Heroes & Generals

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5.5

Mixed or average reviews- based on 171 Ratings

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  1. Alsmir
    Jun 23, 2015
    0
    Ignore the Free 2 Play part. If you ever played theHunter you will know what to expect here.

    Heroes and Generals is basically a game with subscription fee. 10€ for a month or 20€ for 3 months. Forget about playing without veteran membership. First few hours might seem ok. You can use semi auto rifle or smg, 3 factions to chose from. 3 maps available at first, games feel quite    Ignore the Free 2 Play part. If you ever played theHunter you will know what to expect here.

    Heroes and Generals is basically a game with subscription fee. 10€ for a month or 20€ for 3 months. Forget about playing without veteran membership.

    First few hours might seem ok. You can use semi auto rifle or smg, 3 factions to chose from. 3 maps available at first, games feel quite balanced.

    Then, as you rank up, you are thrown into games with big boys. You will still have just your gun (maybe slightly upgraded) and few grenades but suddenly you're facing tanks, armored cars, planes, snipers that kill you with one shot etc.
    And that isn't even the worst part. You spend your last credits on Anti-tank launcher to have any way of fighting back, maybe buy some mines as well. You jump into a game and quickly spot lots of tanks just shooting everywhere, destroying your teammates. You go for a nice flank and blow them up with your launchers and mines.
    Without enemy tanks shelling at them, your teammates can progress and cap the points, pushing enemies back. You win the game and feel like the real hero!

    Sounds good?

    Then comes the repair bill. You will probably ask: "What do you mean? What repair bill?"
    Oh, you didn't know? It's this cool, innovative feature, that isn't explained very well in the game either.
    Using your equipment cots money. After a game you have to repair your gun, it's modifications, replenish ammo, grenades, rockets, mines etc. You won't notice it at first, but eventually you will realise "I have no more grenades!" and then you have to pay.

    You pay with in-game currency. You can't buy it with $$, it's earned after playing games. No P2W **** here.
    Your actions will earn you some money, plus you get a salary if you played 50% of the game or at least 10 minutes. Salary is based on your rank.

    It still sounds quite good, even if the idea of paying for bullets in a shooter game feels strange.

    Very soon you realise first problem - I'm not earning enough credits. What costs me so much?
    Short answer: everything.
    You are earning maybe 3k per game. Weapon mods cost 20k+, shovel (melee weapon) 14k, binoculars - over 30k, new weapon 60K+. Each weapon mod for bolt action is around 50k. Single use of mine - 1k.

    Imagine this: new game, your team is destroyed by enemy tanks. You grab AT launcher and flank them. 3 shots later, enemy tank is gone. That's around 1,5k you just used. Destroy one more tank and you will not get any profit in this round. This can't be real, can it?

    How can you boost your income and be able to afford anything new?
    Buy veteran membership that will boost your xp gain (get new ranks and higher salary quicker) and earn extra credits for every fight.

    Someone might say you can still play without spending rl money, but if you do that you need to do the following thing to earn credits:
    - pick weapons without any mods
    - jump into games just to grind credits

    That means: not using grenades at all. Ignore the explosives and weapon mods.
    Enemy tank killing your mates? Ignore it. It's too expensive to blow him up.

    When you grind money, you make yourself very weak on purpose. You're the worst equipped guy on your team just to save enough money for later.

    There is no point of playing this game without veteran membership subscription. They might as well add in-game message when you try to blow up enemy tank "Destroying enemy tanks is feature reserved only for veteran membership owners." or show you an info "You just wasted xxx credits." after each grenade used.    … Expand
  2. LD9000
    Aug 30, 2014
    3
    Mediocre Pay2Win shooter with a couple large maps and several small ones. There are two factions - Allies (US) and Axis(Germany). Each faction can send an "Assault Team" of 20 players to capture a region. An assault team is essentially a certain number of spawn tickets. Once there are no more spawns, the assault team is defeated.

    While the game could've been a 5, it has horrible network    Mediocre Pay2Win shooter with a couple large maps and several small ones. There are two factions - Allies (US) and Axis(Germany). Each faction can send an "Assault Team" of 20 players to capture a region. An assault team is essentially a certain number of spawn tickets. Once there are no more spawns, the assault team is defeated.

    While the game could've been a 5, it has horrible network issues. Playing on a server with "green" ping, I routinely see my tank shots fly straight through the enemy tank, as if it is not there. No "Armor too Thick" or "Impact angle too high" messages, just does nothing. These issues might not be visible for infantry, where you just assume you miss, but seeing a nice shell tracer go straight through makes the issue obvious.

    The Pay2Win system consists of a lengthy grind to progressively unlock more powerful weapons. Players earn 10 levels of badges through gameplay, and one of the last badges (like 8-9 unlocks next tier item). For example, light tank 7 or so unlocks Stuart tank for the US, while light tank 9 unlocks first medium tank. There's a crapton of grinding in an AWFUL M2 tank. While it looks like a regular tank from a side, it actually has 2 MG turrets that rotate about 80 degrees, meaning as a driver, you simply cannot look right.

    There is a shortcut of paying about 8 dollars per weapon and 13 dollars per premium weapon (ex: sniper rifle). The grind is LONG, really long.

    Unsurprisingly, the German faction is significantly more populated and is fairly overpowered in terms of tanks and MG42s. Even the login screen says that there are too many germans.

    The game looks about the same as battlefield 2, - rather flat terrain without grass rendering more than 50 meters away, shadows are pretty nice though.

    The game features several vehicles for each side - 3 types of tanks (light, medium, heavy), tank destroyers, planes and transport. None of these really stand out, and the tanks feel really clunky, I have not found the zoom button, so light tanks have better zoom than medium ones. There's practically no bullet drop of any kind - you point your gun and the shell lands exactly where you are looking at.

    In order to spawn with vehicle, the player needs to buy a tank crewman, or grind a rifleman to tier 3. For a pilot, the grind is to tier4, for a sniper to tier 6. Each soldier has to unlock same items, which is where my biggest gripe with the game is.

    The spotting system is fairly good - after placing crosshairs on an enemy for a few seconds, a static marker appears in that place for 10 seconds or so. This means it's really hard to "shoot red things" through cover.

