Heroes & Generals
Okay, I've been playing this game a little bit and I have to say it's pretty good... for being F2P (with microtransactions that can affect gameplay, sadly).
For some reason they decided to focus on two antagonistic factions: Americans & Germans. You start with a single soldier (character). As you play & gain experience you can take him down a few different leveling paths. You can stay an infantryman and gain the ability to use LMGs & light vehicles such as a jeep, you can become a pilot and fly different aircraft during the battles (not all maps have air support, though), you could wait a while and become a Recon (sniper, essentially), or you can become a driver of tanks and other armored vehicles. The limitations of each path are pretty rough, meaning you are going to want to make a different character for each path because your soldier can only belong to one path at a time and you can't swap paths during battle (but you can swap characters/soldiers).
There are a few things that set this game apart from others.
1) The persistent War campaign. Each battle won or lost matters as the war continues, your side loses or gains ground as a result. When one side wins, the map is reset and the winners get bonus prizes.
2) The "Generals" aspect, which I have yet to try, which is some sort of RTS where you command assault groups. I've not tried it, don't have much to say about it.
3) The level of immersion is something I've not found in other games. The sounds of war are *loud* and occasionally deafening to the point you literally can't hear yourself speak. Period tanks aren't always equal and you're going to want infantry support.
4) I guess 4 things isn't really a 'few', but meh. Teamwork is key to victory. It's not a game for lone wolves.
Now, some pros & cons:
Pros
1) The focus on teamwork is really a bonus as every map is objective-oriented, either you have to take them or defend them (sometimes both) and it is extremely difficult to do so alone.
2) The atmosphere is amazing. From foggy forests to war-torn cities to dangerous river crossings.
3) There's a learning curve, but not an insurmountable one. My first match had me going 2 and 8. My next battle I learned from my mistakes, moved with some allies, and went 15-3.
4) Vehicular combat is exciting and fun.
5) You can enter almost every building you come across which makes city fights very interesting.
Cons
1) It's very hard to use some of the starting vehicles. For example, the first American tank has very low visibility for the driver. If you have a machine gunner hitching a ride, they're exposed to enemy small arms fire. In addition to that you come to the inequality of vehicles. The starting American tank doesn't have a cannon, just a powerful machine gun that takes some time to spin up. It can't even kill many of the enemy tanks with heavier armor.
2) Some of the weapons cost a hell of a lot. For example, the Bazooka, the first tier of anti-tank infantry weapons, costs over 100,000 credits. That's around 25-30 games won, or around 50 games lost due to the inability of infantry to compete with heavy vehicles. Anti-tank mines can not even be unlocked until you have a certain number of armor kills.
3) The game, while ultimately not "pay 2 win", does give people that fork over their cash an initial advantage in the first couple tiers. Like the above-mentioned vehicle issue, if you just buy a heavy tank and drive that around you're going to murder everyone and everything with its cannons while they can not harm you at all.
There are more pros & cons, but really you should just give it a try. It's easy enough to queue for matches with 3-6 people, the battles are like 12 on 12 or something like that. Maybe more, I never stopped to count.
Heroes & Generals
Okay, I've been playing this game a little bit and I have to say it's pretty good... for being F2P (with microtransactions that can affect gameplay, sadly).
For some reason they decided to focus on two antagonistic factions: Americans & Germans. You start with a single soldier (character). As you play & gain experience you can take him down a few different leveling paths. You can stay an infantryman and gain the ability to use LMGs & light vehicles such as a jeep, you can become a pilot and fly different aircraft during the battles (not all maps have air support, though), you could wait a while and become a Recon (sniper, essentially), or you can become a driver of tanks and other armored vehicles. The limitations of each path are pretty rough, meaning you are going to want to make a different character for each path because your soldier can only belong to one path at a time and you can't swap paths during battle (but you can swap characters/soldiers).
There are a few things that set this game apart from others.
1) The persistent War campaign. Each battle won or lost matters as the war continues, your side loses or gains ground as a result. When one side wins, the map is reset and the winners get bonus prizes.
2) The "Generals" aspect, which I have yet to try, which is some sort of RTS where you command assault groups. I've not tried it, don't have much to say about it.
3) The level of immersion is something I've not found in other games. The sounds of war are *loud* and occasionally deafening to the point you literally can't hear yourself speak. Period tanks aren't always equal and you're going to want infantry support.
4) I guess 4 things isn't really a 'few', but meh. Teamwork is key to victory. It's not a game for lone wolves.
Now, some pros & cons:
Pros
1) The focus on teamwork is really a bonus as every map is objective-oriented, either you have to take them or defend them (sometimes both) and it is extremely difficult to do so alone.
2) The atmosphere is amazing. From foggy forests to war-torn cities to dangerous river crossings.
3) There's a learning curve, but not an insurmountable one. My first match had me going 2 and 8. My next battle I learned from my mistakes, moved with some allies, and went 15-3.
4) Vehicular combat is exciting and fun.
5) You can enter almost every building you come across which makes city fights very interesting.
Cons
1) It's very hard to use some of the starting vehicles. For example, the first American tank has very low visibility for the driver. If you have a machine gunner hitching a ride, they're exposed to enemy small arms fire. In addition to that you come to the inequality of vehicles. The starting American tank doesn't have a cannon, just a powerful machine gun that takes some time to spin up. It can't even kill many of the enemy tanks with heavier armor.
2) Some of the weapons cost a hell of a lot. For example, the Bazooka, the first tier of anti-tank infantry weapons, costs over 100,000 credits. That's around 25-30 games won, or around 50 games lost due to the inability of infantry to compete with heavy vehicles. Anti-tank mines can not even be unlocked until you have a certain number of armor kills.
3) The game, while ultimately not "pay 2 win", does give people that fork over their cash an initial advantage in the first couple tiers. Like the above-mentioned vehicle issue, if you just buy a heavy tank and drive that around you're going to murder everyone and everything with its cannons while they can not harm you at all.
There are more pros & cons, but really you should just give it a try. It's easy enough to queue for matches with 3-6 people, the battles are like 12 on 12 or something like that. Maybe more, I never stopped to count.
Heroes & Generals
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