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The Warhawk Beta Summer of Awesome (PS3)
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TheDarkKnight774
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So has the performance improved after the Maintence update?
Ragnarok10
Junior Member
When was the maintenance update?
TheDarkKnight774
Member
Ragnarok10 said:
well the prompts when i played it over the weekend said every monday. So i was hoping things were running better after yesterday
Ragnarok10 said:
Yesterday at like 7 - 10am. I have not noticed any improvements, personally. Same crashes and mic issues - but I expect those might be game code issues as opposed to network issues. So simple server maintenance is probably not going to totally fix them.
We need a new version.
i try to start my own games passworded in order to learn the hawk motion controls because you can do SO much with motion + pro controls, IMO. It does get a little tedious at times, but you have ultimate control. Its hard to really learn though without having other people that you are trying to take down. And if i turn them on in a regular game i get walloped.
I was on during the maintenance and wasnt kicked off, so i dont know if they ended it early, or they didnt do it because of Memorial Day.
I have played on a few GAF servers and there is way more communication in them then anything else. I am a big fan of TDM, CTF and zones. Havent played many all out DM's because i didnt find them as fun as the team games. I'll have to give it a try, espeically on the smaller maps.
On a side note, i got into one ranked game, and it crashed. So, oh well, the GAF games usually last a while.
PSN - LordFarquaad
I was on during the maintenance and wasnt kicked off, so i dont know if they ended it early, or they didnt do it because of Memorial Day.
I have played on a few GAF servers and there is way more communication in them then anything else. I am a big fan of TDM, CTF and zones. Havent played many all out DM's because i didnt find them as fun as the team games. I'll have to give it a try, espeically on the smaller maps.
On a side note, i got into one ranked game, and it crashed. So, oh well, the GAF games usually last a while.
PSN - LordFarquaad
Guys heres a link to a great podcast!
"Scott Rubin started G4 awhile ago and left after it went in a direction he didn't like after being picked up by cable. He has since started Allgames.com and has an almost daily web radio show. He has been slagging and dissing the PS3 for well over a year and a half, after becoming a 360 fanboy since its launch. Suddenly, he is totally flip-flopping after being seriously disappointed with the Halo 3 beta and falling in love with the Warhawk and Home beta."
Go to http://www.ps3forums.com/showthread.php?t=75323
the first post in the thread, second link is the podcast! Its long but they talk up Warhawk like crazy! they really lov it!
"Scott Rubin started G4 awhile ago and left after it went in a direction he didn't like after being picked up by cable. He has since started Allgames.com and has an almost daily web radio show. He has been slagging and dissing the PS3 for well over a year and a half, after becoming a 360 fanboy since its launch. Suddenly, he is totally flip-flopping after being seriously disappointed with the Halo 3 beta and falling in love with the Warhawk and Home beta."
Go to http://www.ps3forums.com/showthread.php?t=75323
the first post in the thread, second link is the podcast! Its long but they talk up Warhawk like crazy! they really lov it!
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
That Kotaku article is so true I played the damn thing all weekend and just got used to playing for about 10 minutes shutting my ps3 down turning it back on getting in a server getting disconnected finding another server playing for another 10 minutes freezing then repeat.
Game is too damn fun Its going to ruin my social life when they get it all fixed up.
Game is too damn fun Its going to ruin my social life when they get it all fixed up.
BruceLeeRoy said:
its amazing that a game that requires this much effort to play (constant freezing, hard time getting into servers, etc) that all of us that are on the beta are more then happy to go through it all over and over again to play the game. Like I said before, Sony has a definite winner on its hands here.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
gcubed said:
Quote of a quote but so true
AltogetherAndrews
Member
I give up. I'm quite used to the bugs that appear during beta testing, but there is a limit. I can't properly test something that freezes on me every 5 minutes.
My Arms Your Hearse
Banned
Jim said:
I have that same headest and it hasn't given me any problems so far.
