@@SolidBoss7 Chilvary and Mordhau are nothing like For Honor as they are way more simplistic. There is literally nothing like For Honor's fight system.
@@ryansarafin12they didn't. Women, slaves, and children were always sent away before war. Sure a woman can learn how to fight, but they were not actually sent into the battlefield.
@@Cristian_that_artist women were also not used in the Varangian guard lol. You know the Roman praetorians? Well when Rome split up. The east became was is commonly known as “the Byzantines” anyway the Varangian guard is a bit like the praetorian guard. It’s pretty obvious the emperor wouldn’t put females there
This has been one of my most highly anticipated heroes. Guards of glory and of might, red as blood and black as night! Flies our banner as we march in the east for the King of the Greeks!
Waa just saying the same thing but im prettu sure sheild size and style as well as axe are different abd have a bit more vikingish look to the other armor sets .
Honestly For Honor is one of Ubisofts best and underrated games, love they actually have a team and player base dedicated to it. Just the concept of having Medieval era warriors clash is dope.
Funny how this is Ubisoft's most original game comparing to their other franchises thanks to it's combat and game play alone, which says a lot. If only we've gotten a next gen sequel to this or something but then again...This is Ubisoft so.
The game already looks like a "next-gen" game you wouldn't need to make a sequel. The people working on this game listen to the community, about the only thing they haven't done in a while is make a new map, everything else is heard
Really wish they'd stop forcing the female schtick on the most unfitting heroes for it, this one is pretty inexcusable with the literal "Varangian" being male only fighters. The Varangians specifically AND the time period in general had no females see combat ever💀
Everyone crying about realism when for honor is pretty far from realism. Maybe at launch, but now? No. Especially when you have teleporting monks and the like.
@@sireawfulthe1st291 in the 12-14th centuries the eastern romans use types of kettle hats. But they're not at all like the one Centurion has, which is not based on anything.
Hopefully on the base game there's gonna be a cosmetics that truly resembles the nordic/varangian guards. Would love tae see an anglo-saxon outfit too@@duchessskye4072
@@xQc_Enjoyer777 it's been out for like 6 hours calm down bud. And it has way big enough armor to be male or female, just because we hear a female voice doesn't mean anything.
@@xQc_Enjoyer777Why does a virtual, fiction, fully armored character's gender bother you so much? It seems like you've got personal issues to work through.
@@asterodon Likely because he reads history, so the fact is, there is no female Varangians guards After all he is talking about history accurate can't blame him though
Cool armor but sadly another gender locked hero. It’s nice they are finally doing cinematic trailers again but then you’d assume they’d finally have the budget to bring back heroes that aren’t gender locked again.
Took them long enough to get actual chainmail to the Vikings. And no the Chimera sets don't count, Raider just wears a skin tight ripped chainmail shirt.
@@eggboy1421 It probably is considering the tread for the past 4 years. Not that matters, because you can’t even tell it’s female unless you here her voice
love this game but how on earth can they make entire new characters with movesets, beautiful animations, entire armor sets, executions, emotes, and then balance it but they cant get one guy to make a map?
Honestly after seen some games like the Day Before come and go in a blink of an eye, is amazing how For Honor keeps going strong, big applause for the devs.
People get surprised because FH flopped on launch because of all the issues and they didnt expect it to still be there getting fresh content Stop being that guy@@Kropolis
@@ekamandalaputra5517 Yeah but he is one dude while the Varangian Guard was founded by the Russians when they formed 6000 Russian soldiers as a gift to the Byzantines
@@idoomi6714Budget reasons. Every hero made for the past three years has been gender-locked. I'm not a fan, but it is what it is. Honestly a bit miraculous Ubi gives them money enough to even make new heroes anymore.
Please ubisoft please for the love of Odin's beard dont gender lock the only Viking hero we've gotten in 4 years, dont gender lock the Varangian Guard!
