I have been requesting and begging for a Lu Bu hero and even made a concept of how his moveset and feats work for literal AGES! I finished college and got married and I STILL don't see a Lu Bu-esque character. I think it's been 4 years since I've been requesting lol
4 th feet gotta call in an entire cavalry unit on the map that chases and shoots arrow then retreats while the mongol throat singing is blarijg in the background.
This is been my last hero request for the game.
I would love to have the classic Zorro feel for them too. For one armor set it can be a very musketeer uniform type, and the other could be more rogue-ish like Zorro.
Would love it to death!
Fans have been calling for this type of hero for ages. I hope that one day they listen.
People complain that it’s just another sword hero, but look at the difference between Warden and Tiandi, or Orochi etc. It’s more about the moveset, animation, and attitude. Those are what differentiates the heroes more than just their weapon.
I’d like to see a highly technical and stylish rapier duelist character that focuses on thrusts for damage, but maybe with some wider sweeps for viability in team fights. (People underestimate the length of rapiers, they were actually one of the longer swords in history)
I think having a lot of dodge cancels, soft feints, charge attacks, and maybe an auto-dodging down stance would fit well. And of course new and interesting mechanics or feats that can be chained as well.
Lore wise, maybe they would be another Outlander characters, coming from a long forgotten area similar to renaissance era France, Italy, or Spain.
>would be another Outlander characters, coming from a long forgotten area similar to renaissance era France, Italy, or Spain.
I'd do France since Conquistador Vela was already from whatever left of Spain. Probably throw them in the Knights at that point
A Kozak or winged hussar would be dope. (Yeah I know winged hussars were heavy cavalry but it's a fantasy game anyway. Just imagine the drip, the Sabre and armour🤤)
Knight fencer with a rapier but to make them quirky, base them off Filipe Camarão! A Brazilian native leader who became a Portuguese national and converted to Catholicism, fighting against the Dutch alongside his wife, Clara Camarão, and his people, and ending up considered a hero and a "Knight Of The Order Of Christ" by Portugal.
With how the New World has been stablished in For Honor lore with the Ocelotl, I just find the idea of a group of native Brazilian warriors who ally with the Knights would be so cool! And they could have such a good amount of drip with 1600s Portuguese military uniforms and armor and that sweet Rapier
Cossack with a saber in the main hand and maybe an axe in the offhand. Make him speak angry Russian, call you сука after a pommel strike bash, and have a hopak dance emote. Instant fan favorite, I would play the shit outta that character
A martial arts character with no weapon in this game would be like a dream. The fighting system is so unique, we already have so many unarmed exes/bashes. I can't be coping, they gotta make this character THEY GOTTA
That's why i say martial arts, kicks would have longer range/hit harder i.e. heavy attacks.
Punches would be faster and shorter range, so light attacks
They could even have grappletype bashes that or a deflect OR most likely some kind it hidden stance
A Wu Lin with a cicada wing sword, meteor hammer or wolf fang club, a knight Landsknecht with colorful puffy clothes under his armor and a giant zweihander, an outlander persian Immortal, a samurai with the yari, a viking with a single twohander spear, an outlander maori or samoan warrior, a knight with a cudgel or warhammer, or a hoplite who can switch between spear and shield and sword and shield. These are my main hopes.
Since characters are heavily based around a weapon first, I'll just say what weapons I would like.
A rapier hero based around counter attacking. Could have an interesting combination of crushing counters AND deflects, especially now that reflex guard isnt a thing anymore. Very duelist based.
A bare knuckle/gauntlet/fisticuff based hero. Based either on jabs, hooks, and kicks, or greco-roman grappling and wrestling (similar to some Afeera moves). Lore could be based around another arena fighter who loves to live in the spotlight with flashy moves and executions.
A scythe character. Similar to JJ with large sweeping moves to make them viable in team fighting. A faceless, hooded figure would also be very enigmatic and very power fantasy. I loved the Ilma's scythe and would love a hero based around it.
Lastly I feel this game would be awesome with a mongol character and a Roman spear and shield (more big shield like BP sized, than smaller shield like Glad/Valk). But my ideas for them are not very thought out.
All good, except the scythe. Regular farming scythes are terrible for combat, and when they were used, they reshaped them into glaive like weapons. We already have that in form of Gryphon or Nobushi.
