Heroes & Generals

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  1. articon
    Sep 18, 2014
    5
    A game, that before the Rommel build which game out during august was worth a score of 8-9, to what I today would call a Pay2Win game and is worth around 5 in score.

    The game itself, offers a great motivation to make a difference, due to the combination of FPS and that you can make a difference in the big picture, and control "assault teams" (spawn and equipment) on the strategic    A game, that before the Rommel build which game out during august was worth a score of 8-9, to what I today would call a Pay2Win game and is worth around 5 in score.

    The game itself, offers a great motivation to make a difference, due to the combination of FPS and that you can make a difference in the big picture, and control "assault teams" (spawn and equipment) on the strategic European map and thereby make a war effort in winning the war for either the Axis og Allies.

    The FPS part, looks good (not perfect) and it takes a bit of time to learn the starters weapon. Once you get acquainted with those, you really start to make a difference. Over time, more weapons are unlocked, not that they are much better than the others, but they make a difference in one vs one battles. You can also unlock modifications to the weapons making them more deadly in the way you use them. Besides this, the game offers a good variety of vehicles and planes which has an impact on who wins the game. Its allot more tactical than your standard FPS game, so if you are more a strategic and teamplayer person, this is the game you want to spend time with.

    The strategic map part where you can move around your personal assault teams of troops, varying from, recon, tanks, infantry, paratroopers, mechs, motorized and tanks makes a big difference once deployed in the battle. Its great fun to play with your own assault team, and increases the motivation to win. You gain xp from that as well.

    The bad part of the game, is that before the Rommel build which came out in August, allot of players had invested money and time in creating assault teams. With the Rommel build, the whole setup was changed and most people who had invested in this would have to play allot of hours to regain enough "command points" to be able to use their assault teams again. When I say allot, I mean for instance I had to spend +50 hours (with premium, and game bonuses), to be able to just get one command point. And that was not even enough to be able to use my old assault teams. To give another comparison, we were 21 friends playing the game almost everyday and had fun together. After the build, we were 3 players left.

    I surely hope that the developer of this game, can see the large decrease in both amount of players, and the amount of time played ingame since the build came out. I hope they will find a retention patch to try and help people back into the game. But lets wait and see.    … Expand
  2. Jingo
    Mar 11, 2015
    5
    Warning - PAY TO WIN
    But still has some very good points. Integrating planes, tanks, regular vehicles and infantry into a game is great. Takes a lot of skill if you don't lay out lots of money to win easily. Have had a lot of fun in the first 30 or so matches, but sooner or later you come up against enemies that have spent big. You've got a rifle and a jeep and some grenades. The enemy    Warning - PAY TO WIN
    But still has some very good points. Integrating planes, tanks, regular vehicles and infantry into a game is great. Takes a lot of skill if you don't lay out lots of money to win easily. Have had a lot of fun in the first 30 or so matches, but sooner or later you come up against enemies that have spent big. You've got a rifle and a jeep and some grenades. The enemy infantry have machine guns. The tank you can get for free has 9mm armour and a machine gun. The enemy you're facing has heavy tanks.
    So if you don't mind spending $$ on this game, go ahead and enjoy it. Spend up front and enjoy how easy it is to beat those players trying to play for free.
    Obviously this isn't one of those games where you can only pay for cosmetic enhancements, it's very unfairly aimed at high-paying players only.    … Expand
  3. spectralknight
    Sep 3, 2016
    7
    When I first played this game I was very disapointed about it so in the first place I gave it a negative review. The negative review came because of the hard grind for weapons and especially for silver. When you start playing this game you should already know or be advised on how to spend your credits wisely just because you will be tempted to buy a lot of attachments, guns or evenWhen I first played this game I was very disapointed about it so in the first place I gave it a negative review. The negative review came because of the hard grind for weapons and especially for silver. When you start playing this game you should already know or be advised on how to spend your credits wisely just because you will be tempted to buy a lot of attachments, guns or even vehicles. You need to be reserved in spending silver credits and do the things right. I will now point some features for this game that are good and bad and put them in balance.