    Lack of maps really starts to show, even after a few hours of gameplay - you will be fighting over the same city, same villages, same factory, and the same single airfield OVER, and OVER, and OVER, ad nauseum, with Germans winning 90% of the games. While some maps are large, they are not complex enough to warrant different tactics. Tanks camp the same hill on airfield, people shoot out of the same windows.

    There's minimum destructible environments- tanks can crush wooden and wire fences.

    Overall, a mediocre Pay2Win shooter, there are much better ones, like PlanetSide 2 (where you get a whole continent of a map), WarThunder, where planes actually fly like planes    … Expand
  3. Davihein
    Sep 8, 2019
    1
    Meine Kritik auf Deutsch:
    Es gibt mehrere Spiele, die ich mir wünsche, darunter ein paar Battlefield Teile. Als ich von Heroes & Generals hörte, beschloss ich, es auf Steam herunterzuladen und solange zu spielen, bis ich die Battlefield Teile habe, die ich mir wünsche. Doch das Spiel war so verbugt, dass ich es nach der 1. Runde sofort löschte und es hier von mir nur einen Punkt erhält.
  4. TeodorCristian
    Jul 24, 2020
    0
    The game itself is good, but VERY AWFUL DEVS. They absolutly can not manage this game
  5. tufekciero
    Mar 12, 2021
    4
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  6. Flysmacker
    Apr 9, 2021
    1
    Pay to win crap full of hackers. Like the graphics are ok but the grind is big.
  7. Defside7
    Mar 7, 2022
    0
    I wrote about the game before, but deleted the review for some unknown reason. Well, this game has many issues: awful graphics, development stalemate, bad map design, poor sound design, grind, boring gameplay.

    From upsides... the idea of the game itself maybe? Anyways, just skip it and play something else.
  8. Lord_Tao
    Aug 10, 2019
    1
    *Note the vast majority of good user rankings are from years ago when the game was decent and had potential. If you factor them out, the meta score is probably somewhere between 2-3*

    Reto Moto is the Ewe Boll of game developers. Heroes and Generals is the most fundamentally broken game I have ever played, and I have been playing online since the days of Kali back in the mid 90s. I    *Note the vast majority of good user rankings are from years ago when the game was decent and had potential. If you factor them out, the meta score is probably somewhere between 2-3*

    Reto Moto is the Ewe Boll of game developers. Heroes and Generals is the most fundamentally broken game I have ever played, and I have been playing online since the days of Kali back in the mid 90s.

    I have 500 hours playing this game. Back when I first started playing the game, it was decent and had promise. Back then, we had the luxury of the biggest problem of the game being the Pz38T being over powered due to the Stuart not being able to penetrate it - way back when those were the two top tier tanks.

    However there is a laundry list of issues, so many that I could not name them all in my Steam review (which unfortunately I am not allowed to link here). I don't want to be vague either, but due to the character limitation I can't go into in-depth detail. Essentially name the game mechanic and it is utterly and fundamentally broken.

    I am being generous and give this game a single point for being somewhat fun to play for a few hours. However once you notice all the glaring issues, and the terrible game design, you will not have fun playing soon enough, and definitely regret it if you spent any money on the game.

    Many games like War Thunder, or others make changes and the player base is constantly crying that the sky is falling and the game is dying. Well Heroes and Generals is definitely those sentiments incarnate. Today on a Saturday afternoon there was a grand total of 6 war battles starting. It was so bad that not only did I wait and wait for a match, the match maker kept throwing me into a match where the resources were depleted so that I could not spawn and thus could not participate. That is beyond broken game design.

    If you think Anthem, or similar games were sloppy and had lazy development, you have not seen anything yet. H and G has been out for years and is the worst game of all time. It is a shame because I will miss my AVS-36...    … Expand
  9. SupolkoSasi
    Mar 27, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. А плохая граффика сюжет параша мне не понрввилось даже BF5 лучше чем эта параша… Expand
  10. pol_stand
    Mar 11, 2022
    0
    :( Жалею о том, что купил этот продукт. Деньги не вернуть. :(
    Поддержали нацизм. :(

    Where have you been for the last 8 years? Don't play this game. By playing this game, you support the Nazis.
  11. JK666
    Jun 26, 2022
    1
    Beware the game is pay to win and even if you pay to win the devs can and will just remove the things you PAYED REAL MONEY FOR from the game and not refund you its theft at its finest
  12. Mydeli
    Jul 24, 2022
    2
    I got 600+ playtime and I can say game barely changed since 2016.
    Game engine is bad, mechanics are crude.
    Don't waste your time on it like i did.
  13. Banhammer0
    Aug 12, 2015
    0
    Pay2win this is all I have to say really, you can buy great guns, sure you can grind for them but you will be weak as **** for weeks while paid players will kick your ass due to the game's matchmaking caring only about level, not about what a user has unlocked with money.
    Stay clear of this pos.
  14. petar_mili
    Jun 23, 2015
    2
    I have gave this game a decent try and it was fun in the beginning but after a while it shows it`s true face game is heavily unbalanced you often get wiped by tanks and your team has none aimboting snipers sit around having 35/5 K/D ratio and no matter what they say to you it is pay to win game
    such a shame for this game with a lot of potential
  15. bs412
    Nov 22, 2016
    0
    The balance in this game is nonexistent. It is the definition of pay to win....The anti cheating software is very old. Cheaters run rampant in this game. Even when cheating is not involved it will seem like it as you will be put into combat as a brand new player against armor you can not penetrate. Against planes you cannot hit. Against players who have 75% + of their kills as headThe balance in this game is nonexistent. It is the definition of pay to win....The anti cheating software is very old. Cheaters run rampant in this game. Even when cheating is not involved it will seem like it as you will be put into combat as a brand new player against armor you can not penetrate. Against planes you cannot hit. Against players who have 75% + of their kills as head shots.... amazing right? Google the game's name and cheaters and make your own opinion. They sell their services openly, and the game does not do enough to stop them......

    You can hit someone in the chest 5 time and they will not die, as they stand still and reload and shoot you once and you are dead. If it is a bad game it will be from chest to chest closeness and they will get a head shot while aiming at your feet.

