Mordhau: “For Honor”-ähnliches Actionspiel setzt auf Dedicated Server

Ubisoft’s melee game For Honor has struck a chord with players. The medieval setting and action-packed multiplayer battles are well received by many. It’s clear that others want to get in on this action – like the action game Mordhau.

Through Kickstarter, the developer studio Triternion aims to finance an online game that is not just a replica of For Honor. In Mordhau, up to 64 players can face each other in each battle. Furthermore, the battles are significantly larger in scale. There will be mounted combat and defenses, as well as sieges of fortresses where you use siege weapons.

Bigger and more free than For Honor

The developers also want to offer players more freedom when it comes to the combat system. While the fights are fast and action-oriented like in For Honor, you can determine how you want to strike based on 240 angles. This way, the battles are supposed to become more dynamic. However, the developers do not want them to look like wild chaos, but rather coordinated and exciting.

In addition, things are meant to get quite brutal. Blood and dismembered limbs are expected to be part of the battles.

At the beginning, you create your personal warrior, whose appearance you can customize individually. You improve this fighter during battles based on skills. Additionally, it is possible to craft your own weapons. On the huge, open battlefields, you will also find many items to interact with. For example, you can let the gates of your fortress crash down on attackers or roll boulders over them.

No Peer-to-Peer

Matches will be played on dedicated servers, deliberately avoiding a peer-to-peer connection, which currently causes issues in For Honor. Alternatively, you can practice in an offline mode with bots. There will be no early access phase; the developers simply want to release the game – currently planned for this summer, with August in mind.

The funding goal of $80,000 has been surpassed. The Kickstarter campaign is still running until April 7th. Backers can gain access to the alpha and beta before the release and secure additional goodies like a soundtrack and cosmetic items for customizing the hero.