Warhawk v1.3 Patch details

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I’m excited to announce our new, and FREE, update for Warhawk – the v1.3 Patch!

There are 5 key additions in this update that add a ton of value for our current and future Warhawk players. First, I’ll cover the 2 new troop items that we are adding to the game.

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So far, Warhawk players have logged over 7.3 million hours of gameplay and have scored over 206 million kills! And during this time, we’ve keenly observed the battles, looking for opportunities for us to further balance Warhawk’s gameplay and over-arching “combat economy”. The result of our observations comes in the form of two upgrades for ground troops – to help promote teamwork, lengthen troop lifespan, and expand Warhawk’s fast-paced, emergent gameplay that players around the world have come to love.

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This is gonna be a long post and I want to give you all a rundown of the new equipment but I can’t ramble on for pages about it so I’ll just write a quick summary here. I can always follow-up with you guys later in the comments….you know how I love to respond to comments :-)

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#1 Mechanic’s Field Wrench:

As you might expect, this piece of equipment is used to repair vehicles. Once you get the pickup, you swing it just like the combat blade. Then, just walk up to, or onto an allied vehicle and “whack” it with the wrench. It repairs wicked fast so it’s very effectively during combat. On the offensive side, not only is it still a one-hit-kill against troops, but it can be used to damage enemy vehicles as well!

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#2 Bio-Field Generator:

To use a Bio-Field, grab the pick up and throw it down like a proximity mine. It sticks to walls, ceilings, anything…including vehicles. Then, if any ally stands within its bio-reactive field, his health will quickly regen. Alternatively, and this is where some neat tactics emerge, if an enemy walks into the bio-field (yes, bio-fields are color coded), they’ll take damage – their lungs sizzling like bacon….mmmmm bacon.

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This new equipment makes life as a ground troop more balanced, and we’re really looking forward to seeing how the battlefield changes once the patch is released!

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#3 HOME Game Launching:

Yeah Baby…So our HOME integration is coming along nicely and this update includes a great, and much needed feature for Warhawk. With the release of v1.3 patch, players will be able to form groups, meet in their apartments, discuss tactics, and then launch a game of Warhawk…all together!

When you’re in your apartment, all you do is whip-out your virtual PSP, select ‘create game’ and pick Warhawk. From there, you get to start your own player server, pick a game rotation, set server options and then…BAM !! Launch Warhawk with all of your friends!! You can also pick to not make your game viewable to the other Warhawk players around the world, or you can make it a ‘public’ game that puts all of your friends into the server together, and leaves open slots for other global Warhawk players join.

Games launched from HOME show up in the global games list in an attactive gold color.

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Now this is just the beginning of what we’re gonna to be doing with HOME and there’s some really neat stuff on the horizon. I’d love to show you more of the cool HOME stuff that we’re working on but I suspect I’d get a PR-shank to the spine…or possibly a lung.

So I gotta say that I’m actually super relieved that we’re putting in *REAL* legit value for players and *NOT* making HOME a portal for SONY to jam branding and marketing schwag down player’s throats!

As a gamer, I’m excited *and* relieved to see the direction HOME is taking.

#4 New VOIP Options:

We have also received a lot of feedback about VOIP stuff. There were a couple of features that players really wanted, and hopefully this gives them a big chunk of their crazy, crazy VOIP desires. :-P

We now allow players to select between PTT and Open-Mic. Players can also tune the voice-activation level so they don’t accidentally broadcast their girlfriend or boyfriend blabbering-on in the background. Players also now get to more clearly see who’s talking. It’s displayed on the right side of the screen. And yes, the picture below is correct. We also now support an “all-talk” server option so that you can enable cross-team trash talk.

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What else…oh yeah, we now display which player is speaking at the score screen too. And…we let you pick players from the score screen to mute/un-mute their VOIP.

#5 New Paint Schemes & Insignias:

If you’re an avid Warhawk player and/or read this blog with any regularity, then you know that we are sponsoring a contest that allows players to submit their own, custom, paint schemes for the Nemesis and Warhawk. We’re also allowing players to submit custom insignias too. We’ll be picking the winners and including these new customizations with the v1.3 patch.

Now I’m not posting these because they have already won…but these are some neat designs and I wanted the blog readers to see some of the great paint schemes that have been coming in.

