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The Warhawk Beta Summer of Awesome (PS3)

Everyone answer this question or face the consequences:

How many servers do you usually get in the server list?

I get about 50.

By the way, just wanted to say Im playing a DM planes-only server with 26 people right now and this is some of the most fun ive had in a LONG time with a console game online. It's ****in awesome
 
I dont know about this all-planes shit. I hit someone with 4 missiles they keep flying. I have full health and suddenly I blow up..and not from an air mine. This is kind of not-straight.
 
I just put up a dedicated ranked server in the New York area. It'll stay up all night if anyone want's it. It's called "NeoGAF.East"

To answer your question, I usually get a list of a ton of servers. However all but 4 of them usually have 9999 as the ping so I don't exactly have much to choose from. I'd have thought there would be more activity around a major metropolitain city. But, oh well. Summer of awesome, indeed! :)
 
I don't know about the rest of you but I am getting just as many freezes as I did before the patch. Longest I played tonight was one match....and Safe Bet stomped the ever loving **** out of me.....oh well, gotta love it.
 
AVclub said:
I just put up a dedicated ranked server in the New York area. It'll stay up all night if anyone want's it. It's called "NeoGAF.East"

To answer your question, I usually get a list of a ton of servers. However all but 4 of them usually have 9999 as the ping so I don't exactly have much to choose from. I'd have thought there would be more activity around a major metropolitain city. But, oh well. Summer of awesome, indeed! :)
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The ping system is broken in the server select screen. Join a game with a 9999 ping and press start in game to see your real ping.
 
AltogetherAndrews said:
Tossed up another ranked server, poison_zones. Eucadia and Badlands Zones games, if anyone is interested.
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Trying to join but it's saying I cannot :(

BTW, they screwed up motion control. They made it so if you enable it, you have to drive tanks and jeeps with it too... :( WTF
 
KTallguy said:
Trying to join but it's saying I cannot :(

BTW, they screwed up motion control. They made it so if you enable it, you have to drive tanks and jeeps with it too... :( WTF
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Wasn't it always like that? In fact I think it was one of the major complaints at the beta boards.
 
Jobe posted this at the beta boards.

Dylan Jobe said:
BETA Testers,

The team and I have been reading the forums today and reviewing the feedback regarding our "improved" stability. Some of you reported it was better, some the same, some even reported that it was worse -- although I find that hard to believe :-P

We would like to ask all of you to take a quick second and reply to this thread with a simple one word answer; Better, Same, Worse. Please keep it to just 1 word so the team and I can sort it efficiently.

Much appreciated!

As I've mentioned previously, we prepared this patch file for submission quite some time ago. I informed you all that this patch should yield improved stability -- but warned you all that it was *not* free of bugs or even crashes. We are very, very interested in getting "real" feedback from the thousands of testers that we have currently in the BETA -- feedback from real players is worth its weight in Gold!

Since we submitted this patch a week-or-so ago, we have made additional fixes including a big fix to the low-level 'root-cause' of many of our SPU crashes. These recent fixes have been tested and validated by our great QA staff in San Diego as well. Rest assured that while this BETA may still have some bugs, the release product is very solid! Our QA and FORMAT teams simply will not allow a game to be mastered if there are big issues.

BTW: Gergination is a real player and a tester here at Incognito, his stats are real and he doesn't use cheats -- he is disturbingly good and his 14 KDR is accurate. I'll start another thread about him so you all can comment :-)

BTW-2: It looks like we are going to extend the BETA for all of you. How long? When will we officially announce the extension?....I'll post something "Soon"!

*dylan nods to Reddsk*
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:D :D :D
 
Killthee said:
Wasn't it always like that? In fact I think it was one of the major complaints at the beta boards.
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I was always flying warhawks with motion and driving tanks with stick before, now it's all awkward :(

BTW fun times sirchooode :lol we kept killing one another.
 
Killthee said:
Jobe posted this at the beta boards.



:D :D :D
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Sweet!

Question: In order to get the badges, say "Warhawk Recruiting," which requires 4 min in a Warhawk with 1 troop kill, 1 vehicle kill, and 5 bonus points; do all these criteria need to be met in a single game?
 
Ragnarok10 said:
Sweet!

Question: In order to get the badges, say "Warhawk Recruiting," which requires 4 min in a Warhawk with 1 troop kill, 1 vehicle kill, and 5 bonus points; do all these criteria need to be met in a single game?
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yes, but bonus points is how many you get for getting the badge.
 
One thing that should be mentioned about Warhawk is the general performance. Aside from the issues with freezes, the game is a smooth ride. The maps are huge, scalable and well detailed, hold a large amount of players which subsequently results in a shitload of effects going off everywhere, and it still runs at a very steady clip. That's pretty awesome.
 
Killthee said:
Jobe posted this at the beta boards.



:D :D :D
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14 KDR? THAT'S UNPOSSIBLE!!!
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AltogetherAndrews said:
One thing that should be mentioned about Warhawk is the general performance. Aside from the issues with freezes, the game is a smooth ride. The maps are huge, scalable and well detailed, hold a large amount of players which subsequently results in a shitload of effects going off everywhere, and it still runs at a very steady clip. That's pretty awesome.
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Not only that but you can see explosions occurring on one end of the map from all the way on the other end. Nothing pops in and out. You can see EVERYTHING all the time.
 
