Alongside Update 1.07 and Season Two of the Faction War, the Centurion charges into For Honor with no less fury than you’d expect. With a number of unblockable moves, the Centurion can pierce through his opponent’s defenses and find creative ways to throw them off. Furthermore, the new Knight class has the ability to finish any attack chain with an unblockable heavy attack.

Here are some tips on playing For Honor’s Centurion, as well as several tricks you should learn to master the new class.

Openers

Unfortunately, the Centurion does not have many great openers to lead into greater chains. You can start off the fight with Eagle’s Fury, which has similar attack animations as the Peacekeeper’s lunging overhead attack.

Most of the time you’ll have to counter your opponent or open them up with a guard break or feint. If you feint one of your heavy attacks, you can follow up with a charged heavy attack which can lead to a guaranteed guard break or jab combo.

Reliable Moves

Unfortunately, For Honor’s Centurion is heavily momentum-based. Most of your greatest attacks are at the end of moveset chains or are mixups from other chains. Try to end your chains with a heavy attack to abuse Imperial Might.

On any hit or blocked heavy attack with Imperial Might you can get guaranteed to follow up damage with light attacks or a guard break chain.

One of your best counter-abilities is the Parry Counter and you should use this move as much as you can. In other classes, you can generally get a free guard break off of a parried heavy attack. However, with the Centurion you can parry any attack, light or heavy, for a guaranteed guard break. There’s an extremely small window for your opponent to counter out of your Parry Counter.

Skills

As for choosing your Centurion’s skills, there are a couple of routes you can take, one for Dominion and one for every other game mode.

Dominion

• Tier 1: Body Count
• Tier 2: Inspire
• Tier 3: Pugio
• Tier 4: Phalanx or Catapult

With this build you should generally stay around the soldier-infested objective. You can continue to farm the infantry as players contest the other two points. However, whenever anyone tries to attack your point you’ll often be able to hold your own. The Centurion plays extremely well when he’s not the one focused with an enemy’s guard stance, so take advantage of your numbers.

Phalanx should come in extremely clutch for any sudden-death situation.

Everything Else

• Tier 1: Bounty Hunter
• Tier 2: Haymaker
• Tier 3: Second Wind
• Tier 4: Phalanx

Assuming you earn your tier two skill, you’ll begin pumping out much more damage naturally. The Centurion has many moveset options that revolve around quick jabs and kicks that normally do no damage. However, when you have Haymaker unlocked, you will be doing light attack equivalent damage on each of those moves.

Phalanx in Elimination and Skirmish can be used at the start of rounds for a free shield to all teammates.

For Honor’s Centurion is currently available for Season Pass holders and will be available for purchase for standard players on May 23.

The new custom game browser is already a hit with Overwatch players on the Public Test Realm – and that’s no surprise, as the new game sets give you nearly infinite ways to play the game when you’re tired of Competitive, Quick Play, or the official Arcade maps.

Here are some of my favorites so far, along with the settings, so you can give them a shot yourself — both now on the PTR and when the mode comes to live servers.

Rocketwatch

Reinhardt’s charge is one of the most satisfying in the game to use – so what happens when you create a map where players can only choose Reinhardt, and remove the CD on Charge? You get the ultimate game of bumper cars.

While this mode doesn’t really serve any practical purpose, it is hilarious to see players fly into a control point and pin 4 players, only to get one-shot by Reinhardt’s hammer.

Global Offensive

If there’s one thing that I’ve wanted for Overwatch since it began, it’s a true 6v6 elimination mode. We can do that with the custom game editor, but we’ve taken it one step further with what we’re calling Global Offensive.

Based off of Valve’s CS:GO, Global Offensive allows players to only pick McCree (for pistol players), Soldier: 76 (for your entry fraggers), and Widowmaker (for you AWPers out there).

To add to that, only headshots do damage, and playing those modes should train you to be great at headshots, no matter what game you’re playing.

Tower Offense

Tower defense games are a classic game type – but what about Tower Offense? Turn on control maps only and strategically push forward as teams of Symmetra and Torbjorn only. Symmetra will help your team stay alive slightly longer and can place more turrets, but Torbjorn players have the advantage in that their Molten Core ability will let players truly shred the competition.

Wee!

Think Tracer’s a bit annoying and hard to hit when her movement speed is at base? Try hitting her at 200% and with no Blink CD – you’ll have to be ace at predicting where she’ll end up and stop blinking in order to hit her.

Plus, players could just as easily rewind across the map when you do get them cornered, and you’re likely to be zipping around the map quite effectively.

What this mode will be good for, however, is practicing movement with Tracer. You’ll be able to see exactly where you can zip to with blink and rewind without having to wait for any cooldowns.

Hook Training

One of the more difficult parts of learning to play Roadhog is learning how to land hooks and predicting where your opponent is running. With this mode, it becomes the ultimate game of cat and mouse as Roadhog’s hook CD is lowered by 50%, but Lucio’s speed is also buffed by three times. You’ll be able to get plenty of practice predicting where he’ll be, and should even make you a bit smarter about how you’re throwing your hooks in normal game modes.

