Warhawk Impressions?

[Po]

This game comes out later this month on Bluray for $60 and as a download on the PSN for $40. I am wondering if anyone here was a part of the beta, and I am just looking for impressions for just how fun this is?

I have heard lots of journalists speak about it and say it is a blast, but I wanted to hear from some fellow BG'ers

Btw, here is a pretty good Q&A with the game director:
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2007/08/ ... /#more-173

[Torn]

I didn't play in the beta, but I really want to get this game, it looks great, anyway there are a few good youtube videos of the beta despite the quality, both of these are previews from people in the beta.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=cB2_SnAjhLk

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pGt7dJ3tvzY starts kinda bad >_> but its a good preview.

There are also alot of vids up there just search warhawk, warhawk beta ect ect <_<

but anyway yeah, it looks great and yesterday, in a IGN playstation podcast they mentioned that they have upgraded the graphics from the beta build pretty well.

edit: actually first link sucks kinda XD
and
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0otycbfVp...elated&search=

[Kazen]

I cant wait for this game, we should make a forum clan on that game for a team

[Torn]

Clans will support up to 64 players, and there is more but i forgot what i was going to say

[Kazen]

Team BG Goooooooooo

[Mysterio]

Rainbowsax was in the beta,

A few things in regards to Warhawk:

1) It's a first party title, so it's had lots of money spent on it to create a quality product.

2) It's gonna have great server support, similar to Motorstorm. So the lag will be minimal and the environments are fucking huge, and extremely detailed. Also up to 32 players in the game, battling on foot, vehicle, and in the skies.

3) It's Sony's first big Multiplayer only title, they don't plan on fucking it up. From the looks of it, it supports up to 4 player offline as well?

4) Comes with a pretty good Blue-Ray headset. If you don't have a headset yet for your PS3, the retail version of this should get serious consideration.

[Kazen]

Well the headset seems to be a good deal, the game is $40.00, but the headset package is $59.99. When I looked online for that exact headset I found prices ranging from 26.99-34.99.

[Mysterio]

Well the headset seems to be a good deal, the game is $40.00, but the headset package is $59.99. When I looked online for that exact headset I found prices ranging from 26.99-34.99.

Yeah I saw them for 30 bucks as well.

I'm probably gonna wait a week after Warhawk comes out, just to read online reviews.

Also doing this with Lair, to see if they change the SIXAXIS control or not, lol

[Po]

Sounds great. This + Sigma + Ratchet might sell me on the good ol' 499.

If I get it I am definitely down for BG clan.

[Kazen]

Yeah I'd like to make a BG clan, and the 26.99 one I saw was at amazon.com, but the retail is 30-35. I really think Warhawk will be a system seller, it looks amazing and it has no monthly fees.

[GraveRobberX]

1st day buy for me

R:FOM is a good mulltiplayer game, but I sure can use a break from it

Heavenly Sword/Lair = my next 2 buys after Warhawk

My wallet = obsolete soon =/

[Rainbowsax]

As Mysterio said, I was in the beta.

here's an old picture of the game at the start up screen if anyone cares lol.
http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/1156/dsc0044oe9.jpg

Pretty much he summed up the game. If you are in need of a headset, I'd recommend buying it at the store. It's a great deal for value if you wanted the game already and are in need of the headset. The Jabra BT125 headset works great with the PS3 as well, good battery time and barely any problems pairing up.

When I played the Beta, it was very fun and fast paced. It was a very limited beta, as in no customization of character or the Warhawk itself. In the small time I played the beta, they took care of a lot of the issues. Things like locking up your PS3, or just some minor glitches they fixed. They only ran a few dedicated servers at the time so I did have some problems finding a decent 10+ player game. I'd end up just connecting to a small match, I can't even imagine a 20+ player game, that'd be insane.

As of gameplay, it was pretty solid. There were maybe some balance issues, but in hindsight, certain things deserved it's power. For example the Turrets. They could take down a Warhawk after maybe 4-5 good shots, but of course they can't move. Warhawks obviously have the speed, but like I said they can be vulnerable. Other Vehicles like the Tank or the Truck was fun to play around with too. Even on foot, it felt fun to play. You can snipe, have an AK47 or even have a small pistol map... or sneak up and stab a guy.

The Warhawks had great control. The Left analog stick was of course your movement, the right analog stick was your maneuvers (DO A BARREL ROLL!, flips and a 180 type turn). R2 to speed up, L2 to brake. There is also a Hover mode where you pretty much can go up and down, left & right if you wanted to take out a tower or something. After maybe 10-15 minutes playing with a Warhawk, you get the controls easily.

