For Honor players who are at all curious about the game’s upcoming Marching Fire expansion will be able to try it out ahead of launch courtesy of an open test that will be held later this week.
The Marching Fire open test is scheduled to begin this upcoming Thursday, September 6, and it will run until the following Monday, September 10. The test will be freely available on both Steam and Uplay (unfortunately the test is only available for the PC version of For Honor), even for those who don’t own the base For Honor game.
As you can see in the above infographic, the open test will allow participants to try out Marching Fire’s new 4v4 Breach mode either against other players or AI bots. In Breach, the attacking team assaults the defending team’s fortress with the ultimate goal of breaking through their defenses and killing the fortress’s AI-controlled commander. Meanwhile, the defending team can utilize environmental emplacements such as ballista, archer squads, and fire cauldrons (along with their own combat skills) to keep the attackers at bay.
Along with Breach, the open test will include the entire roster of Marching Fire’s new Chinese Wu-Lin faction. The Wu-Lin faction consists of the Tiandi (royal protectors who wield dao blades), the Jiang Jun (generals armed with the guandao bladed staff), the Nuxia (agile assassins who wield hook swords), and the Shaolin (warrior monks armed with staves). Open test participants will also be able to play as the rest of For Honor’s hero roster, including previously released DLC heroes.
Sadly, the open test won’t include Marching Fire’s new Arcade mode where players fight against waves of AI foes either solo or cooperatively alongside another player. Those who want to give Arcade mode a try will have to wait until Marching Fire launches in full on October 16.
For more on For Honor, be sure to read about the game’s recently launched Storm and Fury seasonal update as well as Ubisoft’s decision to scrap a controversial cosmetics plan.