In For Honor, some fighters are “gender locked”: They can only be played as male or female characters. What does Ubisoft say about this?
In just a month, For Honor, the highly anticipated online melee game from Ubisoft, which aims to take on the PS4, Xbox One, and PC with brutal violence, an innovative combat system, and powerful heroes, will be released. It made a predominantly positive impression at gaming fairs and during the closed alpha. The release on February 14 can come.
In the last few days, Ubisoft organized play events where it became known: Some heroes can only be played as men or women. Until now, it was assumed that the gender of all fighters could be freely selected.
From the background story, it makes sense
GamePro asked Ubisoft directly what they say about this gender lock. And Ubisoft responded. Apparently, there was a vision from the beginning of the development work that there would be male and female heroes from which players could then choose.
Among the Knights, there is the Warden, Conqueror, Peacekeeper, and Lawbringer. The Warden and Conqueror have freely selectable genders, the Peacekeeper is always female, and the Lawbringer is male.
Among the Samurai, there are Kensei and Orochi (both genders), Nobushi (female), and Shugoki (male).
Among the Vikings, there are Raiders and Berserkers (both genders), Valkyries (female), and Warlords (male).
For the Valkyries, it is practically given by the background story to make the heroes exclusively female.
Nevertheless, the developers wanted to allow players a certain degree of freedom of choice, which is why two warriors per class are not bound to a gender. The gender has no effect on combat stats or abilities, by the way.
What do you think about this? How important is the choice of your characters’ gender to you?
Information on the beta version and on the critique of the online structure of For Honor can be found in the links provided.
