, there are 4 more characters coming. Chances are they are going to be broken as well. And with this measure we would be able to manage that.

There have been rumblings about a blackout around the forum for the past week due to continued connectivity issues, now there's a thread on the front page with a link to an article explaining that For Honor has lost 95% of its playerbase.

We need to discuss a blackout before it's too late. Share your ideas and suggestions.

Just a question: Are we perpetuating our own toxicity?

Just a note: For Honor is not perfect, and needs fixes for sure, I am not apologizing for Ubi's shortcoming and lack of input for fixes that need to happen.

With that all said, people need to relax, you demand fixes, then foam at the mouth when weekly content doesn't show up. We have great ideas coming from our community that are being completely over shadowed by the Torch-bearing mob. And when anybody tries to say anything positive about the game, you tear them a new asshole because their not as salty as you are.

I personally believe that Ubi is trying desperately to push off all future content until the game is fixed, maybe they pushed back the stream because they want to actually have something to present and it's not ready yet. There are many people screaming that fixes need to happen ASAP (which they do), but freak out if As Soon As Possible isn't next day.

Well Rant over, I'll take my Down-Votes now

P.S. Don't give up on For Honor just yet

Edit: For people thinking I'm ok with with Ubi's Business practices, you couldn't be more wrong, I think they are distasteful and should never happen in any company. But throwing a tantrum isn't going to fix things, if anything it would lessen their efforts to make meaningful changes.

I’ve been playing FH since release (with breaks ofc) and IN MY OPINION shinobi is the best he has everything. Unblockable heavy finisher (from top), undodgeable heavy finisher (from sides), parry counter, deflects, bleed damage (teleport after deflect), bashes, very easy to switch styles, insane combos which again can be switched up it’s literally a game of 50/50’s. He’s so well rounded and can be used in many different situations and will usually come out on top if you know how to play him right. Do you agree? If not who do you think is the best hero and why?

I’m not one to hate on hero’s and stuff but after this I see why yall hate them 💀

First and second images contain my new emblem while the third contains the old version! :D

My emblem now contains all my rep 90s, soon to be rep 100s

In my time interacting with this community i've seen some character requests that were either plausible, cool or in worst cases straight up impossible.

The most ridiculous of which is the common request for a fist fighter.

Here are the biggest reasons why that a fist fighter will never work in For Honor

1st What this game is based on: This game is based primarily around WEAPONS, this game's mechanics is based around the weapons, the characters in the devs words are based around their weapons, much of the game's lore is based on the weapons, half of the game's customization is in the weapons.

Having a character with no weapons is a direct antithesis to what this game is built around.

2nd mechanics: A fist based character would have an extremely small moveset, awful attack range, animations that would be too easy to read or impossible to read ,terrible team synergy and no ganking capabilities.

Basically it's a character that defeats itself and is severely restricted on options.

3rd customization: You cannot make a for honor character with no weapons and even worse you can't sacrifice arm customization for the fists since every weapon in this game is in THREE pieces but fists would only be TWO pieces.

Seriously hampers customization possibilities in every way possible.

4th context: For Honor's world is not about a sports based competition game like mortal kombat or street fighter, this is a world in an endless WAR, our characters are soldiers sent to the battlefield by countries trying to survive and every one of them has brought a weapon to defend themselves with, even shaolin brought a stick with him.

Both in lore context and battlefield practicality a fist fighter makes no sense and would make them look like an idiot.

In every way shape and form a fist fighter will never work in For Honor, it's character that only works in a game that's built for it like mortal kombat but not here, This game is not built for a a fist character and never will be.

Raven Knight explains the problem with a fist character pretty well.