    The grind is silly, there are games that are f2p that have grind and its ok, annoying maybe but ok (Warframe), this is not one of them..... the grind is just stupid..... you want to use a grenade, it cost you money, ammo, cost you.... take damage.. yup it costs you to repair....A wrench cost more than a gun, a gun cost more than my mother's house..... I'm trying to say its just silly.....

    Every game is one sided..... might be your side that wins (at early levels its US loses every game (just about every game in the AM hours of the US) Germany wins, Soviets I have less data so no opinion.) It might be the enemy that wins, but it is one sided. That is not fun... being spawn camped is not fun...

    You will start many games that have already started snowballing for one side, they have most of the objectives, they outnumber you, they outclass/experience you, and you have a limited number of spawns (objective stars) which THEY ALLOW YOU TO KEEP so they can farm kills.... ya i used all caps to point that out... it sucks....it's common.... people will leave the game because it is unwinnable and new players will enter and run to their deaths as the enemy team keeps farming them.... then again more players leave the losing team, and new ones show up to be killed as they are surrounding your spawn point with tanks you cant penetrate the armor of but are more than willing to mow you down.....

    eh, well, here is your review...... play at your own risk.. hope you all have at least some fun if you decide to play    … Expand
  16. Derpodile
    Jun 10, 2018
    1
    I really wanted to like this game, I really really wanted to like it .
    This game really had all the right markers to be a fun , entertaining , engaging game you can play with your friends for a long time .
    It was mesmerizing in the beginning , got you hooked and hoped for the bright future of the game Than the updates started rolling in , the first ones were qualitatively    I really wanted to like this game, I really really wanted to like it .
    This game really had all the right markers to be a fun , entertaining , engaging game you can play with your friends for a long time .
    It was mesmerizing in the beginning , got you hooked and hoped for the bright future of the game
    Than the updates started rolling in , the first ones were qualitatively questionable , silly me thought " oh well this is a new dev team , give them time to figure things out ."
    Fast forward from 2013 to 2018
    Litteraly anything this game had going for it got "down-upgraded"
    things that had some problems like the squad system got hit by the assigned update so bad that they dont function properly to this day - This type of knee jerk untested fixes to run rampant in this game
    The hit detection was never really great and a bit clunky but it worked good enough for the early state of the game , today every single automatic weapon scores 75% to 90% headshot kills ... without having to aim - this is not a exaggeration , its something the community had to figure out in collaborative effort , simply because Reto.Moto never shares any negative statistics - shortly after the community crumbled into toxicity , split bases , trolls and people using alternative accounts to manipulate the RTS campaing
    Balance problems pretty much everyone complained about went unheard for years
    A massive outcry forced Reto.moto into action to tone down sniper rifles that could oneshot you across the map hitting you in the tip of your foot . For some reason they went out of their way now turn automatics into the same troublemaker , some speculate to boost the sales on those weapons after everyone bought their sniper rifle - this became apparent as time goes on because Overpowered weapons remained in their state till the saturation of the gun was achieved and sales went back , suddenly those guns get hit with massive crippling nerfs while another batch of weapons mysteriously recieves a massive buff
    Speaking of dodgy buisness schemes like this - reading steam reviews where people claimed to get their in game account banned for expressing or pointing out problems in a constructive manner even on other platforms like youtube or steam revies left a sour taste in my mouth but got repressed as "to evil to be true " however , turns out this has happened and still happens today - the most active part of this 30 man development team appear to be the comunity managers and other devs responsible for dev to playerbase communication , constructive threads get locked and deleted if asked more than once . Players they deem as annoying get temp banned even if they dont violate the rules or the TOS of the game - up to a point where a forum regular from the first day constantly gets temp banned from both the forums and the game for showing up the absurdity of their decision , for example presenting a table top magnifier as new , cheaper and more reliable mountable scope for guns after the buy cost and maintainnce cost of scopes got massively increased
    Overall the dev monitoring on the forums is very strick , very unproductive and often quite rude even from the devs that sometimes get nailed down on the nonsense they tell .
    Hardly any of them play their own game , up to a point where a placeholder system that was implemented to balance out the spawn system apparently broke with an update and then went un noticed for more than 1 year
    Other parts of the dev team seem to be for decoration or are in a dormant 1 year sleep most of the time - the last update they proudly announced was a TOS change and the inclusion of a long overdue anti cheat engine

    To summarize the problem , the game had huge potential and massive help from its own community - how 30 professional devs and years of development can leave a game in a less complete state than in its alpha days is is beyond me

    As of the time of this review the game is at its lowest player base since alpha december 2014 - the devs completely vanished from any publicity to work on "mission critical backend stuff" but more likely to refill and train new devs after a bunch of the devs left probably because of some behind the scene problem - the game is in its dying breath after being neglected for a long time and the abstinence of the devs to train new personel will probably be too long to get the game out of the downward spiral of bad reviews , old problems and shrinking playerbase .

    Really really sad to see a game with such a huge potential fail so miserably because of hubris and lack of care.    … Expand
  17. Kameleonic
    Jun 22, 2015
    3
    It is both pay to enjoy and to win. I refuse to pay for a product that has been in Beta much too long.

    You will spend many, many hours with one weapon, and a grenade. You will have to wait a long time to get a slight upgrade for that one weapon, and even when you unlock something, you may not be able to buy it. Pay for refills, pay for repairing equipment, pay for upgrades etc.    It is both pay to enjoy and to win. I refuse to pay for a product that has been in Beta much too long.

    You will spend many, many hours with one weapon, and a grenade. You will have to wait a long time to get a slight upgrade for that one weapon, and even when you unlock something, you may not be able to buy it.

    Pay for refills, pay for repairing equipment, pay for upgrades etc. everything is about money whether F2P or not. It seems the Beta is merely an excuse to keep the developers earning a salary.

    So you level up enough to change career from grunt to tanker: you have to pay for this. You get an awful low rank tank that seems better off used as a machine gun and a taxi for grunts. You regret the career change. No matter, you can pay to go back to grunt.