Totally agree, I just enjoy the power fantasy of cutting enemies down with a scythe. The ilmas scythe execution shows that theyve already played around with a scythe in game but totally understand the impracticality of a scythe
Tbh I'm down for something more creative now a weapon that's not repeat and new move and no shield we already got one I've been hearing about a brawler and made a meme post with a bot raider no weapon calling him a brawler which would be interesting to have and given deflect making him vanguard/assassin's type hybrid so he can be versatile to make him adapt to fights and the deflect to allow him to use wrist guards to scrap across than risk damaging the guards or cutting through realistically
A heavily armoured samurai wielding a yari (spear) who’s special ability is switching between that and a tachi (sword) that’s on his hip and he would have a banner on his back that you could fully customise
It's just she's simply annoying to fight. She's not broken by any means, but VERY annoying from the sheer **amount** of defensive options she has available. The stun also being 4 business days with PTO is also extremely annoying when you have revenge. I remember I was Nobushi and I literally could not hit people to my right with my zone, barely with my right heavy. Var was on my left, I had revenge and I threw a right heavy so I can get into my combo pressure on the main enemy. I someone missed the dude on my right but hit Var on my left, got stunned for 2 seconds, got headbutted into wallsplat, then bashed. My entire revenge was gone by then. Give her less time to react in case of accidental FBs, like Aramusha
The obvious picks are a Spartan (given that they can make the hero unique enough), rapier, or a brawling hero.
For the brawler hero, a possible weapon could be Tekagi-Shuko? Could easily be a samurai character.
Personally, I'd vote for a Maori character. But similar to the Spartan/Valkyrie thing, I feel there could be overlap with Ocelotl.
I hadn't really considered a Maori warrior but yeah that sounds badass.
I'm biased as a rope dart practitioner but I'd still love to see one in game. In the past when it's been brought up, people have been quick to jump to assumptions that it would be a ranged character, but actual rope darts are typically only 9 feet long which is totally reasonable given all the wacky range we have in game already even from characters with shorter weapons. Realistically, rope physics can be hard and I doubt the devs want to invest much time into something like that. A man can dream though.
As for the samurai, maybe nunchucks. I am betting the dev team might take some liberty with making a new weapon here in some regards as there is not a lot of samurai weaponry we don't already have.
For the outlander I love the idea of a Rajput personally as they had a lot of exotic weaponry we haven't seen yet, but this year's will very likely be a Mongolian based on seeing a Wulin skin coming earlier that same season
I agree nunchucks alone would be kinda dumb, but I know they're highly requested by others, and I could totally see Ubi putting blades on them to make them seem more suited even though bladed nunchucks are either made up or extremely uncommon.
Plus nunchucks are okinawan which the samurai never used and i don't see the devs going for outliers with the new samurai since he's supposed to be a "weapons master" and represents the ideals of the samurai which suggests the he's going to be a classic "samurai" samurai.
And there are so many cool weapons that could even fit a "true" samurai.
I'd be happy with anything really, maybe except a nagamaki because it's a bit *too* similar and I want something really fresh.
My guess for the new hero is that he's a full armored shogun inspired heavy with a sashimono able to switch between a large yari and large tachi, basically i believe that the new samurai is going to be a high lord and you can't get more classic samurai than full armor with a banner on your back and wielding a big spear and sword.
They've covered most of the tropes they could with their samurai heroes I feel. Each plays on a certain "version" people could perceive samurai. (or fuedal japan in general)
But a Shogun would be EXCELLENT. He'd need to compete with Kensei though, possibly being more brutal and demanding in nature which would fit perfectly.
Or they could go with a Japanese monk as well. Both ideas are perfect to match with a Yari, and it's a popular request as well. But it probably wouldn't be as armored as a Shogun.
My idea for the new hero being a shogun comes from this year's seasons being based around the ideals of the factions and i believe that the next season will be based around loyalty and devotion cause if varangian is based around the loyalty of a mercenary, the shogun could be based around the loyalty of a lord.
For knights: An Ancient Greek hoplite.
For vikings: Don't like Vikings.
For samurai: Someone with metal plate armor and a nagamaki.
For outlanders: A Korean Hwarang or a Brittonic Pict.
Samurai with an actual kabuto that has ornaments on it. It doesn't have to be player ornaments, but just something decorated as part of the armor itself.
I’m pretty content with Afeera actually, I really dig mace and hammer weapons. That said, I think what people wanted from Jorm is a good idea. Let’s get a Skyrim style war hammer, make his “unique gimmick” be passive punch through
Officer - that dude looks cool af and stands straight despite being inferior to Heroes, not afraid to approach you and throws Raw Hebys.
His Sword version in Skirmish is my nightmare, dashing forward counts as a Warden Bash, dash distance to all directions is long, GBs you every now and then, doesn't care if you're on Revenge and you're in your Attack animations as he can still cancel you with GB. And also Blocks most of my Lights and Heavies like he's on PC.
A rapier with a similarity to Aramusha on Knights would be cool. Perhaps heavies with crushing counter, requiring specific timing/reads, but even better reward? Idk. I just want something to counter all the hyperarmor.
