Warhawk Omegathread

[dk3dknight]

Originally Posted by Pelican170

I dont think you can. Question for you, why would you not play ranked games? they are the only ones that I will play because I want to keep upping in rank and get more customization stuff...

Eh ive hit a certain rank that im happy, I have what I wanted in prestige if you will now from time to time I jump in but really I usually play with friends alone.. where we just fart around, sometimes I play by myself acting out stories or building situations for humorous purposes or just to fart around.

Oh and BY GOLLY SO I CAN TURN THAT DAMN FRIENDLY FIRE OFF...
Ive been ran over by team members since the old beta, some actually
purposely coming after me for reasons that escape me, then they start
team killing other members...

[Pelican170]

Originally Posted by dk3dknight

Eh ive hit a certain rank that im happy, I have what I wanted in prestige if you will now from time to time I jump in but really I usually play with friends alone.. where we just fart around, sometimes I play by myself acting out stories or building situations for humorous purposes or just to fart around.

Oh and BY GOLLY SO I CAN TURN THAT DAMN FRIENDLY FIRE OFF...
Ive been ran over by team members since the old beta, some actually
purposely coming after me for reasons that escape me, then they start
team killing other members...

OH god, id be sooo annoyed

[dk3dknight]

Originally Posted by Pelican170

OH god, id be sooo annoyed

Im guessing after war grief, I one of the beta testers that got my name
on one of those ads,



Heres the blog post if you think im lying...

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2007/...k-public-beta/

Look under the section for top forum talkers ROFL its the second section... thats a odd way to get yourself in I know kinda sad they cut my name off.

Or perhaps they stepped on one too many of my mines... In the beta I think
I was a better player then I am now.

[Pelican170]

Originally Posted by dk3dknight

Im guessing after war grief, I one of the beta testers that got my name
on one of those ads,



Heres the blog post if you think im lying...

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2007/...k-public-beta/

Look under the section for top forum talkers ROFL its the second section... thats a odd way to get yourself in I know kinda sad they cut my name off.

Or perhaps they stepped on one too many of my mines... In the beta I think
I was a better player then I am now.

Thats pretty cool. you must be nasty at that game

[Colorado Blu Skies]

Originally Posted by CYMBOL

Hey Todd! How's it going? Still deployed here. If you do see me on, it's probably just my kid or wife watching a movie. Glad to hear the F-15 crew is still around. I try and check out the board when I can and write a few words to let everyone know I'm still around.

Also, for all my PSN buddies, I'm glad to report my wife delivered our baby yesterday (I was overseas, but got to phone in - there is no smiley for that one). She and the baby are doing fine.

Hope everyone is still around when I return (late May) for a game of Warhawk - or, we could just call it, "Everybody take turns owning the poor sucker who hasn't played in over 120 days!" I'm scared to log on.

Take it easy, all.

Congrats on the new arrival!!! Glad to hear everything is going well for the wife and baby.

[dk3dknight]

Originally Posted by Pelican170

Thats pretty cool. you must be nasty at that game

Was but I am not longer as good as I use to be.. I was the King of prox mines but no longer...

I have to train myself again... Plays eye of the tiger..

montage continues to play..

[ps3andlovinit]

Originally Posted by Pelican170

Only unranked rooms though right for split screen online?

Yes.

[ps3andlovinit]

Originally Posted by Pelican170

Its online multiplayer only.

Small correction. It has an off-line LAN mode if you have the blu-ray version.

[Shin-Ra]

..Or the downloadable version. But you can't pass it round like the BD version.

[Shin-Ra]

+ Posted by Dylan Jobe // Game Director, Warhawk

Operation: Broken Mirror has gone “gold” and will be available in the Playstation Store on April, 17th for $7.99 !!

To celebrate the release of our second Booster-Pack, our fine friends on the Playstation Store team have agreed to run a limited-time sale on Warhawk for just $29.99. This is a crazy-good deal and I can’t wait to get an influx of new players — But a warning to all you hardcore Warhawk players…please be gentle!!!

