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Click here to start playing! What in the blue blazes is Heroes and Generals? Heroes and Generals is a mix of Grand Strategy and FPS games. Think Hearts of Iron meets Battlefield. You have the generals, who have units of mans. They then move those mans around a map of Western Europe. When an American mans meets a Nazi mans, a battle commences in which the two fight it out, with skirmishes and what not. The great commanders of our time spend their efforts so that most players, grunts, may fight. When either London or Berlin is taken, a new war starts and everything resets. Got a nice trailer? Sure do. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoohC7IwIH8 How do I play? To start off, play the tutorial and learn some basic controls, it helps quite a bit. Then, simply join a battle in-game. You are helping the war effort simply by existing and being there. Focus on capturing points. After a few battles, you will have enough dosh to decide whether you will be an ultra-grunt, or a general.  How to be a good hero If you want to be a hero, I would recommend buying weapons and creating some new characters. You can decide to be a Tank Crewman, a Pilot, a Machine Gunner, a Sniper, and a few others. These are all self-explanatory. As you rank up you can buy some new guns, and as you complete certain challenges you will unlock combat badges, this game's univalent of perks. They are generally boring but really can help to specialize your character.  How to be a Good General Buy some Assault Teams and get ordering! Assault Team Breakdown: Infantry Infantry are the backbone of any army. Definitely get these as your first assault team. They can do basically anything you want. Guard Cheap, 32 men. Can be specialized into AT infantry, Recon, or a loving  BIKER GANG!Anti-Tank Infantry AT Inf. are best used in urban operations with tanks on the enemy team. They are bad in wide-open areas and work best when they can easily flank and hide. Mechanized Infantry Inf. with halftracks. Very fun to play if you've got a team, great for attacking. Cannot win by attrition as well as normal infantry can. Paratroopers Based in airfields, paratroopers can attack towns anywhere in their radius fairly fast. In battle they can parachute down on the enemy and take basically any objective. Recon Shoots people from long distances, pisses off transport vehicle drivers. Tanks Exactly what you expect a tank to be. Ultra effective against infantry. Cannot capture objectives. Tank Destroyers Best used in wide open battlefields, these can destroy enemy armor very effectively. Fighter Planes A versatile airfield based assault team, I don't recommend using them as they tend to evoke the inner down syndrome in everyone.  How to get in contact with Goons Play Allies in the WAR FOR EUROPE 1. Join the in-game Goons (Name: Goons, Pass: lljk) chat channel, or join the mumble channel.  Mumble Info: Address: mumble2.bfgoons.com Port: 3150 Channel: HEROES AND AUTISTS or generals In-game names list: Raneman JurrassicPark2 Cantorsdust Dilldough Klamaz Panzeh Catdrugs Herr.Havok TeBree CaparzoLOL krazysigmarite Longtiem Klamaz MaximillianBimmler mrluxuryyacht scoots triplealfa Piell Tricks wjs5 Mushball Eastboundspider Bvmmey http://www.heroesandgenerals.com/4/en/index.html Raneman fucked around with this message at Mar 9, 2013 around 19:05 |
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I've heard war/horror stories about the European constituency on this game being made of Nazi sympathizers who deny the holocaust and blame the Allies for everything. That said, I've also heard that Axis forces are actually pretty lovely, so I am looking forward to going Allies and trouncing these Fuhrerries. But, I have also heard EU and US servers are now separate?
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| # ? Mar 1, 2013 21:07 |
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Sure, I'll join and fight the evil weaboo forces of axis germany.
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| # ? Mar 1, 2013 21:14 |
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Blacktoll posted:Sure, I'll join and fight the evil weaboo forces of axis germany. Be sure to get in the mumble. Raneman fucked around with this message at Mar 1, 2013 around 21:42 |
| # ? Mar 1, 2013 21:25 |
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Huh, I'll give this a try. I need a quick break anyway.
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| # ? Mar 1, 2013 21:45 |
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It seems that server capacity is currently way too low for the rush of people they are getting in open beta. Have fun spending 5 minutes looking for a match. Great server prepartation 
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| # ? Mar 1, 2013 22:01 |
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Can't get into a single drat and I keep getting yelled at that my ping is over 200. What the hell? Where are the servers located?
