Warhawk Down

Brian Crecente of Kotaku reports:

"I love Warhawk, I love it so much that I continue to play it despite the fact that the beta has a major and, I'm sure temporary, bug.

For some reason, Warhawk has been randomly freezing up for people. Either this results in you getting booted out of the game, or in your entire PS3 freezing up and you having to reboot. But this is a Beta and that's sort of the point isn't it, to find bugs.

So I and everyone else in the Beta seem to love the game so much that we will, like junkies, put up with just about anything to get our fix, no matter how short-lived it is..."

[sonarus]

Ur not alone bro. i love it too lol. This is gonna be one of favourite online shooters mos def.

[fenderputty]

I love flying the warhawks with the sixaxis. Banking a hard turn around some canyon wall to avoid missile lock is flat out exhilarating.

[sonarus]

umbagumba. wat a way 2 to off point. I mean this post is about war hawk being a great game i have played the beta and it is possibly the funnest experience i have had playing a shooter online and this includes halo(not a big fan of online shooters only played resistance twice online) I mean you got planes you got jeeps u got tanks and am havin a whole lot of fun using these. I personally think this game is gonna sell ps3 consoles. I for 1 will be recommending PS3's to my friends jst because of this game. I felt reluctant to do so in the past with the weak line up

[kingholmes]

Man thanks a million for posting Ps3 stuff,fact,info ect the 360 post start to over run i was geting mad Thanks again man.Cant wait for warhawk.Is the disc vs of warhawk comeing with a headset or is that socom?

[techie]

thanks :) no prob. Been taking a break recently.

[hella whip]

The disc version of Warhawk comes with the headset

[Bebedora]

Spot on and seldom if ever leaning to flame or anything. (Never seen anyways) Just right to the meat so to speak. Thank you, deep.

[bung tickler]

have any of you played battlefield 2: modern combat? thats all this is... trust me go out and rent it or buy it for $20.

[masterg]

It looks nothing like it.. I've played Battlefield MC forever and this looks much more fun and interesting...

Plus I personally like 3rd person better than 1st persons shooters.

[Merovee]

Plays nothing like it either.

[Xi]

Like how they said lair and heavenly sword weren't living up to expectations... I love how some people pick and choose what they want to listen to.

[techie]

You talking about me? I rarely post from Kotaku. Whether good or bad. We're short of news today so I posted this "bad" news article about Warhawk being down. And I just posted a forza review, some bioshock images and a tomb raider review. So are you just selectively looking? Ps. The HS and Lair articles were posted werent they.

You prefer bad news? How about "Devil May Cry 4 Delayed Until 2008"
"Half-Life 2 Black Box Cancelled", "NPD April Results Just Released: DS sells 5 times more than PS3", "Rumour: Incognito and Sony to split ways after Warhawk", "No plans for Euro PSN cards, says Sony"

Or do you prefer non ps3 news? "Microsoft dates trio for Europe", "PGR4: Rain Trailer in HD", "Gametrailers: Halo 3 Killing Spree footage", "Game Head: Halo 3 Special", "Two Worlds preview", "Naruto Rises to the Challenge", "Xbox 360 HD DVD Player Update Tomorrow", "A myriad of the best Halo 3 Beta screenshots", "Halo 3 Developer Walkthrough and Film Sharing Feature", "Halo 3 beta code reveals new armor, achievements", "Bioshock: New Ingame Images", "Forza Motorsport 2 Review", "BioWare talk about Mass Effect", "DiRT Demo Skids Onto Live and PC"

Sorry to have disappointed you

*edit* "We're short of news today" - and since when is this good news? "Warhawk Down"...showing he cant enjoy it because of a bug which resets his ps3. WHy did I post a Tomb Raider Anniversary review? Why did I post Bioshock images and upload all of them for the site? You're digging.

[Xi]

if you rarely post from kotaku why this?

[VirtualGamer]

I love the fact you have submitted nothing for news to this site but you want to complain about someone who has contributed tons of news and not just for the PS3. If you have a problem with what people are submitting for news then why don't you submit it yourself and STFU.

[Xi]

but when a person who choses to support the site with a lot of it's information(which deep does) I expect him to be fair and unbias on the news he choses to post. This obviously isn't the case.

[VirtualGamer]

First off there is no rule that says you have to be fair or balanced about the news you contribute. If I am a PS3 fan and only want to submit positive news then that's mine or anyone elses right.