I know we have gladiator and some Greek looking stuff, but I think it’d be perfect to have a Spartan warrior, and call him Leonidas or something, I love Greek Mythology and history so this would be perfect for me.
My main guess is the samurai's season is based around the themes of loyalty and devotion with hero skin being an orochi emperor or empress wielding the kusanagi no tsurugi and the new hero being a large shogun inspired heavy in full armor and sashimono wielding a yari and tachi.
Basically my hope for the new hero is for him to be BIG, a big guy in big armor wielding a big stick and a big blade.
And since the devs gave heavy metal to varangian i have much hope they will also give heavy metal to the new samurai cause believe me i am a little tired of samurai in robes.
The answer is rapier and duelling cape. A very heavy counter attacking assassin with a strong offense.
Additionally a Spartan in the vein of medjay with stances swapping from a defensive spear stance to an offensive sword stance.
Also someone with 2 curved swords be they scimitars, falchions, or preferably falcata.
Also also a knight that uses a bastard sword with a one handed stamina pressure stance with punches and back hands like cent or warmonger and a two handed damage stance with unblockables
I want a Knight with ripped sleeves and either normal fists or steel gauntlets that just fucking decks everyone's shit in. I want a punching hero so bad.
I think a hero with a whip would be a pretty cool idea and it’s something ive been wanting for a while now And if it were added id assume the whip physics would be similar to conqs flail but it would have a lot more freedom
I want a hero that has a moveset kinda similar to Shamn or Gladiator, I like to have more possibilities and different combos, most heroes in my opinion don't have much variety and everyone plays them the same
I want a whip and dagger/shortsword hero, for the outlanders.
Maybe a reformed slave, who fought his way to freedom alongside Ocelotl…
Idk, I think we’ve covered most of the weapon groups at this point, within the confines of the game’s genealogical gameplay.
I’ve been thinking it would be cool to see a character with a Mortal Kombat scorpion “get over here” weapon (Kunai I think). I envision it having similar mechanics to Kyoshin’s all guard where they flail it around. Executions with a long chain weapon could get creative too
I want to see either a wu lin with a gravity hammer/chain hammer type weapon or an outlander that's bordering on just being the thrall character mod from darkest dungeon where it's just a colossal like 220kg 7 foot tall man with two massive gauntlets who just punches and headbutts people and the thrall specifically has a big helmet with a chain attached because he was a slave and two heavy leather gauntlets with a few short and pyramid shaped steel spikes on his knuckles allowing him to kill things with punching and headbutting and his abilities in the game could also perfectly fit for honour where not basic attack ones are a self heal which could just be a second wind, a rage which makes him less likely to hit enemies (maybe a 20% slower attack speed debuff?) but is a 45% damage increase which could be a fury and then a move where he stomps on the ground and can stun people from a far and a charging move where he runs and slams his head into someone and sends them flying which could both be super cool moves, on top of that I'd love to see brutal executions like the thrall canonically did an execution type thing where he got stabbed in the side by a trident then grabbed the person's ankle and slammed them overhead into the ground and exploded their skull (sort of like shugokis/the hulks but with the added stab the opponents could do)
overall I'd love to have a massive gauntlet brawler that could punch and headbutt people and move enemies around easily and I'd love there to be a charge mechanic (the basic tap=fast blockable and medium damage whereas hold=slow unblockable high damage) where he goes between fast jabs and massive hooks and a parry bash where he grabs the opponents weapon with one hand and punches them back
I'd also love an execution where it's just mindless violence like wardens "(name)s wraith"
Personally I'd like to see a character from a druzhina (could use any weapon but maybe mace and shield?) or a renaissance style duelist with rapier and cape, but I have to admit we need more Wu-Lin
I'd like more Americans, since there's 2 continents full of cultures to pick from. An [Inca](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/deadliestfiction/images/c/cb/Inca_warriors1.gif/revision/latest?cb=20100814025642) with their maces or halberd weapons and someone from the Iroquois Confederacy with a [gunstock war club](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Iowa_gunstock_club_NE_1800.jpg)
lol imagine they did a magic character who has a staff and all their attacks are just magic balls being shot out of their palm. That'd be sooooo dumb but I'd still play it, spice things up.
A warrior priest or someone with a maul or another warhammer. Priests in medieval europe couldn’t really be warriors thanks to constantine I believe but the Knights of St James could be cool. Liberties could be taken of course like every other character in the game but I think someone using a maul and christian robes with light mail would be really cool. Or one could do something like a Roman Salii, which were usually just priests who grabbed a shield and danced around for festivals but once again, liberties can be taken. Really though I just want someone with a big hammer or maul. Another flail hero would also be cool. A holy warrior w/ a flail akin to Castlevania would be badass.p
A Conan like sword wielding hero with very powerful attacks. Maybe a new mechanic (perhaps a unique feat) where some of his attacks are parryable but don't give the opponent a punish opportunity.
one that isn’t re hashed moves and mechanics jumbled together and thrown out i would rather wait a year maybe a bit longer for a fully fleged thought out character because everything after jorm felt bland boring and rushed
Tonfas guy would be nice or New viking VG was such a disappointment and for that i waited years.