As for missile lock... CHAFF, heh. I would love pro control if it would auto-center your screen after you let off the right stick... as is it is far too disorienting to me to have to recenter it myself and I just end up confused.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
I shot off a tank shot at a warhawk that was so far away all I could see was the triangle to denote where he was and somehow hit it... I was quite proud of myself luck or not
I expect there's a little bit of unfortunate timing with the Memorial Day weekend here - they probably don't have full staff to address the freezing issues.Jim said:
General question - Has there been any of the Incog devs poking their heads into the beta testing feedback forum?
sonycowboy
Member
Not sure if this has been confirmed yet, but the retail price seems to be set at $39.99 (likely for the Playstation store as well). I'm hoping for the rumored bundle with a bluetooth headset to be available for $59.99 (at most $69.99) and maybe some other collectible items (you know those cheesy "wings" they used to give to kids on their first flights or a die cast warhawk plane or some such thing).
AltogetherAndrews
Member
sonycowboy said:
Maybe the headset will have wings on it?
My Arms Your Hearse said:
I'm pretty good at switching to the chaff right before I get hit, but when they have a full lock of several missiles (a cluster from one player, or say 1 or 2 from 2 different players), it doesn't seem to get them all off your tail.
My headset never gave me probs before, so I'm hoping it'll clear up. I haven't been able to really test it within a good team-based mode yet though, so it could have been the games.
Dr. Zoidberg
Member
sonycowboy said:
That's going to be a tough sell on PSN. I know it's the same game but there is a perceived difference between a boxed product and a downloadable one, and it's going to take a while to change that. They'd be smart to give a small price break for the DL version, otherwise everyone will just buy the retail package.
Ragnarok10
Junior Member
I see the PSN version coming in at least $10 cheaper than the box version due to the missing headset.Dr. Zoidberg said:
You don't have to log out. Hit 'O' once to go to the top level of the Server selection window and hit the 'Refresh' button. You can see the servers refresh in front of you. If you have hit 'X' once already and are in "server selection mode" it won't refresh. Just back out with one 'O'.JB1981 said:
I've been having a lot more freezing issues than I did in the beginning. I'm waiting until Thursday to try again. I don't really expect them to make any tweaks/updates more often than once a week.
It's pretty cool in a full game to rocket up vertically beyond the cloud-plane with your afterburners, and then stall, float back down, and observe the 20-30 people below you swarming around as tiny little triangles.. 
It's also a fairly effective escape from missile lock if you've no other options, I guess..
Also, something else I only noticed a distance..warhawk explosions sometimes, at least, seem to emit a pretty cool shockwave..you can see a circular distortion expand out from the explosion, which I hadn't noticed before.
It's also a fairly effective escape from missile lock if you've no other options, I guess..Also, something else I only noticed a distance..warhawk explosions sometimes, at least, seem to emit a pretty cool shockwave..you can see a circular distortion expand out from the explosion, which I hadn't noticed before.
Does anyone feel like the "stall ceiling" for flying is set a little low? It only takes a few seconds of afterburners to hit that ceiling from ground level and it really doesn't seem to be that high above everything when you do look back down. I've gotten stall warnings when trying to pull loops in the midst of dogfights at normal altitudes.
I guess they want the action to be kept within a reasonable area..if you could go way high without stalling, people would be more spread out = less intensity. It's funny though, cos if you do go off into the distance a bit, I've found you can often see people swarming together fairly naturally.
AltogetherAndrews
Member
kaching said:
Yes. Although I think the scale of the maps is weird in general. Too large for ground combat and too constricted for any serious dogfighting.
Imperial Hot
Banned
I don't mean to hijack the thread, but All Games is a very, very good podcast. It is my absolute favorite. Very funny, very informative.Oni Jazar said:
It is definitely worth your time.