Goldrusher said:
Driving the jeeps with motion sensing is pretty fun. Works very well too.
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Me no likey. I see no option to use sticks for jeeps/tanks while retaining motion control for the Warhawks... I hope that gets fixed back the way it was (for me)...
 
It's nice that they're extending the beta for us (hopefully they'll continue patching the beta!) but I hope this doesn't delay the game. I can't wait to play the real thing with everyone else.
 
Ragnarok10 said:
Not only that but you can see explosions occurring on one end of the map from all the way on the other end. Nothing pops in and out. You can see EVERYTHING all the time.
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this is what i've noticed and been most impressed with. even in some of the hottest PC games, LOD plays a huge part. snipers are usually looking at a less detailed world when they look through their scope. in this game, the detail seen from afar is unreal.
 
dfyb said:
this is what i've noticed and been most impressed with. even in some of the hottest PC games, LOD plays a huge part. snipers are usually looking at a less detailed world when they look through their scope. in this game, the detail seen from afar is unreal.
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It definitely can change from zoom level 1 to zoom level 2 though... stuff can "pop in" in zoom level 2 that clearly wasn't there in zoom level 1. I'm just sayin'... that's what I... uhh... heard. *fears Sony ninjas*
 
AltogetherAndrews said:
One thing that should be mentioned about Warhawk is the general performance. Aside from the issues with freezes, the game is a smooth ride. The maps are huge, scalable and well detailed, hold a large amount of players which subsequently results in a shitload of effects going off everywhere, and it still runs at a very steady clip. That's pretty awesome.
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QFT, i think it was in this thread someone said the framerate was crappy, and that just blew my mind. I havnt noticed a single framerate drop, and i have been in some pretty hectic battles.

Oh and **** YES to the beta extension.
 
captive said:
QFT, i think it was in this thread someone said the framerate was crappy, and that just blew my mind. I havnt noticed a single framerate drop, and i have been in some pretty hectic battles.
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Was it the same dude who made a long ass post bitching about, among other things, how ugly the game was, and how unplayable it was? The more I play the game, the more I think he was full of shit all along. The tech powering this game is second to none.
 
Made a server called NeoGAF-vs-1UP. I know alot of 1UP people/editors frequent GAF, we're officially calling you out!

Jump in. Password is the usual one (PM me for it if you can't figure it out) i can only hold 12 in my server, so join quick!

:)
 
TONX said:
Made a server called NeoGAF-vs-1UP. I know alot of 1UP people/editors frequent GAF, we're officially calling you out!

Jump in. Password is the usual one (PM me for it if you can't figure it out) i can only hold 12 in my server, so join quick!

:)
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Bloody Marcel is coming in right now
 
spwolf said:
it has been rock solid for me after patch, good work
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I've had two freezes since the patch but that's alot better than it was before.

Also...

The handgun/rifle aiming mechanics need alot of work.

When auto-aim moves the cursor across the screen for you, its too much.
 
No freezes since the patch, and I've leveled up like a mofo since they reworked the ranks. I'm at Wing Master or something now and spent some time customizing my character and Hawk. There are some damn neat skins and paintjobs already available, wonder what they could have for the elite levels. :)

The ribbons and medals are really cool and some of them are pretty clever and unique (the Team Play one struck me as kinda neat) but does anyone think with ranks and medals and ribbons it's maybe too much? At least there will be plenty of achievements to strive for for months on end, some of them make the insanely hard R:FoM medals look pretty normal.
 
Anyone with a high rank want to add me? They've discovered some glitch where if you view a friends stat sheet while they're in game you'll randomly rank up and unlock the customization options.

It's not that I'm incapable of ranking up myself, it's just I never have the time... and when I DO find the time the ranked matches are either full or not the gametype I want to play.

I just want to see some of the crazy customization stuff before the beta ends. :D

PSN ID = DeadCell_
 
Hah no wonder I ranked up 4 ranks ahead. When I went to change from a red skin on my warhawk it took away the skins that were glitched to me due to the glitch rank. Then I went back to lobby and was told "Congratulations you're now a Airman". So I got knocked back down to where I was supposed to be. Then I went to the clan page to see what rank the [GAF] people were and when I exited I was back to Wing Commander.
 
DeadCell said:
Anyone with a high rank want to add me? They've discovered some glitch where if you view a friends stat sheet while they're in game you'll randomly rank up and unlock the customization options.

It's not that I'm incapable of ranking up myself, it's just I never have the time... and when I DO find the time the ranked matches are either full or not the gametype I want to play.

I just want to see some of the crazy customization stuff before the beta ends. :D

PSN ID = DeadCell_
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I didn't even have to view a buddy profile; I just went to view my profile and it bumped me up to wing commander.
 
Weird.

I joined a game with less than a minute left, got one kill, yet finished with 10 kills and 16 deaths.

Anyone want to explain that one? :|
 
DeadCell said:
Weird.

I joined a game with less than a minute left, got one kill, yet finished with 10 kills and 16 deaths.

Anyone want to explain that one? :|
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:lol I went into a CTF game last night and started off with 44 points.
 
So what is with the new onscreen icons that appear above players locations in addition to their name? I didn't see any specific talk about this on the beta board. They're kind of annoying.
 
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