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Ubisoft’s For Honor Closed Alpha Is Underway – Looks Incredible, Does Not Support Keyboard+Mouse

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It appears that the closed alpha testing for Ubisoft’s fast-paced visceral melee combat game, For Honor, is currently underway. And according to reports, the game’s closed alpha build does not support keyboard+mouse at all. Okay okay, this is a closed alpha build but it does feel weird that a game does not support – even in that early stage – the keyboard+mouse control scheme.

What worries us is the fact that Ubisoft may simply add a generic “keyboard+mouse” control scheme that could be plagued by mouse acceleration/smoothing side effects. After all, the Assassin’s Creed series suffered from that very same thing.

Guru3D’s member ‘signex’ shared some additional information about the game’s closed alpha build. According to signex, For Honor appears to have a long learning curve. And while there are currently no PC graphics settings, this alpha build ran great on his system (GTX 780 3GB+ with Intel i5 2500K and 8GB of RAM).

“What suprised me is how damn GOOD it runs, the game looks incredible too.

I didn’t use any FPS counter but it was definitely way above 60fps all the time.

But there aren’t any graphics settings in the alpha though, i didn’t mind it, it looked stunning either way.”

40 thoughts on “Ubisoft’s For Honor Closed Alpha Is Underway – Looks Incredible, Does Not Support Keyboard+Mouse”

  2. What is the point of reporting this. They are still making the game. There are probably dozens of things they still working on or probably have not started working on yet. Lets give Ubisoft the benefit of doubt until they release the game. Once the game releases and it has issues then tear them apart.

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      2. Yea, Halo and Uncharted are also made on PCs and you can’t play them with keyboard and mouse.

        What kind of stupid argument is this? The fact that it’s made on PC does not determine how controls work.

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    2. It proves tha ubisoft dossnt even consider pc during development and some other ubisoft studio propably ukraine or massive add pc support later.

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    3. Ubisoft and “benefit of the doubt” can’t fit in the same sentence. Unless it’s a joke, of course. Just like the “PC games” they ported from consoles.

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  3. “Looks Incredible” So you just take his word for it? Do we even trust anything coming out of Ubisofts bu**hole these days?

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    1. Again and again, makes me pu……..e
      Interesting game is Build on Computers but lack normal computer input -> pathetic
      And of course Xbone joy -> I have PS2 Dual Shock (i don’t like X layout)

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      1. Yes, that’s silly. Combat is made specifically with controllers in mind, but it’s “pathetic” because you say so. Lol.

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        1. I don’t have nutin’ against Joypad, I’m using it. But it’s lazy Port with Only One Good Xbone Joy support and that’s Pathetic !
          COPY-Paste and again’ then is Sh*t storm everywhere 😉 cuz’ they Lazy, we need Proper Games for PC not BS ports.

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          1. What are you talking about? The Alpha supported almost any controller as long as it worked on PC, you can get the Dualshock 4 and use it on PC perfectly with DS4Windows. I think it’s vastly superior and more comfortable to the Xbone controller.

          3. People are jumping to the conclusion of lazy console port simply because they decided to focus the Alpha, which by the way was the very first one, on the controller console scheme. I’m sure there will be more tests later in which they will be testing the KBM support and controls.
            Everything else about the game is great, such as performance and visuals which aren’t even final, it’s very impressive for an Alpha.

        2. Dude, thats no excuse. The standard computer input is mouse and keyboard. You can’t ask people to go buy console peripherals because you can’t be bothered to implement a certain platforms controls. It’s like when Halo Wars 2 comes out on xbox and doesn’t work with its controller, because it’s an RTS, only playable with M/KB. Does that make sense ?

          Besides, mouse and keyboard its vastly superior to controllers, even when games are built around consoles and controllers. Thats why pc gamers love M/KB, because its better and more efficient

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  5. It’s actually pretty common for multiplatform games to not support mouse and keyboard until later in development. If a console is the lead platform (which it most assuredly is in this case), everyone who plays the game will use a gamepad. I’m sure this is also true of every AC game.

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  9. Well the combat seems to be created with gamepad with mind so… I guess we might have Dark Souls situation here where playing with mouse will suck.

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    1. Bought a Dualshock 4 just for this game yesterday, I was using the Nvidia Shield controller which really sucked, I was struggling with it most of the time, it was uncomfortable, heavy, joysticks and triggers sucked, etc…
      Pity the Alpha ended before I could try it in-game.

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  10. only 4 vs 4 and no support of m+k, and you call it “incredible” i dont agree

    more probably a mediocore or even bad Chivarly: Medieval Warfare clone

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    1. Lol don’t talk sh*t when you haven’t played it. One of the best gaming experiences I’ve had in years when it comes to multiplayer, there’s a real skill gap, there’s real strategy involved.
      This totally sh*ts on Chivalry.
      It also is the first time a Ubisoft game doesn’t run like utter garbage on PC, for such an early build the performance is amazing, and the visuals are really good though not final.

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  11. The Alpha was absolutely fantastic, I was very, very lucky to get in since there was a total of a few hundred testers.

    This is the most optimized game from Ubisoft, I’m amazed how well it ran and looked in such an early build.

    This is in 2560×1440 on a 4930k @4.7 as well as a x1 980 since SLI didn’t work yet, out in the open with 40 AI units fighting as well as everything else going on.

    Very consistent performance across the board, no stutter, perfectly smooth.

    http://puu.sh/l7NxG/a8b3cc6eaa.png

    Character design is amazing and there was already a robust customization system

    http://i.imgur.com/gspyXW9.jpg

    http://i.imgur.com/Mif46rA.jpg

    I don’t know why everyone is mad for the Alphan not having KBM, they wanted to see how robust the current system is on a controller before attempting to make a KBM scheme, which will be quite difficult since the combat system makes use of the bumpers, triggers and sticks a lot.

    Also the Alpha only had one game mode which was 4v4. the game will support more players, in fact there were instances when the game glitched and allowed 16v16 which was a clusterfuck in that one game mode.

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  12. I guess it wouldn’t be a problem to emulate gamepad inputs on a mouse and keyboard. Wouldn’t be ideal, but could be done.

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    1. I agree with you but K/M is going to be a problem for this game assuming they keep camera separate from the directional attacks.

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  15. looks awesome but i don’t care for multiplayer games, if there was a single player aspect i’d be intrigued. As for the no mouse and keyboard thing, that’s just silly, every single pc game ever can be played with mouse and keyboard, if your dumb enough to believe that you won’t be able to is another story…

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  16. Game was actually locked to 60 even when setting to 120 or 144hz. So no it didn’t run above 60 at least not according to Uplays counter.

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  17. I agree with him and I haven’t owned a console since the original PS. This game was surprisingly fun and before you $h!t all over it you should play it first. Of course using the phrase console peasant I shouldn’t be surprised.

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