The Varangians are the inhabitants of Scandinavia who adopted the faith, language and culture of Rus'. there is a treatise from 862. Roughly speaking, these are the same Vikings, but from Eastern Europe. Now we are waiting for Russian knights? ( Vityaz)
This game still being alive is incredible
my thoughts exactly
@@David-nd4to 🤓☝🏾 "my thoughts exactly"
Is "INCREDIIIIIIIBLIS"
Great ideas deserve to be long-lived and For Honor is still one of the most uniques games out there
Why? It's fantastic
Gameplay is keeping this game alive, there isn't a thing like it on the market atm. what a banger Ubisoft Montreal created.
only reason there isnt another is because they copyrighted the battle system
Chivalry and Mordhau would like a word with you
@@SolidBoss7 Chilvary and Mordhau are nothing like For Honor as they are way more simplistic. There is literally nothing like For Honor's fight system.
you must be slow @@SolidBoss7
@@Taladays37 They're definitely not more simplistic, but they are very different to FH
This game would be huge if it weren't managed by Ubisoft - truly underrated game.
facts
Real
Favorite game of all time ngl
Ubisoft could have pulled the plug long long ago.
it is still alive because of ubisoft you muppet. If it weren't for them development would have stopped years ago, plus it's still very active.
Armored viking!? Legendary!
Viking ? thats an Byzanthiner from the Biggest Empire maybe exist in our world
they are actually east roman emperor bodyguard
@@Brandonhayhewwhich were norse men
@@fernandojohnsen7639they are norsemen
@@fernandojohnsen7639the varangian guard were viking mercenaries who were bodyguards and an elite military unit for the byzantines
FINALLY A SHIELD AND FULLY ARMOURED VIKING HERO! AND LORE ACCURATE!!!
No it’s a girl
@@WorldFullOffLies they had women warriors, wasn't as common obviously but it wasn't unheard of
@@ryansarafin12they didn't. Women, slaves, and children were always sent away before war. Sure a woman can learn how to fight, but they were not actually sent into the battlefield.
@@Cristian_that_artist look up shield maidens
@@Cristian_that_artist women were also not used in the Varangian guard lol. You know the Roman praetorians? Well when Rome split up. The east became was is commonly known as “the Byzantines” anyway the Varangian guard is a bit like the praetorian guard. It’s pretty obvious the emperor wouldn’t put females there
This has been one of my most highly anticipated heroes.
Guards of glory and of might, red as blood and black as night!
Flies our banner as we march in the east for the King of the Greeks!
There's men, of the cross and the hammer!
But few, of the moon cre-scent!
@@lexfarley5112 men simply searching for glamour...
It’s a girl
@@Cloaken225 ??? Yes? and?
@TheDONing1 Yes, you are absolutely correct, but that is how this song in particular goes
That has got to be the most stylish default set in the entire game
Waa just saying the same thing but im prettu sure sheild size and style as well as axe are different abd have a bit more vikingish look to the other armor sets .
WM Exists
Warmonger is a close second tho
but what about the funny roman man
@@4kpingu nah cent earns his drip but by default the man is swagless
Cream is running down my leg
real
based af
Real
real
Real
Yes, the Byzantine Emperor’s elite bodyguards.
wait really? *sons of mars stars playing in the back ground* FOR CONSTANTINOPLE!
Byzantine Emperor hired people from Sweden?
Mostly the rus that migrated from various parts of Europe and went and served in the guard
Roman Emperor
@@LionShard initially they were rus, then scandinavian, then mainly anglo-saxon.
Honestly For Honor is one of Ubisofts best and underrated games, love they actually have a team and player base dedicated to it. Just the concept of having Medieval era warriors clash is dope.
After four damn years, we finally get a new Viking hero
*female
Meanwhile wu Lin mfs:😔
Unfortunately, its female
@@ovylesome day😢
@@xQc_Enjoyer777Who cares if it's a woman or not? I'm not playing this game for historical accuracy💀
Funny how this is Ubisoft's most original game comparing to their other franchises thanks to it's combat and game play alone, which says a lot.
If only we've gotten a next gen sequel to this or something but then again...This is Ubisoft so.