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And one last thing…we want insignias too. Send us your insignias…and please DO NOT just scan something out of a magazine. Seriously!

Well that’s it for now, there are some other features in the new patch too, like some new server options, but we’re not sure if we’re going to ship them or not. They need more play testing.

So this patch is a big update for Warhawk: New troop equipment, HOME Game Launching, VOIP updates and player-created customizations!

~guy in back of room yells “yeah, yeah….but when’s it coming out”~

We’re testing the Warhawk v1.3 patch right now and we’ll update you on timing in another post. Sorry I can’t be more specific…you know how it goes. As soon as I have the “official” release date, I’ll let everyone know.

As always…
rock on

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  • Only one thing for me to say ^_^ about 1.3

    Love the design and concept of the new items.

    that said – I think the KT needs help. I wonder if it would be possible to allow those in the missile turrets to autoeject when the KT hits 80% destroyed. No one wants to fly in it as it is to big a point target

    1 for the vehicle, 1 for the pilot, + up to 6 for passengers = high value low danger target.
    If the passengers auto ejected then the value lowers for the kill and the KT becomes more valueable as you don’t take out a huge percentage of your side when it dies.

  • that is soooo cool! Dylan Jobe your the game designer righty? do you think you could email me about any new warhalk Stuff I think Warhawk is the best game on the PS3 my Email is Jaketf@optonline.net thanks!

  • to:Dylan Jobe can I have your email? i want to ask you some questions my email is jaketf@optonline.net Thanks

  • Awesome news.

    Finally got a monitor. I tried entering the contest but I was a day late. Not like it would have won anyway. Still, this news is good news.

  • Dylan Jobe do you have an account on the PS3 for Warhawk? if you do can you tell me it so i could add you to my friends list?

  • So first off I would like to thank you for replying to so many other comments and actually listening to players.

    Suggestions
    –I really like the double tap idea. Tap once=reload, quick double tap=switch weapons. I hope it works out (and of course I trust what you guys choose in the end).
    –Also, there is a problem with allowing a warhawk co-pilot. If I get in at the same time as someone else and they pilot and fly off with me I’m usually heading to doom… Could the co-pilot at least have a machine gun turret or at least a parachute to eject in air.
    –Passenger seat in jeep: This guy should be able to shoot!
    –More vehicles! More vehicles are always fun ;). Just a few suggestions.
    -Bike: Just a standard bike, light and easy to jump stuff. Maybe some cool power turning too. Also there could be someone on the back or in a side-buggy shooting.
    -Helicopter!: This would be pretty cool, like the drop ship but faster and with 3 seats, driver and 2 gunners on machine guns.
    –More weapons: keep ’em coming, but keep them balanced too ;).

    And, questions, questions, questions.
    So of course I have a few questions (sorry if some where answered already!).
    1. Hmm… Vaporfield Gl…. Want to shed some light?
    2. Are you planning anything of the above that I suggested?

  • AWESOME

  • I STILL WOULD LIKE TO AT LEAST KNOW IF THERE WILL BE A CORRECTION TO THE CONTROL OPTIONS FOR THE BOTTONS. THANK YOU

  • hi.
    i have a few ideas that will make the game more interesting.
    1- make the troop weapons to make more damage. like pistol, rifle, ets.
    2-put somewhere how many players are currently playing on line at that time.
    3-rank down all those cheaters that have a lot of points done with a wlitch i heard that a lot of people rank up at the beggining of the game. like players that have 8000 and 9000 teampoints done in a single round.
    4- do adjustment in the medals and weapons that are too hard to be done.

    i will apreciate any answers from the developers.

  • Dylan, awesome work!

    Any chance in the future we will be able to eject out of planes and parachute down?

  • Thanks for the updates, Dylan. Warhawk never ends, I play other games and keep coming back to Eucadia when they’re done. Fantastic game.
    As for Snake95’s posts, why don’t you ask Dylan if he’d like to adopt you? I’m sure he could do with a ginger step-son.

    PSN – Englishman

  • I personaly don’t think you guys should change anything. If something needs to be changed it needs to be the points or rank requirements. Let me ask you this Daylan, how many people have earned enough points (earned) to become a Captain? How much time did it take? Well it’s another 60,000 points to get to Major, and another 185,000 to get to General. It would take the average player (60 points per game) 4,583 half hour games to make General. That sux! Their should be progressive scoring, per game.

