{"id":62353,"date":"2016-07-20T22:16:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T02:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/2016\/07\/20\/essayons-heroes-et-generals\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T21:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T01:22:09","slug":"lets-try-heroes-generals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/2016\/07\/20\/lets-try-heroes-generals\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s try Heroes &amp; Generals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yesterday, my roommate (Spades) and my brother (Pawpawz) were playing Heroes &amp; Generals at home, a free game available on Steam or their official website http:\/\/www.heroesandgenerals.com\/. With my daughter in bed, I just took the opportunity to try it out. Here are my comments.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Note: This article is an automated translation. For the original article, click on Fran\u00e7ais in the menu.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WvaD71wO_ic\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Since this is still a Beta, I know that much of what I experienced won&#8217;t be exactly the same as the final version&#8230; normally.<\/p>\n<p>This game, from<span style=\"word-spacing: normal;\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"word-spacing: normal;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reto.dk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reto-Moto<\/a><span style=\"word-spacing: normal;\"> studio, plunges us into the middle of World War II. The first thing we notice is that the experience doesn&#8217;t seem to be associated with the player&#8217;s account, but rather with their &#8220;Heroes.&#8221; By default, we receive three heroes with generic names, representing the three factions (Soviet Union, Allies, Nazis). This is Donald Masterson, my brave little infantryman who had no idea what he was getting into when he enlisted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/leonin.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160720200442_1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My first comment is that the length of a match is really short, and it takes about two minutes of waiting before you can start another match. It&#8217;s really discouraging.<\/p>\n<p>My second comment is that the game is clearly pay-to-win. At the beginning, you only have access to one weapon that has a limited rate of fire and takes three bullets to the chest to kill someone. After a few accomplishments, I managed to unlock a few pieces of equipment to upgrade my weapon. The catch is that even once unlocked, you still have to pay for it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/leonin.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160720202227_1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gameplay-wise, it&#8217;s okay. Since there aren&#8217;t many players online, I played with people from all over the world. So, there were some players who stuttered from time to time, even when it wasn&#8217;t me who was stuttering.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/leonin.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160720202831_1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The biggest killstreak I had was when I took the PPSH from a Russian corpse. It was ridiculous how helpless the world was. I decided to spend the money that comes with the game to buy the American equivalent&#8230; I&#8217;m way off the mark and from my observations, the money is very slow and painful to come by.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/leonin.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160720210336_1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In short, it was an hour and a half that I don&#8217;t regret, but I won&#8217;t be repeating anytime soon until they change their business model. I&#8217;ve already had my share of pay-to-win with <a href=\"http:\/\/crossfire.z8games.com\/main.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crossfire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my roommate (Spades) and my brother (Pawpawz) were playing Heroes &amp; Generals at home, a free game available on Steam or their official website http:\/\/www.heroesandgenerals.com\/. With my daughter in bed, I just took the opportunity to try it out. Here are my comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming-blog","category-video-games","category-205","category-207","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62357,"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62353\/revisions\/62357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}