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| # ? Mar 1, 2013 22:12 |
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Ugh I chose Germans because I figured it'd just be for the tutorial and now it's locked to my account, now I gotta wait till the war's over. It'll be over in time for christmas right? right?
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| # ? Mar 1, 2013 23:10 |
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Deadmeat5150 posted:Can't get into a single drat and I keep getting yelled at that my ping is over 200. What the hell? Where are the servers located? You can just ignore the 200 ping warnings and come out fine.
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game would be infinitely more enjoyable if I didn't feel like I am playing in a pool of jello and mud. That said, the modification system is incredibly robust, and the metagame is really cool. Rodnik fucked around with this message at Mar 2, 2013 around 06:06 |
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This game is pretty sweet. It's very easy to get into. It's got the large scale feel of WWII Online, mixed with the arcade qualities of BF1942. The micro transactions kind of irk me, though purchase isn't necessary at all it seems, as I went 22-4 my first match with just the default M1 Garand.  At one point, I did kill a German and take his MG42, which was super satisfying to use. I'm kind of sad that goons didn't go Axis, though they have lost every game I've played so far against them. I can't wait to get a Springfield sniper rifle. I've got a murder boner that needs release 
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| # ? Mar 2, 2013 08:15 |
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Roughly how big of a download are we looking at here? I might try this out later in the week once the Marvel servers are down. (Or I might keep playing GRO.)
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| # ? Mar 2, 2013 08:30 |
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The download isn't big at all. My Heroes and Generals folder is about 1.3 gigs. I'm really baked, so my perception of time is kind of askew, but I'd say that I went from downloading to playing in under 20 minutes.
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| # ? Mar 2, 2013 08:38 |
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Doing my part in liberating Europe from Fritz with my trusty M1 Garand. Running into tanks just starting out is rather frustrating as I'm doubtful frag grenades harm them and I can't shoot the driver unless he is poking his head out of the tank. I might buy some sticky bombs or save up for a bazooka to serve as some deterrence against armor.
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| # ? Mar 2, 2013 08:40 |
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So is this a massive FPS like Planetside 2 but with a WW2 theme?
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| # ? Mar 2, 2013 08:58 |
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Philthy posted:So is this a massive FPS like Planetside 2 but with a WW2 theme? No, not quite. The entire map itself is pretty massive, but it breaks down into individual games with an apparent max of 16 on 16. The size of the in game maps feel more like Battlefield. There is a game like you described called WWII Online, which I've played off and on for like 12 years, but it's total crap now and not even worth looking into.
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| # ? Mar 2, 2013 09:20 |
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I'm in here trying to assemble an ace bicycle squadron. the physics in this game are hilarious and I just want to murder as many krauts with my fixie as possible. edit: i should add that i have yet to kill anybody but myself with a bike. Shit Hawk fucked around with this message at Mar 2, 2013 around 12:33 |
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In as cantorsdust. Played this last night. Plays like Battlefield 1942's slightly retarded cousin. Still captures that arcade quickness, and it has the whole Grand Strategy against Nazis metagame. The M1 is a very decent starting gun. I went 6-15 in my first match, though, because the drat Germans had halftraks and a plane, against nothing but a pile of infantry on our side. We lost 
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Cantorsdust posted:In as cantorsdust. Played this last night. Plays like Battlefield 1942's slightly retarded cousin. Still captures that arcade quickness, and it has the whole Grand Strategy against Nazis metagame. The M1 is a very decent starting gun. I went 6-15 in my first match, though, because the drat Germans had halftraks and a plane, against nothing but a pile of infantry on our side. We lost I'm in here as dilldough. from what i've seen, almost nobody has anything better than the starting guns, and the kar has a serious rate of fire disadvantage at least at medium to close ranges. don't pick one up off a dead german in a field or you'll be jumping around while you wait for the bolt action and he runs up on you with a shovel. stick with the m1.
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| # ? Mar 2, 2013 13:02 |
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Post your in-game names in this thread and maybe get in mumble? I will be adding an in-game names list to the OP to add to friends in-game.