The Maps were nicely done. Small maps to large ones. The different game types with certain maps worked well too.

All I can remember is it is a 720p game. I don't know if they up'ed the resolution to support 1080p, but I remember the beta as 720p max.

It will be a blast to play. My only concern is the open mic in games. Most likely you can mute the annoying suckers, but I mean still... trying to set up your team might be complicated when some dickweed starts singing some gay shit (it happened in the beta). Also, I don't know what will happen once Socom Confrontation releases. Will everyone just flock to that? I'm assuming they will since most PS2/PSP owners are familiar with the series.

Anyways, that was my impression from the beta.
Oh and someone posted this here before, but yeah I'm pretty sure Sony is ready with the dedicated servers.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1291/...966618.jpg?v=0

[Mysterio]

Reading on the Q&A,

There is 4 player split screen online, as well as up to 4 player split screen offline.

They also fixed the open mic scenario, I read that in some other warhawk blog post. You have to press a button on the pad in order to transmit voice, the circle button I think.

It should have stellar latency, looking forward to that after playing the Ubisoft excretions.

[Kazen]

Yeah I heard they fixed the open mic after the beta ended because of complaints about it.

[Rainbowsax]

Only thing that's sad, is no single player. I know Multiplayer was the focus no matter what, but it would have been nice.

[Kazen]

I have a feeling it wont matter, this game is going to be huge.

[Mysterio]

Sounds great. This + Sigma + Ratchet might sell me on the good ol' 499.

If I get it I am definitely down for BG clan.

You could get Sigma for about 30 bucks on ebay, lots of games for 30 bucks or less on there.

I can't find any used PS3 games in the EBGames in my city, that are more than 5 bucks off retail

Only thing that's sad, is no single player. I know Multiplayer was the focus no matter what, but it would have been nice.

With no single player they could forego an epic story and focus on gameplay. Looks to be good.

[GraveRobberX]

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2007/08/14/warhawk-faq/

For people thinking about Warhawk

In an effort to try and answer as many questions as I can about Warhawk, I’ve compiled this Q&A. Fair warning, it’s very long, but I know a lot of you guys have questions, so I hope this helps!

QUESTION: Is the headset a limited time kinda thing?
ANSWER: Not to my knowledge…it’s something that we feel adds a lot of value to the retail version of the game. But to be honest, this is a Marketing decision and at the end of the day it will depend on things like the contract with Jabra, Sales, etc. You know, Marketing stuff.

QUESTION: Who are the top 100 BETA testers?
ANSWER: Ok…you ready for this? Click, CastleKingSide, Catalytic, Gergination, Aeaas, Merovee, II6FUII-wHaM, Filth_Flannigan, PlayerBeyond, SolidC213, DBWsGreatOne, Taisch, Hakoom, ROYA, ph8al, WillKills_M, tonythetiger1, theONE73, Coryphaeus, XxGRAND-CHAMPxX, Riz09, Canez, Flankhim, ninerfanj343, Jags71, DVSone, IComeInPeace, DRAKE_CHAMBERS, BudLeeOne, Enebreated, csMadMan, RickTheRipper, NoVaPH1R3, G-Man420, Liquided, ArtemisBane, dude23, Kremar, ucigasu, switchitup813, Dangerman, GnuUzir, Laeq, Simi, Hand_Banana, Wunsock, Dubbinenglish, K-X, Yixian1, IRP-OBMAS, inxshambles, Fupa, Pazonal, ethan893, FrozoneUSMC, Pnoiflipnation, DarkArcani, Ace_Martian, Solidsnakejej, RockStarAe, Stiles2417, AbaraiRenji, FayroeFox, AfoBanjo, Slevin_Kelevra, Kman1086, Requiem911, EZCheez, Bulletproof92, Air-Reez, jhop22, Wyji, Cooter203, oneofthosedays, IIHoTsHoTII, Snoits, Laughed, KingZ777, kylegtheassman, TRUEWON415, Takiwara, musashi2036, boondock_saint88, Draicus, TicTak, Riffraff, gunhoo, FT-Cheddar, danthecrazyman, TheWolface, Dman2000000, PriViTePyLe, sonofa2
QUESTION: Does the game have Split-Screen Online?
ANSWER: Yes – 2, 3 and 4 way online and off-line. We also provide a server option that admins can set that controls whether or not players can be connected via split screen and yet another server admin option that controls whether or not split-screen players can be on opposing teams. If you are hosting a competitive game or clan match or something, you may want to make sure that your players aren’t “screen-hunting”. And yes, these options are available if you host your own player, dedicated or ranked dedicated server.
QUESTION: Can multiple PSN accounts be logged-in at the same time during split-screen gameplay?
ANSWER: No…When you engage split-screen, the Warhawk real-time creates a temporary guest account and adds a little circle with a number inside it for which player you are. For example, if you jumped in on my PS3 for split screen action, I’d be “TheGoatAss” and you would be “(2)TheGoatAss.”

