Warhawk Cover!!!

[KALEL114]

Of course.

 

[The Guardian]

Alrighty. I started a clan and sent out invites. If I missed someone, let me know and I will get one to ya. Check Clans -> Invites.

I JUST ACCEPTED YOUR INVITE, THANKS!!!up:

 

[KALEL114]

Operation Fallen Star

The third expansion pack for the PSN-exclusive Warhawk is coming by month's end. Operation Fallen Star introduces Tau Crater, a remote, forested level that is the site of a crashed Chernovan warship containing experimental technology. This new pack adds the Infrantry Jetpack and ten new battlefields, most likely variations of the Tau Crater level. Of course, a free summer update will add a few new features, not forgetting Trophies.

Sweet vid at the jump. Releases 8/28.
http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/08/20/warhawk-operation-fallen-star-expansion-pack-official-details/

 

[KALEL114]

More on it....

As we mentioned earlier, Warhawk's upcoming expansion pack Operation Fallen Star is being shown off this week at the Games Convention in Leipzig.

The pack comes with ten new battle maps set in the forested Tau Crater as well as the Icarus M. 1 Rocket Pack, which allows soldiers to fly about and take on both ground troops and Warhawks up close. Hit the jump for the full release and a fancy gallery.

The war between Eucadian and Chernovan forces has just got even bigger with the advent of a new expansion pack for Warhawk.

Warhawk has expanded again with Operation Fallen Star, a new pack that adds even more to the massive online vehicular combat title.

Available to download from PLAYSTATION Store (PS3), Operation Fallen Star gives you a new battlefield with ten fresh battle maps and a brand new "vehicle". This third addition to the Warhawk expansion pack family introduces the remote, forested Tau Crater – the site of a crashed Chernovan experimental warship containing invaluable experimental technology.

While the Chernovans try desperately to salvage their stricken ship, the Eucadians arrive to claim it for themselves. The landscape is littered with parts of the warship and the Chernovans have brought heavy duty salvaging equipment and a huge crane to lift large pieces of the wreckage – an ideal target for the Eucadians to capture, setting the scene for some epic battles for you to engage in.

This pack expands the player’s overall Warhawk experience with ten new Tau Crater battlefields – as well as the Icarus Mk. 1 Rocket Pack: a personal rocket pack that allows soldiers to soar above the fray, escape ground troops, enter the aerial realm of the Warhawks themselves and engage in radically new combat tactics. Use this new mode of transport for a fresh take on aerial combat in all new and existing Warhawk maps.

With thousands of online gamers playing Warhawk every day, Operation Fallen Star marks the perfect time to leave the comfort zone and join the battle in the air or on the ground.

 

[Havok83]

sweet. Will have to start playing again next week

 

[Electro UK]

Why can't I like this game anymore? I know its a great game but every match I end up just driving round, looking for someone to kill, then being killed myself. I need to really get into it, dang snabit.

 

[The Guardian]

Why can't I like this game anymore? I know its a great game but every match I end up just driving round, looking for someone to kill, then being killed myself. I need to really get into it, dang snabit.

JUST DO WHAT I DO AND GET CREATIVE, IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU DIE A MILLION TIMES, OFCOURSE THAT NEVER HAPPENS TO ME BECAUSE I'M ALL KINDS OF AWESOME!!! JUST TRY DIFFERENT THINGS, LIKE SETTING GOALS FOR A ROUND OR TRYING TO GET SOME SPECTACULAR KILLS, IT'S NOT THAT HARD!!! BY THE WAY THE NEW UPDATE FREAKING ROCKS, JETPACKS FTW!!!up:

 

[Electro UK]

Hmm, good plan Guardian. I might re-purchase on BR at some point to clear hard drive space. Did I get a clan invite? Maybe if we could start playing as a team etc it'd be more fun.

 

[KALEL114]

Of course you got one!

We need to all get together in a game and share strategies.

 

[Electro UK]

The only time I've ever joined Guardian online was when I jumped inm front of him for 5 seconds in Warhawk. I'd love to play with you guys.

 

[The Guardian]

The only time I've ever joined Guardian online was when I jumped inm front of him for 5 seconds in Warhawk. I'd love to play with you guys.

YOU MIGHT CHANGE YOUR MIND ABOUT PLAYING WITH ME AFTER YOU READ WHAT I JUST POSTED IN THE TROPHIES THREAD!!!

 

[Orb]

Of course.

Can I get one please? ID: Wolf873.
EDIT:By the way I have not headset so I might chat with XMB sending messages.

 

[KALEL114]

Sure. I wasn't sure on your PSN ID. I'll send one today.