    You join a side, one of three, Russian if you want the best grunt gun - rapid sub machine gun that snipes at range too... You join a fight, and ride shotgun, or ride a bicycle into battle, or you simple run a minute or two to get closer to the front line, which is where many things can happen:

    1. You die being sniped, run over, shot, or bombed before you even see an enemy.
    2. You get to the front line, maybe get a kill or two, or none and back to 1.
    3. You are put into a queue to wait for an open slot to rejoin, or a few seconds depending on player numbers.
    4. You literally grind to get a new 'badge' that says you get one kind of boost, but you really can't tell if it works or not.
    5. You grind to get a new weapon you simply cannot afford to buy.
    6. You get an upgrade, but still get a 3-17 kill death ration.
    7. You are in a game with your teammates, all grunts with no anti-tank capability, and your enemy is made up of anti infantry tanks... You spend 15 minutes feeding the enemy XP.
    8. You actually pay real cash and experience faster levelling, quicker unlocks, and a more satisfying game.

    There is no Free to Play. There is only free to keep the servers populated, and give the paying customers target practice with easy XP.

    Poor game with only a little amount of fun to be had occasionally.    … Expand
  18. JERupp
    Nov 8, 2014
    0
    It's pay to win. Who the hell wants to play pay to win games? People with no money, and people with lots of money who don't want to game on an even playing field. This combination of people is guaranteed to be the worst experience ever for someone just looking for a nice, competitive environment.

    This game would be amazing if the F2P model more closely resembled games like LoL and DotA    It's pay to win. Who the hell wants to play pay to win games? People with no money, and people with lots of money who don't want to game on an even playing field. This combination of people is guaranteed to be the worst experience ever for someone just looking for a nice, competitive environment.

    This game would be amazing if the F2P model more closely resembled games like LoL and DotA 2.

    Until they remove all the boosts from paying real currency, this game is no better than those garbage Zynga mob war games on Facebook. This game was a solid 9/10 until I noticed the paid boosts.    … Expand
  19. qwerty8883
    Aug 9, 2015
    0
    A god awful pay to win game which starts off full of promise until you realize you have use credits to do just about anything in the game (this includes repairing weapons, weapon mods, even repairing grenades????). The latter is utterly unaffordable due to a complete lack of credits earned in game even if you pay for premium mode and you realise that this game is nothing but a completeA god awful pay to win game which starts off full of promise until you realize you have use credits to do just about anything in the game (this includes repairing weapons, weapon mods, even repairing grenades????). The latter is utterly unaffordable due to a complete lack of credits earned in game even if you pay for premium mode and you realise that this game is nothing but a complete con. Stay well clear of this game! It is not worth your time and effort and you can get a better gaming experience simply by play RO2 which costs a tiny proportion of the cost of H&G… Expand
  20. DT66
    Mar 5, 2015
    0
    I've been playing this game for about 8 months. The concept is exciting with a RTS and an FPS together based on WW2. The execution is terrible and it keeps getting worse with each new build. The game has limited maps. The servers are unreliable, the factions are unbalanced, the ping or fps (or both) often make the matches unplayable, the game is filled with bugs and the devs don't seem toI've been playing this game for about 8 months. The concept is exciting with a RTS and an FPS together based on WW2. The execution is terrible and it keeps getting worse with each new build. The game has limited maps. The servers are unreliable, the factions are unbalanced, the ping or fps (or both) often make the matches unplayable, the game is filled with bugs and the devs don't seem to be working on any of the important issues with it. It's free to play but the grind to get anywhere is excruciatingly slow and if you want to play the RTS side you're going to have to pay unless you're willing to grind on the FPS side for months before you get there. Once there expect all of your hard earned time to go down the toilet in a flash as other players waste the precious war funds you've spent months earning. Servers crash regularly and if your units are in a battle when the servers go down there is no refund of the war funds you lost in the battle. The devs hold weekly devstreams where they pretend to address issues in the player community but mostly drink and answer random questions. This company will never take this game to the level that it could go and it's such a shame. You are better off spending your time and or money elsewhere. And for those who keep saying that this game is still in beta, it's been in beta for years and will still be in beta when it dies out.… Expand
  21. spidix
    Mar 4, 2015
    0
    Server never Runs.Dont Spend Money for this ****.3Years in Beta but Server dont run! Dont spend Money for this Game.
    Dont Play this Game.................
  22. Jiggawatts
    Jul 9, 2015
    3
    Mediocre WW2 shooter with HEAVY Pay2Win model - basically no progress whatsoever without spending cash. So if you are looking for something fun with a real fair Free2Play model, Heroes & Generals is NOT that game. Also a lot of unbalance in the game mechanics with a lot of spawn camping and similar fun-killing bugs and flaws. Just not worth it...
  23. lahalive
    Oct 1, 2016
    3
    I don't agree with what many other claim, that the game is P2W. However there are the option to run a premium account, and as in all other F2P games, certain advantages are given for buying premium. You are not immortal, faster, more accurate or the liking, when buying premium, you earn more XP, as in all other type of premium memberships, and you get to strap an extra badge to yourI don't agree with what many other claim, that the game is P2W. However there are the option to run a premium account, and as in all other F2P games, certain advantages are given for buying premium. You are not immortal, faster, more accurate or the liking, when buying premium, you earn more XP, as in all other type of premium memberships, and you get to strap an extra badge to your soldier ( Badges giver a slight slight advantage, i.e. able to sprint a little longer, or hotwire a vehicle a bit faster) However badges are available to all, and every player can add at least one badge.

    That being said, my feeling of the game, is that is has spiralled downwards in the last couple of years. It has been a long long time, since I enjoyed a game of H&G.

    Pro's.
    It's a WWII shooter, with vehicles like BF, but with a more realistic(ish) feeling to it.
    You can play up to 6 friends in a squad
    You can customize many many things, even type of ammunition
    There is a solid amount of hours, grinding to unlock, so you don't end up in the end-game within a week.

    Con's
    Even though you are supposed to be able to play with 5 friends in a squad, you damn better be patient for that to be happening, or just play with a single friends, matchmaking is to **** You can easily wait 15-20 minutes for a 6 man squad, all hours of the day.
    Realism has taken a backseat to balancing mechanics, like spotting markers
    Every customization cost huge amount of in-game credits, and even your basic gear wears down, and has to be "repaired" I know that if my rifle had been that sensitive, I'd better bring a boxing glove instead

    Matchmaking with friends is an unbelievable hassle, with so many things going wrong before you can just play a simple game.
    Developers seem to be quite sensitive about criticism of their game, and seen as Danes are the main company behind it, that feels strange to me as a Dane.

