Heroes & Generals News

[h3]Soldiers! [/h3]During Hallowar you can pick up the seasonal bloody bats*, bring new costumes** to the battlefield and partake in the Hallowar 2022 Screenshot contest!

[h3]Uniforms and helmets are 30% off when using gold![/h3]

[h3]Bloody Bats[/h3]

Bring us your most spooky screenshots from Heroes & Generals and partake in the contest where the top 10 will win prizes!

[h2]RULES[/h2]
Winners will be chosen by votes from developers and moderators.

• Only one submission per person
  
• Screenshot must be taken ingame during Season 2
  
• Editing of your screenshot is allowed
  [h2]SUBMIT YOUR SCREENSHOT[/h2]
  In order to submit your screenshot follow the steps below:
  
  1. Join our Discord by clicking here
  2. Navigate to the channel #HALLOWAR-CONTEST
     
  3. Make sure your screenshot adhere to the rules
     
  4. Attach your screenshot and press send!
     
  5. Submission deadline is 2nd November 10am CET
     
  
  [h2]PRIZES[/h2]
  
  
  [h3]First[/h3]
  It is not only the honour the winner will get, the winner takes home prizes that will help them keep up the valiant efforts on the front!
  
  • 200.000 Credits
    
  • 30-Day Veteran Membership
    
  • Exclusive Bloody Shovel Skin
    
    [h3]Second[/h3]
    For placing second in the screenshot contest you will be rewarded for your valiant efforts and receive a prize which will help you on your road to victory in battle!
    
    • 150.000 Credits
      
    • 14-Day Veteran Membership
      
    • Exclusive Bloody Shovel Skin
      
    
    [h3]Third[/h3]
    As a reward for your submission reaching third place you will receive supplies for your upcoming battles.
    
    • 125.000 Credits
      
    • 7-Day Veteran Membership
      
    • Exclusive Bloody Shovel Skin
      
    
    [h3]Spooky Contenders[/h3]
    Placing fourth to tenth place will net you prizes for getting everyone in the spirit for Hallowar!
    
    • 75.000 Credits
      
    • 3-Day Veteran Membership
      

[h2]SWING YOUR BAT AND DRESS UP FOR HALLOWAR[/h2]

* Bloody Bats available until 29th November @ 10am CET
** Sale ends 1st November @ 10am CET
*** Screenshot Contest submission ends 2nd November @ 10AM CET

[h2]CHANGELOG[/h2]
[h3]UPDATED October 17 2022[/h3]

[h2]HOTFIX – BUILD 172027[/h2]

• Fixed a bug preventing some players from matchmaking when in a squad

[h3]Soldiers![/h3]

The Mid-Season Update is here in time for Hallowar and with it a new tutorial system to allow new and existing users to learn the ropes and be rewarded.

Get the Hallowar bloody bat skins and get up close and personal with your enemy. Enjoy better visibility in the heat of the battle and much more!

Keep reading to find out all about the update and the new tutorials below!

[h2]Tutorial Introduction[/h2]

For this mid-season update one of our main focuses is the new user experience.

We are introducing a 3-layered tutorial system which is designed to take players, new and old, on a journey through Heroes & Generals’ many systems and mechanics.

Career Orders can be found on the right hand side of your soldier screen.
Our mission is to unveil the complexity of Heroes & Generals at a good pace and showcase the unique opportunities you have in the game, while not making them mandatory to follow.

[h3]Introduction Video[/h3]

A new introduction video is shown to new players when launching the game for the first time. It’s a short and sweet 90 second video highlighting the unique aspects of Heroes & Generals and gives the new user a clear goal of reaching war mode.

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]If you are curious about the video take a look here!


[h3]Tutorials[/h3]

[h2]ACTION GAME CHANGES[/h2]

• The amount of smoke that infantry guns produce has been decreased to help you to keep your eyes on the prize.
  
• We also took a look at the blood splatter effect when you are hit and have tweaked it to never obscure the middle of your screen.
  
• Enemy soldier headgear is now shown in the kill message.
  
• AI Soldier difficulty has been increased in the Encounter gamemode.

[h2]STRATEGY ADDITIONS[/h2]

• Players can now view the Strategy Map before unlocking the gamemode.
  
• It is no longer possible to initiate a new battle immediately after losing one. Assault Teams on the losing side moving to the battlefield of the battle that just ended, will now retreat back to their previous location without suffering from retreat penalties.
  
• The deploy cost increase after a war victory has been lowered from 5% to 4,75%

[h2]CLIENT ADDITIONS[/h2]

• When making a purchase in the store a confirmation box will now appear to avoid misclicks.
  
• Command points are now visible in the soldier purchase window.
  
• Equipping a crate to a vehicle no longer unequips camo netting on armored vehicles or machine guns on infantry vehicles.
  
• When a staged battle is found, you now see what city you are near on the RTS-Minimap and the battlefield is highlighted with a crosshair.

