Ubisoft plans to penalize the dishonorable “Leavers” in For Honor in the near future.
Since the launch of For Honor, rage quitters have been a problem: As soon as a match becomes “hopeless” in the eyes of some players, they leave the game early. They would rather find a new match than tough it out and finish the game honorably.
Such leavers exist in almost all competitive online games, but it is particularly pronounced in For Honor. The reason: Rage quitters get away unpunished.
At least until now. For Ubisoft is introducing penalties for players who leave matches early with the next patch.
Penalties for Leavers in For Honor
During yesterday’s “Warrior’s Den” livestream, this patch was announced. It is expected to arrive “very soon”, possibly already next week for PC and after the certification process for consoles as well.
So far, Ubisoft has not been able to impose penalties for leavers for several reasons. The peer-to-peer infrastructure was too unreliable, meaning many innocent players could have been punished. Although the current system is still far from perfection, it is running significantly more stable than at launch.
Additionally, the technology to identify leavers was lacking. Was the game intentionally terminated or did an error occur? According to Ubisoft, they now have the means to distinguish whether someone is closing the program with “Alt and F4” or if an error is the cause of the connection drop.
Ubisoft has not yet revealed what the penalties will look like.
More information from the stream:
- In the future, better options for colorblind players will be introduced
- They are working on the “Reflex Guard Bug”
- They are addressing some trophies that are not functioning correctly
- A ranked mode is coming “soon”
In the meantime, the two new heroes of Season 2 are available to all players. Here you can find detailed information about the Centurion and here about the Shinobi.