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Is there an in game clan system? We should probably be putting LLJK_ in front of our names if not. This game feels like if Mount and Blade CRPG-Strategus were instead a WWII game. A sort of unpolished retarded fun. If they can iron out the ping and lag, this has real potential to have a decent goon community I imagine. Rodnik fucked around with this message at Mar 2, 2013 around 15:44 |
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Raneman posted:Post your in-game names in this thread and maybe get in mumble? I will be adding an in-game names list to the OP to add to friends in-game. I'm cantorsdust (duh). I'll get on mumble later, but the chat channel is convenient as well. How do you group up with people in game?
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Cantorsdust posted:I'm cantorsdust (duh). I'll get on mumble later, but the chat channel is convenient as well. How do you group up with people in game?
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| # ? Mar 2, 2013 17:38 |
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I've been "logging in" for the past 15-minutes. :/
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| # ? Mar 2, 2013 20:44 |
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I'm in game as herr.havok. We need more goons playing! I'm the only one in the chat channel right now. Make sure you guys are going Allied on War for Europe #1.
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Just got back in the mumble, welcome to party in there. Mumble party, in-game party, let's party ourselves all the way from Southern Germany to Berlin.Tab8715 posted:I've been "logging in" for the past 15-minutes. :/
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| # ? Mar 2, 2013 22:24 |
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I had to downgrade my version of Flash and use Mozilla. I am in-game as TeBree
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| # ? Mar 2, 2013 22:26 |
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If we got a few goons to get in game and maybe drop  or so we could easily have enough power to storm Southern Germany. My goals right now are to take Schweinfurt and Pfreimd.
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| # ? Mar 2, 2013 23:35 |
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So is there any way to deal with tanks as a fresh character because this seems kind of broken so far.
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Phoix posted:So is there any way to deal with tanks as a fresh character because this seems kind of broken so far. AT grenades are really cheap, after like 3 or 4 matches you can buy them. Even less than that if you do well.
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Phoix posted:So is there any way to deal with tanks as a fresh character because this seems kind of broken so far. It's a really cool concept but it's very beta-ish.
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Okay, after playing a few rounds, come clear to me that if you're willing to stay back a bit and take potshots as they appear, you will wreck this game. Alternatively, sneak behind their current base, and pick off stragglers.
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Cantorsdust posted:Okay, after playing a few rounds, come clear to me that if you're willing to stay back a bit and take potshots as they appear, you will wreck this game. Alternatively, sneak behind their current base, and pick off stragglers. Machine Guns are basically Assault Rifles. It's obscenely easy to go 10-0 without a problem.
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Watched a bit of this on a Japanese stream of some sort at work. Watching two Germans share a bike while riding down the road ringing the bell all the way like schoolchildren was pretty funny. The Germans got absolutely poo poo on though. I don't know if they're even winning any fights at all, they seem just be completely outmanned and getting poo poo on across the entirety of the part of the map I could see.
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| # ? Mar 3, 2013 08:59 |
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Germans tend to have very strong armor though, it is just dipshit generals not sending tank support.
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| # ? Mar 3, 2013 14:32 |
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The allies aren't looking too good today. I logged on to find them pushed back hard in north France. If they lose any more ground, Germans can start crossing the channel to Britain
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| # ? Mar 3, 2013 18:48 |
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But now we have many assault teams, many generals rallied up and ready to fight the fascist hordes. 
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| # ? Mar 3, 2013 18:49 |
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I tried this a while back, but the grind seemed a bit ridiculous. I was only getting a couple thousand silver a match, and everything' seemed hella expensive. They improved that, or is still basically you need Hitlerbux to enjoy the game?
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:I tried this a while back, but the grind seemed a bit ridiculous. I was only getting a couple thousand silver a match, and everything' seemed hella expensive. Infantry weapon prices are just fine, if you want to be a general then you generally spend money. If you are a hero, Character slots can be a bit expensive but you really only need 1 other char for what you are interested in and you are done. Takes maybe 2 or 3 days of casual playing and you can play armor or air or whatever.
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| # ? May 23, 2013 10:31 |
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Raneman posted:Infantry weapon prices are just fine, if you want to be a general then you generally spend money. If you are a hero, Character slots can be a bit expensive but you really only need 1 other char for what you are interested in and you are done. Takes maybe 2 or 3 days of casual playing and you can play armor or air or whatever. Well, back in as MrLuxuryYacht. Did my part shooting fascists until the game decided it would just stop bringing up the spawn screen 
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