The game already looks like a "next-gen" game you wouldn't need to make a sequel. The people working on this game listen to the community, about the only thing they haven't done in a while is make a new map, everything else is heard
these guys made siege, no point in a sequel when the gameplay is solid
Value what we have. If we ask for a sequel from Ubisoft, we may doom what we got now.
everything needs a sequel brainrot
@@Lumiscera it's already doomed, game polluted by scripters, took me 2mn to find a functionnal script what a shame
We need a star wars game with this combat imagine the sick duels we can have
Oh boy lemme tell you about this one event that happened years ago
@@charliewelch4301 greatest for honor event
If only Ubisoft didn’t own the rights to this combat system
@@crypto40if only they would make a new game using the system
been saying this for years!!!
We need an MMO like this game.
This game has one of the best combats ever.
Amen to that
Vindictus.
Not from Ubisoft tho
I've always wanted a game of thrones game with for honor combat
the combat mechanics of for honor would not work in an mmo in the slightest
This game doesnt and wont die.
Is that a bad thing?
@@ulfberht4431yes
One of the best combat systems deserves all praise
An actual armored Viking thank you!!
New main coming 😎
Every content creator when a new character comes out
@@passdaboof for real. Probably gonna play them a week lol
Really wish they'd stop forcing the female schtick on the most unfitting heroes for it, this one is pretty inexcusable with the literal "Varangian" being male only fighters. The Varangians specifically AND the time period in general had no females see combat ever💀
No it's another lady who's androgynous taking the place of a would be historically accurate character... just no.
Everyone crying about realism when for honor is pretty far from realism. Maybe at launch, but now? No. Especially when you have teleporting monks and the like.
Finally, Drocheslav, the son of Sergei, has been added to the game! 🎉
Nope. It is a Masturbasia daugther of Anastasya.
We were just talking about FH this morning at work
FINALLY A VIKING WITHOUT BONES ON THE ARMOR
Or horns
@@highlander6573 Or spikes or skulls
A Viking hero after 4 years Is crazy
4? Jorm was 2019 my guy. It's been half a goddamn decade since we've seen a Viking hero
@@juiceboxbzrk my guy
Varangian Guard WOOOOOOO one of my favorite medieval warriors in history
Hail Basileus
You are aware they were all men, right?
@@EdvardBolaasMusickind of a strange aesthetic choice not to include a male variant, but still happy to play them
There is a lot of things to say about Ubisoft but these guys never let their game die , this is amazing !
Hell yeah, the closest we can have to a pure Byzantine unit asides from certain gear of the centurion
do the Byzantine soldiers wear kettle hats like the one centurion's Byzantine sets has?
@@sireawfulthe1st291 in the 12-14th centuries the eastern romans use types of kettle hats. But they're not at all like the one Centurion has, which is not based on anything.
Also she looks like Rus Varangian
Inspired by a general 'rus' aesthetic yes, not that accurate in details at all but it's miles better than any other hero up until this point.
Hopefully on the base game there's gonna be a cosmetics that truly resembles the nordic/varangian guards. Would love tae see an anglo-saxon outfit too@@duchessskye4072
The Byzantines are cannon in For Honor!
LETS F*CKING GOOOOOOOOO!
Hail Basileus
Ubisoft should start an advertising campaign to get more players for this game.
Making For Honor Free 2 Play could also help draw in new players. But of course Free 2 Play would mean more Microtransactions so there is a Risk.
Cool nothing more badass than a (Eastern/Byzantine) Roman Emperor's viking bodyguard.
ForHonor!
A gift that keeps giving!!!
Now this is what I'm talking about. Varangian guard is freaking awesome!!
might of been but they went and did the classic forced female when that just isn't how the Varangians or the time period in general operated at all..
@@xQc_Enjoyer777 it's been out for like 6 hours calm down bud. And it has way big enough armor to be male or female, just because we hear a female voice doesn't mean anything.
@@xQc_Enjoyer777Why does a virtual, fiction, fully armored character's gender bother you so much? It seems like you've got personal issues to work through.
