The Knights will probably end up being the most popular faction in the game. If you feel you have a good grasp of the game’s combat mechanics, and love the crash and bash nature of the Vikings, they are definitely for you: just don’t stop on the attack, and if at any point the battle turns against you, retreat! It’s pointless trying to defend with any class other than the Warlord. The Warlord acts as a good defender of the people, but he’s really all there is. It’s just that overall they lack much in the way of defence, so if your team were to lack coherent structure, you could face a lot of defeats initially.
The Vikings aren’t a particularly tough faction to play as. Should Vikings and Knights come up against one another, Knights need to find a balance between attack and defence, because they can’t afford to be pushed back by the Vikings rush, nor can they afford to not attack or be dominated by the Warlord and his men. There is a defensive class by way of the Warlord, which is actually kind of a Knight-Viking hybrid, making for an interesting balancing act on the battlefield. At no point are they prepared to defend themselves.
The key for playing in the Vikings faction is to attack hard, fast, and by surprise: once the enemy has broken out into defence stance, Vikings have the upper hand. Simply put, you want to rush in, attack, destroy, pillage, and then get out as soon as you went in. The Raider, for example, deals insane damage with his axe, and while he’s still tough to take down due to sheer size, he lacks much in the way of strong armour. The problem, however, is that they lack much in the way of defence: the Vikings philosophy is to take out the enemy before they have a chance to even respond, so there’s little thought put into defensive strategy. The ability to bang and crash into an enemy camp with such effectiveness makes the Vikings a useful faction if you’re looking for dumb and fun action. They deliver the hardest hits by far, and so can be used to rush and surprise opponents. The Vikings are For Honor‘s brute force: the faction you don’t want to mess with alone because they’ll knock you straight to Kingdom Come!Īs with the other two factions, there’s actually good balance here between a specific stance and strategy and defensive capabilities, but mostly, Vikings are heavy hitters. Let’s take a look at each, and try to determine which faction is best for you when starting For Honor for the first time. The three different factions in For Honor are the Vikings the Samurai and the Knights. There’s actually depth to each faction, and how they differ between one another in the midst of battle.
While the classes are the same across each faction, the general design and balance of each faction creates a subtle element of differentiation, so there’s a lot more to it than simply selecting the faction that has the best colours or more gruesome-looking characters. In For Honor, there are three different factions, each with their own approach to war, combat and progression. That’s a given for a multiplayer game, but the sheer diversity of the character roster, differences between the factions, and randomness of the battles themselves makes it actually one of the more challenging multiplayer games out there.
The nature of For Honoris one of conflict and bloody battles.