And if you’re Lucio? This gives you a chance to learn how to move unpredictably and avoid Roadhog’s hook.

But what do you think? Any modes you’ve been enjoying? Let us know in the comments.

The big news is out! The Nintendo Switch is coming, and if their trailer is any indication – the era of Nintendo esports is beginning.

With that comes Smash

The Smash community prefers in-person interactions online. Sure, it’s the fact that it is lagless experience, but being able to sit next to someone and talk and interact – it creates a fun environment that cannot be replicated easily.

The Switch really encourages that proximity with its mobile platform. Outside of being able to play friendlies easier – this is a TO’s dream.

No More Extra Lifting

The fact that we could potentially run tournaments on an all in one console makes for an optimized experience. We could add the extra work and bring the monitors if we want for pools, or we could just simply wait for the top 8.

It will be a nice convenience, where we could create put in the extra work if we want, not because we have to.

Can You Plug Me In?

Most of the smasher’s initial reaction would probably be the same as mine, “Where can I plug in my GameCube controller?”

My fears were eventually quelled when I saw there were two USB ports on the console. So if it is anything like the WiiU – it will have an adapter. At the very least it is money on the table for Nintendo.

But this also leaves questions for the games we love and have become a part of our competitive circuit.

Smash’s Switch

The first problem is the lack of Smash in the trailer leaves us hanging for how they will approach our beloved title. Will it be a port of Wii U? Will we still have the DLC characters that were licensed out? Or will it be an entirely new game?

The only thing that is for sure, every console Nintendo since N64 has released a Smash title, so we can expect something.

Smash 4 has finally started to piece together the meta and is starting to become exciting. Having to swap to a brand new title and rebuild from scratch would be pretty frustrating. But then again, this is something Call of Duty players have been doing – and mastering – for years. It could work for us.

Nintendo spent a lot of time and money into developing Smash 4, so I see a direct port likely, but with a few changes potentially. I could see the Smash 4 community adapting and swapping pretty easily, but Melee is a different story.

The Dream – Melee HD

This could be the perfect opportunity to bring Melee HD to the Switch and unify the community on a single console. But if I’ve learned anything about the community, it’s that they can be stubborn and unwilling to change.

I can understand why. There is a type of magic you get with fast, furious, fluid Melee that cannot be replicated easily.

If Melee HD were to happen, it would have to be just that: HD. Not a remake, rebalance, or a remastering. It would have to be the same exact game mechanically, flaws and all. The community has spent 15 years building towards the meta we have today, I can’t see them giving that up easily. And if the game is not exactly perfect, we will continue to be lugging the CRTs until our backs break.

People would also argue about which version would be recreated, NTSC or PAL? Most that I’ve spoken to would want to see NTSC, but ultimately it is Nintendo’s choice.

There Is Hope

All in all, things look good for Smash. The reception I’ve seen from smashers is mostly positive. Nintendo accepting esports may be the best marketing move they have done in years.

Swords are returning to Destiny 2, based on the footage shown during the gameplay reveal as well as recordings by the event’s attendees. There are several new types of swords, as well as unique animations either for the sword you carry or for the class you play.

Swords were originally introduced into Bungie’s first Destiny title through The Taken King expansion and are receiving revamps in the sequel. As stated earlier, swords no longer share the same animation on your character. From the early playtests at the gameplay event, Destiny 2 features new animations based on either your class or the type of sword you hold.

That said, basing the animations and poses by class provides more identity and character, instead of shared animations based on sword-type.

Cabal or Fallen Sword

The sword seen on the back of the new Titan Sentinel could be a Fallen-styled blade because of the angular design and scrap metal used. However, the weapon looks similar to the Cabal swords shown in various trailers and Destiny 2 centers on the Cabal as the main enemy.

Katana

From official gameplay footage, the Hunter class wielded a katana-style sword. The class may hold swords with only one hand and more loosely than other classes.

Broadsword

A broadsword was confirmed through early playtests, wielded by the Titan Striker. From the video above, you can see the broadsword help in a much stronger position. When you attack, your character will use both hands to complete the swing.

Digital Deluxe Sword

If you pre-order the Digital Deluxe, Limited Edition, or Collector’s Edition of Destiny 2 you’ll be rewarded with a legendary sword. At the moment, there is no name attached, but it looks more regal than any of the others depicted.

Raze-Lighter

If you’ve played the original Destiny, you’ll notice that the sword shown above is definitely Raze-Lighter. This does not confirm the sword’s availability for players, though you may be able to earn this weapon after a quest or use it to complete one.

Unfortunately, swords were not available for the Warlock class during Destiny 2’s playtests. We’ve seen Warlocks hold a sword for their new Super, Dawnblade, but there’s no guarantee the posture and animations would be similar with a different sword-type.

You can check out all the confirmed exotic weapons and submachine guns here.

Destiny 2 is available for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on September 8, while PC has an unconfirmed release date after consoles.