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.

The skies are about to become even more dangerous in Heroes & Generals as three new fighter planes are taking off and the addition of new options for flight controls makes it easier to be a pilot.

“Flying a plane in Heroes & Generals with the new default controls is basically as easy as aiming the mouse at where you want to go,” explains Jacob Andersen, Game Director at Reto-Moto: “However, it takes skills to be a good pilot which is why we have chosen to include different types of flight control options in Heroes & Generals to suit individual play styles and to make it fun to be a pilot for both new and veteran players.”  

The three new planes in the 'Wings of War'-update are:

• The Soviet Heavy Fighter Petlyakov Pe-3bis
• The German Heavy Fighter Messerschmitt Me 410B-2
• The US Medium Fighter Curtiss P-40N Warhawk

With the addition of these planes all three factions in the game now have a Reconnaissance airplane, a Medium Fighter, and a Heavy Fighter – making a difference in both battles and the strategic part of Heroes & Generals.

The 'Wings of War'-update also removes the recruitment limits, so players can now get a Tanker, Recon, Paratrooper, or Pilot when they want, no matter what Player Level they are.

Weapons & Vehicles

• Added new German Heavy Fighter Messerschmitt Me 410B-2
• Added new Soviet Heavy Fighter Petlyakov Pe-3bis
• Added new United States Medium Fighter Curtiss P-40N Warhawk
• Moved the P-38 Lightning to the Heavy Fighter class
• Messerschmitt Bf-109 and the Yak-9 are now classified as Medium Fighters
• Added bombs to the Reconnaissance Planes
• Minor speed adjustments have been made for the planes, making them slightly slower
• Decreased speed at which the planes stall, to allow for better plane control
• Added new plane controls:
  • Default Plane Control (Mouse): Plane moves where the mouse moves
  • Alternate Plane Control (Camera): Plane moves where the camera moves
  • Alternate Plane Control (Classic): Plane is controlled with keyboard
• Added new throttle controls:
  • Default Throttle Control: Automatic (Switches back to optimal combat speed automatically)
  • Alternate Throttle Control: Step (Each time “W” or “S” is used, a step is taken to increase or reduce plane speed)
  • Alternate Throttle Control: Smooth (“W” and “S” can be used to set throttle speed at what player desires)
• New Factory Paint Jobs for the following planes (old Factory Paint Job are kept as legacy for players who already have them):
  • Messerschmitt Bf-109
  • Yak-9
  • P-38 Lightning
• New Vehicle Paint Job for the Messerschmitt Bf-109
  • Forest Splinter
• New Vehicle Paint Job for the Yak-9
  • Kozhedub Two Tone
• New Vehicle Paint Job for the P-38 Lightning
  • Dark Earth & Green
• Fixed UI performance issues when inside a tank
• Tweaked vehicle resupply, if one weapon connected to your seat is empty, all the weapons will be fully re-supplied
• Tweaked tracers, larger but dimmer glow

 Maps

• Factory Map Adjustments
  • Deploy zone of infantry at O2 pulled slightly back to increase run distance to the Objective (Creating a better balance between attackers and defenders of the Objective
  • Added more cover between the deploy zone of O2 and the Objective to prevent easy spawnkilling
  • Switched the opened doors of the O2 Objective building to further increase run distance to get in the Objective from the O2 Deploy zone (Better gameplay balance)
  • Opened backdoor of O1 Objective to provide a better path for Defenders
  • Switched the opened doors of the O1 Objective Building to divert the attackers from the O1 Deploy zone

Other

• Added the Heavy Fighter upgrade to Medium Fighter Assault Teams
• Altered range and speed of the Medium and Heavy Fighter Assault Teams to fit in the Heavy Fighters (Heavy Fighter Assault Teams have a higher range)
• Set a separate resource production for the Heavy Fighters
• Updated Anti-Cheat

Weapon Depot update

The behavior for mods is:
Modifications get uneqipped from the soldier and from the weapon when entering the depot, making them available for any suitable soldier and weapon. Once bound, the modification sticks to the soldier but is still freely transferable between suitable weapons.

For Ammo:
Ammo is kept in the weapon, but once the weapon is given to a soldier, it becomes unequipped and usable for all unlocked weapons for that soldier.

This applies retroactively, so mods previously unavailable will now be there in lieu of having to repurchase them with a new soldier.

Heroes & Generals is available for free at HeroesAndGenerals.com