For Honor's Marching Fire expansion includes 'graphical enhancements' to lighting, weather, and textures

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For Honor's upcoming Marching Fire expansion will include a huge graphical overhaul.

The "Graphical Enhancements Showcase" segment of a recent livestream illustrates exactly what's been improved, which includes a major update to global illumination, updated sky tech, plus new tone mapping and colour grading, too.

Ubisoft - which started the upgrading process just after the multiplayer brawler was released - has also reworked all textures in the game.

Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=Fh2fW-JsDZg

As u/Eristoff5 opines in the Reddit discussion, what's particularly impressive is that these improvements purportedly do not come at the cost of performance, and have had "no impact on the system requirements".

According to art director Christian Diaz, not only did the team focus on remastering the look of the game, but also "reduce the size of the game on disc".

Marching Fire introduces new faction Wu Lin, which hails from the far east, and adds four new Heroes - Jiang Jun, Nuxia, Shaolin, and Tiandi - to the current roster. The expansion also includes new single player (or two-person online co-op) arcade mode called, imaginatively enough, Arcade Mode, that Ubisoft believes offers "infinite replayability".

For Honor: Marching Fire releases on 16th October, 2018.

 

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Lunar

If I don't buy the DLC will I still get the graphic overhaul?



Sheik Yerbouti
sam0kramer said:

If I don't buy the DLC will I still get the graphic overhaul?

From my understanding the graphical update is free for all For Honor players.

FREE CONTENT:

4V4 PVP BREACH MODE – Attack and defend a castle in Breach, For Honor’s new strategic 4v4 PvP mode. Attackers must work together to storm the castle gates and kill the Lord of the castle, while defenders must either take down the battering ram or kill all attackers to protect the Lord.

GRAPHICALLY ENHANCED – Significant graphical enhancements bring you closer to the action than ever before, including:

Updated and enriched textures – Every single texture in For Honor has been enriched from the ground up. Players will see more detailed surfaces and experience greater draw distance.

Improved Global Illumination – Lighting in For Honor is now even more realistic, thanks to a revamped Global Illumination system. Players will now better see light bounce, reflect, transmit, scatter, and be absorbed by and off surfaces to create a more photorealistic ambience.

New sky and cloud technology – The introduction of a brand-new sky gradient and realistic clouds.

More info: https://forhonor.ubisoft.com/game/en-us/news-community/152-336618-16/whats-included-in-the-for-honor%C2%AE-marching-fire%E2%84%A2-expansion