    Good Features:
    -Diversity in everything related to weapons, attachments, vechicles, cammouflages and more;
    -World War II Theme suited for the ones that are looking for a good MMO-FPS game based on this subject;
    -Some historical accuracy;
    -Game-Modes are decent, only 4 but good enough for this kind of game. You can play from close-quarters battles to real-large battles that involves: vehicles, tanks, planes, recon teams, paratroopers etc.;
    -You have the opportunity to play different roles like tanker, recon, paratrooper, pilot, infantry in a First Person perspective (so I want to call this game an FPS). You can control tanks and take part in intense battles of 2 WWII major armies;
    -Maps are made well on overall but there are some little problems of balance;
    -Gameplay is fun but here depends on how you see the things and I think for this game is a chance of 50% to like the gameplay...for me I found it fun;
    -Sound is decent but could be better;
    -Graphics is not amazing/stunning at all but it is a clean and decent one...so graphics for this game are decent;
    -Optimization is great and especially on storage as long as this game occupy under 1.3 GB on disk;
    -Is a simple game, easy to learn and to play;
    -Developers work for their game, you get often updates and events. Often you receive free Veteran membership and gold that can boost your XP/Credits gained;
    -Player ranking system where you get placed in matchmaking according to what rank you are. This feature also help you unlock some extra credits, 500 gold and some veteran days(premium account to boost);
    -Team spirit if you have luck of good teammates;

    Bad Features:
    -Grind could be hard and could make you quit the game easily. Although you have to play it for a while untill you unlock some items and untill game becomes very enjoyable and fun...this could make you see the game as a pay2win. Also when you have veteran membership you level up decent and this problem is resolved;
    -Some mechanics are poor and I will give one example: when you crouch/prone you can't stand up back by pressing jump button like in other FPS games and you need to press the same button you crouched/proned twice to get up back;
    -Game could be very frustating when you buy something and you discover you don't like it or is not good/suited for you. That is because when you buy someting you don't get enough information on how is going to be or what minuses has in comparisson with what you already have. This is very true when you switch career from infantry to a recon for example and you find out after bought and spend well worked credits on this career that you have minus 4 slot points for your weapons to carry and maybe you don't like this. They should add a test or preview feature for everything you buy in this game or you should have the right to get the things back along with the money spend within 1 hour of playing with the specific bought weapon/career;
    -Balance is a problem at least in some battles;
    -I have the feeling that game forces you to buy and play how it wants sometimes. For example when you get the first tank at US for free you can't do armor damage ribbon just because the first tank has only machine-guns so you can't make damage with a cannon and you are forced to buy expensive tanks to unlock that ribbon and that's because stuart is slow too due to low damage from the main cannon;
    -Some items are really expensive. I think a handgun should cost lower than almost 80000 credits;
    -It is a game where you have to spend real-money or your time. Your choice;
    -We need more maps especially on Skirmish and why not on Encounter. Could be good if we can have some specific climate maps based on snow or rain;

    I will stop here and I will take in account that game is currently in BETA and things may be slightly better in the future. It is a free2play game and is not bad at all. You can try it and the most important thing is that you are not forced to spend real-money in-game so you can play it for free entirely but you need to spend some time then. I chose to recommend this title as long as I had fun by playing it and you can try it to for making an opinion about it. If you are looking for a nice FPS based on World War II you should give this a try. (70/100 for me)    … Expand
  4. goldenelk
    May 16, 2016
    7
    Pretty good game, could be better if it wasn't so Pay to win. But regardless of that fact, I do enjoy some of the game play, especially the tank combat.
  5. hypeman
    Aug 17, 2015
    7
    Not really F2P, very grindy and has microtransactions and subscriptions. The physics is just dumb, vehicles gets stuck sometimes, and soldiers fly away to space when blasted by a grenade, but that's the strong part of this game! It's a silly and fun game, you can pickup multiple panzerfaust to destroy tanks very easily and dominate the game, spin around a tank with a bicycle and not getNot really F2P, very grindy and has microtransactions and subscriptions. The physics is just dumb, vehicles gets stuck sometimes, and soldiers fly away to space when blasted by a grenade, but that's the strong part of this game! It's a silly and fun game, you can pickup multiple panzerfaust to destroy tanks very easily and dominate the game, spin around a tank with a bicycle and not get hit at all because the blast radius of a tank is very small, yes it's unbalanced but who cares? It's doesn't have a competitive scene and it's already ruined by the P2W elements.

