Insight Interactive Heroes & Generals Rebuild

We’ve completed another weapon animation validation test for the Heroes & Generals Unreal Engine 5 Rebuild.

This prototype focuses specifically on the M1A1 Thompson ADS burst animation, including aimed automatic fire behavior, ADS burst recoil timing, repeated sight movement, weapon recovery, hand stability, recovery pacing, synchronization, and overall first person weapon feel.

What This Test Covers:

-M1A1 Thompson ADS burst animation

-Aimed automatic fire behavior

We’ve completed another weapon animation validation test for the Heroes & Generals Unreal Engine 5 Rebuild.

This prototype focuses specifically on the M1A1 Thompson hip fire burst animation, including automatic fire behavior, burst recoil timing, repeated weapon kick, weapon movement, hand stability, recovery pacing, synchronization, and overall first person weapon feel.

What This Test Covers:

-M1A1 Thompson hip fire burst animation

-Automatic fire behavior

We’ve completed another weapon animation validation test for the Heroes & Generals Unreal Engine 5 Rebuild.

This prototype focuses specifically on the M1A1 Thompson ADS shot animation, including aimed weapon reaction, ADS recoil timing, sight movement, weapon recovery, pacing, synchronization, and overall first person weapon feel.

What This Test Covers:

-M1A1 Thompson ADS shot animation

-Initial weapon reaction while aiming

We’ve completed another weapon animation validation test for the Heroes & Generals Unreal Engine 5 Rebuild.

This prototype focuses specifically on the M1A1 Thompson aim down sights animation, including ADS transition timing, sight alignment, hand movement, weapon positioning, pacing, synchronization, and overall first person weapon feel.

What This Test Covers:

M1A1 Thompson aim down sights animation

ADS transition timing

We’ve completed another weapon animation validation test for the Heroes & Generals Unreal Engine 5 Rebuild.

This prototype focuses specifically on the M1A1 Thompson hip fire shot animation, including weapon reaction, recoil timing, hand movement, weapon recovery, pacing, synchronization, and overall first person weapon feel.

What This Test Covers:

M1A1 Thompson hip fire shot animation

Initial weapon reaction

We’ve completed another weapon animation validation test for the Heroes & Generals Unreal Engine 5 Rebuild.

This prototype focuses specifically on the M1A1 Thompson reload animation, including total reload duration, hand placement, magazine handling, weapon movement, pacing, synchronization, and overall first person weapon feel.

What This Test Covers:

M1A1 Thompson reload animation

Total reload duration

We’ve completed the next weapon animation validation test for the Heroes & Generals rebuild.

This prototype focuses specifically on the Maschinenpistole 40 (MP40) prone forward animation, including weapon movement while prone and moving forward, how the weapon is held in the lower stance, hand movement, weapon stability, weapon positioning, pacing, synchronization, and overall first person weapon feel.

What This Test Covers:

Maschinenpistole 40 prone forward animation

Prone forward weapon movement

We’ve completed the next weapon animation validation test for the Heroes & Generals rebuild.

This prototype focuses specifically on the Maschinenpistole 40 (MP40) stand to prone animation, including the weapon transition from standing into prone, movement from the forward held position into the prone ready position, hand movement, weapon stability, weapon positioning, pacing, synchronization, and overall first person weapon feel.

What This Test Covers:

Maschinenpistole 40 stand to prone animation

Stand to prone weapon movement

We’ve completed the next weapon animation validation test for the Heroes & Generals rebuild.

This prototype focuses specifically on the Maschinenpistole 40 (MP40) sprint stop animation, including the weapon transition out of sprint, the small weapon motion that occurs when sprinting stops, hand movement, weapon stability, weapon positioning, pacing, synchronization, and overall first person weapon feel.

What This Test Covers:

Maschinenpistole 40 sprint stop animation

Sprint stop weapon movement

Hi everyone,

We’ve opened several new community channels in the Heroes & Generals — Insight Interactive Discord server.