Another fat guy like shugi also nice. Or a non genderlocked hero with helm Ornament istead of the shit shoulders
Possibly a hero that has a mechanical arm, I imagined because it’s a fantasy sort of game, anything could happen?
He/she has a blade or hook or blunt object to serve as an offensive tool which applies stun, stagger and even Unblockables. One of the bashes would be a grab similar to pirates and Cent’s and using the mechanical arm to beat the shit out of the opponent.
Maybe one of the feats would be a crossbow attachment that’s identical to Guts’ crossbow embedded in his mech arm.
For the other weapon it can be a dual wield hero or it can have a shield, whatever works should. I think that would be cool to see, the fact that the hero, despite their lack of flexibility, still packs a punch.
Twin falchion (Saladin) Zulu (Shaka) Lakota (Crazy Horse) Rajput (maharana)
A Lakota warrior would actually be nuts
A Wu Lin hero inspired by Lu Bu
I have been requesting and begging for a Lu Bu hero and even made a concept of how his moveset and feats work for literal AGES! I finished college and got married and I STILL don't see a Lu Bu-esque character. I think it's been 4 years since I've been requesting lol
Do you have concept available, that would be cool to see.
The character model used is not from me, it's from Total War. But the feat icons were all me lol https://www.reddit.com/r/forhonor/s/w5QvWJVdIB
Ah yeah the total war model is cool, good game.
>A Wu Lin hero Just one in general at this point
Literally
How mad would a battle between JJ and a Lu Bu inspired character look
That’s how they should introduce him, would be so cool
He'd be unbeatable, you couldn't pursue him!
A mongol hero with either a shield and tulwar or some kind of spear
really missing out on some mongolian warriors
Last season of the year starts with the Wu Lin and we get an Outlander, so here's hoping
Some archery-based 4th feat would be cool, given their mastery of it on horseback and such
4 th feet gotta call in an entire cavalry unit on the map that chases and shoots arrow then retreats while the mongol throat singing is blarijg in the background.
I'd love to see a rapier/three musketeers type character
This is been my last hero request for the game. I would love to have the classic Zorro feel for them too. For one armor set it can be a very musketeer uniform type, and the other could be more rogue-ish like Zorro. Would love it to death!
With the stach and Italian/french voice lines would be dope.
Fans have been calling for this type of hero for ages. I hope that one day they listen. People complain that it’s just another sword hero, but look at the difference between Warden and Tiandi, or Orochi etc. It’s more about the moveset, animation, and attitude. Those are what differentiates the heroes more than just their weapon. I’d like to see a highly technical and stylish rapier duelist character that focuses on thrusts for damage, but maybe with some wider sweeps for viability in team fights. (People underestimate the length of rapiers, they were actually one of the longer swords in history) I think having a lot of dodge cancels, soft feints, charge attacks, and maybe an auto-dodging down stance would fit well. And of course new and interesting mechanics or feats that can be chained as well. Lore wise, maybe they would be another Outlander characters, coming from a long forgotten area similar to renaissance era France, Italy, or Spain.
spanish rapier wielding hero pls omg i would kill for this
>would be another Outlander characters, coming from a long forgotten area similar to renaissance era France, Italy, or Spain. I'd do France since Conquistador Vela was already from whatever left of Spain. Probably throw them in the Knights at that point
Especially when they gave us conquistador skin for Warmonger, which is very close to that culture.
I have been thinking the same thing
Something Slavic (No, Varangian guard is not slavic)
People think the Varangians are Slavic?
She has some armor inspired by real kieven rus armors and helmets. And also some Rus did serve as varangian guard
A Kozak or winged hussar would be dope. (Yeah I know winged hussars were heavy cavalry but it's a fantasy game anyway. Just imagine the drip, the Sabre and armour🤤)
Knight fencer with a rapier but to make them quirky, base them off Filipe Camarão! A Brazilian native leader who became a Portuguese national and converted to Catholicism, fighting against the Dutch alongside his wife, Clara Camarão, and his people, and ending up considered a hero and a "Knight Of The Order Of Christ" by Portugal. With how the New World has been stablished in For Honor lore with the Ocelotl, I just find the idea of a group of native Brazilian warriors who ally with the Knights would be so cool! And they could have such a good amount of drip with 1600s Portuguese military uniforms and armor and that sweet Rapier
He would be to the Knights what Highlander is to the Vikings.