    So in order to enjoy the true nature of the game, just play it and don't bother about the premium weapons and equipment.    … Expand
  6. 30fil
    Mar 5, 2018
    5
    This is not a bad game. But it's far from good. It has been under development for several years and the last 2, it has become obvious that the game is in a constant decline, something you should keep in mind when you decide to put money on it, which at least in the beginning, you will have to.

    1. Three factions, USA, Nazi Germany and the USSR, are competing in the European theatre of    This is not a bad game. But it's far from good. It has been under development for several years and the last 2, it has become obvious that the game is in a constant decline, something you should keep in mind when you decide to put money on it, which at least in the beginning, you will have to.

    1. Three factions, USA, Nazi Germany and the USSR, are competing in the European theatre of war, and the players who have chosen one of the above mentioned factions are competing in both RTS map and the FPS. This is a unique experience, but due to several reasons, it gets repetitive and more of a time consuming than fun experience. That said, the gun play is decent, the variety of weapons and vehicles acceptable and the maps, although few and with the same elements (buildings, stairs, trees etc) recycled again and again, beautifully and carefully designed for combined arms battles.

    2. One problem with the game is the fact that it is undepopulated. Not only there are not enough players to fill the battles that are initiated in the RTS part of the game, but the three factions are not equally populated as well. This has lead to Nazi Germany being the most populated faction (for various reasons not completely unrelated to devs promoting in the early stages the German faction, or even political ones with several edgy kids or nazi sympathizers filling this faction's ranks), with many hardcore supporters playing the game for years and USA and USSR struggling with a playerbase consisted mostly from newbs and a handful of older players. What happens in the end is Nazis winning the vast majority of the battles they play, frustrating any new player who struggles with the starting rifle against heavily modded characters and weapons, even tanks/planes etc, forcing him to either pay to grind, quit the game or simply join the winning German wagon. An easy solution to this would be to merge the USA and USSR faction as the Allies factions, but the devs refuse to even see that as a real issue.

    3. If that wasn't enough, Nazis winning most battles they fight in the FPS part, the unique element of H&G, the combination of fps and rts elements proves to superficial. Winning battles in FPS does not mean winning the war. So what happens in the end is everybody being unhappy and criticizing the developers. Nazis for winning battles but not the war blame the RTS, Soviets and Americans who usually win the wars lose most of the battles they fight.

    4. There are several problems in the game that could easily be fixed but takes months or even years to even be acknowledged by the devs. And the reason for this is the fact that most of them don't actually play the game. They don't understand what competitive gaming means and they just design things for looking good.

    5. Lastly, the major issue with the game that repels new players and discourages even experienced players, is the insane grinding. I understand that what in the very end keeps players busy and money flowing is grind, but the problem with Heroes and Generals is that the grind is completely idiotic. It is not attached to META gaming, like capturing objectives etc, but it can be and most times is, something like a side quest, forcing players to do anything else rather than help their team to win. This become obvious in games where experienced players, usually for the Nazi side, fight against new players who grind their gear and characters. It ends up in a slaughterhouse which is not fun even for the winning experienced players.
    The problem with the insane grind does not end there though. It forces players to invest money and time into one faction and not to all three. This creates a very toxic and heavily biased community who promote their faction's interests even against the game itself.

    6. So, should you play the game or not? Well, if you are willing to spend hours running around to grind a badge which will save you from dying in one shot from snipers hundreds of meters away, if you are not getting frustrated for dying over and over again with your semi automatic rifle against automatic weapons, scoped snipers, tanks and airplanes, invulnerable to your weapons, then yes. Go for it, after ~two weeks you will enjoy the game, for several months ahead. Until you quit for good due the lack of maps and content and the generally repetitive gameplay.    … Expand
  7. blahnjah
    Nov 25, 2018
    5
    The only fun thing about this game is grinding in hopes the game's full potential will realize itself when you finally unlock advanced soldiers and gear and become competitive. It mostly doesn't. Luckily the grind is almost permanent.
    It isn't necessarily pay to win. You can also grind to win.
    The game doesn't seem to balance player level or skill so winning most matches will feel like    The only fun thing about this game is grinding in hopes the game's full potential will realize itself when you finally unlock advanced soldiers and gear and become competitive. It mostly doesn't. Luckily the grind is almost permanent.
    It isn't necessarily pay to win. You can also grind to win.