QUESTION: Will there be future downloadable content in the future?
ANSWER: The technology behind Warhawk was designed from the ground up with expandability in mind – very “data-drive” for those uber-tech enthusiasts. We have nothing to announce right now but rest assured that if the player-community wants new content, we’ll be develop it!


QUESTION: Does Warhawk support Keyboard or Mouse?
ANSWER: Nope…not for game control anyway, just the keyboard for text input and stuff like that.

QUESTION: If I run a Warhawk server on my PS3 is it independent of the SONY servers?
ANSWER: Yes…the only connection that is maintained is for your PSN buddies, incoming messages, stuff like that. As an interesting bit of trivia, the first few days of the public BETA we didn’t have a single SONY server running – but it didn’t matter because there were soooo many players hosting their own servers!

QUESTION: Can you play on your PS3 while you host a game server on the same PS3?
ANSWER: Yes…we call this a “player server” and this mode supports 24-players *and* up to 4-way split.

QUESTION: If I host my own server, how many players can I support?
ANSWER: Short answer is it depends on your connection speed/bandwidth. When you choose to host a game or set of games, Warhawk first “pings” out to what we call bandwidth servers around the globe (which one you test to depends on which country you live in). Anyhoo, it is at that point we then do a really quick series of bandwidth tests to determine how many players you will be able to handle. We spent quite a bit of time looking at the bandwidth requirements to make sure that the games that you host are not out of your league with regard to the bandwidth needed. We got a lot of comments during the BETA about players that were hosting 24 or 32 player games when they didn’t have the bandwidth to do so … this resulted in a pretty crappy game experiences sometimes. Our updated bandwidth requirements should resolve a lot of this and we’ll be monitoring it and changing them if we need to.

QUESTION: Thanks Dylan, but that didn’t really answer the questions…how many players??
ANSWER: Ok, that was a bit of a ramble but it at least lets you know what’s going on behind the scenes. For me at home, I have a standard cable modem with Comcast and I was hosting 24 player games. If you’re at school (college dorm or something) on a network you’ll probably be hosting up to 32 players … but the net is what the net is and you all know how it can change like the weather. If you have a really bad connection, then you will be hosting 8 or 16 players. Sorry … we have to protect the player community from people hosting slow servers that just piss players off. That said, if you connection is bad, you’ll still be able to *play* in a 24 or 32 player game, just not host one of that capacity.
QUESTION: How many of the maps support 32 players?
ANSWER: All maps…we worked really hard to make sure that the game would support the MAX player count in all levels – not just a subset.

QUESTION: I work for an ISP…can we host a Warhawk Server?
ANSWER: Sure…when you setup the server, you can give it your vendor name and tag it with a server message … in case you want to gratuitously promote that “Penetrode’s ISP now features 43% more awesomeness” There is of course a max character length on the server message so please no manifestos.

QUESTION: Does Warhawk support the XMB buddy list?
ANSWER: OMG…Yes, thank you for asking but you didn’t really have to ?. Of course any “buddy” that you have in the XMB, will show up in your “Warhawk Buddy Page”. From there, you will see if they are online, and what game they are in. We also added a quick join from the buddy list so you can instantly hop into any game your buddy is in. Or, you have the option of linking directly to the stats server from your buddy list. This way you can always keep tabs on which weapons your friends are using, which maps they play the most, etc.

QUESTION: Does Warhawk Support Clans?
ANSWER: Yes…you can form a clan, give your clan a prefix tag [4 characters], your clan can have a motto, leader…and yes the leader must make invites into the clan, you have access to a separate clan mail/message that can be used to coordinate practices or matches, and lastly you can use your clan list just like the XMB buddy list to jump right into their game or retrieve their statistics.

QUESTION: Does the game support more than 1 head set connected to the same console?
ANSWER: No… you can only bind 1 headset in the XMB and Warhawk uses whichever headset you have active.

QUESTION: If I buy the retail version, do I have to have the Blu-ray in my PS3 to run Warhawk?
ANSWER: Yes…”Reluctant Hero” asked about this Wednesday but sorry man…but hey, one of the many advantages of the BD is that when you power-up your PS3, you can boot directly into the game.