If you don't think its balance then you can do something about it and submit news you feel helps to balance the situation. Thats your right. Complaining about what a person submits is childish and especially so when all one has to do is look at what Deep has submitted recently.

- Halo 3 beta code reveals new armor, achievements
- Warhawk Down
- Tomb Raider: Anniversary UK Review
- Bioshock: New Ingame Images
- Forza Motorsport 2 Review

If that's not unbias posting I don't know wtf is and for you to keep on insisting its not unbiased only makes you look foolish. Especially since this very report focuses on a big bug that is causing the Warhawk beta to crash or freeze up systems.

[techie]

"ignored the other stuff" I still dont get it XI. There is NO OTHER STUFF on Kotaku that hasn't been posted? ALl I can see is "Day O Tattoos", some cartoon, something about a desk, madden on Wii. I'm really confused at what you're implying. I showed you my sumbmissions and how they are broad? And so I'm not allowed to post a good news article?

PLUS....HOW IS THIS GOOD PS3 NEWS!?

Do you not like all the news I've brought to this site? The on average 18 news stories I bring a day, ranging from Halo to Uncharted. I post on everything and anything I can find which I feel is useful for the site. "Halo 3 beta code reveals new armor, achievements" - what do you want from me Xi?

I have other committments at the moment, so my submissions have not been so frequent...but still you are talking to the wrong guy Xi. My news posts are broad and always will be for the next 2 weeks.

Thanks VG.

[gunnar2906]

I own both consoles. Even more I got a Wii too. We got all consoles officialy released here in Russia, but not X360. So I enjoy it being afraid everytime that I can be banned cuz I input not existing London address cuz I cannot be registered as a Russian user. And my friends too.
I cannot get why every good news regarding PS3 cannot be taken calmly by X360 fans? Even more - a lot of sites puts down "analysis" articles like "Last nail in PS3's coffin" or "Will the new update save faulty Sony's product?" Why? If someone writes an article like "It is already 1.5 years old but still only one good title on X360... Who's guily?" or "I was told that Epic and Bioware didnt like programming for X360 anymore" I wont take it seriously. Actually I wont read news about X360 at all and I ignore them. And there are no articles with those titles.
Almost all X360 fan sites writes news about PS3 showing all its bad sides and keeping silent about successes. There is nothing about X360 at PS3 fan sites. It is uninteresting for us to read about X360. For me personally if a game releases for X360 worth playing I wont miss it. But I'm sick and tired reading headlined opposing X360 and PS3.
Ppl if you like X360 - cmon play and enjoy it. It is your choice - we respect it! And respect our choice.

[jeanm3306]

warhawk is awesome, take some time to get use to the control but once you use to it, you get addicted to it. i played halo multiplayer warhawk take the prize. i love the gameplay. the sound in the game is awesome specially if you have a surround sound. when you have a dog fight ahhh man that game is awesome. the game freeze time to time but you love the game so much you get use to it, even though it's a beta. i think this is clost to a killer app. and a great online experience. and it's free compare to Xbox live i had. the graphic is great but not as great as gears of wars though.

[Firewire]

Damn I wanted in on this beta bad! I'm 0 for 2 now!
No Home, no Warhawk its very depressing!
Back to Resistance Team Deathmatch on the carrier.

[Eldon3]

Your not alone.

[solideagle1]

does warhawk contain OFFLINE multiplayer option because i dont have a broaband so i have to live on offline stuff.....anyone plz confirm
thank you

[BlazeXXL]

it has an offline multiplayer. But, ofcourse, no singleplayer.

[Amplifier]

Yes it has a offline multiplayer component, it's 4 player even!

@mp

[BlazeXXL]

Every time I play Warhawk, it seems to be getting more fun. However, whenever the system freezes I freak out.

Also, love the water effects and motion sensing never was so much fun!

[Wolfgang187]

This games owns. Didn't think anything would pull me away from Oblivion.

[Premonition]

This game is relly fun, when this bug gets fixed, theres going to be a lot more hours put into this game. :)

[lil bush]

man, i want to play this game so bad, but ill just wait for the final version..........

[Whoooop]

How much is warhawk going to cost?? 60? or is it going to be cheaper cause it doesn't have single player??

[techie]

$40 with free headset. PSN price unknown

[Whoooop]

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[EZCheez]

One way to keep from having the game crash so much is by playing only in the dedicated servers (the ranked matches). I use this method all the time. Yesterday I played for over three hours without having it crash on me! Almost the same today.