  • I would like to say that I’m a girl and I play WarHawk all the time. From Dec 24th till Feb. 21st. I have logged in over 160 hours. I don’t understand why as a player you are unable to choose your sex. All of the characters are Male. I’m not asking for girl clothes, because in the army everyone wears the same type of clothes, but when you made the game you thought of race and color. So therefore I fell that you should have thought of sex. I also agree that anyone how cheated should have those points taken away!! If the cheating was done on accident, (Lol) Then they should have no problem with having the points taken away from them. I love the game and I have earned all of my points honestly.

  • looks nice..dunno if u think about it but it would be great to see ‘buddies/clan members’ at the map with a dot or smth!!

  • 1. Im really looking forward to 1.3!!
    2. Thank You!!!
    3. Im not happy all this is at once though. OK! HOLD ON! lemme explain. All this HOME dependancy is scary! I would like the weapons now, not when HOME comes lumbering around. Personally, I am so looking forward to HOME, but is anyone else starting to become fearful of this dependancy? OR is it just me?

    Dan-I-Smith

  • TWO FRIGGING WORDS JOBE: SPECTATOR MODE!!! AS WARHAWK GETS BIGGER MORE PPL WILL WANT TO WATCH CLAN BATTLES AND STUFF, MAKE A SPECTATOR MODE

  • Open mic sweet but i am having issues with sending clan invites has anyone else reported this to you? our clan does not have 64 member yet and when i send an invite i get an error saying “error message not sent”.

  • dylan i think no i know you should add JETPACKS PLEASE

  • Hey Dylan
    ok ill admit it i was kinda disappotied by the upgrades i was hoping for some stronger tanks cuz the tanks currently on are called medium tanks from what i hear so maybe heavy or small tanks and also guns maybe shotguns i like this one person’s idea of “lightning guns” what about boats possibly motorcycles thanx srry to complain but at least new stuff

  • To English man: ha ha very funny I just wanted to ask him a question

  • my PSN name is vitvitsky

  • also theres somthing wrong with my warhawk account i used to be 2nd lieutanant but then somthing happend and my game just randomly reset and now I’m back to recurit

  • as a responce to mega nift-i addmit a spectator mode would be realy cool i think that would be a good idea

  • by the way my screen name on warhawks is vitvitsky I challenge anyone who has the guts to fight me in a sniping contest Im one of the best snipers on warhawks

  • I doubt you are still reading these posts but if you are I just wanted to make a quick suggestion. I believe I saw someone say something about needing the Tutorial to make it easier for newer players? Dunno if anyone has responded.

    I’ve seen/heard many people want this. Maybe you guys could just add a simple tutorial on/off options in the options section? I’m pretty sure the tutorial only lasts the for the first time to encounter something. Maybe just this little options will help those people who don’t pick everything up right away ^_^. It could go right below Audio Options and above Credits. On/Off is all people would need!

    Oh and before I forget I wanted to say thanks for all the continued support for the game and the determination to make Warhawk better. It’s absolutely an amazing game, but sadly I’ve been playing more CoD4 than Warhawk. I’m going to try and think of some ideas for the co-pilot to do because I really feel like the co-pilot should have added value.

  • hey dylan I LOVE WARHAWK i was in the beta and i just recently bought it havent had the money bought i finally got it anyways i want to download omega dawn but i dont use a bank or credit cards do you happen to know when the psn cards are coming out thank you so much for making a great game ps. please add me my psn id is edd

  • Still praying that the PSN-cards will be released soon (in Europe), since I don’t have a creditcard. It kinda bums.. I really want the Omega Dawn Pack.. and paypal isn’t an option either.. cries.. so well I’ll have to make do with the 1.3 patch.. hopefully soon. You guys are cool..

  • Mr. Jobe,
    I think that it would be a good idea to press the R3 button to talk to the other team and your team while leaving the L3 button to talk only to your team. Other wise, we won’t be able to keep our strategies a secret from the opposing team. Just a suggestion.

  • hey mr. jobe…..just wanted to give a suggestion…..as a sniper…..when i find a good spot, it really sucks that as soon as i get a kill the person i killed is shown my position……its not so much a big deal with other wepons but maybe u could add a patch where it doesnt show the person where u are when u kill them with the sniper rifle….thanx :)

  • @478, Greatheart

    I don’t think that would be a good idea, cause then you wont be able to zoom in with a sniper anymore.