QUESTION: Can you turn the HUD off?
ANSWER: No … sorry “MrCamo”.

QUESTION: How is Chaff deployed?
ANSWER: “TTP” asked about a conversation that we had at E3 regarding chaff. Right now, you must select Chaff from the WeaponCross and then press L1 to deploy…just like in the BETA. We have toyed around with changes to this, one of which you and I discussed at the show. Nothing has been decided though. I will say this, and this came up during some of our review sessions with the long-lead media, and that is that we have greatly enhanced the way missile scrubbing and the aerobatics system works so that Chaff is not primarily used for defending yourself when in hover mode. When you are in the air, you can now perform your aerobatics more easily than you could in the beta. So … this ends up being the preferred method of defense. Think of chaff as a get out of jail free card, especially when you are hovering in a Warhawk.
QUESTION: Does Warhawk support VOIP channels?
ANSWER: Not exactly…I will say the ‘subscription’ method in Resistance is pretty **** slick though. What you do get is a per player control as to whether or not the voice is transmitted from that player – think of it as a kind of patch board. If you are the leader of a squad with Bob, Jimmy and Bruce, then you can just patch them in and turn everyone else off. Additionally, lets say that your buddy Evan is the leader of another squad and you want to be able to talk to him but not the troops in his squad. Then simply patch him in and you’re all set. Hopefully that answers your question “9158.”
QUESTION: Game-wise, what is different between the Blu-ray version and the PSN version?
ANSWER: Gameplay-wise they are identical.

QUESTION: When is Warhawk being released in Europe, Japan, Australia, China, Korea etc?
ANSWER: All I can say is that we have incredibly talented teams in all those territories and they are working very diligently to get Warhawk ready and ultimately, announce a release date. But I do *really* hope that you guys can understand that announcing the release date in those territories is kind of *their* thing and not mine.
QUESTION: Will a weapon from Resistance:FoM appear in Warhawk?
ANSWER: No…not sure where that rumor started “Lothar”. But while we’re on the topic … the Laark would be a wicked great indirect-fire weapon. The Insomniac guys always have top-shelf weapon design…among other things.
QUESTION: Can you play split-screen on a Ranked game?
ANSWER: No…and I know this will be a point of contention so please hear me out on this. When we first started developing and testing the ranked servers, we *didn’t* block split screen. What we observed is players using a second controller as a remote observer…not really playing but rather just kind of cheating the system. This allowed them to know where more of the enemies were without actually being part of a squad and communicating … they were just cheating. As a result, they were growing up the ranks faster than other players that weren’t cheating – and that isn’t fair for those of you playing legitimately to rank-up. I hope you guys can understand out decision.
QUESTION: What do I need to turn my PS3 into a server?
ANSWER: Nothing…buy Warhawk and that’s it. You will need a good connection though if you want to host a lot of players.
QUESTION: During the BETA, there were times when the game would crash – Is that fixed?
ANSWER: LOL….yes! We wouldn’t have shipped if it was still “crashy.”
QUESTION: Will there be an option to join local servers, just in your country?
ANSWER: Yes…while we wanted to make sure that players got to choose the exact server they jumped into, we *totally* realized that if the game takes off, which we hope it does, that players might be simply overloaded by the server list. So, more to your point “Shadow_Dancer,” you can filter by region, language, game type, ping, max rank, etc.

QUESTION: Does Warhawk support a “Party System” like Resistance:FoM?
ANSWER: Thanks for clarifying “Holy_Diver” … unfortunately no, we do not in the same way. When you are playing split-screen we drop the whole group in to the game but I’m pretty sure that’s not what you were looking for.

QUESTION: Can you use any headset with Warhawk?
ANSWER: Yes…the Jabra that’s included is a good headset but you might already have one, or maybe still have the USB SOCOM headset. They all work.
QUESTION: Are the Warhawk Servers “Worldwide”?
ANSWER: Yes, All territories can play together on the PSN.

[Po]

Only thing that's sad, is no single player. I know Multiplayer was the focus no matter what, but it would have been nice.

I have a feeling single player would have felt tacked on if they tried to come up with some silly story that had you engaging in the same kind of combat.

It is essentially built for multiplayer which, in this day, is not so bad to have correctly done multiplayer only games (this vs. Shadowrun as an example of good vs. bad example).

Anyone know, is there unlockables as you play further, like better character and Warhawk customization?

[Exoduso]

Sony's version of Shadowrun..?

Either way I don't think i'll get it unless people really recommend it (after playing it for a few weeks..)