These are still susceptible to freezing, though nowhere near as often as player created servers.

[Premonition]

For hosting dedicated server, it would be cool to see whats going on in the game rather then just stats :(

[freeza]

this game is freakin awesome

[masterg]

Man I hate the fact that all you beta testers are gonna be kicking my ass the first weeks after the game is released.

[spacetoilet]

I'm beta testing right now. And I can tell you , yes it has been locking up for just about everyone. there seems to be no rhyme or reason for it as well. Last night though, I played 2 hours straight and it crashed twice. Other times, I can barely finish a game and its locking up. It's a royal pain in the backside as this game is SOOO good. It's so addictive. The graphics are amazing, very smooth no matter how much craziness is on the screen at once. And the sound....well the sound is quite honestly the most meaty satisfying sound I have ever heard in a game. I don't understand the tech sides of sound but, uncompressed pcm 7.1 sounds incredible.

But hey, its wigging out on allot of peeps, but I guess that's what a beta is. Unfinished and full of bugs to iron out. Im guessing allot of the crashing bugs will be updated with a patch soon.

***edit***
For what its worth the settings I used with the most play time/least crashing was :-
Host a server 8 players max (coz my dsl is $h!te)
Disabled all voice
Regular Death Match

PSN name -- spAcetoilet

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[Robotz Rule]

Online-multi is gonna be amayzing!

[Bathyj]

I'm still just quietly sulking that theres no single player. I loved the first game and was looking forward to this. I wanted to go against the big airships with a hundred enemey Warhawks against me. Oh well, still look pretty sweet.

[AcidRhain]

Sorry but this is kinda laughable because Sony "Reps" were getting on the Halo Beta forums spreading their ignorant disdain on how the Halo 3 Beta was delayed for a few hours for the Crackdown invite. And that seemed to be the only problem with it... BUT unfortuanately it's totally not the case for the PS3 beta. :-/ Yeeeeaaah, software programers (MS) vs. movie makers (Sony). Well yeah... DUH, that's what I thinking. :-[

"BeLOW me"
Defend Sony. LOL. Play your Warhawk all you want. LOL. Use your Sixaxis and fly dem 'purdy' planes. I'm just stating a the truth... but from what I've witnessed from the Warhawk beta, it ain't as pretty and as fun as you guys think. And don't knock Halo. You'll just only look like an Ignoramus.
You're getting off subject, Your precious Beta ain't workin to well.
VVVVVVVVVV

[calderra]

As pointed out elsewhere- The Halo 3 Beta being delayed a few hours for some users was the end of the frikken world, but warhawk crashing and freezing consoles is just fine.

[rowdy 1]

Halo was the biggest let down I've seen. With sub par graphics and same ol lame ol game play. Warhawk is looking better and more fun. I want it bad

[sonarus]

Like most games its all about gameplay the fact that warhawk graphics are great too is jst a compliment. Am telling you that game is d bomb. I am definetly having more fun playing this than halo 3 beta

[IRISHCALIBER]

I admit it is engaging to finally feel as though the sixaxis controller is justified, but I can't help to feel like this will have the same two week charm of the Battlefront titles. Although it will probably last a bit longer since their are no alternatives. When I first played Battlefront on the original XBOX I figured it as a console seller. Two weeks later all the weak points were standing out enough that I grew bored and moved on. I just hope this doesn't happen to Warhawk in it's demo stage as a whole month of unbearable glitches will turn even the most desperate of PS3 users away. Best of luck to you all :)

[rowdy 1]

game come out for everyone. I wanna play!!!!!!!!!!!!! dammit

[Rhezin]

it happens with all betas, the halo 3 beta had a rocky start, along with all others, it should be fine after awhile.

[low_thepunisher]

i wanted to get into the beta so bad! and as far as the freezing goes, you guys should be happy you are actually in the beta!! this game is gonna be so amazing!!

[sak500]

Are there rankings and promotions in this game like Battlefield? Also are there separate kits for different types of soldiers?

[SDS Overfiend]

Trash. So what if it a beta this sh1t is trash anyway. Crimson Skies 2 will Destroy this sh1t.

[chitown]

first of all what kind of g@y name is that. second wat u some kind of f@ggot? bro get a life stop bashin on a game u will never and have never played. if u played it u know its hell of a beta. ill leave u to go whack off to ur 360.... troll