The second week of 2012 is coming towards an end and we’re getting ready for a massive invasion of our new live-servers by all of you out there in our community.
We had hoped that we could begin the next Alpha-stage, which involves inviting a huge amount of new players into our new live-servers, but unfortunately things didn’t turn out as planned. The servers were not configured right when we got them and we found some bugs we would like to fix before inviting thousands of new players in.
So the current plan is to start the next Alpha-stage next week, and begin to ramp up the number of players over the next couple of weeks.
As mentioned in the Intelligence Bulletin last week, we’ll shut down the servers outside the Play Session time-slots, so remember to be there or miss all the action! And please note, that we’ll probably also change the time for the Play Sessions compared to what they are right now!
Stay tuned for more updates, and meanwhile enjoy reading about what your favorite developer-team have been doing the past week:
Developer Blogs This Week
Featured Developer Henrik Skov Jakobsen (Reto.Vashu)
Each week we’ll feature one of the developers from the team and tell you a bit about who they are and what they are working on. This time it’s our newest employee, Flash Programmer Henrik Skov Jakobsen aka. Reto.Vashu. Read More
We need Clans for testing Heroes & Generals
Quite soon we’ll start our server performance test and shortly after we’ll start to test the Campaign (the strategy part of the game). So besides all who have already signed up for an Alpha-key we would like to get in touch with clans who would like to help us! Read More
Combat Badges update
I’m currently working on the Combat Badges at the moment and have made a bunch of sketches that hopefully soon will be in-game. Read More
Team Debriefing
Design
Reto.RedBjarne, Game Director
“- bugfixing bg gfx
- bugfixing LOD generation system in XSI (1st try on church)
- optimize campaignmap on flashsite (not committet yet)
- more forests and shrubberies on T01M01″
Reto.Fleck, Level Designer
“Fixed a lot on the Mountain Map – with new village near Fuel Depot and new buildings. Also made the 1st iteration for Factory Map – uploaded to Stable. And fixing a lot of bugs reported by the community – thanks guys! 
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Reto.Robotron3000, Community Manager & Game Designer
“Adjusting Assault Team layouts and spawn menu design w. Reto.Ogssan and Reto.RedBjarne. Pestering Reto.FleCK and Reto.Dave with changes and ideas for the Mountain factory level. Oh and I got soaked riding my bike home from work on Wednesday which still kinda annoys me ”
Artists
Reto.Hr.Wille, 3D Artist
“This week I have been adding more new vehicle meshes and shaders. Next build will have new meshes and shaders for both American and German jeeps.
I also added a new version for the German Flakvierling 38. Next up for an upgrade are Tanks. ”
Reto.Mato, Lead Character Artist
“This week I’m making a German Tank uniform.”
Reto.Owleater, Character Designer
“Finalizing pants highres and ingame meshes for US pilot and US infantry soldiers.”
Reto.Colding, Lead Animator
“I have been down with pneumonia this week …aaargh 
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Reto.Dave, Environment/Props/Concept Artist
“Working on the factory map, making new props and setting up lighting.”
Coders & QA
Reto.Goonstah, Programmer and Technical Lead
“Worked on test and debug of the new build as well as the new liver server.”
Reto.Chrestangen, Flash Programmer
“Finished up Equipment Screen, Assault Team details, and Mission details in campaignmap. Regular office stuff was also maintained. The awesome polish of Limbo was on my mind most of the week as well, just started playing it.”
Reto.Placebo, Code connoisseur
“* Starting looking into getting the warserver and the actionserver connected once more – getting armyresources from strategy into action – last seen working sept/oct 2011
* Fixing issues related to new service/database framework
* Minor bugfixes”
Reto.Hal9k, Render Programmer
“- Stable build
- Bug fixing
- Live server setup”
Reto.Ogssan, Gameplay Programmer
“This week has again been full of small bug fixes, besides which i also did some more work on the explosion damage model and the assault teams, character class’ and characters.”
Reto.Leto, Gameplay Programmer
“MIA“
Reto.Murphy, Senior Programmer
“MIA“
Reto.Injection, Senior Programmer
“MIA“
Reto.Splixxen, Lead Tester
“- Go through feedback.
- Handle Crash logs.
- Verify fixed bugs.
- Random meetings.
- Forum structure.
- Ticket system.
- Prove that K98 is still useful and deadly (Sorry to the casualties).”
Reto.Prakash, IT Architect
“- Search existing players filters on email or gamertag and returns more comprehensive user data for ‘add friend’ feature
- Players can equip weapons in their inventory to any of their characters (in corresponding slots). Equipping an item by a player’s character de-equips that item from the player’s character that has it equipped
- Distinction between time used throughout flash website internally and the one displayed on screen
- All server times displayed are UTC +0 timezone”
Reto.Vashu, Flash Programmer
“Chat Revamp:
I’m still working on the chat system and this week has seen great progress:
- Implemented the Robotlegs framework in the chat system (better communication with rest of Flash project)
- Joining new channels is finished in 1st iteration, will undergo internal testing soon
- Private conversations have better handling
- Able to leave channels that are not mandatory is done
- Foundation for Creating password protected channels laid out.”
Sound
Reto.Draebesmoelf, Lead Sound Designer
“This week I have spent all my time creating and adjusting sounds for all the tanks.”
Reto.Lord, Audio Programmer
“MIA“
Management & IT
Reto.Topo, CEO
“This week, I have worked on many different administrative tasks, amongst others payment system, marketing, in-game economics and business stats.”
Reto.Hansg, IT Admin
“- I’m currently installing the new live servers – two of the delivered servers were not configured correctly from the provider, but new ones are almost ready.
- Has set up more Nagios monitoring of services on various servers
- Setup of new employee accounts etc.”
Reto.KenSolo, PR & Marketing Coordinator
“I’ve been handling a lot of Clan-key applications and generally prepared our upcoming test and scale up of the servers and backend. Besides I’ve been digging further down into the realm of online advertising with Google AdWords, Facebook ads, Affilliate Marketing etc. Have also looked at ad-tracking and -management tools.”
NOTICE
The Intelligence Bulletin is designed primarily for the use of the members of the Heroes & Generals community. It is a vehicle for the dissemination to them of the latest information received from Reto-Moto Intelligence sources about the development of Heroes & Generals. Readers are invited to comment on the use that they are making of the Intelligence Bulletin and to forward suggestions for future issues.
Reto-Moto Intelligence Division,
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