    The game doesn't seem to balance player level or skill so winning most matches will feel like beating a down syndrome child at a game of basketball and in most defeats you will just get overwhelmed and frustrated.

    You will get a fun match once in a while if the teams happen to be balanced and focused on playing the objective and not running around abusing broken game mechanics. Just don't count on it happening too often.

    Game winning tactics include squatting in ever present bushes and shrubs, squatting in building corners and chasing down and destroying tanks on your bicycle.

    There might be a great game somewhere in there but I'm not sure how focused the developers are on improving basic gameplay.    … Expand
  8. xxxmlggamerXD
    Jan 14, 2019
    7
    this game is a good game if you want to spend 100h of playing the game for a tank (10/10)
  9. YigidOx2
    Mar 19, 2021
    7
    Battlefield but with less production. It's nice to have a dynamic real-time map. Gameplay is meh and optimization is pretty bad. Still, I really enjoy playing.
  10. JohnoDeruno
    Jul 6, 2021
    5
    Attention: this is just my opinion!

    Heroes and Generals - ''Military Multiplayer FPS Game'' This game surprises me only by the introduction as a military multiplayer game in the details themselves. Weapons and mechanics are excellent. But the game itself isn't that awesome, the atmosphere at all is very pixelated that it's awkward due to the graphics of playing the game, not only is    Attention: this is just my opinion!

    Heroes and Generals - ''Military Multiplayer FPS Game''

    This game surprises me only by the introduction as a military multiplayer game in the details themselves. Weapons and mechanics are excellent. But the game itself isn't that awesome, the atmosphere at all is very pixelated that it's awkward due to the graphics of playing the game, not only is this game pure PAY-TO-WIN, it's already better to play Battlefield and a lot more fun to discover. In general, the game has to be played a lot to get money for which to buy only a small weapon and other things, you have to take care of ammunition and other things that are annoying. So of course the game is not hard to play quite and easy, but the point is that you have a lot of gossip to unlock what to buy a new thing with which you would like to shoot, as if the developers wanted a lot of money.

    In my opinion, the game has that kind of interesting design, but the bottom line is that the atmosphere and graphics are very awkward, and the plus is that it gets such a PAY-TO-WIN. The better buy BF series will definitely be more exciting. I would dedicate myself to this game 5/10.    … Expand
  11. Chemiker
    Aug 27, 2022
    7
    Начинал играть еще как понял с альфа версии в акурат начала 2014г тогда игра была прям хороша, но она была в бете, мы с друзьями еще думали как бета тест закончится то она станет платной, и играли каждый раз как последний, упарываясь, советов в игре сразу не добавили поэтому многие русские пошли воевать за ось, против ЭТИХ КАПИТАЛИСТОВ! Так же поступил и я, у меня была мечта докачаться доНачинал играть еще как понял с альфа версии в акурат начала 2014г тогда игра была прям хороша, но она была в бете, мы с друзьями еще думали как бета тест закончится то она станет платной, и играли каждый раз как последний, упарываясь, советов в игре сразу не добавили поэтому многие русские пошли воевать за ось, против ЭТИХ КАПИТАЛИСТОВ! Так же поступил и я, у меня была мечта докачаться до генерала и получить штурмгевер 43г, там еще была система что докачиваясь за простого солдата можно было выбрать в последствии танкиста, летчика и т.д. а я целеноправлено шел к генералу! Потом эту систему упрастили и всем выдали бойцов разных классов сразу, вообщем шли годы, я все реже и реже возвращался сюда, надеялся на какие нить изменения, ну и приблизиться к своей цели, некоторые друзья с которыми я играл, поотваливались, в итоге ближе к настоящему доигрывал я в основном сам (ген сам себя не докачает) ну и как вы поняли, я достиг своей цели! прошло почти 2014-2021 (еще в прошлом году закончил, а отзыв пишу только щас) 8 лет, жесть, вроде нормально, но играть уже не с кем, да и как с кем то играть за позиции гена? Да и кому это нада, интерес потерял уже, достиг мечты детства так сказать добился чего хотел, теперь можно и закончить.....… 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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