Heroes & Generals eliminates the formulaic baggage that weighs down the shooter genre by delivering satisfying strategic action in a full blown first-person shooter experience. Players are transported from the comfort of their browsers to authentic WWII battlefields, where they fight alongside thousands of gamers for persistent progression and military supremacy.

Each player in Heroes & Generals chooses their own destiny. You might join the Axis and climb the ranks as a foot soldier, firing off countless rounds in epic battles for crucial landmarks. Or perhaps you’ll become a general in the US army and accept the task of deploying resources and reinforcements across a vast strategic map.

Either way your decisions and actions fundamentally impact the game. Whether you play a fearless infantryman blazing the trenches, a hotshot pilot renowned for precision bombing runs, a brutal gunner assigned to a rumbling tank battalion, or the ace commander directing it all from strategic command – every active soldier contributes to an evolving online war that will soon expand to smartphones and tablets as well.

 Reto-Moto has released a new major content update for the popular WW2 MMOFPS, Heroes & Generals, dubbed 'Young' after the US brigadier-general Russel Young. This update contains a new game mode with a new map, a new SMG for the Soviets, a carbine for the US, the introduction of vehicle camouflage, and the new Kettenkrad light transport vehicle for the Germans. The update also contains a new spawn protection system and several tweaks to gameplay have been implemented. 

With the new 'Encounter' game mode, the players are thrown into fast-paced infantry-only battles. On a small map without distractions from tanks and airplanes, the player has an opportunity to truly familiarize himself with his rifle. The goal is to capture and hold a single objective and this game mode arrives with a brand new map called 'Depot'. This map provides a bloody fight through trenches to take and hold a fortified train depot in the woods.

Additionally, this update brings 2 new weapons and a new vehicle. The PPS-43 is a much requested high tier SMG for the Soviet faction, and the US faction gets access to the M1A1 folding stock carbine which is available for US paratroopers and tankers. The new vehicle is one of the most unique vehicles developed in WW2: the tracked motorcycle Kettenkrad Typ HK 101, which is introduced as a German light transport vehicle.

The Young update also features new weapon skins, and the long awaited community requested arrival of vehicle camouflage. The US 4x4 truck, the Soviet Gaz-67, the German Kübelwagen and the new Kettenkrad can now be upgraded with camouflage and other paint jobs, and future updates will bring even more variations for these and other vehicles.

Improving the overall game play experience has been a central focus point of this update. This ranges from alleviating spawn camping with a new and improved spawn protection system, to including new immersion enhancing features such as the addition of the grits of war on the screen. To further balance the overarching War between the three factions, an underdog bonus and more battlefields have been added. 

More changes and details of these can be found in the full changelog here.