    Conclusion, at this point, all my friends and I have abandoned this game, they keep updating it, but every time it seems to be getting worse.
    I used to like it, and we used to play it a lot, but no one is enjoying it anymore.
    I can NOT recommend the game    … Expand
  24. Stilletto_1
    Apr 22, 2015
    2
    Stay away from this game. The devs are dictators that take great amusement in banning folks for all sorts of crazy reasons. The updates are terrible and thegame suffers from unbelievable lag and downtime. They say free but now it's Pay2Play because you can be charged REAL money to replace items that your team has destroyed on you. When I called them, at my expense to ask why, they laughedStay away from this game. The devs are dictators that take great amusement in banning folks for all sorts of crazy reasons. The updates are terrible and thegame suffers from unbelievable lag and downtime. They say free but now it's Pay2Play because you can be charged REAL money to replace items that your team has destroyed on you. When I called them, at my expense to ask why, they laughed at the fact I'm almost blind and type in caps to see. These cats are bad programmers that started working on a movie and switched to games....bad move. Even the movie sucked. STAY AWAY OR BE HATEFULLY DISAPPOINTED. The downtime is always wrong on times and even lose the entire server for a weekend. They say it's gonna be up in 1 hour and 5 hours later.......yep you guessed it. The lag, the high ping times, bad weapons that are inaccurate, and a dev team that just don't care.

    BAD DEAL.    … Expand
  25. HispaniaGothoru
    Nov 22, 2015
    0
    Avoid this game, unrealistic (one shoot of a IS-2 destroy a Tiger II.. realistic?), small scenarios, bad resolution, etc It's a bad copy of the game Call of Duty
  26. Genelegasse
    Sep 30, 2016
    3
    Game seems interesting at first, lots of progression to work twords unlocking the many fun toys of the game... However it's rather false due to extreme Pay-to-win. Servers were very faulty and overall the game just was not fun. A single day after release people were already pushing tanks and planes across the battlefield(Which take extreme amounts of levels and work to unlock) andGame seems interesting at first, lots of progression to work twords unlocking the many fun toys of the game... However it's rather false due to extreme Pay-to-win. Servers were very faulty and overall the game just was not fun. A single day after release people were already pushing tanks and planes across the battlefield(Which take extreme amounts of levels and work to unlock) and slaughtering the Free-to-play members of the game. I feel like Planetside2 already achieved everything this game tried to be, minus the WW1 theme. 3 out of 10 is the best i'd give it with an open mind. :)… Expand
  27. fiveofspades
    Feb 28, 2016
    4
    This is a good, could have been great game. but they just tried too hard. Historc accuracy(from which ever pen) was sacrificed for "game balance". Still it's fun to play. Unfortunately, by trying to strap the tactical game to the stategic the server they use cant cope. When you make the transition from staged to war, suddenly you ping trebbles and your fps is halved (unless you live nextThis is a good, could have been great game. but they just tried too hard. Historc accuracy(from which ever pen) was sacrificed for "game balance". Still it's fun to play. Unfortunately, by trying to strap the tactical game to the stategic the server they use cant cope. When you make the transition from staged to war, suddenly you ping trebbles and your fps is halved (unless you live next door to the server or mum bought you a state of the art P.C.). If they can address this issue I would give another go, maybe.… Expand
  28. Preacher_
    Sep 15, 2014
    1
    This game is the absolute worst spin off of Call of Duty that I've ever seen. It's a respawn game that you can keep coming back in to die instantly. I've been playing now for about a week because I wanted to test both factions. They're equally poor. Expect to have to shoot someone multiple times in the head only for them to turn around and hose you down like you're a fly. This game willThis game is the absolute worst spin off of Call of Duty that I've ever seen. It's a respawn game that you can keep coming back in to die instantly. I've been playing now for about a week because I wanted to test both factions. They're equally poor. Expect to have to shoot someone multiple times in the head only for them to turn around and hose you down like you're a fly. This game will make you so irritated, you'll turn into a time bomb on a short timer. Expect to break stuff, throw your mouse, and punch the screen. Only reason I gave it a one is because it has a experience bar that gains skills unlocks through progression if you manage to gain any experience that is. In an earnest attempt to keep from pulling the rest of my hair out I am done playing this game and would highly recommend to others that have a respect for first person shooter games not to play this game either. It has a bad taste to say the least.… Expand
  29. Rem
    Jul 15, 2015
    4
    Heroes and Generals gave me a good first impression when I played my first few games, utilizing competent shooting mechanics and squad based teamwork to capture points in a dull looking World War 2 backdrop. However, the pay-to-win tactics that give unfair advantages to other players is borderline insulting and grinding to even get anything in this game is a chore as objectives areHeroes and Generals gave me a good first impression when I played my first few games, utilizing competent shooting mechanics and squad based teamwork to capture points in a dull looking World War 2 backdrop. However, the pay-to-win tactics that give unfair advantages to other players is borderline insulting and grinding to even get anything in this game is a chore as objectives are nonexistant unless you also rank up. Even playing great games had me shaking my head at the OP Russian faction and the need for my grenades to repair. I'm not kidding, grenades need to repair.… Expand
  30. Letumni
    Mar 14, 2016
    4
    Movement is wonky, gunplay feels cardboard, and the pace to unlock things is glacial. You can pay to unlock literally everything. You can pay to level, can pay for your combat ribbons to unlock things, you can pay for individual upgrades. Otherwise look forward to hours upon hours of gameplay for each unlock.

    I think I was looking at about 4-6 hours of gameplay to unlock the first    Movement is wonky, gunplay feels cardboard, and the pace to unlock things is glacial. You can pay to unlock literally everything. You can pay to level, can pay for your combat ribbons to unlock things, you can pay for individual upgrades. Otherwise look forward to hours upon hours of gameplay for each unlock.