  • @480 Hiddos,
    Well, he could just make it so that if you tap the button, it activates the sniper but if you hold it down, it activates the mic.
    Mr. Jobe,
    Does the broken mirror mean that the next stage won’t have symmetry like the previous stages. Just speculation.

  • Will we be able to check our messages in-game or have a message system in-game? (Like in Resistance) it gets annoying having to quit the game everytime to send a message or check 1. ps. awesome game

  • I’ve been reading through and get more questions the longer I read. There was a response from Dylan on the 15th reading. There is a way to start with some additional troop weapons when you spawn in…but I’m not allowed to talk about that just yet

    Spawning with extra weapons??? I killed someone before on the fortress map that had landmines on them. I’ve never been able to figure out where that person got them. So were they somehow cheating or do they work for you?
    On another response he left he said he can’t comment on new vehicles. I will personally take that as a yes they are coming. My vote is for either a dirt bike or an atv. Also there was mention from Dylan that people in a bunker would take damage from the biofield. Is this because it’s open air? I would think the bunker would be more protective than the tank. With the teamkill turned off, is it still possible to attain the good conduct ribbon? Is it possible to turn the team damage back on and somehow integrate a feature that allows a team to vote to kick teamkilling players from the sony servers.

  • So how do you become a BETA tester for the game. I would love to get in on that. Does it help if I tell you I have a DOD securty clearance. Come on Please.

  • Dylan if you really are having arbiters clear peoples accounts maybe you can explain something to me. If you go to the leaderboards and click on wins/losses and then rank by score per minute. How is it there are people showing score rates of hundreds of points per minute. The top of the list is showing 1,215.44 points per minute. Can you say stat padder. And if that isn’t bad enough it says he has only played ONE GAME.

  • In regards to the guy that was asking to add a bunker buster. You can already do that with one of the warhawk weapons if you know how. I picked up from someone who repeatedly killed my while I was on the rafter.

  • Ok so i am a warhawkaholic and will play whenever I have the chance but PLEASE can we get Omega added in to the rotation of the smaller battles. I can’t get enough of the 8 player maps, but really want a rotation that includes Omega

  • so Home will be come very soon… thanks for the information dylan ! You give us an information that sony itself don’t give officially !

  • @Xyavid

    Well not really.. the beta testers will have an update this week that give more support for the game launching… so maybe we will see that gold server even without the Home been official…

    I the Sony guy said it’s true that the open beta will come before the official one then, spring will be the open beta to release it officially at E3 or something I guess…

  • DYLAN PLEASE READ THIS!!!!!

    Now that I have your attention, first I’ll say something quickly to everyone else reading this and making comments. Do your research on the Operation: Broken Mirror add-on before you post suggestions for the 1.3 patch, because I noticed you all are often saying something that the public currently knows will be in the add-on already.

    Ok, so here are my suggestions to you, Dylan. Most of them are inspired by others or are my opinion of a previous suggestion, and I’ve only addressed my ideas that I felt were most important.

    – Jetpacks – There are many contributing factors that I think make this game an exemplary fusion of realism with unreality. Like the fact that there’s no story behind Warhawk (Why are people killing each other over a game of CTF???), or – in terms of actual physics – that hitting a vehicle with a wrench could repair it (HAHA). Those are both examples of unreality (which I love just the way they are; do not change the unreality factors, especially don’t add a storyline!), and the realism factors are obvious (realistic people, warfare, etc.). So yes, I DO understand why jetpacks could be a fantastic profit to Warhawk IF the circumstances were different, but I agree that the idea wouldn’t make any sense, considering keeping a balanced game and the design of the maps. If jetpacks were added to Warhawk, they would have to be acquired, not automatically given to everyone (or else everyone would be flying around LOL, duh), and also extremely limited, even more so than mines and binoculars (maybe only one or two spawn points in each map, and they wouldn’t respawn until the person who had them last died, in which case they wouldn’t be in his backpack). But EVEN THEN many problems would arise, such as people could fly to prohibited areas, and what would it say… dismount prohibited LOL??? No. So in my humble opinion I have to say no jetpacks .