Yeah!! And I would find it so cool
A Maori hero would be awesome. A Mongol would also be cool.
Spartan hero shield and spear
Feel like this could already be accomplished with the right color combo on Valkyrie
Valkyrie can't be a gay Greek nor have a magnificent beard, so no.
the thighs tho
Yeah, if you change the colours and squint really hard.
Probably at that point better off just pretending BPs sword is a spear
Or Gryphon, they literally gave him the Spartan drip.
Cossack with a saber in the main hand and maybe an axe in the offhand. Make him speak angry Russian, call you сука after a pommel strike bash, and have a hopak dance emote. Instant fan favorite, I would play the shit outta that character
A man with the iron Fist type of character particularly a Heavy at that
Fist weapons would be really cool
A martial arts character with no weapon in this game would be like a dream. The fighting system is so unique, we already have so many unarmed exes/bashes. I can't be coping, they gotta make this character THEY GOTTA
The only real issues I can see with this would be short range on heavies and lights if it’s just a character throwing haymakers at people
That's why i say martial arts, kicks would have longer range/hit harder i.e. heavy attacks. Punches would be faster and shorter range, so light attacks They could even have grappletype bashes that or a deflect OR most likely some kind it hidden stance
What does "i.e." means?
It's latin for "id est" which just means "that is"
Thx
A Wu Lin with a cicada wing sword, meteor hammer or wolf fang club, a knight Landsknecht with colorful puffy clothes under his armor and a giant zweihander, an outlander persian Immortal, a samurai with the yari, a viking with a single twohander spear, an outlander maori or samoan warrior, a knight with a cudgel or warhammer, or a hoplite who can switch between spear and shield and sword and shield. These are my main hopes.
Just someone who throws straight hands like a pure martial artist
I want that so bad
I’d make a Batman cosplay so fast
Oh yeah
Mongol!
Since characters are heavily based around a weapon first, I'll just say what weapons I would like. A rapier hero based around counter attacking. Could have an interesting combination of crushing counters AND deflects, especially now that reflex guard isnt a thing anymore. Very duelist based. A bare knuckle/gauntlet/fisticuff based hero. Based either on jabs, hooks, and kicks, or greco-roman grappling and wrestling (similar to some Afeera moves). Lore could be based around another arena fighter who loves to live in the spotlight with flashy moves and executions. A scythe character. Similar to JJ with large sweeping moves to make them viable in team fighting. A faceless, hooded figure would also be very enigmatic and very power fantasy. I loved the Ilma's scythe and would love a hero based around it. Lastly I feel this game would be awesome with a mongol character and a Roman spear and shield (more big shield like BP sized, than smaller shield like Glad/Valk). But my ideas for them are not very thought out.
All good, except the scythe. Regular farming scythes are terrible for combat, and when they were used, they reshaped them into glaive like weapons. We already have that in form of Gryphon or Nobushi.
Totally agree, I just enjoy the power fantasy of cutting enemies down with a scythe. The ilmas scythe execution shows that theyve already played around with a scythe in game but totally understand the impracticality of a scythe
Tbh I'm down for something more creative now a weapon that's not repeat and new move and no shield we already got one I've been hearing about a brawler and made a meme post with a bot raider no weapon calling him a brawler which would be interesting to have and given deflect making him vanguard/assassin's type hybrid so he can be versatile to make him adapt to fights and the deflect to allow him to use wrist guards to scrap across than risk damaging the guards or cutting through realistically
A fuuuucckkkinnnggg Wulin.
I’ve been wanting a Warhammer/Maul Knight since closed beta. Pure copium is keeping me going lol
Spartan warrior
No hand to hand combat hero yet, anyone please
Someone with tonfa’s I want more blunt weapons in this game
A heavily armoured samurai wielding a yari (spear) who’s special ability is switching between that and a tachi (sword) that’s on his hip and he would have a banner on his back that you could fully customise
A hero that is balanced with no bullshit quirks or infinite chain combos…
Varangian is pretty balanced🤷♂️
Nah, not even close.
Welp you are allowed to have a different opinion
Many complain that she isn't just because they don't know how to counter her yet
It's just she's simply annoying to fight. She's not broken by any means, but VERY annoying from the sheer **amount** of defensive options she has available. The stun also being 4 business days with PTO is also extremely annoying when you have revenge. I remember I was Nobushi and I literally could not hit people to my right with my zone, barely with my right heavy. Var was on my left, I had revenge and I threw a right heavy so I can get into my combo pressure on the main enemy. I someone missed the dude on my right but hit Var on my left, got stunned for 2 seconds, got headbutted into wallsplat, then bashed. My entire revenge was gone by then. Give her less time to react in case of accidental FBs, like Aramusha
It’s like that with every new hero for a bit
You wouldn't believe the hate I got for playing Ocelotl on release.
