Heroes and Generals has just received its latest content update, Spaatz #2, which introduces a variety of changes and optimisations such as the option to toggle instead of hold for various actions, which was a long-term community request, the 'staged battles' option as well as a rewritten and optimised server-side hit detection system.

Players now have the option to engage in 'staged battles' in case they’re in need of taking a break from the challenging 'war battles'. Their choice of faction for those battles is independent from their faction allegiance in the war, meaning they are able to choose a soldier from either side. As staged battles are disconnected from the war and evenly balanced in terms of resources and, their outcome won't have any influence on the war.

Since in Heroes and Generals every kill and the result of every single battle can have a direct influence on the progression of an overarching war with thousands of players, Reto-Moto decided for a new server-side hit detection system with an impartial server determining and validating all kills, which is considered the most appropriate and fair in contrast to the more commonly used client-side hit detection in many other shooters.

"Improved hit detection has been on the top of our community's wish-list, so we have been working on a complete re-factoring of this for quite a while. We now believe that we have a fast, reliable, fair and cutting edge server-side hit detection system that supports Heroes & Generals in standing out as a truly unique wargame for gamers who want a deeper shooter-experience than simply playing one purpose-less match after the other in a standard map-rotation setup,"told Game Director, Jacob Andersen and continued:

"The community feedback on the new hit-detection system is extremely positive, and we even had one player who wanted us to go back to the old system because he felt that the new system is too accurate as he is 'way too old to compete with the twitch kiddie generation'. We actually take that as a compliment and as a sign that we have done something right!"

Check out this special community vlog in which known youtuber Luftangreifer gives an overview of the only just introduced features:

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