Ubisoft’s latest For Honor update is now available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It was originally detailed last week, so we already have the patch notes. There are a lot of balance tweaks, so you’ll want to check it out.
The For Honor update 1.14.1 patch notes are incredibly detailed, so we won’t be posting the full list here (check out Ubisoft’s site for all the details), but here are the major balancing changes:
Unlock Tech Fixes

Unlocked Attacks can no longer become unparryable.

Players were able to elect to launch attacks without having a target locked, and if they performed this in a particular way, the attack would still be aimed at you, but you could not parry it.
We fixed this by forcing the system to aim directly at the nearby target. Developer Comments:This will significantly reduce the unlock exploit as it makes it impossible to move away from a target and attack in 1v1 situations. From now on, out of lock attacks always snap towards a target if in range. As a consequence, we’ve updated rotation speeds on some character?s Zone Attacks (Conqueror, Highlander, Shinobi and Shugoki).
(Note: We do acknowledge that there still exist very specific situations in which your opponent may be unable to parry – but these situations should be extremely rare in actual gameplay. We will continue to address those scenarios as well in the long-term – but for now, at least this will no longer be something that negatively affect the g...