The goal is to give the community clearer places to talk about the rebuild, ask questions, discuss validation work, and share constructive feedback.

New channels now open:

#hng-general — general H&G discussion, memories, gameplay talk, and community conversation

We’ve completed the next weapon animation validation test for the Heroes & Generals rebuild.

This prototype focuses specifically on the Maschinenpistole 40 (MP40) sprint hold animation, including the sustained upright sprint position, weapon motion during sprinting, hand stability, weapon positioning, pacing, synchronization, and overall first person weapon feel.

What This Test Covers:

Maschinenpistole 40 sprint hold animation

Sustained upright sprint weapon position

We’ve completed the next weapon animation validation test for the Heroes & Generals rebuild.

This prototype focuses specifically on the Maschinenpistole 40 (MP40) sprint enter animation, including the transition from the weapon held forward into the upright sprint position, hand movement, weapon stability, weapon positioning, pacing, synchronization, and overall first person weapon feel.

What This Test Covers:

Maschinenpistole 40 sprint enter animation

Transition from the weapon held forward into the upright sprint position

We’ve completed the next weapon animation validation test for the Heroes & Generals rebuild.

This prototype focuses specifically on the Maschinenpistole 40 (MP40) walking weapon movement animation, including the transition from the weapon held forward into the upright walking position, weapon bob, movement sway, hand stability, weapon positioning, pacing, synchronization, and overall first person weapon feel.

What This Test Covers:

Maschinenpistole 40 walking weapon movement animation

Transition from the weapon held forward into the upright walking position

We’ve completed the next weapon animation validation test for the Heroes & Generals rebuild.

This prototype focuses specifically on the Maschinenpistole 40 (MP40) ADS burst animation, including aimed automatic fire behavior, ADS burst recoil timing, repeated sight movement, weapon recovery, pacing, synchronization, and overall first person weapon feel.

What This Test Covers:

Maschinenpistole 40 ADS burst animation

Aimed automatic fire behavior

Starting next week, Insight Interactive will be moving to a standard cadence of two validation updates per week for the Heroes & Generals rebuild.

As development continues through weapon animation, handling, and the remaining Stage 1 validation work, we want progress to be shown more consistently rather than having longer gaps between individual tests.

The exact timing may occasionally shift depending on development needs, but two validations per week will now be our standard target moving forward.

This also means more opportunities for veterans and the wider community to follow development, compare the rebuild against the original game, and provide feedback as each part of the foundation is validated.

Two validations a week. Steady progress. One step closer to the vertical slice.

We’ve completed the next weapon animation validation test for the Heroes & Generals rebuild.

This prototype focuses specifically on the Maschinenpistole 40 (MP40) hip-fire burst animation, including automatic fire behavior, burst recoil timing, repeated weapon kick, hand movement, weapon recovery, pacing, synchronization, and overall first person weapon feel.

What This Test Covers:

Maschinenpistole 40 hip-fire burst animation

Automatic hip-fire behavior

We’ve completed the next weapon animation validation test for Heroes & Generals.

This prototype focuses specifically on the Maschinenpistole 40 (MP40) ADS out animation, including the transition from aiming down sights back to hip fire position, return to hip timing, sight release, hand movement, weapon positioning, pacing, synchronization, and overall first person weapon feel.

What This Test Covers:

Maschinenpistole 40 ADS out animation

Transition from aiming down sights back to hip-fire position

We’ve completed the next weapon animation validation test for Heroes & Generals.

This prototype focuses specifically on the Maschinenpistole 40 (MP40) ADS shot animation, including aimed weapon reaction, ADS recoil timing, sight movement, weapon recovery, pacing, synchronization, and overall first person weapon feel.

What This Test Covers:

Maschinenpistole 40 ADS shot animation

Single shot while aiming down sights

We’ve completed the next weapon animation validation test for Heroes & Generals.

