Heroes & Generals News

You can find the link to the ‘Development Overview’ here.

Please click the link and take a look for yourself!

Cheers,
RETO MOTO

While we took turns being in and out of the office during the summer, we have focused on bugfixing, optimization and increasing the players overall quality of life!

Plus we added 3 new exclusive Tier 3 Fighter Plane skins – limited edition only – keep reading!


We added new and better muzzle flashes for all weapons and vehicles, as well as new explosion effects. We also optimized the effects for a smoother experience.

New tracer effects for infantry and vehicle Machine Guns are now available. Depending on the Machine Gun, the tracer effect will occur every 3rd or 5th shot.

Tracers are colored after which faction you are playing, so go ahead – let your enemies know which is the better faction!


Players will now be able to see different roles tied to the different soldier types in the progression screen.

You can view the new Soldier Specializations by clicking the Progression Screen tab on the top bar of the game client. Click on each soldier specialization to know more.

For this first iteration our intention is for the player to access a more streamlined overview of how each soldier type can be specialized through different playstyles and builds.

Note: Your characters will not be locked to a specialization.


We received a lot of feedback regarding death by exiting a moving vehicle. You now no longer risk death exiting a vehicle at max speed. Please note; this does not apply when exiting planes.

We also introduced a number of bug fixes, for a full list of the 1.15.2 changelog you can click this link here.


Winning a war is not easy, but air superiority is an effective way to destroy the enemy in the frontlines and from within! Defeat your enemy in style with the 3 New Limited Edition ‘Red Sample’ Skins.

These exclusive skins are available for each of the Tier 3 Fighter Planes.
Limited time only*

• MUSTANG P51-D – “MUSTANG MK IV”
  
• FOCKE-WULF FW 190 D9 – “LONG NOSE DORA”
  
• LAVOCHKIN LA-7
  

* Skins are available until Monday, September 3rd 2019 @ 10AM CEST


We recently had an event where the community fought for Credit Discounts! We have added a little RETO bonus ontop of the results. As a result, this week all Soldiers can enjoy 50% off Credit Prices on Weapon Repairs + Ammunition, Med Kit and Handheld Explosive Refills!

This Discount will be available from Tuesday 27th August 10am CEST to Tuesday 3rd September 10am CEST.

Enjoy!
RETO MOTO


Check out the Changelog here.

Play Heroes & Generals WWII now!

• Fixed an issue with destructible debris blocking 3rd person camera
  
• Fixed an issue with fullscreen ingame map being shown briefly when spawning
  
• Fixed a missing shell sound for T-28 Medium Tank
  

• Skill Based Matchmaking Tweaks
  
• Steam Server Communication Fixes
  
• Skill Based Matchmaking Tweaks
  
• Steam Server Communication Fixes
  
• Fixed an issue where the message ‘Squad Not Ready’ would not show up when inviting a player in ‘To Battle’ scren
  
• Fixed an issue with Panzerschreck equipment points
  
• Fixed several broken segments on the House2B model
  
• Fixed an issue with players being unable to proceed further to combat training II
  
• Fixed a camera issue which would clip into the soldier’s body when using mounted vehicles’ machine guns
  
• Fixed an issue with bullet decals not appearing on fighter planes
  
• Fixed an issue where the option to purchase the ‘Light Olive’ skin for the Panzer I Ausf. was unavailable
  
• Fixed a visual issue with skins for the Soviet Lavochkin LA-7
  
• Fixed an issue where Enabling ‘Fast Particles’ in options would lock the Graphic Settings to ‘Very High’
  
• Fixed a rare issue where logging into the game would cause the launcher to get stuck on ‘Downloading Language File’
  

• Introduced a new feature, ‘Career Specializations’, to the progression screen
  

• Fixed an issue where ongoing matches would not apply skill level to the matchmaking parameter when new soldiers join a match mid-battle
  

NEW MUZZLE FLASHES

• Pistols
  
• Submachine Guns
  
• Rifles
  
• Machine Guns
  
• Bazookas
  
• Anti-Tank Rifles
  

NEW EXPLOSION EFFECTS

• Hand Grenades
  
• Bazookas
  
• Mines
  
• Backblasts (from Bazookas)
  