Ok…to kick things off, scope the video below – it’s the trailer for our second booster-pack, Operation: Broken Mirror!

Watch Trailer

Granted, you probably just watched the video but in case you didn’t, here’s a quick summary of what Operation Broken Mirror includes:

• 10 layouts on a brand new winter battlefield, Vaporfield Glacier.
• 2 new Armored Personnel Carriers (Chernovan and Eucadian styles).
• 10 bonus layouts for battlefields from the original game so that you can play with the APCs.

First let me write a bit about the new battlefield.

So yes, finally it’s a snow level…something that everyone has been asking for. And no…our next expansion will not feature a lava-level !!

It does feature dynamic weather so in some screenshots you will see the sun is shining, there are shadows and very little, if any snow falling. In others, you may notice that the weather conditions have changed. When the sun is behind the clouds, the snow is stronger, whipping back and forth, the shadows flatten and the lighting becomes more diffuse. And yes… the weather state is synchronized across the network.

Vaporfield Glacier is a vast, windswept valley filled with huge chunks of glacial ice, raised highways, deep chasms, with military bases and research facilities scattered around the frigid landscape. At the heart of the battlefield lies Olsavik Village, a small abandoned town whose people have long since left their homes after years of bloody conflict in the Eucadian War.

~burrr~

“I’m so cold….so very, very cold…”

While our last booster pack, Operation: Omega Dawn sold really well (thanks to all of you) and was received very positively, some players on the Warhawk forums did voice a concern that the Omega Factory battlefield was too large!! Something that I must admit I was surprised to hear but nevertheless, it came from our player community so we took it very seriously.

So…we took a different approach with Vaporfield Glacier. The naked battlefield is in-fact larger that Omega Dawn. However, we decided to include twice as many layouts so that we could provide players with more variety in small and medium maps. We also included something else that our community has been requesting for quite sometime — asymmetrical layouts.

So like I was saying, Vaporfield Glacier battlefield is large but it’s carved-up into a bunch of smaller layouts that would provide players with a lot of layout variation. Here are the layouts that you’ll get with Operation: Broken Mirror:

We’re really happy with the way these layouts play and hope all of you enjoy them as well. I was also really glad that SONY was cool with us doubling the number of layouts without increasing the price.

As you know from our previous Booster-Pack we like to “retro-fit” the new vehicles into the core battlefields to keep things fresh. In Operation: Omega Dawn, we included the Dropship into each of the big layouts from the 5 original core battlefields as “bonus” layouts.

Well…this time around, we really wanted to increase the number of bonus layouts because the APCs play really well on both large and medium layouts. So I’m happy to say that Operation: Broken Mirror includes not 5 but 10 bonus layouts that feature the APCs.

Now…on to the APCs. And they are jam-packed with Yummy Gameplay Goodness! I should trademark that so that I can say something like “our new booster features YGG technology!”

…but I digress.

APCs – They have a ton of features so here’s a quick YGG summary:

• APCs support a driver and 6 other troops in “pop-up” hatches that allow troops to use their own weapons, making the APC like a customizable weapons platform.
• APCs act as mobile spawn points for your team so you can setup field bases, help coordinate ground assaults, and spawn directly into them as another player is driving them around.
• When you spawn into an APC, your troop is rewarded with an additional weapon based on an internal loot-table.
• APCs can activate a huge shield by placing an E-POD.
• APCs have a boost ability that not only allows them to traverse distances more quickly, but it also acts as a ram-attack that obliterates other vehicles (except the tank because of its super-heavy armor).

I’m probably gonna have to respond to a lot of comments and questions from this post so that you can get some specific answers. So let ‘em rip!

Oh, and because I know someone is going to ask me…”why is this booster pack called Broken Mirror?”

Well… and maybe this gives too much exposure into how my mind works (or doesn’t work I guess), I found the fracture patterns of broken glass very similar to the crystalline structures of ice and snow — So there…”Broken Mirror”

0052 - 006F - 0063 - 006B - 004F - 006E - 0021

[ps3andlovinit]

Originally Posted by Shin-Ra

..Or the downloadable version. But you can't pass it round like the BD version.