[h2]HALLOWAR IS HERE[/h2]

[h3]LEARN THE ROPES AND CHARGE INTO BATTLE NOW![/h3]


[h3]Changelog[/h3]
CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT THE FULL CHANGELOG!

[h3]Soldiers![/h3]

“Change the line squad leader!”

“Just get a second character!”

“Do you even know how to play!”

Do these words sound familiar to you, or have you perhaps used them yourself? In our upcoming update, we are looking to remedy this with the introduction of Tutorials and Career Orders.

[h3]Soldiers![/h3]

[h3]Learning the basics![/h3]
Not everyone has the same amount of experience when it comes to shooter games. Some people have been playing shooters all their lives, while others are brand new to the genre. Not just that, Heroes & Generals is more than just firing your gun, there are many unique elements not found in other games.

We have our Fandom-page, our discord and other external sources where you can find information or ask others for help. They have a lot of information, but finding the right information takes some effort. We believe that having Tutorials and Career Orders available ingame will lower the point of entry for many, which is our goal with these features.

[h3]Tutorials versus Career Orders[/h3]
The simplest way to explain the difference between Tutorials and Career orders, is that you read tutorials and you do career orders.

We currently have 28 Tutorials and 46 Career Orders ready to be completed, with the possibility of adding more in the future.

[h3]Career Orders[/h3]
As some of you may remember, a while ago we removed the career options from the UI to make place for ‘something new’. Now, we can finally introduce what we have been working on!

The Career Orders are a set of simple objectives to complete. Equip a weapon, recruit another soldier, buy a vehicle and many others. Upon completion, every order gives a small reward (mostly credits and sometimes a booster).



In the image above, you may notice that one of the Orders has an icon that looks like a drill sergeants head, in the lower-right corner. When pressing this button, a short tutorial will open. More on that in the next chapter!

[h3]Tutorials[/h3]
Tutorials come in two shapes. Some tutorials are triggered by certain actions of the player. The example below shows a tutorial which is triggered the first time you have 2 or more characters available in your roster and shows you how to swap between soldiers



Other tutorials can be started manually, by pressing the drill sergeant on Career Orders. In this example you get a short tutorial on how to equip a weapon. Some tutorials contain only 1 page, others contain several pages.



If you have already completed all tutorials, but want to refresh your memory, you can find all tutorials through our options menu! Simply press the cogwheel in the upper right corner of the Client. Go to Help and click on ‘Browse Tutorial’. Here you can find all our tutorials!



This and more will be available to you in our upcoming Mid-Season Update!

[h3]Soldiers![/h3]
The Summer Holidays have come and passed, everyone is back at work and the number of Developer Blogs we bring out will increase again. In the past weeks, we have steadily been moving towards our next mid-season release. Many of our features have finished or are close to finishing and have entered the testing phase.

You can find more information on the work we have done, down below.

[h3]Developer Blogs[/h3]
In the developer blogs we share all the tasks that we have completed in the past few weeks, which features are currently being tested, are still being worked on and of course all the bugs that we have squashed! We will end each developer blog with a short look at what we will be working on in the upcoming weeks.

We will not always be able to share all the details of our work. Some items are too far in the future to talk about already. Certain tasks contain internal information that we just cannot share. Every once in a while, we might be working on something we want to surprise you with! We will do our very best to be as transparent as we can be!

Be advised that not every feature that we have completed will be deployed in the upcoming release. Some features are part of larger updates that will be released further into the future.

[h2]Completed Cycle[/h2]
[h3]Done*:[/h3]

• Increased AI accuracy to become more challenging
  
• Chain-blocking fix: When a battle is lost, all reinforcements still moving on the line automatically retreat
  
• Moved ‘promote to general’ button to make place for the ‘Career Orders’
  
• Reduced war-victory deploy cost increase from 5% to 4,75%
  
• Changes to early player progression: Game-modes unlock at different levels
  
• Added a ‘purchase confirmation’ pop-up

Note: Features that are Done are often part of larger updates planned on specific dates and may not be immediately available.
[h3]In Testing*:[/h3]

• Reduction of smoke on (most) infantry weapons
  
• Changes to ‘blood splatters’ when a soldier is hit, to reduce view obstruction
  
• Created and implemented introduction video
  
• Created and implemented tutorials in the action game and in the flash client
  
• Created and implemented career orders in the flash client
  
• Many other small changes related to the tutorials and career orders
  
• Several small UI tweaks in both action-game and client

[h3]Bug fixes:[/h3]

• Fixed an issue where the Daily Bonus screen popped up when pressing ‘to battle’
  
• Fixed several localisation errors
  
• Fixed an issue with the matchmaker, worldwide now includes nearby players, which were previously excluded from that count
  
• Fixed an issue where the ‘battle rating stars' at the end of an action game did not stay highlighted

Note: Bugs that have been fixed are often part of larger updates planned on specific dates and may not be immediately available.[h2]New Cycle[/h2][h3]In Progress:[/h3]

• Bug fixes
  
• Further investigation on Flash Client stability improvements
  
• Early work on Season 3

[h3]Planned:[/h3]

• More bug fixes!