Exactly - I'd prefer to rely on the gamer's desire to go to the action (you'd think) than regulate that response. A slider could be implemented here that could leave it in the host's hands to decide how high they want the stall ceiling to be in their sessions, obviously with the ability to go significantly higher than what is currently offered as the default.gofreak said:
I think ground combat is better served, personally. Jeeps and Warhawks can get 2-3 players to any destinations fast enough if you want to engage in ground combatAltogetherAndrews said:
and you've got at least a couple of the environments that are based on smaller non-contiguous islands of land like archipelago and the city in the clouds so you can get more close-quarters firefights if you want.
For flight, total breadth/width of the maps isn't bad at their largest, but altitude ceiling is constrictive.
Talk to Dylan Jobe then, director of the game, because he says otherwise.tha_con said:
The beta represents almost the entirety of the final product anyway, so working on the beta is probably directly applicable to working on the final product, for the most part.
AltogetherAndrews
Member
kaching said:
I don't understand the need for constant intensity anyway. Sometimes you just want to loop around a bit in between dogfights (or being shot down by AA fire), and adding some altitude and greater scope in general would help give people a choice.
AltogetherAndrews
Member
Besides, if they were to produce fixes to the game, it'd be dumb to waste an opportunity to field test the fix.
Graphically, my favorite part of this game is a good Warhawk explosion. The way it streaks out like an umbrella can be beautiful.
When you're camping a Zone protecting a flag and a Warhawk explodes above you, it can form a perfect canopy of flaming debris that scatters down around you. Very nice.
When you're camping a Zone protecting a flag and a Warhawk explodes above you, it can form a perfect canopy of flaming debris that scatters down around you. Very nice.
I think my favorite aspect, graphically, is when you're on foot running, and all of the sudden tons of warhawk debris comes crashing down around you. That is freaking awesome.
Kaching - So it was more a possibility for a patch, rather than him saying it would be patched? I'm just skeptical, that's all. I really don't think they'll put out an updated beta, but honestly, I prey they do, as it would only make me freaking play it for an unimaginable amount of hours.
Kaching - So it was more a possibility for a patch, rather than him saying it would be patched? I'm just skeptical, that's all. I really don't think they'll put out an updated beta, but honestly, I prey they do, as it would only make me freaking play it for an unimaginable amount of hours.
I'm starting to believe this game is a pretty half-assed attempt at making a multiplayer game. For one, the ground combat is a complete disaster. It's floaty. The auto-aim is too high. The characters bop around the map. I mean, really, who thought that was a good decision? Who thought having the characters float on the ground like this was a good idea? The turrets on jeeps and elsehwhere are impossible to aim. The rifle is a complete, ineffective waste. The Sniper shoots planes out of the sky too easily. The AA emplacements are competely overpowered.
The Warhawks feel good in the sky but it's actually easier to kill a foot soldier by getting OUT of the Warhawk and shooting him with your pistol. Despite all this, the game still has its moments of fun (that keeps me coming back). I am of two minds about the whole affair. Personally, I think Icognito should go back to the drawing board for at least half of the game. It is not a well though-out project, by any stretch of the imagination.
The Warhawks feel good in the sky but it's actually easier to kill a foot soldier by getting OUT of the Warhawk and shooting him with your pistol. Despite all this, the game still has its moments of fun (that keeps me coming back). I am of two minds about the whole affair. Personally, I think Icognito should go back to the drawing board for at least half of the game. It is not a well though-out project, by any stretch of the imagination.
JB1981 said:
Speak for yourself... crashing and balance issues aside, it's the most fun I've had with a console multiplayer game since SOCOM 2. If they can iron out most of the obvious problems (the primary purpose of this beta test), the end result should be killer.
What are you comparing Warhawk to that's not Battlefield?
backbreaker65
Banned
JB1981 said:
I think you're way past "starting.
As opposed to "seriously doubting" they would consider patching at all? Yes.tha_con said:
Watch the interview, skip to about 3:20 in the vid. He talks about the beta period being somewhat open-ended, wanting beta testers to really get a chance to dig into the game, submit a breadth of feedback and get a chance to see the game evolve based on their feedback as a result of 1 or 2 patches.