    I think I was looking at about 4-6 hours of gameplay to unlock the first weapon after the M1 Garand.    … Expand
  31. ArnoldAceRimmer
    Apr 19, 2020
    1
    Lazy developers! Physics out of this world! Haystacks that stop tanks. crazy bugs (losing control of your char where he wonders around for 10sec), Open for hackers to rampage freely. And the last thing that happened...i had about 25 kills in one game and got results 2kills/3 deaths. That was the last straw. Attention, Avoid at all cost! Better play Minecraft!
  32. ParadisTime
    Sep 5, 2017
    2
    This game is cool, I know. The only big problem in here is RAGE. You just sometimes cannot play peacefully because of this. Because of annoying players non stop killing you. So, or you play the game and get ready for half of your time rage or don't touch it.
  33. itsselixio
    Mar 1, 2019
    3
    its a genaric pay to win ww2 shooter with some interisting aspects but most of it is bad. slow prograssion system except if you pay. it amazes me that this game is'nt made by EA.
  34. Horrux
    Nov 1, 2016
    0
    If I could give a negative score, I would. This "game" is the software version of cancer. It is a wholly negative and frustrating experience, which makes you want to improve it by unlocking things. And interspersed in that sea of negativity, you might encounter a nugget of fun. Rarely.

    This is a free-to-play game, and is definitely *NOT* pay-to-win. That being said, the game will tempt    If I could give a negative score, I would. This "game" is the software version of cancer. It is a wholly negative and frustrating experience, which makes you want to improve it by unlocking things. And interspersed in that sea of negativity, you might encounter a nugget of fun. Rarely.

    This is a free-to-play game, and is definitely *NOT* pay-to-win. That being said, the game will tempt you into putting paycheck after paycheck into it. I added how much you would need to just buy top hardware for each soldier, for one soldier per class, per faction: $5,000. That's right, U.S. Dollars, equivalent to about 4,000 euro.

    It's not pay-to-win because, you will eventually discover that your starter weapon is pretty much the best all-around gun in the game, no matter which faction you choose. There are of course situationally better weapons (SMGs for short range, Bolt-Action for long range, etc.) There are tons of upgrades for each weapon and they make a huge difference.

    But it's free, and if you try it, chances are you will find this game is pretty fun, and that with some better equipment, and the larger battles that await as you rank up, the game REALLY CAN get epic. And it can, rather it *COULD*. Except it will disappoint and frustrate you, but we will start with the good.

    THE GOOD:
    - Recreates the WW2 atmosphere with realistic weapons and vehicles
    - 3 major factions, the USA, Germany and the USSR
    - Minor factions are promised to be added
    - The maps are big
    - The war mode: thousands of players participate simultaneously in a huge campaign
    - There are tons of unlocks
    - Weapons and vehicles can be upgraded
    - The skill ceiling is fairly high
    - There can be 3-way battles
    - Teamwork with friends or with a clan is a complete blast
    - It runs decently and the FPS game very rarely crashes

    THE BAD:
    - The game is designed to make you wait, run, die, wait again, run again, die again. So that you really really want to unlock that jeep, that bike, that whatever vehicle that will prevent that god-forsaken running insanity.

    - The game is designed to make you want the equipment, the guns, the upgrades, and these cost credits. You must also unlock them first, and this requires XP. You get both of those by playing the game. But not by doing things to WIN the game. This disrupts everything.

    - The game trains players to play a single-player game ("Teammates? Nah, there's just ME, MYSELF AND I" type of attitude. And if you think it's bad in other games, wait until a teammate spawns the very last jeep of the game, drives away from spawn, leaving 8 teammates stranded who are all begging for a lift, and goes to crash himself against a tree, destroying the jeep and all hope of winning. This is one example from an endless list.)

    - The game used to have bonuses for doing smart things. But no more. So, that objective that was just captured, there is pretty much no bonus at all for defending it, while there is massive XP & Credits for capturing the next. So? Nobody defends. They all rush on to the next, and if the team loses the previous? Well, we will cap it again! Yay, more XP & Cr! Except that's not winning, that's losing while making the most XP & Credits, which is exactly what the game trains the players to do.

    - You are playing as a tanker? Good luck! Your "friendly" infantry will blatantly ignore the anti-tank dudes in the process of killing you and your tank. They don't care that without tanks they will lose. XP & Cr for "ME ME ME ME ME", that's all that counts.

    - The list of ways this game trains the players to commit the most destructive insanity is nearly endless.

    CONCLUSION
    This is a game unlike any other, combining MMO, FPS and RTS elements. It has so many things going for it, too bad it has even more going against it.

    The worst is, the developers could EASILY fix EVERY SINGLE THING that makes this game an exercise in extreme frustration.

    Maybe its community acts with such extreme retardation because the game is free to play, and it attracts morons and other un-gifted people that could never hold a job or function in society in the first place. Or maybe it's the game design that encourages it and this er... more easily influenced segment of the population goes for it to the max. Either way, the community sucks to the max and beyond.

    The frustration makes you throw money at the game so you can end up enjoying it, but sadly your teammates are all farming XP, Credits and ribbons, and not actually playing the battle like a battle should be played.

    As such, this game is like crack cocaine: it promises greatness, but that promise can never be realized, it only results in emptying your wallet and make you curse humanity.

    If you have a large group of friends to team up with though, you can largely ignore the destructive, blatant, wanton stupidity and have a great time.    … Expand
  35. gamboy
    Mar 16, 2017
    3
    Bad coding results in a hacker friendly, low fps on most machines (the recommended specs are a lie), terrible ping (Moscow server) fail of a game. To bad about the concept the rts and fps blend seemed interesting but the implementation, low number of maps and the inbalance in gear that the US and SU factions have is just ridiculous. Even so the nazis are by far the largest faction due toBad coding results in a hacker friendly, low fps on most machines (the recommended specs are a lie), terrible ping (Moscow server) fail of a game. To bad about the concept the rts and fps blend seemed interesting but the implementation, low number of maps and the inbalance in gear that the US and SU factions have is just ridiculous. Even so the nazis are by far the largest faction due to the fact that people just want to be the baddies, this game will give you that opportunity but don't expect to do much since like in the movies you tend to die like flies.… Expand
  36. Totaltank
    Mar 20, 2017
    2
    This game WAS good, now it's one of the most frustrating, rubbish games I have every played. Avoid!
    Unbalanced, trash community, worst level design I have ever seen. None of the building layouts make sense!
  37. Nightwolf141
    Sep 21, 2014
    2
    After playing a few hours, I found myself constantly questioning certain aspects of the gameplay.