This prototype focuses specifically on the Maschinenpistole 40 (MP40) aim down sights animation, including ADS transition timing, sight alignment, hand movement, weapon positioning, pacing, synchronization, and overall first-person weapon feel.

What This Test Covers:

Maschinenpistole 40 aim down sights animation

Transition from hip fire to ADS

We’ve completed the next weapon animation validation test for Heroes & Generals.

This prototype focuses specifically on the Maschinenpistole 40 (MP40) hip-fire shot animation, including weapon reaction, recoil timing, hand movement, weapon recovery, pacing, synchronization, and overall first-person weapon feel.

What This Test Covers:

Maschinenpistole 40 hip-fire shot animation

Single-shot weapon reaction

We’ve completed the first weapon animation validation test for Heroes & Generals.

This prototype focuses specifically on the Maschinenpistole 40(mp40) reload animation, including total reload duration, hand placement, magazine handling, weapon movement, pacing, synchronization, and overall first person weapon feel.

What This Test Covers:

Maschinenpistole 40 reload animation

Total reload duration

The basic movement validation and comparison testing phase for the Heroes & Generals Unreal Engine rebuild is now complete.

This work focused on establishing the foundational movement behavior, pacing, responsiveness, and transitions needed before expanding into additional gameplay and presentation systems.

These tests were prototype level and were intended to prove the underlying foundation rather than represent final animation or visual quality.

What Comes Next

The next development focus will include:

We’ve completed the diagonal movement validation test for Heroes & Generals.

This prototype focuses specifically on analyzing how player movement behaves while moving diagonally, including combined directional input, movement path stability, camera influence, responsiveness, and overall grounded movement feel.

What This Test Covers:

Diagonal movement behavior

W + A / W + D movement input

Congratulations to the Sunrise team on the 2023 release.

It is great to see renewed activity around Heroes & Generals and to see players excited to return to that style of gameplay. The continued interest from the community shows how much this kind of game still matters.

Insight’s project remains separate and focused on our own long term rebuild path, but we are glad to see the H&G community active again.

We’ve completed the crouch-walk movement validation test for Heroes & Generals.

This prototype focuses specifically on analyzing how player movement behaves while crouch walking, including movement speed, pacing, responsiveness, and overall grounded movement feel.

What This Test Covers:

Crouch-walk movement behavior

Crouch movement speed

We’ve completed the run to crouch transition validation test for Heroes & Generals.

This prototype focuses specifically on analyzing how player movement behaves when transitioning from a sprinting state into crouch, including momentum carry, transition responsiveness, and overall grounded movement feel.

What This Test Covers:

Run → crouch transition behavior

Momentum carry during transition

We’ve completed the stand to crouch transition validation test for Heroes & Generals.

This prototype focuses specifically on analyzing how player movement behaves when transitioning from a standing state into crouch, including transition timing, responsiveness, and overall grounded movement feel.

What This Test Covers:

Stand → crouch transition behavior

Transition responsiveness and pacing

We’ve completed the run to prone transition validation test for Heroes & Generals.

This prototype focuses specifically on analyzing how player movement behaves when transitioning from a running state into prone, including momentum carryover, transition feel, and overall movement grounding.

What This Test Covers:

Run → prone transition behavior

Forward momentum carryover during drop

We’ve completed the prone crawl movement validation test for Heroes & Generals.

This prototype focuses specifically on analyzing how player movement behaves while in the prone state, including crawl cadence, pacing, and how motion is physically expressed across the ground.

What This Test Covers:

Prone crawl cadence and movement pattern

Alternating push behavior and pacing

We’ve completed the stand ↔ prone transition validation test for Heroes & Generals.

This prototype focuses specifically on analyzing how player movement behaves when transitioning between standing and prone, including transition timing, responsiveness, and how quickly the player reaches a grounded or upright state.

What This Test Covers:

Stand → prone transition duration

Prone → stand recovery duration

Update Timing

We want to address the recent gap in announcements over the past two weeks.

