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The Warhawk Beta Summer of Awesome (PS3)

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cheekymunky

Banned
I know one thing for sure: I have not had this much fun in an online game in a very long time.



The blend of air and ground combat with the myriad of vehicles and weapons grouped with the epic size of some of the maps makes this seriously one of the best MP console games out there. It does need some tweaking but all in all it is an excellent game with lots of epic potential.




This is absolutely a day one purchase for me...no question.




btw...I actually like the death match games; provided they take out the goddam mines. I played a dm game earlier today and one guy kept finding the mines and proceeded to blow everyone to hell and back with them. The game is so fast paced that I never did find where the mines spawned.....still fun as hell though.
 
Ploid 3.0

Ploid 3.0

Member
Arde0 said:
btw...I actually like the death match games; provided they take out the goddam mines. I played a dm game earlier today and one guy kept finding the mines and proceeded to blow everyone to hell and back with them. The game is so fast paced that I never did find where the mines spawned.....still fun as hell though.
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I love DM also, but I also love the mines :( (mine user).
 
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chubigans

y'all should be ashamed
It would be neat to have an escort/VIP type situation to drive across the map where the escorts would be regulated to land, and the attackers to the air (provided that some details are balanced for this mode, like the AA guns and such).
 
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dfyb

Banned
chubigans said:
It would be neat to have an escort/VIP type situation to drive across the map where the escorts would be regulated to land, and the attackers to the air (provided that some details are balanced for this mode, like the AA guns and such).
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i don't think air/ground should be regulated (other than VIP not being able to fly, like you can set for CTF), but yeah a VIP mode would kickass in this game.
 
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AgentOtaku

Member
I hope for more ground-based vehicles in the future...specifically if they added WWII era motorbikes! :D

...with that, I do like that there isn't alotta vehicles because it really plays to the game's "streamlined" design...

and transistioning from Warhawk to ground is such an awesome, seamless experience :)
 
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kaching

"GAF's biggest wanker"
chubigans said:
It would be neat to have an escort/VIP type situation to drive across the map where the escorts would be regulated to land, and the attackers to the air (provided that some details are balanced for this mode, like the AA guns and such).
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I was basically doing that in a CTF game last night - guy in the jeep has the flag and I was in a Warhawk above him watching for anyone tailing us or trying to intercept us from ahead.
 
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JB1981

Member
kaching said:
I was basically doing that in a CTF game last night - guy in the jeep has the flag and I was in a Warhawk above him watching for anyone tailing us or trying to intercept us from ahead.
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same! I love CTF
 
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kaching

"GAF's biggest wanker"
AgentOtaku said:
I hope for more ground-based vehicles in the future...specifically if they added WWII era motorbikes! :D
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I'd like to see them add boats, personally. There's enough water in this game to make it worthwhile.
 
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Kittonwy

Banned
kaching said:
I'd like to see them add boats, personally. There's enough water in this game to make it worthwhile.
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If they add boats they would have to add swimming.
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calder

Member
Kittonwy said:
If they add boats they would have to add swimming.
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Not necessarily, I was on the map with the elevated island chain and I drove my tank off the cliff. Exiting the tank before it hit the water had me walking on the water's surface with impunity, I had run half way to the enemy base before I realized that with only 3 rockets on hand it was going to be tough to do any actual fighting way down there so I just suicided. :lol But for a minute I had visions of a brilliant sneak attack going, like Jesus must have done back in the day.
 
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Imperial Hot

Banned
I am really digging the vehicular combat, but I am really having a hard-time with the on-foot stuff. Maybe I just suck, but I can never seem to kill anyone on foot. I think they need to lower the damage that a player can take, or make it easier to aim. The rifle should be a lot more effective than it actually is.
 
D

dfyb

Banned
snack said:
I am really digging the vehicular combat, but I am really having a hard-time with the on-foot stuff. Maybe I just suck, but I can never seem to kill anyone on foot. I think they need to lower the damage that a player can take, or make it easier to aim. The rifle should be a lot more effective than it actually is.
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use the pistol. i save the rifle for a last resort against warhawks.
 
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calder

Member
Yeah, you can tell the foot weapons need some tweaking when you run into an enemy and you both automatically start throwing grenades, then switch to knives when inside 20 feet. :lol

Anyone getting good with the Pro flight controls? I fly pretty well I think, but I find I rarely use the right stick in Pro mode except to get back to level flight after some turns. I do prefer it to the normal flight mode, but along with air braking I just seem to never remember to use it in a fight. I am getting better at using the right stick for nap of the earth flying and stuff, but it's a far cry from automatic so far.
 
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AgentOtaku

Member
calder said:
Yeah, you can tell the foot weapons need some tweaking when you run into an enemy and you both automatically start throwing grenades, then switch to knives when inside 20 feet. :lol
Anyone getting good with the Pro flight controls? I fly pretty well I think, but I find I rarely use the right stick in Pro mode except to get back to level flight after some turns. I do prefer it to the normal flight mode, but along with air braking I just seem to never remember to use it in a fight. I am getting better at using the right stick for nap of the earth flying and stuff, but it's a far cry from automatic so far.
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yeah pretty much....Rifle is useless :lol
 
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captive

Joe Six-Pack: posting for the common man
I love the sniper rifle, on Island outpost there are bunkers across the map from each other i was sniping people trying to shoot at stuff from inside and outside the bunkers, at one point they just stopped spawning there, i went like 24 and 3 or some crap. It was just plain awesome.
 