    Cons: 1. The M1 Garand does not perform anywhere near what it should 2. Pay 2 Win 3. Launcher problems (had to logout to refresh rank unlocks and to equip/unequip items 4. The Germans always outnumber americans seeing how they have better weapons 5. German weapons are mostly better    After playing a few hours, I found myself constantly questioning certain aspects of the gameplay.

    Cons:
    1. The M1 Garand does not perform anywhere near what it should
    2. Pay 2 Win
    3. Launcher problems (had to logout to refresh rank unlocks and to equip/unequip items
    4. The Germans always outnumber americans seeing how they have better weapons
    5. German weapons are mostly better than american weapons and there is no balance
    6. Long grind to get different weapons/items
    7. To unlock items using currency unlocked through gameplay is slow and low
    8. Items are overly priced
    9. Bad ping

    Pros:
    1. Fresh idea. It felt like i was playing a FPS version of Company of Heroes
    2. Upgrading weapon parts    … Expand
  38. josemiralles
    Jun 9, 2017
    0
    I have over 2,000 hours in this game, and I will recommend that you stay away from this dying game.

    - There is a long waiting time between games, and then between spawns. You will wait twice as much as you play. The waiting time increases if you are one of the people actually trying to win. - Playing with friends is now a chore: You have a small limited amount of “seats” that you can    I have over 2,000 hours in this game, and I will recommend that you stay away from this dying game.

    - There is a long waiting time between games, and then between spawns. You will wait twice as much as you play. The waiting time increases if you are one of the people actually trying to win.
    - Playing with friends is now a chore: You have a small limited amount of “seats” that you can use to switch classes that you have to select before the game. This means that either your friends or you get to play the fun classes while you are stuck playing the boring ones.

    The funny thing is that all of my friends and everyone in my clan decided to quit this horrible game anyway.    … Expand
  39. Vengeice
    Nov 13, 2014
    0
    Pay2WinPay2WinPay2WinPay2WinPay2WinPay2WinPay2WinPay2WinPay2WinPay2WinPay2WinPay2WinPay2WinPay2WinPay2WinPay2WinPay2WinPay2WinPay2WinPay2WinPay2WinPay2WinPay2WinPay2WinPay2Win.
    0/10
  40. Skyguy7567
    Sep 20, 2014
    1
    VERY imbalanced game. I've been playing for two weeks, mainly on the Allied side, and I've NEVER EVER seen Germany loose a single war. In fact recent wars end with Germany having DOUBLE the wins the Allies have. Totally Pay to Win, and I'm one of those guys who don't pay for such a terrible game. Still playing around with a barely upgraded M1 and struggling to get more credits to buyVERY imbalanced game. I've been playing for two weeks, mainly on the Allied side, and I've NEVER EVER seen Germany loose a single war. In fact recent wars end with Germany having DOUBLE the wins the Allies have. Totally Pay to Win, and I'm one of those guys who don't pay for such a terrible game. Still playing around with a barely upgraded M1 and struggling to get more credits to buy anything else. Yet I'm expected to compete against tanks, scoped weapons and all the three shot kill MACHINE GUNS. You'll need at least 3 shots from the M1 to kill a guy, and it's semi automatic. Fully automatic weapons that kill you within half a second own the short range combat. And scoped weapons just makes it impossible to cross a field without suddenly dying. It is completely imbalanced. BF109s roam the skies and bomb whatever's in their way, often spawncamping. And lol I've pumped over 600 AA shells from quad .50cal guns and nothing's happened to the 109. All I get is "Penetrated Armor" and he'll just have to drop a bomb to take out my AA placement. Massive facepalm.… Expand
  41. Ansatsu83
    Sep 3, 2014
    1
    This is exactly how you DO NOT MAKE A GAME! You pay to have instant kill weapons or grind for hours to days to get enough in game credits to get them. Not newbie friendly. Anti-tank weapons are not easily available, forcing you to either a. pay real money, b. grind for a couple of days for in game credits, or c. hunt all over the map to find disposable anti-vehicle weapons. On top of this,This is exactly how you DO NOT MAKE A GAME! You pay to have instant kill weapons or grind for hours to days to get enough in game credits to get them. Not newbie friendly. Anti-tank weapons are not easily available, forcing you to either a. pay real money, b. grind for a couple of days for in game credits, or c. hunt all over the map to find disposable anti-vehicle weapons. On top of this, while it is a great concept, battlefield 1942 did it better, much better. This cannot get anything other than a 1 out of 10. While I can give them props for the idea, I cannot say they did a good job, I cannot say they made an average game, this is purely RUBBISH!!! There are no excuses for this atrocity, the developers obviously did not think this through and refused to think after there were complaints. Oh yeah they have to make money somehow, well, how about cosmetic changes. Hell, they want you to "subscribe" and pay monthly fees to have bonuses, instead of a one time fee... What were they thinking? Again, no excuses!!!… Expand
  42. crayven
    May 13, 2016
    0
    2016 update.
    Jesus christ ! Ok where to begin.The game is mildly P2W. If you grind HARD you can overcome that but i think i lost a few years of life in anger.
    It's pretty fun. The bad things. THE GAME IS CRAWLING WITH HACKERS ! Full and I mean not BF3 full - remember the hacker guy who revealed that about 70% of BF3 players were hacking? Yeah WORSE. Much WORSE. Basically every    2016 update.
    Jesus christ ! Ok where to begin.The game is mildly P2W. If you grind HARD you can overcome that but i think i lost a few years of life in anger.
    It's pretty fun.

    The bad things.
    THE GAME IS CRAWLING WITH HACKERS ! Full and I mean not BF3 full - remember the hacker guy who revealed that about 70% of BF3 players were hacking? Yeah WORSE.

    Much WORSE.
    Basically every **** with a pipe rifle headshots you from across the map with no scope.
    And when you say this on the forum the replies FROM THE BLOODY DEVS are "git gud" "l2p noob" or a variation of the sort.

