Next Play Session Tomorrow (Tuesday) at 19.00 UTC news

Our second server stress-test in the weekend was also a success, and we’re now ready for the next play session TOMORROW (Tuesday) at 19.00 UTC.

So to all who have received an alpha key – Go to our new “live server” to access and play Heroes & Generals TOMORROW (Tuesday) at 19.00 UTC:

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PLEASE NOTE! That login is disabled outside the play session timeslots (read more below).

The previous Play Sessions

The two first stress-tests of the live servers are now over. The goal was to reach 100 concurrent users, and Saturday we peaked with 111 users logged in at the same time. Throughout the whole session we had 242 players, and we might have had more if not our login-handler had crashed, so people couldn’t login in from approx 20.30 UTC. :-(

But then again this is exactly what these tests are for and also the reason why we don’t let anyone in at the same time – when more and more players join these sessions we find more and more bugs. And try to fix the worst bugs before we invite new players.

In the play session Saturday we experienced a much faster download than in the previous play session, but we had a few issues regarding duplicate missions in the mission list, the downloader hangs occasionally and also a few server crashes. We try to fix as many of the bugs as possible before the next play session, but not all bugs can be hotfixed – some require a new build, which will take too long to deploy in order to make it before the next play session.

Thanks a lot to everybody who showed up at the two first server stress play sessions! We hope to see all of you and many more at the play session TOMORROW (Tuesday) at 19.00 UTC.

Play Session Timeslots

The next couple of weeks you can only play the game at certain play session timeslots and the game can’t be played outside these timeslots. If you try to log in at other times you will see a count-down to the next play session.

We have a play session TOMORROW (Tuesday the 24th of January) and the timeslot for the play session is:

UTC = Coordinated Universal Time (Server time) / GMT = Greenwich Mean Time

We haven’t set a date for the play session to follow the one TOMORROW yet, as we have to analyze the data from the next stress-tests before we know if we can proceed.

However, we expect the following play session to be Thursday this week, but we’ll keep you updated on the results of the tests and of upcoming play sessions!

And for North- and South-American players – don’t worry, we’ll soon make some additional ‘evening’ play sessions that will be a better match for your timezones.

The test

We need to stress-test the servers and the game in general, so basically we need you to log in on our new “live server“, join one or more missions and just play the game at our play sessions.

We would love to get feedback on any issues or bugs regarding the performance you experience and in particular issues related to login, chat, joining missions and download/launch of the missions. And please remember to send us crash-logs!

Please note that the strategy part of the game is currently inactive – i.e. you can see the campaign map, but you can’t interact with it – we expect it to be activated soon.

What’s new?

In the latest build we have added a whole lot of new things, tweaked some old stuff and there is also a new map you can try. Here is a list of some of the new stuff:

• A new Tank Factory map
• A brand new Sherman tank is added to the Allied forces
• The Messerschmitt, the Kübelwagen and other vehicles has updated textures
• Both sides now have bicycles (yes – bicycles!) :-D
• A new vehicle is introduced to both sides: the Halftrack
• New weapon poses
• New Quick Launch menu
• New character animations; enter/exit vehicles, reload anims and more…

But I don’t have an Alpha-key and really want to play!!!

Don’t worry – we need many players for this series of stress-tests and for the play session TOMORROW (Tuesday) we’ll invited many new Alpha-players!

Sign up for an Alpha-key here!

(Original Heroes & Generals blog link)