General | Tips and tricks Heroes & Generals Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

1. Never, ever should you run to the place in which the action takes place (i.e. "where they are shooting") through the shortest route, especially if it leads through an open, flat terrain, where you can't find cover - otherwise you will be quickly taken care off (dead). Try to select routes, which allow you to find good cover, or are passing through slightly more secure terrain (tall grass, for instance).

2. The same goes with deploying yourself to the battlefield. If there's action around point D3, which is under the enemy control, while your team has captured D4, avoid deploying yourself on the D4 point - it's way too close to the place of action and there's a high chance that as soon as you respawn, you will be killed again, or an enemy will blow up your vehicle. Deploy yourself a little further from the place of action and try to attack the enemy from the flank, not in the direct approach - an enemy you managed to trick will be an easier target than that which was able to prepare himself for your approach.

3. Do not rush. Sprinting is effective whenever you are in a situation, that an enemy is shooting at you and you have to quickly find yourself a cover. It's not a good idea to use it when you are getting close to a control point captured by the enemy. Sprinting, besides the obvious increase in your movement speed, does a lot of noise, which means that an enemy will be able to locate you, even though he still can't see you from behind your cover. You can, however, reduce the amount of noise your footsteps do by equipping the appropriate Combat Badge, and a lot of players either play without sound or they simply don't care what is happening around them, but you should still opt to move around crouching, which not only makes you silent, but also decreases the chances of enemy noticing you.

4. Cooperate with your team. Marking enemies for your teammates in tanks and / or planes, picking up someone from a wilderness while you are in a vehicle, or taking an enemy off your companions back - those are only a few things you can do to help your team, which, at the same time, won't cost you anything, but they will certainly make someone else's time more enjoyable, and will make your team a lot stronger.

5. Remember that you can mark the enemy. To do so, hold your crosshair for a few seconds on an enemy. Afterwards, a red icon will appear in the place where you've marked the enemy, allowing your allies to take care of the target.

6. Watch where you shoot, drive and throw grenades - without paying attention you can easily kill your own teammate, which will, certainly, end with him using foul language. Not to mention that he may want revenge.

7. Complete objectives. Heroes & Generals is not Quake, in which your main concern (except from a single game mode) was to just kill people and get as many frags as possible. Here completing the quests, which is taking control and / or defending various points, comes first, because in roughly 99% cases they affect the outcome of the fight. Not to mention that capturing and / or defending a capture point will reward you with several times more experience than a mere kill.

8. Find a good vantage point. If you aren't focused on securing control points at the moment, you can make the job a lot harder for the enemy team. To do so, find a good vantage point - it should intersect the enemy supply lines - and take cover there (remember to use various terrain obstacles, or even bushes or tall grass, in which you will be almost completely invisible to the passing enemies). If you are able to effectively eliminate the enemies, stalling their advance, you will be as important as a player who just focuses on capturing control points.

9. Try to change your position. After you've killed an enemy, a Killcam will kick in, meaning that the enemy will be able to see the place from which you've killed him. You can now expect that enemy to come for you to have his revenge - killing several enemies in quick succession only increases that risk. Whenever you kill someone, immediately change your position, even by a little, so that the enemy won't be able to surprise you.

10. Listen and observe. While moving through the "wilderness", far away from the place of action, you can often hear, or notice, an enemy sniper, or tank lurking in the shadows, which makes the lives of your teammates (or even you) a misery. The sound of gunfire, or a trail of bullet can lead you to the previously invisible enemy - all you have to do is to attack the enemy from the flank. Effectively responding to things going on around you will give you a bigger edge than even the best gun.

11. Refrain from shooting from a standing position. By doing so, not only that you decrease your overall accuracy, but you make an easy target for the enemy. Crouching, and especially using prone can increase the chances of survival, as the enemy will have a harder time shooting you, not to mention that you won't be so visible. Don't prone in front of an approaching car!

12. Think. If you can't get to the objective through a bridge, because it's protected by mines and snipers, try to get to the enemy from a flank, even though it requires you to walk around the whole map. Repeating the same ineffective tactic won't give you anything, only frustration.

13. Remember that you can change seat in a vehicle. By pressing the C button you can change the position in the vehicle you're actually travelling by (if it gives you such an option). It can come in handy in a situation, in which, for instance, a player who previously mounted the HMG got shot in the head and you want to take his place.

14. If you have been spotted by an enemy, hide and wait a few seconds. There's a high chance that the enemy was able to mark you - during the next several seconds you will be perfectly visible to every enemy on the battlefield. It's worth to wait for a short moment before you decide to come out off a cover - some of your enemies may have grown impatient and they simply don't care about you anymore.

15. Keep your head low. While you are travelling inside terrain vehicles, you can use the "Cover" option, making your character lower his head, which in turn makes you less vulnerable to enemy fire. It, however, is connected with some limitations, like restricted field vision, or the inability to use the HMG properly.

16. Don't get in your teammates way. Destroying anti-tank and anti-personal mines set up by your allies (remember - they are marked by an appropriate icon, while the enemy ones aren't) is a bad idea - they have been set there up for a reason. All you have to do is to just avoid them and continue your job.

17. Use anti-tank equipment. There are special boxes scattered around the map (and on vehicles, if the owner decided to install the box there) containing a "regenerating" rocket launcher. After picking it up, the weapon allows you to fire a single rocket at the enemy - it will allow you to be moderately effective against enemy armored vehicles and tanks, even though your soldier isn't really used to fight such foes.