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For Honor

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For Honor
For Honor cover
Developers
Ubisoft Montreal
Windows Blue Byte Software
Publishers
Ubisoft
Engines
AnvilNext 2.0
Release dates
Windows February 14, 2017
Reception
Metacritic 76
OpenCritic 77
IGDB 77
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Hack and slash
Themes Medieval
For Honor on HowLongToBeat
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For Honor on Wikipedia

Warnings

This game requires a constant internet connection for all game modes.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
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Always online (requires a constant internet connection to play)
Windows
Epic Games Store
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Always online (requires a constant internet connection to play)
Windows
GamersGate
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Always online (requires a constant internet connection to play)
Marching Fire Edition, Complete Edition also available.
Windows
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Always online (requires a constant internet connection to play)
Marching Fire Edition, Complete Edition also available.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Always online (requires a constant internet connection to play)
Windows
Humble Store
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Always online (requires a constant internet connection to play)
Windows
Microsoft Store
Microsoft Store
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Always online (requires a constant internet connection to play)
Marching Fire Edition included exclusively with Xbox Game Pass for PC.
Windows
Steam
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Always online (requires a constant internet connection to play)
Windows
Ubisoft Store
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Always online (requires a constant internet connection to play)
Starter Edition, Marching Fire Edition, Complete Edition also available. Marching Fire Edition included with Ubisoft+.
Windows
Origin (unavailable)
Origin
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Always online (requires a constant internet connection to play)
Windows
All versions require Easy Anti-Cheat, Ubisoft Connect, and Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM and a constant internet connection for all game modes.[1]

Version differences

The Starter Edition includes the full single player/co-op campaign and 6 playable heroes (instead of 12) with 3 fully unlocked. Other heroes can be unlocked for 8000 Steel each.
The Deluxe Edition contains the base game and Deluxe pack.
The Gold Edition contains the base game, the Season Pass and the Deluxe pack.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Marching Fire Expansion
Windows
Season Pass Included in Gold Edition
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions[2]
  1. Download Skip For Honor intro
  2. Place the Videos folder in <path-to-game>.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\For Honor\
Microsoft Store
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/304390/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Origin
Steam Cloud
Ubisoft Connect
Saves game progression on the Uplay account.
Xbox Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
60-90°
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
FXAA, SMAA, TAA, 2x SSAA
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Some animations (e.g. cloth\hair physics, camera when sliding down a rope) are updating at lower framerate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
Dolby Atmos HRTF.[3]
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Arabic
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Czech
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play

Connection types

Ports

No port information; you can edit this page to add it.
This game supports Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for automatic port configuration.

VR support

Devices State Notes
Tobii Eye Tracking
Supports: Extended View - Eye & Head Tracking.

Issues fixed

See Ubisoft's acknowledge page for general fixes

Game changes microphone gain at launch

Modify microphone gain ingame[4]
  1. Start the game.
  2. Go to the audio settings.
  3. Set Voice Chat Volume to your preferred microphone gain.

Crash after intro

Enable Vertical sync (Vsync) by deleting all files within the configuration file(s) location[5]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics Havok
Audio Wwise
Cutscenes Bink Video Renaming or deleting the intro video files results in a crash on launch.
Anti-cheat Easy Anti-Cheat [6]

System requirements

Windows[7]
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7, 8.1, 10
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i3-550
AMD Phenom II X4 955
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 40 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
AMD Radeon HD 6970
2 GB of VRAM
DirectX 11 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX compatible
Other Broadband Internet connection
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/304390/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (304390) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. xtland.com - last accessed on May 2023
  2. Verified by User:Cakestrike on 2019-02-10
  3. Games in Dolby - last accessed on May 2023
  4. Verified by User:Hawaii_Beach on 2017-01-28
  5. Verified by User:Hawaii_Beach on 2017-02-20
    AFAIK caused by too much fps generated
  6. Easy Anti-Cheat - last accessed on May 2023
  7. For Honor PC Specs and System Requirements Revealed - UbiBlog - Ubisoft® - last accessed on 2017-01-21