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The Warhawk Beta Summer of Awesome (PS3)
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brandonh83
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Killthee said:Hell yes!
Ditto.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
Phoenix Down said:
Absofu@#$lutely
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
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Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Assuming some bugs and annoyances are fixed - yes, definitely. It's really quite an impressive game, and if you are fan of this online battle genre you'll probably really like this.Phoenix Down said:
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
i'm not digging the game so much so far personally...
Spent a bit of time playing this game. Overall I have to say it's not half as bad. Just like in fl0w there is a learning curve with tilt controlls , ground combat needs some tweaking, but I kind of feel that some maps are suitable for 64 men combat. There are other means of getting into the beta...*hides*.
sonycowboy
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Y2Kev said:Zones rocks.
I'd just love to thank sonycowboy for the sex. Hope it didn't hurt too much for you.
I just can't sit down for a while.
Damn I suck. I have no idea what the hell I'm doing. I lock on folks with missles and it takes forever and they get out of them. I hear the missle lock sign do every manuever in the book and I'm still toast. I'm a little better if I stay on foot/jeep/turret.
That and I don't know how zones works :lol
But I do love this game. It's like 5 games in one, which is both a strength and a weakness.
sonycowboy said:
Honestly, I think the best way to avoid missile locks is just a simple loop or a "GFTO boost" (double tap R2). The best way to keep a track on someone is just to simply turn with the left stick. Using the right stick excessively just seems kind of disorienting. Plus, any smart player will just turn on hover mode and wallop you while you do corkscrews and shit.
Firing more than one missile at a time is something I just learned how to do...
Zones is awesome. It's territories in halo or somesuch, except it's more complex in that there is interaction between the zones and "levels" of zones.
I learned that yesterday. I was like WTF why do their missles kill me in one hit, but mine do didly. Then i realized if you continue to hold the fire button you can lock on like 10 missiles at once, you can also do multiple targets at once, its hard, but you can lock on to at least two targets at once.Y2Kev said:
Protip: when you see the missile lock indicator that someone has missile lock on you, the number of squares is how many missiles they have locked on to you. Anything more than three and your toast unless you can go around a mountain or boost.
Hey, I just now read through your PS3 issues.Y2Kev said:
Why are you convinced the problem is the HDMI output on your PS3 and not the HDMI input on your TV? Do you have an HDMI->DVI cable that you can use with the PS3 to try a DVI port on your TV or other monitor? It would use the same signaling out of the PS3.
I'm a computer hardware engineer and have recently built a system for National Semiconductor to generate HDMI/DVI grade signals. The signaling is multi-channel LVDS which is low-voltage differential signal. It is very, very low voltage, relatively low frequency, and very low power. It's very, very, very unlikely that the cable or the signal from one device to another could damage anything. The operational amplifiers that generate the signals are meager and the receivers are durable (and the tech is old). Shorting the cables even would probably not damage anything.
That out of the way, it could be the serializers/deserializers at the end of the cable drivers/receivers. I have not read of any serializers degrading and failing (the IC that takes the parallel video data and serializes it into the individual LVDS channels that are the HDMI/DVI link), but there have been many reports of TVs and Monitors that have had their HDMI inputs fails (the deserializers I imagine getting out of wack and not reconstructing the data properly.
If I were to gamble and debug the problem as an engineer, I would start at the TV, although it certainly could be the PS3. That said, a PS3 failure would be 100% a hardware fault and 0% the fault of any software (unless the system firmware pushes some configuration flag into an invalid state). This crashing, faulty beta could hurt our PS3's, but only by locking at some very poor time and borking some critical data being written to the HDD. But that's unlikely.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
well, i can still have fun with it though. had a couple of longer games that didn't have the server disconnect after 10 minutes 
i think i just have to get used to the semi-wonky camera. maybe i just need to adjust the settings till i find what is good for me. the controls seems just weird to me for some reason, like i can't get a hang of it.
i think i just have to get used to the semi-wonky camera. maybe i just need to adjust the settings till i find what is good for me. the controls seems just weird to me for some reason, like i can't get a hang of it.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
this game has locked up on me 5 times already. christ!
also i found the neogaf game
also i found the neogaf game
this game is incredible even in its buggy beta form. Hands down one of the better online console games I've played, I'm actually stunned by the visuals, the framerates are silky smooth with some really nice textures, nice animations, and alot more eyecandy
. Tonight I haven't frozen, but yesterday I froze at least 10 times, once 2 minutes after I started playing, hopefully the problem can be solved with a patch or something.