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kaching

"GAF's biggest wanker"
Kittonwy said:
If they add boats they would have to add swimming.
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Swimming is slow and tedious, quicker to just die instantly and respawn. I also like doing what calder did - shame it only seems to work in the archipelagos map.
 
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chubigans

y'all should be ashamed
HOLY FREAKING CRAP.

I had no idea you could charge the lightning bolt in the Warhawk.

I also had no idea that a direct hit with the bolt causes instant death for foot soldiers and jeeps.

In-freaking-credible.
 
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Oni Jazar

Member
Has anyone been able to log into the RANKED_Incognito_Dev server or the SCEA-ZonesLarge or SCEA-Large4 servers? They are *always* full. I was refreshing for almost half an hour. Surprising considering how often the game crashes.
 
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AgentOtaku

Member
Oni Jazar said:
Has anyone been able to log into the RANKED_Incognito_Dev server or the SCEA-ZonesLarge or SCEA-Large4 servers? They are *always* full. I was refreshing for almost half an hour. Surprising considering how often the game crashes.
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yep....ALWAYS full....makes me sad because I think I joined one of them once actually


.....and it was beautiful
 
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kaching

"GAF's biggest wanker"
Oni Jazar said:
Has anyone been able to log into the RANKED_Incognito_Dev server or the SCEA-ZonesLarge or SCEA-Large4 servers? They are *always* full. I was refreshing for almost half an hour. Surprising considering how often the game crashes.
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Always full, and they always have a 9999 ping for me, so I'm not getting in even if there is an opening.
 
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AgentOtaku

Member
kaching said:
Always full, and they always have a 9999 ping for me, so I'm not getting in even if there is an opening.
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the majority of servers have a ping of 9999....but when I join alot of them, its actually around 150 for me....can't base it off of the server list, which some around here has stated is one of the problems with the beta....

... unless your saying something else
 
Aeon712

Aeon712

Member
Just played aa quick game, I'm really rusty from not playing it since last week. Safe Bet was killing me from every which way :(.
 
N

neojubei

Will drop pants for Sony.
chubigans said:
HOLY FREAKING CRAP.

I had no idea you could charge the lightning bolt in the Warhawk.

I also had no idea that a direct hit with the bolt causes instant death for foot soldiers and jeeps.

In-freaking-credible.
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I love finding new things about this game.
 
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calder

Member
chubigans said:
I had no idea you could charge the lightning bolt in the Warhawk.
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Sweet! I remember how pumped I was to realize you could launch 5 or more of the standard missiles and have them home in on certain targets. Would be sweet if it worked on tanks but that'd probably be a bit too much. :lol

It's definitely my favourite sneak attack on enemy 'hawks now though. Find someone on the fringe of a fight, get 5ish missiles locked on them (no homing missile warning I think) and then let loose and hit your cannon. Should give even a full health warhawk almost no time to defend themselves.
 
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Oni Jazar

Member
Posted earlier:

Wanted to make a quick post to let you all know that we have fixed this issue and we now support our 720p signal to be up-scaled to 1080i so those of you who are stuck playing Warhawk in 480p don't get screwed

To be clear, we don't render 1080 natively, we simply up-scale the 720p frame buffer so we can output 1080i -- Still looks great BTW!

Based on all of your feedback, we're making some changes:

-->Added support for PTT rather than automatic mic activation. The PTT button is on L3.

-->Added the display of a talking icon near the name of the player speaking. It also is displayed yellow so it stands out since the icon by itself was not as readable as I we thought was needed.

-->Any player on your team that is talking, will have their radar/mini-map blip displayed yellow so you can see where people are even if they aren't right in front of you.

-->Added an Icon by your player name in the upper left of the status bar to let you know when you mic is on/off.
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rothbart

Member
I know this must've been covered in this thread before but check out the "Pro Flight" feature and wow does it open up the flight controls... no more auto-level on the horizon. Slow loops, real aerial maneuvers, etc. Just try it and see if you like it. Also try holding in L2/R2 when not in hover mode and doing a "really" slow loop. Coolness.
 
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Safe Bet

Banned
Aeon712 said:
Just played aa quick game, I'm really rusty from not playing it since last week. Safe Bet was killing me from every which way :(.
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Sorry Aeon...

I started to feel bad after the third time... :(

You need to keep and eye out for mines on the road and on the flags... ;)
 
mckmas8808

mckmas8808

Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Wollan said:
September seemingly.
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DAMN!! I was hoping for August. Then again it's going to be Lair and Madden in August so it's not that bad. The Darkness in June, so what's in July? Stranglehold?
 
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chubigans

y'all should be ashamed
I love love love those electric bombs...I shot one at the enemy base and someone said, "HOLY CRAP I THINK A TERMINATOR IS SPAWNING AT THEIR BASE!" :lol
 
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Kittonwy

Banned
AgentOtaku said:
awesome! :)
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They need some sort of squad-based system ala Resistance (the party system makes a HUGE difference in Resistance imho), that alone would help improve the ability for the community to organize itself. It's pretty pointless to have clans without being able to keep them all in the same party and take the whole party into a ranked game, I don't really like playing custom games when I can play ranked games with my clan.
 
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Doom_Bringer

Banned
I was watching some beta videos at stage 6 yesterday. One thing that immediately came to mind was, "WTF is up with these textures??" Will the final game have better textures? The desert stage looked really bad!
 
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TTP

Have a fun! Enjoy!
Doom_Bringer said:
I was watching some beta videos at stage 6 yesterday. One thing that immediately came to mind was, "WTF is up with these textures??" Will the final game have better textures? The desert stage looked really bad!
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They look pretty good to me. I mean, in the actual game.
 
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