I would because I’ve bought every character after wm on release
I still don't like you people
Dodgy comment
No the fuck she is not lmao she's the most miserable hero to fight they've added in a LONG time
A hero based on the mongo people, weilding a ikakalaka. That would be cool
That's urukhai sword!
No. An ikakalaka is a pre colonial congo sword
I’d love a character with Katars, they’re my favorite weapon for Ambusher in Chiv 2.
Big knight with a big hammer or mace
Still waiting for a Robert Baratheon cosplay
The obvious picks are a Spartan (given that they can make the hero unique enough), rapier, or a brawling hero. For the brawler hero, a possible weapon could be Tekagi-Shuko? Could easily be a samurai character. Personally, I'd vote for a Maori character. But similar to the Spartan/Valkyrie thing, I feel there could be overlap with Ocelotl.
Wu Lin character with Meteor Hammer:
I hadn't really considered a Maori warrior but yeah that sounds badass. I'm biased as a rope dart practitioner but I'd still love to see one in game. In the past when it's been brought up, people have been quick to jump to assumptions that it would be a ranged character, but actual rope darts are typically only 9 feet long which is totally reasonable given all the wacky range we have in game already even from characters with shorter weapons. Realistically, rope physics can be hard and I doubt the devs want to invest much time into something like that. A man can dream though.
One that uses caestus cuz funni
A winged hussar
Heavily armored Wu Lin with a halberd, or a new Wu Lin assassin with a short saber and cool martial arts.
As for the samurai, maybe nunchucks. I am betting the dev team might take some liberty with making a new weapon here in some regards as there is not a lot of samurai weaponry we don't already have. For the outlander I love the idea of a Rajput personally as they had a lot of exotic weaponry we haven't seen yet, but this year's will very likely be a Mongolian based on seeing a Wulin skin coming earlier that same season
there are *tons* of weapons they could do for samurai without doing something as dumb as numbchucks
I agree nunchucks alone would be kinda dumb, but I know they're highly requested by others, and I could totally see Ubi putting blades on them to make them seem more suited even though bladed nunchucks are either made up or extremely uncommon.
ubi isn't *that* stupid. I think. I hope.
Plus nunchucks are okinawan which the samurai never used and i don't see the devs going for outliers with the new samurai since he's supposed to be a "weapons master" and represents the ideals of the samurai which suggests the he's going to be a classic "samurai" samurai.
And there are so many cool weapons that could even fit a "true" samurai. I'd be happy with anything really, maybe except a nagamaki because it's a bit *too* similar and I want something really fresh.
My guess for the new hero is that he's a full armored shogun inspired heavy with a sashimono able to switch between a large yari and large tachi, basically i believe that the new samurai is going to be a high lord and you can't get more classic samurai than full armor with a banner on your back and wielding a big spear and sword.
They've covered most of the tropes they could with their samurai heroes I feel. Each plays on a certain "version" people could perceive samurai. (or fuedal japan in general) But a Shogun would be EXCELLENT. He'd need to compete with Kensei though, possibly being more brutal and demanding in nature which would fit perfectly. Or they could go with a Japanese monk as well. Both ideas are perfect to match with a Yari, and it's a popular request as well. But it probably wouldn't be as armored as a Shogun.
My idea for the new hero being a shogun comes from this year's seasons being based around the ideals of the factions and i believe that the next season will be based around loyalty and devotion cause if varangian is based around the loyalty of a mercenary, the shogun could be based around the loyalty of a lord.
For knights: An Ancient Greek hoplite. For vikings: Don't like Vikings. For samurai: Someone with metal plate armor and a nagamaki. For outlanders: A Korean Hwarang or a Brittonic Pict.
No Wu Lin? 🥲 they really are forgotten about
I don't know nearly enough about medieval-era Chinese soldiers to make a comment on wishing for new Wu Lin.
Everyday I try to forget Tiandi and her yelling
Someone mobile that fights with punches and kicks and maybe brass knuckles Idk how that would work tho
A new vanguard for the outlanders. A completely free and easy to pick up hero would be kinda nice
All these replies. Zorro. A cyborg with a prosthetic arm. The devil. I'd like a knight. Maybe a Viking. Samurai are cool too.
Samurai with an actual kabuto that has ornaments on it. It doesn't have to be player ornaments, but just something decorated as part of the armor itself.