. Tonight I haven't frozen, but yesterday I froze at least 10 times, once 2 minutes after I started playing, hopefully the problem can be solved with a patch or something.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
frame rate is really steady, i'll give it that. one thing that pissed me off about most BF games is that they were choppy as hell on my PC.
Hey garickk. I'm sure it's not the PS3. I exchanged mine for a new one today and I still have the issue. Unfortunately, the TV and the PS3 are the only HDMI devices I have. The PS3 does actually give me an interesting hint with regards to the HDMI cable itself...when I used to select audio output, I could select HDMI and have it auto detect the settings I wanted. Now even with the cable plugged in it just reads "No HDMI device, turn it on, blah blah."
So I ordered a new cable and we're going to see what happens. I really, really hope the HDMI port on my TV has not failed, but I can't see why it would just fail all of a sudden after 8 months of normal, perfect usage. The cable was a 4 dollar cable I bought off monoprice. :\
My new PS3 having the same problem as my old PS3 (my new one is nice and shiny!) indicates my PS3 was not the source of the problem, and everyone can continue to play unafraid.
So I ordered a new cable and we're going to see what happens. I really, really hope the HDMI port on my TV has not failed, but I can't see why it would just fail all of a sudden after 8 months of normal, perfect usage. The cable was a 4 dollar cable I bought off monoprice. :\
My new PS3 having the same problem as my old PS3 (my new one is nice and shiny!) indicates my PS3 was not the source of the problem, and everyone can continue to play unafraid.
Played some Warhawk now just for my first time really and damn, seems pretty fun. Driving with motion control though is some hard shit.
Anyways tried to get in the Gaf game but it was password protected and I wasn't near a computer but yeah,
I'll start playing some and I have a mic so add me! PSN - Antpod
Anyways tried to get in the Gaf game but it was password protected and I wasn't near a computer but yeah,
I'll start playing some and I have a mic so add me! PSN - Antpod
I hate to be a bummer, I really do, but it's most likely not the cabling. Cables good enough for the LVDS signals in HDMI are so damn easy to make these days - plus they don't really degrade.Y2Kev said:Hey garickk. I'm sure it's not the PS3. I exchanged mine for a new one today and I still have the issue. Unfortunately, the TV and the PS3 are the only HDMI devices I have. The PS3 does actually give me an interesting hint with regards to the HDMI cable itself...when I used to select audio output, I could select HDMI and have it auto detect the settings I wanted. Now even with the cable plugged in it just reads "No HDMI device, turn it on, blah blah."
So I ordered a new cable and we're going to see what happens. I really, really hope the HDMI port on my TV has not failed, but I can't see why it would just fail all of a sudden after 8 months of normal, perfect usage. The cable was a 4 dollar cable I bought off monoprice. :\
My new PS3 having the same problem as my old PS3 (my new one is nice and shiny!) indicates my PS3 was not the source of the problem, and everyone can continue to play unafraid.
Reading reviews on AVS Forum and Newegg (for monitors and TVs), I have read of a few that had their HDMI/DVI inputs die on them. It must be the deserializers in them. Probably.
I hope it's your cable - I guess it very well could be. Does the cable you are using have an inductor (a big bulb on the line)? I don't think one is explicitly called for in the spec, and now that I think about it, it probably wouldn't help differential signaling much if at all. But basically, if you have even one twisted pair link in your cable that is slightly crappy and the signaling gets out of line with the others in its group, your cable could provide more skew than the deserializer in your TV could resolve. Maybe.
Do you have a DVI input on your TV? I bought an HDMI->DVI cable for $5 at monoprice. If your TV has an HDMI input, your DVI input probably supports HDCP.
We'll see. I'm pretty sure it is out of warranty. I can use component (like I am now). I just need to get a component switcher in that case. The third party component cables I'm currently using suck ass. There's this green line (looks like a copy machine :\) that goes up and down the TV slowly.
The TV says HDMI/DVI on the back.
The TV says HDMI/DVI on the back.
akachan ningen
Member
I hosted a game and I played 3 full 25 min games without freezing up, before I quit. I disabled everything, voice chat, split screen, team switching. I guess it helped, maybe.