    The community is horrid, and it would make MOBA communities look EXEMPLARY by comparisson.

    It starts fun and it is fun to play with friends but even so you run into moronic design choices.
    If your friend is a tanker and you infantry you CANNOT both queue at once. Nope, you have to "random queue" and HOPE you get put together! Yes...idiotic.

    Then there is the whole hitbox issue that they KNOW about for 2-3 years and is still there.
    Basically you POINT BLANK unload a clip in the guy;s head and then he turns around like nothing happened and 1 shots you. Hitbox randomness lol.

    Stay away from this putrid garbage of if you MUST try it - AVOID American faction like the plague. This faction never EVER wins ( i have like 1 win every 78 loses or something and I usually TOP the scoreboard in "points" for capture and objectives ) because every **** retard runs around "sniping" and basically being a total **** while the nazis mow us down.
    Go on the nazi side at least that's "easy mode".    … Expand
  43. HellHammer9182
    Apr 30, 2019
    0
    This game had a lot of potential, but I'm pretty disappointed with how unrealistic the combat is, it shouldn't take 3 .30 caliber bullets to drop an enemy, and a head shot SHOULD **** KILL AN ENEMY PERIOD! I'm assuming it's all the CoD wankers that complained about some new player with there quote "Weak ass noob gun" killing them with a head shot and that it's unfair. a head shot is a headThis game had a lot of potential, but I'm pretty disappointed with how unrealistic the combat is, it shouldn't take 3 .30 caliber bullets to drop an enemy, and a head shot SHOULD **** KILL AN ENEMY PERIOD! I'm assuming it's all the CoD wankers that complained about some new player with there quote "Weak ass noob gun" killing them with a head shot and that it's unfair. a head shot is a head shot, and should kill regardless, maybe, just maybe 2 shots from a pistol. therefore this game goes in my it sucks serious ass pile, if they add some more realism back into the game I might consider coming back.… Expand
  44. HonestFTPGamer
    Dec 2, 2018
    3
    This game has good potential to be a good free to play game but there are some negative things about this game.For starters,don't let those ads fool you to believe you get tanks easily,for noobs you basically cannot progress as you will be a soldier against tanks using a rifle or submachine gun.Only way to progress is to spend money.The crosshair is unbelievably big you can't adjust if asThis game has good potential to be a good free to play game but there are some negative things about this game.For starters,don't let those ads fool you to believe you get tanks easily,for noobs you basically cannot progress as you will be a soldier against tanks using a rifle or submachine gun.Only way to progress is to spend money.The crosshair is unbelievably big you can't adjust if as far as i know.The graphics isn't the best but for a 2.1 GB download file its alright.The waiting time for a game takes like 5 minutes and when you get into one the enemy probably already captured 90% of the points.Grinding is also away to progress but you have to waste 30 hours to even become a slightly average player.Once you get to the points/Sites either get sniped or gunned down by someone in a building on the point/site.

    Overall this game can be good but it doesn't want to be don't recommend if you grinding ain't you're thing    … Expand
  45. Fatbobwalker
    Jul 20, 2017
    0
    This game is verry hard to start out on as a noob,,, unless you pay for faster progression...

    you will be stuck with your noob pea shooter for a few weeks while p2w neckbeards kill you instantly

    after you just walked 2 miles to get to the objective... then you walk again and die again...

    i dont see how anyone can continue to play this game withought paying it is frustrating as hell
  46. RadiationGamer
    Feb 26, 2023
    3
    I definitely can't call this game a garbage or pay-to-win game. But this game is a very crude and carelessly sculpted game. That's the biggest downside. The producers tried to make money by doing things, but they did not quite succeed in what they wanted. Although the game is not heavily pay-to-win but people who deposit will usually be a few steps ahead of you (with veteran membership). II definitely can't call this game a garbage or pay-to-win game. But this game is a very crude and carelessly sculpted game. That's the biggest downside. The producers tried to make money by doing things, but they did not quite succeed in what they wanted. Although the game is not heavily pay-to-win but people who deposit will usually be a few steps ahead of you (with veteran membership). I can say that the mechanics of the game are the worst shooter mechanics I have ever seen in my life. The mistake of the producers at this point is this: They completely screwed up the combat system, which they tried to support with animations just for the sake of making the game look realistic. This gives you an extremely boring gaming experience. Not to mention the Tanker and Pilot options. This is the highest rating I can give this game. 3… Expand
  47. Ixuss
    Dec 19, 2022
    1
    This game is hot mess of unfixed bugs for years. They ban people for Western political opinion and they are extremely pro Chinese nationalist (Don't say Taiwan, Trump, Russia, or point out their product is broken) and virtue signal the Ukraine conflict(ditch a % of their player base). Game is in bad shape. Crappy design. Bad graphics, arrogant nasty unprofessional devs that are veryThis game is hot mess of unfixed bugs for years. They ban people for Western political opinion and they are extremely pro Chinese nationalist (Don't say Taiwan, Trump, Russia, or point out their product is broken) and virtue signal the Ukraine conflict(ditch a % of their player base). Game is in bad shape. Crappy design. Bad graphics, arrogant nasty unprofessional devs that are very hostile towards the player base. Constant game stability issues, hacking, questionable transaction process that makes a player do two steps. Buy their money to buy their product. Seems criminal. Speaking of this company got in trouble with the EU awhile back trying to sell in game bonds that made interest. That kind of grifter scammy mentality is low hanging fruit. Avoid this game like its a fatal STD. The mods are most sensitive people you will see. bash America OK good on you! Bash Europe or mention WW2 was a conflict that had a leader named Hitler BAN! Imagine being a bloodsucker making money off a tragedy that killed almost a 100 million people ban anyone who mentions history. This is this product and the company who make it in a nut shell. Progressive EU virtue signalers that jump for anyone who hates America.… Expand

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  1. GameGrin
    Oct 27, 2016
    80
    I can’t comment on the general and RTS side of gameplay because I haven’t really experienced any of it. Progression however is painfully slow and could most certainly use with an increase in order to get the ball rolling for new players. Graphics could definitely be improved, it feels slightly dated and the pictures displayed on the store page show a greater graphical superiority when compared to actual gameplay.
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