We understand that consistency matters, and we don’t take delays lightly. The reality is that we’ve been focused on internal work that required more time than expected to reach a point worth sharing publicly.

Rather than pushing out incomplete or unclear updates, we decided to hold off until we have something meaningful and representative of real progress.

What’s Next

We will have an update ready next week.

We’ve completed the airborne movement validation test for Heroes & Generals.

This prototype focuses specifically on analyzing how player movement behaves while airborne, including how forward momentum carries through the jump and how mouse input influences player direction in the air.

What This Test Covers:

Forward momentum preservation while airborne

Airborne directional control via mouse movement

We’ve completed the run-jump movement validation test for Heroes & Generals.

This prototype focuses specifically on replicating the forward jump behavior while sprinting from the original RetoX engine inside Unreal Engine 5 before expanding into additional movement interactions.

What This Test Covers:

Forward momentum carry into the jump

We’ve completed the stand-jump movement validation test for Heroes & Generals.

This prototype focuses specifically on replicating the original jump arc and airborne behavior from the RetoX engine inside Unreal Engine 5 before expanding into more complex movement scenarios.

What This Test Covers:

Jump input responsiveness (takeoff timing)

Airborne duration (hang time)

We’ve completed the next Unreal Engine movement validation test for Heroes & Generals.

This prototype focuses exclusively on replicating original strafe behavior before expanding into additional movement systems.

What This Test Covers

Initial strafe response timing (left/right input)

Lateral movement feel and groundedness

We’ve completed the second Unreal Engine movement validation test for Heroes & Generals.

This prototype focuses exclusively on validating acceleration, inertia, and stopping behavior from the original game before expanding into additional systems.

What This Test Covers

• Momentum and inertia

• Deceleration timing

We’ve completed the first Unreal Engine movement validation test for Heroes & Generals.

This prototype focuses exclusively on replicating core start/stop behavior from the original game before expanding into additional systems.

What This Test Covers

• Acceleration from standstill

• Momentum and inertia

Hey everyone

I want to share a clear update on where the Heroes & Generals revival is at and how we’re approaching development going forward.

After the initial announcement in December, it became obvious (and understandable) that a lot of long time players had the same concern:

That Heroes & Generals could come back as a generic WWII shooter with their beloved game's name slapped onto it.

That’s not something we’re interested in doing or taking lightly, and it’s not something we expect anyone to take on faith.

Happy New Year, everyone. I hope the holidays were fun, safe, and well spent.

Thank you again for being here and for supporting the Heroes & Generals revival so early on. The response over the past few weeks has been incredibly motivating, and as we move into 2026, it’s clear this is going to be a big year for H&G.

What to expect in January

Right now, our focus is finishing up core pre-production work and documentation. This includes locking down design direction, scope, and the foundation needed to move confidently into the next phase.

In January, you can expect:

• A clear roadmap outlining what we aim to accomplish throughout 2026 and into early 2027

 First off, thank you for joining the newsletter and being part of the early wave. The last few weeks have been huge, and now it’s time to talk about what comes next for the Heroes & Generals revival.

Going into 2026, we’re centralizing community discussion and feedback under an official Discord server, managed by trusted H&G veterans and community members. The newsletter and Discord will be the primary hubs for updates, announcements, and early information, including dev talks, Q&As, community polls, and a direct line between players and development. (YouTubers/press will also have dedicated channels once we’re live.)

On the production side, we’re focused on finishing all pre-production work, documentation, and budgeting leading into 2026, vertical slice planning, and studio negotiations. When the time is right, we’ll bring on an official development studio partner to begin building the new era of H&G.

2026 will be a big year for Heroes &…

We are excited to announce that the official website for the Heroes & Generals™ Revival Project is now live.

This will be the central hub for updates, development progress, concept art, news, and future announcements.

Thank you to DreamerrLabs for the incredible concept art helping bring this vision to life.

More updates coming soon!