{"id":25336,"date":"2012-05-24T00:13:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=25336"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:49:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:49:33","slug":"heroes-generals-enters-closed-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/heroes-generals-enters-closed-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroes &amp; Generals enters Closed Beta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/heroes-generals-enters-closed-beta\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-25350\" title=\"Heroes and Generals\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/05\/Heroes-and-Generals.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a>Since seeing <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/heroes-and-generals.en.softonic.com\/\">Heroes &amp; Generals<\/a><\/strong> at <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/gdc-2012-heroes-generals\">GDC 2012<\/a> and playing a bit of the alpha, I&#8217;m quickly becoming more interested in the game.  Without considering its free-to-play aspect, the gameplay is great. Most of my in-game experience is as a soldier, and there are a lot of details even in the early build.<\/p>\n<p>The monetization of the game hasn&#8217;t really been really explained in depth, though it does appear that players will at least purchase weapons to use in the game.\u00a0 When I was playing the alpha, there were noticeable issues with lag and physics, but those problems didn&#8217;t degrade the gameplay.\u00a0 And since Reto-Moto, that company responsible for creating Heroes &amp; Generals, is always working with the community on bugs and issues, it wasn&#8217;t unusual to see updates stream through the browser add-on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reto-Moto have announced that Heroes &amp; Generals is now officially in closed beta<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25351\" title=\"Heroes and Generals\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/05\/Heroes-and-Generals-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/05\/Heroes-and-Generals-01.jpg 595w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/05\/Heroes-and-Generals-01-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The developer has worked surprisingly fast from the my first impressions in March up to now, welcoming comments and suggestions from the vocal alpha community.  Since my hands-on took place during the alpha, I&#8217;m interested in seeing what the beta has updated and polished.\u00a0 I will undoubtedly be diving back into Heroes &amp; Generals to see the changes from my last time in-game.<\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p>In conjunction with the announcement of the closed beta, Roto-Moto released a new videolog highlighting both gameplay and the upcoming iOS and Android apps: <strong>Heroes &amp; Generals: Mobile Command,<\/strong> where you will be able to view the strategic part of the game played as a General.<\/p>\n<p>Since Reto-Moto mentioned at <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/t\/gdc-2012\">GDC 2012<\/a> that they were exploring mobile devices to secure a connection within the persistent browser war, it&#8217;s great to see that the idea is moving forward.\u00a0 Heroes &amp; Generals is the combination of <strong>strategy<\/strong> and <strong>first person shooter<\/strong> that also relies on teamwork from both sides to become victorious.<\/p>\n<p>You can sign-up for a Heroes &amp; Generals beta key at the community site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heroesandgenerals.com\/2\/index.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since seeing Heroes &amp; Generals at GDC 2012 and playing a bit of the alpha, I&#8217;m quickly becoming more interested in the game. Without considering its free-to-play aspect, the gameplay is great. Most of my in-game experience is as a soldier, and there are a lot of details even in the early build. The monetization &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/heroes-generals-enters-closed-beta\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heroes &amp; Generals enters Closed Beta&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2030,"featured_media":25350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-25336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333806,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25336\/revisions\/333806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25336"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=25336"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=25336"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=25336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}