 

[KALEL114]

The only time I've ever joined Guardian online was when I jumped inm front of him for 5 seconds in Warhawk. I'd love to play with you guys.

Heck yeah. We can take turns beating up on Guardian.
I'll be on Monday night for sure. 8pm central. What's the time difference for you? I always forget.

 

[Electro UK]

I'm on GMT. I'm sure Google will say something about the time difference...

I'd look it up but I'm watching Two Towers... and I'm lazy.

 

[KALEL114]

I'm lazy as well. What time is it right now for you?

 

[The Guardian]

Heck yeah. We can take turns beating up on Guardian.
I'll be on Monday night for sure. 8pm central. What's the time difference for you? I always forget.

WHY YOU NO GOOD BACK STABBING, I'M THE FIRST TO JOIN YOUR CLAN AND THIS IS THE THANKS I GET, MAN WITH FRIENDS LIKE YOU WHO NEEDS ENEMIES (JUMPS OFF OF ROOF, SURVIVES THE FALL, "DAMN IT, THAT HURT")!!!

 

[Danalys]

GMT is 5 hours ahead of the east coast. 6 ahead of central so at 8pm central it'd be 2am GMT.

 

[Orb]

Thanks for the invite I will soon add all of you to my friends list.

 

[KALEL114]

 

[Havok83]

While the jetpacks look cool, Im not particular sold on them. I fear they might make things unbalanced. I think I saw a pic with a jetpack user holding a flag in CTF. I hope thats not the case, bc they had flying with it disabled for a reason.

 

[KALEL114]

Dylan Jobe via Playstation Blog

So I’ve been dropping hints for a few months now on the blog and finally, at Leipzig Games Conference this week, we unveiled our third expansion for the Warhawk Universe — Operation: Fallen Star.

The sweet, sweet hotness that is the Icarus Mk.1 Rocket pack and once you’ve played it, you wonder how you ever played Warhawk without it!

Normally we announce stuff here in the States but we thought since Warhawk has a global player base, lets show it at Leipzig first this time.

Before I answer some of the questions that I’ve seen from the past couple of days, let me give you all a rundown of what’s included in Operation: Fallen Star.

There is an entirely new level - Tau Crater! It’s a smoky, forested island that features lots of vertical elements to give players tons of cools places to use the jetpack; huge trees that you can fly up into and land on their branches, an enormous recovery crane with lots of trusses and platforms to fly around, and of course, the name sake, a truly gargantuan capital ship wreckage smashed into the ground forming, you guessed it, Tau Crater.

The capital ship is fully traversable meaning you can use the jetpack or other aircraft to fly up to its various surfaces, pipes, and destroyed sections. Hop out, use them to recon the other bases, snipe, call-in a binoc strike, whatever.

Around the crater are salvage platforms that have been constructed and serve as some of the bases in the Tau Crater. There’s also a huge fiery hole in the middle of the wreckage that you can climb though as a troop to quickly cross from one side of the level to the other.
There are massive chunks of wreckage scattered around the level and the recovery efforts at these locations are bases as well.
In total there are 10 new layouts for Tau Crater and since the jetpack is a massive, game-changing addition to Warhawk, we included a crap-ton of bonus layouts for the original game too — there are 30 bonus layouts that add jetpacks into the Warhawk’s original content.
And yes, of course the jet pack can be used with both of the new free game modes that we released with the v1.4 Update. Jetpack Collector mode is awesome!

Now the jetpack itself is big departure from the way we normally do vehicles and this was very, very intentional. With each of our Booster-Packs, we specifically look for mechanic changing ways to freshen-up the game — and Operation: Fallen Star is no exception.

So here’s the run-down on the jetpack…

First off, the jetpacks are equipment that the salvage crews are using to work on the wreckage so the style of it is very much like the equipment you might see at a construction site. This is true for the Daedalus Rapid Assembly Device (D-RAD) as well. Think of it as a vending machine for jetpacks. One of our players on the Warhawk forums asked if it was like a “hot-dog-stand”…well, yes it kinda is

You run up to the Daedalus and then press SQUARE to grab a jetpack off the rack, like you would to mount a vehicle or turret. The Daedalus then begins its automated construction process and makes a new jetpack for another player to grab. This construction period helps control the balance of the game so that not every single troop always has a jet pack.

Now to help protect against brutal base camping, we opted to not have the vending machine, err….the Daedalus be destructible. In some of our early play sessions, it just was too easy to ravage the other team if you could destroy the Daedalus.