TRACER EFFECTS

• Reworked tracer effects on Pistols, Submachine Guns, Rifles and Machine Guns
  
• Machine Guns will now use tracers every 3rd or 5th shot depending on the gun
  
• Machine Gun tracers are now colored depending on which faction it is from
  
• United States has Red Tracers
  
• Germany has Yellow Tracers
  
• Soviet Union has Green Tracers
  

TANK AMMUNITION EFFECTS

• New Impact Effects for All Tank AP Rounds (except 20mm)
  
• New Armor Penetration Effect
  
• New Failed to Penetrate Effect
  
• New Ground-hit Effect
  

• New Effects for All High Explosive Rounds
  

• River crossings on Khutor and Krepost now have their own vehicle collision, making vehicles less prone to get stuck
  
• Players will no longer die if exiting a vehicle at high speed (Does not apply to planes)
  
• Added new decals to the SdKfz 251
  
• Added new Gun Cradles to all vehicles having the M2 .50 Machine Gun
  
• Added new Ammunition Belts to Mounted Machine Guns on Vehicles
  
• Added camera kick to Mounted Machine Guns on Vehicles
  
• Added 3 new Limited Edition ‘Red Sample’ Skins to all three Tier 3 Planes
  MUSTANG P51-D – “MUSTANG MK IV”
  FOCKE-WULF FW 190 D9 – “LONG NOSE DORA”
  LAVOCHKIN LA-7
  

CLICK TO GO BACK TO THE 1.15.2 UPDATE ANNOUNCEMENT

The SA Rifles VS. SMGs Event has started!
You have 5 days to compete for either credit discounts for weapon repairs or credit discounts for vehicle repairs and more!


The SA RIFLE VS. SMG Event will require Soldiers to come together and fight for the Credit Discount they want to get.

Will you be Team SA Rifles and use the First Tier of Semi-Automatic Rifles to fight for a Credit Discount on Weapon + Modification Repairs and Ammunition + Handheld Explosive Refill?

Or

Will you be Team SMG and be the one to carry the First Tier of Submachine Guns into battle and fight for a Credit Discount on Vehicle Repair and Ammunition + Crate Refills?

The Team with the most amount of kills will decide which discount will be available for all Soldiers!



If you want to humble brag about how many kills you personally added to the pool, you can do so on our discord. You can monitor your stats, by clicking your username in the top right corner of the Heroes & Generals flash client, then click the pistol icon that appears in the column on the right marked “stats” – Weapon kills with a given weapon will be in the list that appears in the column below.


Choose your team wisely by using either the First Tier SMGs or the First Tier SA Rifles.

Factions don’t matter in this event, only the amount of kills with the specified weapons are accounted for! Bots do not count as kills.

All kills from the First Tier SA Rifles or SMGs from across factions will be counted together in two separate pools. Reach the tiered goals to get a bigger discount on credit repairs towards weapons or vehicles!


During the event you will have Double Experience on the Specialist Ribbons related to the two types of weapons!

In the week** following the event, you will get a credit discount on either:

Weapon + Modification Repairs and Ammunition + Handheld Explosive Refill

Or

Vehicle Repair and Ammunition + Crate Refills.


(Updated last at 4PM CEST 25/08/19)
Soldiers!

The event has concluded! We want to congratulate Team SA Rifles who won over Team SMG with 29.771 Kills!

Because Team SA Rifle took the win, a Credit Discount of 30% will be applied to Weapon + Modification Repairs and Ammunition + Handheld Explosive Refills for all Soldiers! The discount will be enabled from August 27th 10AM CEST until September 3rd 10AM CEST.

Thank you everybody for your hard work in this event, a lot of stuff is happening in the RETO office, so stay tuned!


Cheers,
RETO MOTO

* Event runs from August 20th 10AM CEST to August 25th 10 AM CEST
** Reward will be enabled from August 27th 10AM CEST until September 3rd 10AM CEST, depending on tier reached by community

Join us Friday the 16th of August on Twitch at 15:00 CEST / 9am EST!

The stream will be hosted by Reto.Gargamel and our Game Director Reto.RedBjarne. They will show you a bit of what we have been working on, talk about the incoming airplane balance changes and the next update!

If we have time left, we will be answering your questions live as well!

Click here to tune in

We will put a link of the VOD on this post if you happen to miss the live stream.

Cheers!
RETO MOTO