Season 2 is coming to an end, for those who still have an ongoing Battle Pass, now is the time to finish it! For those just wanting more information about season 3, just keep reading!
Most of our features are shaping up nicely, we did however feel that certain features needed a bit more time to be fleshed out better and required some more testing. That is why we have pushed back a few of the planned changes.
After our previous Developer Update, we noticed that not everyone was looking forward to the ability to buy previous battle passes. Before the release of this feature, we will create a dedicated blog post to explain how it works exactly and why purchasing and finishing the Battle Pass during its own season certainly has its advantages!
We are also working on a blog post to explain how chat moderation will work and how to join the chat moderation team!.
Developer Blogs
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 best to be as transparent as we can!
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.
Completed Cycle
Done*:
Created chat-moderation guide
Created chat-moderation tools and role
White smoke for planes (non-battle pass)
Improved the ‘Supplies Received’ pop-up for better visuals and improved functionality
Note: Features that are Done are often part of larger updates planned on specific dates and may not be immediately available.
In Testing*:
Battle Pass S3 rewards
Moved back:*:
Change capital cities for the upcoming season
Change several battlefield types on the war map (more airfields)
Add two small scripted events in the First encounter missions for a more interesting experience
Ability to reactivate/purchase previous Battle Passes
Bug fixes:
Fixed an issue with the soldier purchase screen, a general shows as only having 2 Command Points
Fixed an issue with veteran membership, in some cases 2 or more veteran memberships would activate at the same time
Fixed an issue with localisation, XP boosters showed a wrong string of text
Note: Bugs that have been fixed are often part of larger updates planned on specific dates and may not be immediately available.
New Cycle
In Progress:
Battle Pass S3 rewards
Several (delayed) features for the mid-season release
Planned:
Testing & Bug fixes!
SEASON 2 IS ENDING SOON! LAST TIER NOW PURCHASABLE!
SOLDIERS!
You have been fighting and unlocking rewards during Season 2 and it is soon coming to an end. Not only does that mean Season 3 will be upon us in the near future, it also means your time is running out to finish the Battle Pass!
Season 2 ends 28th November 2022 at 10AM CET.
GETTING TIER 12
When you purchase the Battle Pass, you instantly get access to the rewards of tier 1. Throughout the season players can unlock Tier 2 through 11 by either playing the game or by purchasing the tiers.
The last tier could so far only be unlocked by playing the game. We saw in the last few seasons that some users run short just before finishing their Battle Pass.
From this season on, during the last 14 days of a Battle Pass, it is now possible to purchase the final tier. This way you will be able to complete your battle pass at the end of a season if you are missing a few experience points!
COMPLETE YOUR BATTLE PASS TODAY AND START SEASON 3 FRESH!
FLASH SALE: 50% OFF EVERYTHING
SOLDIERS!
Team up with your friends for Single’s Day* and gear up!
Get the scope you always wanted, change up your usual playstyle with a soldier pack or get vehicles and weapons at a discounted price using gold!
50% OFF EVERYTHING**
STRAP IN FOR WAR SOLDIERS!
* Sale ends Friday, November 11th 2022 @ 11PM CET ** Not including Gold Packs or Battle Pass
HALLOWAR 2022 CONTEST WINNERS
SOLDIERS!
We hope everyone had a fun Hallowar this year!
With the seasonal trick or treating having come to an end we need to find the winners of our recent screenshot contest!
WINNERS OF HALLOWAR 2022 SCREENSHOT CONTEST
So many great images were submitted, everything from spooky screenshots to demonic imagery – showcasing that horror comes in many forms!
We have tallied the votes and the winners are in!
All winners will receive their prize in their Discord DMs.
PRIZES
FIRST
It’s always a good idea to keep your pentagram close when performing demonic rituals. Supermauz_R did an amazing job with their submission. Congratulations on placing first!
REWARDS
200.000 Credits
30-Day Veteran Membership
Exclusive Bloody Shovel Skin
SECOND
Hallowar came and went and Argynator captured the spooky vibe to a tee. Big congratulations for placing second!
REWARDS
150.000 Credits
14-Day Veteran Membership
Exclusive Bloody Shovel Skin
THIRD
Franejczyk goes for a bike ride while the full moon is out. Thankfully they remembered their bike lights, we hope you made it to the capture point safely! Congratulations for placing third!
REWARDS
125.000 Credits
7-Day Veteran Membership
Exclusive Bloody Shovel Skin
SPOOKY CONTENDERS
The rest of the top 10 showed the Hallowar spirit and deserves rewards as well! Congratulations to the following players who placed in the top 10!
During Hallowar you can pick up the seasonal bloody bats*, bring new costumes** to the battlefield and partake in the Hallowar 2022 Screenshot contest!
Uniforms and helmets are 30% off when using gold!
Bloody Bats
HALLOWAR 2022 SCREENSHOT CONTEST
Bring us your most spooky screenshots from Heroes & Generals and partake in the contest where the top 10 will win prizes!
RULES 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
SUBMIT YOUR SCREENSHOT
In order to submit your screenshot follow the steps below:
First 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
Second
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
Third
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
Spooky Contenders
Placing fourth to tenth place will net you prizes for getting everyone in the spirit for Hallowar!
75.000 Credits
3-Day Veteran Membership
SWING YOUR BAT AND DRESS UP FOR HALLOWAR
* Bloody Bats available until 29th November @ 10am CET ** Sale ends 1st November @ 10am CET *** Screenshot Contest submission ends 2nd November @ 10AM CET
Latest Hotfix [171197-171324]
CHANGELOG
UPDATED October 17 2022
HOTFIX – BUILD 172027
Fixed a bug preventing some players from matchmaking when in a squad
MID-SEASON UPDATE: TUTORIAL INTRODUCTION
Soldiers!
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!
Tutorial Introduction
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.
Introduction Video
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.
Tutorials
Career Orders
ACTION GAME CHANGES
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.
STRATEGY ADDITIONS
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%
CLIENT ADDITIONS
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.
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.
Soldiers!
Learning the basics!
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.
Tutorials versus Career Orders
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.
Career Orders
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!
Tutorials
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!
Developer Blog: 29th September 2022
Soldiers!
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.
Developer Blogs
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.
Completed Cycle
Done*:
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.
In Testing*:
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
Bug fixes:
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.
New Cycle
In Progress:
Bug fixes
Further investigation on Flash Client stability improvements
Early work on Season 3
Planned:
More bug fixes!
DNS Hotfix + Free Veteran Membership!
Soldiers!
Earlier this week a DNS-issue prevented most of our players from logging in and playing our game. The issue was fixed on the same day, but it took some time to propagate (you can google: DNS propagation for more information).
As everyone is now able to log in normally again, we’d like to compensate with a 2 Days of Veteran Membership voucher for everyone.
Voucher Code:
DNSFIX2209
Thank you for your patience.
* Voucher code is redeemable ingame until 27/09/2022 @ 10AM CEST
HOW DO I ACTIVATE THE VOUCHER CODE?
Start the game
Log in
Click the Menu button (looks like a cogwheel) in the top right corner
![](https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/6214122/c74569981a139cc4a278c57ec70641694160b1d7.jpg<br>Check out all submissions on <url https://discord.gg/heroesandgenerals="https://discord.gg/heroesandgenerals">Discord</url> in the channel #hallowar-contest. Channel will be archived Friday the 18th November!<br><br>Bloody Bat skins will be available for the remainder of Season 2, earn yourself some credits and get the skin while you can!)