The Warhawk forums also wondered if a jeep could drive the vending machine around, sorry, the answer is no. We spent a lot of time tuning the placement of each of the vending machines and towing them around the level would have introduced some pretty brutal exploits.

You can also mount other vehicles if you have a jetpack. So you and your team can coordinate fast strikes with the 4×4s and then all jump-jet out to make a flag run or scoop-up a team’s cores. If you have jetpack equipped, you are also allowed use it like an ejector seat and bail out of our Warhawk or Nemesis if you get into a dicey situation. Another great tactic is to use the Warhawk and run fly-by at the enemy base then have your buddy in the passenger slot bail out with the jetpack.

The controls for the jetpack are really easy too and operate the same as any other vehicle in the game so it should feel really natural to start using one.

R2 is the thrust button. Press it to engage the jets and your character will be carried higher and higher into the air. While you’re flying, use the analog sticks to move around. You can let off the thruster button to disengage the thrusters and your character will begin to drop towards the ground.

If you are flying around and you need to focus on combat and not thrust control, all you have to do is hold L2 and the jetpack will automatically emit enough thrust to maintain your current altitude. This way you can focus on raining death from above

The jetpack also has a boost-dodge feature, similar to the afterburner for the aircraft. Simply double-tap R2 to engage the boost-dodge. The direction of the boost-dodge can be performed in any direction, backwards, forwards, side to side, even straight up depending on which direction you are pressing when you dodge.

Now this feature not only is a great way to get around the battlefield, but the “dodge” part of the boost-dodge is key for scrubbing missiles. There is only one missile in the game that can acquire a jetpack lock-on and that’s the troop missile launcher. So if you are up in the air and you see the missile warning pop-up on your screen, you better do a dodge, otherwise that missile is going to nail you! Now if you have a jetpack equipped but you are just running around on the ground, the missile launcher can’t get a lock on you…and this is another good way to help avoid getting hit.

Another question that our players wanted to know is if you can fly with the flag using a jetpack and the answer is yes. We took a lot of time to make sure all the traversal speeds were tuned just right and CTF and Collector mode are crazy fun with the Jetpack — hell, even just straight up deathmatch is way more fun!

So here are some of the details: Operation: Fallen Star is being released on August 28th worldwide and is $7.99 in the Playstation Store. We also worked with SONY to get a new bundle pack ready too. The new Booster Combo Pack includes all 3 of the expansions for only $15.99. That’s like getting all 3 Booster-Packs for the price of only 2!!! Quick — deploy the wacky waiving inflatable arm-flailing tube men!!!

As a reminder, keep you eyes out for our FREE v1.5 Update that goes LIVE on August 27th!

So that’s it for now — I’ll do my best today to answer comments cause I didn’t get to at all with my last post cause I was crazy busy traveling for meetings. So let ‘em rip!

Oh, and one last thing, Kudos to 3 people (topodisc, mattnz, cubehouse) who were able to breakdown my crazy color-swatch-HEX-string-mythology-reference!

Rock on,

-dylan

 

[The Guardian]

I JUST SAW THIS ON THE BLOG, PURE AWESOMENESS, WARHAWK HAS BECOME ONE OF MY FAVORITE GAMES OF ALL TIME!!! I WANT A D-RAD VENDING MACHINE IN MY BACK YARD!!!Dup:

 

[The Guardian]

IN LATE BREAKING NEWS THE V1.50 PATCH FOR WARHAWK IS UPON US AND CAN NOW BE DOWNLOADED!!! THIS INCLUDES WHAT TLS HAS POSTED 2 POSTS ABOVE THIS ONE, TROPHIES, XMB MUSIC, NEW SKINS FOR WARHAWKS, NEW INSIGNIAS, AND MUCH MUCH MORE, STAY TUNED TO THIS THREAD FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS DEVELOPING STORY!!!up:

 

[Fading]

IN LATE BREAKING NEWS THE V1.50 PATCH FOR WARHAWK IS UPON US AND CAN NOW BE DOWNLOADED!!! THIS INCLUDES WHAT TLS HAS POSTED 2 POSTS ABOVE THIS ONE, TROPHIES, XMB MUSIC, NEW SKINS FOR WARHAWKS, NEW INSIGNIAS, AND MUCH MUCH MORE, STAY TUNED TO THIS THREAD FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS DEVELOPING STORY!!!up:

Yup, just put Warhawk in and that sweet update screen poped up. Been playing it for the last hour and while I was happy to see trophy support, I was far more impressed that they put in custom music support.

Only have 5 Warhawk trophies so far, but listening to my own music while playing an FPS can get me more into it so will probably be spending more time getting trophies a bit later.