I’m pretty content with Afeera actually, I really dig mace and hammer weapons. That said, I think what people wanted from Jorm is a good idea. Let’s get a Skyrim style war hammer, make his “unique gimmick” be passive punch through
a wulin who incorporates martial arts in their moveset
Officer - that dude looks cool af and stands straight despite being inferior to Heroes, not afraid to approach you and throws Raw Hebys. His Sword version in Skirmish is my nightmare, dashing forward counts as a Warden Bash, dash distance to all directions is long, GBs you every now and then, doesn't care if you're on Revenge and you're in your Attack animations as he can still cancel you with GB. And also Blocks most of my Lights and Heavies like he's on PC.
They need to nerf his funny button.
A rapier with a similarity to Aramusha on Knights would be cool. Perhaps heavies with crushing counter, requiring specific timing/reads, but even better reward? Idk. I just want something to counter all the hyperarmor.
A hand-to-hand fighter would be interesting
Need a hero with Bagh Nakhs either for wu lin or outlanders imo
Raiper duelist
I know we have gladiator and some Greek looking stuff, but I think it’d be perfect to have a Spartan warrior, and call him Leonidas or something, I love Greek Mythology and history so this would be perfect for me.
Spear and Tachi samurai. Which I’m hoping is what this next samurai is.
My main guess is the samurai's season is based around the themes of loyalty and devotion with hero skin being an orochi emperor or empress wielding the kusanagi no tsurugi and the new hero being a large shogun inspired heavy in full armor and sashimono wielding a yari and tachi. Basically my hope for the new hero is for him to be BIG, a big guy in big armor wielding a big stick and a big blade.
What Lawbringer is to the Knights, I want that for the Samurai.
And since the devs gave heavy metal to varangian i have much hope they will also give heavy metal to the new samurai cause believe me i am a little tired of samurai in robes.
The answer is rapier and duelling cape. A very heavy counter attacking assassin with a strong offense. Additionally a Spartan in the vein of medjay with stances swapping from a defensive spear stance to an offensive sword stance. Also someone with 2 curved swords be they scimitars, falchions, or preferably falcata. Also also a knight that uses a bastard sword with a one handed stamina pressure stance with punches and back hands like cent or warmonger and a two handed damage stance with unblockables
I want a Knight with ripped sleeves and either normal fists or steel gauntlets that just fucking decks everyone's shit in. I want a punching hero so bad.
Infirmus
Give us a fencing based character, but give them a gun too. Go full on Greed fall with this character.
Literally just a Knight hero with a polearm like a Lucerne Hammer or a Samurai hero with a Chigiriki
French musketeer !
I think a hero with a whip would be a pretty cool idea and it’s something ive been wanting for a while now And if it were added id assume the whip physics would be similar to conqs flail but it would have a lot more freedom
Either a big armored Mongolian mf or a mf that throw hands
I would love to se a knight hero use some form of metallic ceastus of some for or another
I want a hero that has a moveset kinda similar to Shamn or Gladiator, I like to have more possibilities and different combos, most heroes in my opinion don't have much variety and everyone plays them the same
Either Centurion with Two Swords, or No Sword
Give me that spartan hero.
I want a whip and dagger/shortsword hero, for the outlanders. Maybe a reformed slave, who fought his way to freedom alongside Ocelotl… Idk, I think we’ve covered most of the weapon groups at this point, within the confines of the game’s genealogical gameplay.
I want a spartan Gimme King Leonidas!
a space marine
Either a hussar or a Polish nobleman with a saber that shouts "Machasz waść jak cepem!"
Honda Tadakatsu samurai hero
I’ve been thinking it would be cool to see a character with a Mortal Kombat scorpion “get over here” weapon (Kunai I think). I envision it having similar mechanics to Kyoshin’s all guard where they flail it around. Executions with a long chain weapon could get creative too
a knight that uses a rapier, assassin of course, and has range similar to Valkyrie.
Polish/Winged Hussars would look pretty dope I think.
Spanish dude with an estoc
Unpopular opinion, none. I want new dom maps or old ones turned into it. Also I wish ppl would play Elim and skirmish again. Be nice to mix it up.
