Disclaimer: We had a lot of fun putting together the story of bots taking over the FPS part of Heroes & Generals – and of course it is simply an April Fools’ Day prank. Reading all your comments on the Forum, Steam and Facebook is pure comedy and we hope you had a great laugh as well.
Based on the positive experience we had introducing Tutorial Bots in Heroes & Generals, we have decided to take this development path to its natural conclusion and replace all human players in the action game with bots.
You will of course still be able to purchase veteran membership and equip your soldiers with First Aid Kits, weapons, tanks, planes, grenades, combat badges – all the good stuff you know so well. But you will NO LONGER be able to actually play the FPS.
Have a look at the excerpt from our latest Devstream below for a quick rundown on these important changes to the game.
https://youtu.be/9Xt8bRjWbB8
Bots fight for their friends
We have done extensive test clearly showing that bots always fight for their friends as well as follow orders to the letter thus making a binary difference!
We also found that bots are capable of handling very advanced and complicated weaponry. You should expect upcoming updates to include weapons like Hand Held Nukes and Experimental Exosuits.
The only minor problem with this development decision have been a few issues with aiming bots – but they have been removed!
The first version of this update, where we remove the ability to play FPS, will be deployed in a Hotfix later today April 1st.
And we expect, since bots are able to play the game continuously without the need for sleep, that it will not be long before enough bots reaches Player Level 12 and we can start replacing the generals with high ranking bots.