Ah I see. A small correction to my small correction. Thanks.

So your saying as long as a second machine was activated/purchased with a different account (ie. buddy brings his machine over) your also good to go for LAN play on multiple machines with the download version. As I understood it the same account can't play on different consoles within 24 hours using the download version. Given our usage scenario that's what threw me off..

In our scenario of multiple machines at home and all using the same master account for purchases etc .. then we need the disc for LAN play .. or would have needed to setup different accounts for purchasing to avoid the 24 hour rule .. yuck.

Yes?

DRM sucks. Physical media rules becuase I don't have to create a spreadsheet to track my rights.

[bilbravo]

Just an FYI, if anyone is interested in the game and doesn't need a disc, now is a good time to buy from PSN. It's only $29.99 for the next few weeks.

[brett_day]

operation broken mirror has just been confirmed with a april 17th release date and it will be $8

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/03/28/wa...s-in-april-17/

[Copywriter]

Originally Posted by dk3dknight

Oh and BY GOLLY SO I CAN TURN THAT DAMN FRIENDLY FIRE OFF...

Ranked games don't allow friendly fire to hurt you anymore.

Kind of sucks as I liked the realism, but I hate playing with retards who just start mashing buttons when they see an enemy.

And getting TKed, because you have the flag sucked. But at least you could get the person back.

One thing I've seen now is a couple people who got the flag after the carrier died and didn't cap. They'd sit there or jump off a cliff or run the flag back. And since you can't TK (very hard now), you're out of luck. But, that happened maybe .003% of the time, so no big deal.

[dk3dknight]

Originally Posted by Copywriter

Ranked games don't allow friendly fire to hurt you anymore.

Kind of sucks as I liked the realism, but I hate playing with retards who just start mashing buttons when they see an enemy.

And getting TKed, because you have the flag sucked. But at least you could get the person back.

One thing I've seen now is a couple people who got the flag after the carrier died and didn't cap. They'd sit there or jump off a cliff or run the flag back. And since you can't TK (very hard now), you're out of luck. But, that happened maybe .003% of the time, so no big deal.

Really, Dylan promised us beta testers in Warhawk that friendly fire on ranked servers was not going to be a permanent thing I thought he had forgotten.

OH **** I broke the warhawk beta nda

[vektar]

So many post today thats awesome to see people still talking aobut the game, its been kinda dead in here for awhile.

[Colorado Blu Skies]

I like the fact that this new map is going to have a bunch of smaller maps...

Friendly fire cannot be turned off on player ranked games though which sucks, but I do not hesitate to kick or ban somebody... especially if the individual is blatantly doing it.

I am going to play for a while tonight so please feel free to join my player ranked server... especially since I need 8 people to make it count

[vektar]

Originally Posted by Colorado Blu Skies

I like the fact that this new map is going to have a bunch of smaller maps...

Friendly fire cannot be turned off on player ranked games though which sucks, but I do not hesitate to kick or ban somebody... especially if the individual is blatantly doing it.

I am going to play for a while tonight so please feel free to join my player ranked server... especially since I need 8 people to make it count

I owned on that last game we played a few days ago, its hard being as good as me.

[dk3dknight]

Originally Posted by Colorado Blu Skies

I like the fact that this new map is going to have a bunch of smaller maps...

Friendly fire cannot be turned off on player ranked games though which sucks, but I do not hesitate to kick or ban somebody... especially if the individual is blatantly doing it.

I am going to play for a while tonight so please feel free to join my player ranked server... especially since I need 8 people to make it count

But the other guy just said different im so confused all right tonight ill have to find out for sure when I get home.

[Colorado Blu Skies]

Originally Posted by dk3dknight

But the other guy just said different im so confused all right tonight ill have to find out for sure when I get home.

The official Sony servers (Blue ones) have friendly fire off... When I create a ranked game it will not allow me to turn it off.