@@asterodon Likely because he reads history, so the fact is, there is no female Varangians guards
After all he is talking about history accurate can't blame him though
@@ronanchristiana.belleza9270For honor is a light fantasy, so there’s obviously going to be a few historical inaccuracies
That shield bash with the axe better be an emote
Agreed. Or at the very least a signature.
it definitely is cuz they can just recycle the minion's animation that already exists
@@xQc_Enjoyer777 or BPs emote
and it wasn’t.
NOW YOU PLAY WHILE LISTENING TO VARANGIAN GUARD BY TURISAS
this really needs a galactic conquest style of game mode.
Imagine if Ubisoft put the same quality into their games, that they do into their trailers.
Even thoe we still haven’t gotten a new map, we still get updates and new characters so I’m thankful
I’ve been waiting for this for years.
finally Slavic ball clamp
it was gender lock female
@@takeomasaki1813 lol
They really made a badass, accurate viking for once and they gender locked it? Ubisoft is never cease to dissapoint me.
Not à viking
@@Daubeny-pm8vk its a viking character
how do you know if it's genderlocked ?
@ketaminewomble2562 yes but varangians where mostly slavic at first and Scandinavian. Then saxons.
Hopefully not locked? The description says their not her
Now only the cataphracts are missing, but without horses.
Get me Clibanarii
Can't wait for the stream, love this game🪓⚔
AC has been left behind. For Honor is well, truly and most deservedly the flagship title of Ubisoft. 5/5
Im more of a knight and samurai kind of boy but man I'm glad viking fans are finally getting a new hero after years
Cool armor but sadly another gender locked hero. It’s nice they are finally doing cinematic trailers again but then you’d assume they’d finally have the budget to bring back heroes that aren’t gender locked again.
They've had trailers for every character since kyoshin, this isn't new
This alone might bring me back to the game after a few years of not playing.
Raider and Warlord, my two nightmares combined 😨
Axe and shield Viking at long last. I've been waiting for one for years.
The new character looks amazing, congratulations to the design team.
Probably because it is one of the closest to real life.
Been on For Honor sense the alpha and happy ever yesr its still here!😊
I’m hoping them hitting the axe on the shield is an emote or signature
Shield summons would go crazy
Shield summons would go crazy
Oh you know it is! (because they can re-use the grunt/soldiers animation that already exists)
Shield summons would go crazy
Shield summons would go crazy
For Honor Is still my fav multiplayer game ever, it's just too unique.
Took them long enough to get actual chainmail to the Vikings. And no the Chimera sets don't count, Raider just wears a skin tight ripped chainmail shirt.
ikr, they made sure this one couldn't be shirtless too!! ( female locked )
@@xQc_Enjoyer777 we don't know it's female locked yet
@@eggboy1421
It probably is considering the tread for the past 4 years. Not that matters, because you can’t even tell it’s female unless you here her voice
FAINALY, A NEW HERO FOR THE VIKINGS
Thanks Ubisoft! Our prayers were finally heard!!!
Hail Basileus
actually pretty hyped for this one
Amazing work FH!!!!
Amazing work FH!!!
Amazing work FH!!!
Nah, the hero will probably be OP for the first month so more people will buy it, only to nerf her later
@@the-annoyinatoryou shouldn't play fh if that's your complaint
@@Pow3rsprunk the real complaint is a "Varangian" being female 💀
Bro… 7 years later and still slaps better than almost anything that comes out.
Wait, if centurions are still around and the Varangian is here now...
ROME STANDS!
Finally something Byzantine. Might have to hop back on the game for this
>Varangian guard
>finally a new historical hero
>its female
>female
ruined
Aint gonna lie pretty epic can't wait to play it
love this game but how on earth can they make entire new characters with movesets, beautiful animations, entire armor sets, executions, emotes, and then balance it but they cant get one guy to make a map?
ask TF2 ig
@@xQc_Enjoyer777TitanFallb2 or Team Fortress 2?
Black Prior: FINALLY A WORTHY OPPONENT. OUR BATTLE WILL BE LEGENDARY!!!
Kinda looks like a Viking Version of the Black Prior.
Not that I'm complaining because he still looks cool as hell.