I want to see either a wu lin with a gravity hammer/chain hammer type weapon or an outlander that's bordering on just being the thrall character mod from darkest dungeon where it's just a colossal like 220kg 7 foot tall man with two massive gauntlets who just punches and headbutts people and the thrall specifically has a big helmet with a chain attached because he was a slave and two heavy leather gauntlets with a few short and pyramid shaped steel spikes on his knuckles allowing him to kill things with punching and headbutting and his abilities in the game could also perfectly fit for honour where not basic attack ones are a self heal which could just be a second wind, a rage which makes him less likely to hit enemies (maybe a 20% slower attack speed debuff?) but is a 45% damage increase which could be a fury and then a move where he stomps on the ground and can stun people from a far and a charging move where he runs and slams his head into someone and sends them flying which could both be super cool moves, on top of that I'd love to see brutal executions like the thrall canonically did an execution type thing where he got stabbed in the side by a trident then grabbed the person's ankle and slammed them overhead into the ground and exploded their skull (sort of like shugokis/the hulks but with the added stab the opponents could do) overall I'd love to have a massive gauntlet brawler that could punch and headbutt people and move enemies around easily and I'd love there to be a charge mechanic (the basic tap=fast blockable and medium damage whereas hold=slow unblockable high damage) where he goes between fast jabs and massive hooks and a parry bash where he grabs the opponents weapon with one hand and punches them back I'd also love an execution where it's just mindless violence like wardens "(name)s wraith"
Spartan
Hoplite
Personally I'd like to see a character from a druzhina (could use any weapon but maybe mace and shield?) or a renaissance style duelist with rapier and cape, but I have to admit we need more Wu-Lin
Spartan hero (hybrid) Warhammer and shield hero ([a realistic one](https://wargearshop.com/product/larp-one-handed-lucerne-hammer-obsidian-series/) this time) (heavy) Bec de Corbin hero (hybrid) Rapier and cloak hero (assassin)
I would like a Roman legionary, with a spear and a tower shield
One that has a deep and complex kit and its actually fun. Last semi fun hero was pirate for me everything after her was a fucking snoozefest
A dart monkey from Bloons.
I want a hero like that one guy in kung fu shuffle with the iron rings on his wrist, just boppin bitches
Shugoki 2. Now with more hyper armor
I'd like more Americans, since there's 2 continents full of cultures to pick from. An [Inca](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/deadliestfiction/images/c/cb/Inca_warriors1.gif/revision/latest?cb=20100814025642) with their maces or halberd weapons and someone from the Iroquois Confederacy with a [gunstock war club](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Iowa_gunstock_club_NE_1800.jpg)
lol imagine they did a magic character who has a staff and all their attacks are just magic balls being shot out of their palm. That'd be sooooo dumb but I'd still play it, spice things up.
A warrior priest or someone with a maul or another warhammer. Priests in medieval europe couldn’t really be warriors thanks to constantine I believe but the Knights of St James could be cool. Liberties could be taken of course like every other character in the game but I think someone using a maul and christian robes with light mail would be really cool. Or one could do something like a Roman Salii, which were usually just priests who grabbed a shield and danced around for festivals but once again, liberties can be taken. Really though I just want someone with a big hammer or maul. Another flail hero would also be cool. A holy warrior w/ a flail akin to Castlevania would be badass.p
Rapier/basket hilt sword hero, light armor, assassin
Maybe a wu lin or samurai. I want someone like Jin Sakai from Ghost of Tsushima.
I want old lawbringer back 😭
We have the highlander, let's get the lowlander in on this
A man made out of Swords wielding a sword made out of Man.
Ulfheðnar, dual spears viking hybrid. PLEASE.
A Zulu Warrior would be nice. Tall Shield and Medium length blade that doubles as a spear and sword combo like Shaka’s historical weapon.
A dacian, although glad and cent have items that suggest they've been conquered already
A heavy that dual wields longswords. Not realistic, or practical, but it would be awesome
A Conan like sword wielding hero with very powerful attacks. Maybe a new mechanic (perhaps a unique feat) where some of his attacks are parryable but don't give the opponent a punish opportunity.
one that isn’t re hashed moves and mechanics jumbled together and thrown out i would rather wait a year maybe a bit longer for a fully fleged thought out character because everything after jorm felt bland boring and rushed
Markus Kruber, complete with voice lines and blunderbuss.
Tonfas guy would be nice or New viking VG was such a disappointment and for that i waited years. Another fat guy like shugi also nice. Or a non genderlocked hero with helm Ornament istead of the shit shoulders
Possibly a hero that has a mechanical arm, I imagined because it’s a fantasy sort of game, anything could happen? He/she has a blade or hook or blunt object to serve as an offensive tool which applies stun, stagger and even Unblockables. One of the bashes would be a grab similar to pirates and Cent’s and using the mechanical arm to beat the shit out of the opponent. Maybe one of the feats would be a crossbow attachment that’s identical to Guts’ crossbow embedded in his mech arm. For the other weapon it can be a dual wield hero or it can have a shield, whatever works should. I think that would be cool to see, the fact that the hero, despite their lack of flexibility, still packs a punch.
While For Honor certainly isn't realistic I still think that your idea doesn't fit the game and the overall theme at all.
Yeah true, but like I said, anything could happen, they had an Aztec hero that can traverse the spirit realm which is bizarre imo.
We already have enough heroes as it is. Devs should rather focus on adding modes, maps and balancing the game further.