This game is like no other I’m not surprised it’s still here
greece hoplites next would also be cool
FINALLY! I've been wanting vikings to look like this since the OG trailer dropped
Looks awesome. Please bring a Mongol warrior for the Wu Lin faction
Honestly after seen some games like the Day Before come and go in a blink of an eye, is amazing how For Honor keeps going strong, big applause for the devs.
Varangian Guard in game approved
Hail Basileus
Genuinely surprised I’m still seeing stuff of this memorable game ❤
This is still a fun game
This game is like nothing else! Keep it alive forever
LET'S GO! ANOTHER MERCENARY!!!!!
Viking
They were confirmed to be a new viking hero
????@@Techno_Bunny433
you didnt understand the comment@@rdftw69
Centurion: Finally, a worthy opponent! Our battle will be LEGENDARY!!!
Damn how old is this game and it is still getting new content?
Bro don't pretend like you haven't heard of a game getting new content
@@Kropolis Star War the Old Republic is really old, & is still getting new content to this day.
People get surprised because FH flopped on launch because of all the issues and they didnt expect it to still be there getting fresh content
Stop being that guy@@Kropolis
The Varangian Guard started off as Viking Mercenaries who fought in the middle east for Byzantine Empire.
Varangian, bunch of Vikings that works for Eastern Roman Empire
*Russians working for the Byzantine Empire
@@dwarow2508 yeah, but Harald Hardrada is a former Varangian that from Viking
@@dwarow2508 swedish*
@@Kokujin01-yc7xg *Russian
@@ekamandalaputra5517 Yeah but he is one dude while the Varangian Guard was founded by the Russians when they formed 6000 Russian soldiers as a gift to the Byzantines
After Farya and the Skaldic Bard dropped their Varangian Symphony this thing was recommended to me lmao
even though it will probably be gender locked it still looks like a fun hero with alot of fashion potential
Varangian Guard being gender locked is the most dumb think they did yet.
@@idoomi6714Budget reasons. Every hero made for the past three years has been gender-locked.
I'm not a fan, but it is what it is. Honestly a bit miraculous Ubi gives them money enough to even make new heroes anymore.
@@idoomi6714 Agreed
@@idoomi6714"Waaa the game where vikings, knights and samurais all fight each other isn't 100% historically accurate"
@minorlover6938 it's not about it being accurate we just want to be men characters
Finally. FOR BYZANTIUM!
That looks sick not gonna lie
Please ubisoft please for the love of Odin's beard dont gender lock the only Viking hero we've gotten in 4 years, dont gender lock the Varangian Guard!
Zanny seeing this: 👀
Who?
@@Jurgir09a youtuber
That zanny no longer exists
May Return since 2021
After 4 years vikings finally got a new hero...unless it turns out to be a outlander
The Varangians are the inhabitants of Scandinavia who adopted the faith, language and culture of Rus'. there is a treatise from 862. Roughly speaking, these are the same Vikings, but from Eastern Europe. Now we are waiting for Russian knights? ( Vityaz)
The art and audio team go so hard
(and gameplay team)
This better not be another gender locked character 🙄
It is and SHE is gonna be awesome
Cursed given the Varangian Guard was all Male.
Really dumb choice if this is a genderlocked character. Specially after waiting for so long for a badass male Viking character.
@ironmaiden93ofangmar not another jorm situation 😭
@@mal1362u like more cars or barbies? Just a question!? No hate!
Might get me to play again. been waiting for a varangian guard in this game for years
This game is immortal!
Please hype this game up more. And let this be the last hero, next year should be just maps and stuff
It's a bit mystifying how they released a aztec hero before the varangian guard.
not so sure this is varangian guard ( female LOL 💀)
Call the fyrd, we are just warming up
Fantastic!
Omg ITS BEEN SO LONG, finally a new VIKING HERO
Design looks amazing
Finally the Roman Emperor’s personal guards finally come
Will be legendary if not gender locked
A viking in this game wearing armour instead of sheep bones and leather. We did it boys
Woooow!!!!
turisas is back on the menu boys