    – Parachutes – If you were ever to add parachutes to the warhawks, I think they would only make sense for the co-pilot. Someone said the idea of kamikaze pilots seems fun. (1) This is already possible by putting mines on your plane, (2) kamikaze means a pilot that is willing to do a suicidal crash, so if you left your plane it wouldn’t be kamikaze, and (3) when your plane explodes it doesn’t create a blast radius that harms others anyway, so what would the point be of a runaway plane??? It would ruin the game. BUT, going back to my idea for the co-pilot only, I think parachutes would be a fantastic addition to the game. A lot of times I’m trying to get to a plane before my teammate takes it, and we’re right next to each other, and he gets it first but I enter the plane and then I become stuck inside of it. I know this is very common for everyone because I see it happen all the time. When that occurs, the guy in the co-pilot position is completely subject to the pilot’s will, and usually they end up dying. So obviously, the option of a parac

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    -hute would easily eliminate this somewhat large problem. Also, I don’t think the parachutes should run out; they should be infinite like the pistols ammunition. If one is used, the plane lands again, and another co-pilot gets in, there should be another parachute. And finally, you should be able to use your weapons while on your parachute, because it’s just a good idea, and because otherwise you’d be helpless to enemies on the ground shooting at you. The option of a parachute would bring about the new possibility of players dropping their allies off on the enemy’s territory in big bunches, from the AIR, which would greatly promote teamwork (which you said you were trying to do in your post Dylan). It would also make players use the co-pilot position a lot more, AND it would look really [DELETED] cool in pictures or previews of the game. So… do it. (Side note: parachutes tie into my next suggestion – if you use a parachute and you land on water, should you die???)

    – Water Transportation Method(s) – Comparing the enormous online map sizes of Warhawk with that of other games is ridiculous. Warhawk is the only game that can properly utilize large online multiplayer maps like it does. The possibilities with this game are truly endless, unlike other games, because of the excellent method of transportation – warhawks. Especially considering the upcoming APC, transportation seems like an underlying theme in this game. Sooo, why isn’t the water included??? I think you should be able to swim anywhere you like and water vehicles should spawn around the water, just like warhawks and ground vehicles do on the ground. Obviously, the current maps are in no way designed for this new availability, so Incognito has really worked themselves into a predicament. If nothing else, you should only add water transportation methods to future maps. If you were to actually make the changes to the existing maps to include water transportation, it would of course have to be a free patch and not an add-on, so I doubt you’ll do all that work for free, even though I always have hope . As for what the water vehicles should be, there are too many choices and I feel it’s more appropriate for you to decide rather than get my suggestions (I almost always trust whatever the team decides anyway). (Side note: I feel the same way about weapons and thus won’t be making suggestions for new ones, but I’ll make a very quick suggestion about reloading in this side note. Someone mentioned tapping once to reload and twice to switch weapons. I think it should be the opposite – once to switch weapons and twice to reload. That would be really effective. You could also make it so that you reload when you select the weapon you already have out, but then you might reload on accident, so I don’t suggest this.)

    – Wind!!!!! – If this next patch is only going to be 1.3, it seems like there’s a long way to go and many great surprises in the future

  • Where is my post???

  • I would like your e-mail too Dylan. Mine is

  • OMG it deleted my link LOL. Here’s my 4th post in a row… my e-mail is electromagnetic.man@hotmail.com

    By the way, it wouldn’t let me post a continued version of my first post for some strange reason.

  • So here’s an Idea I had mr. Jobe, I think it’d be a pretty clever solution for people wanting to parachute… what if they were items in the air? Like swarm missles and all of that, what if you could just scoop up a parachute and then use it if u hav it? As far as the co-pilot parachuting idk how that would go but I registered just to giv u my idea so what do u think?

  • Mr. jobe,
    What would be really cool is a tournament space in home. Clans could enter tournaments together or individuals could enter alone. Achievement trophies and points could be given out as awards, and maybe, they could give out a free game download. Could you pass this on to sony if they haven’t already thought of it.

  • I would like a weapon exclusive for the dropship that would include the pod drop idea, but instead you would be able to shoot them like a missle at a base for quick base capture. You would have to be careful because you would be lessening the dropships defenses and you might make them hit a mine. Unfortunately, this has the sam flaws as the other ideas. There are certain areas that Mr. Jobe doesn’t want the player to access.

  • dylan i have a problem i was wit my friends and i did a flag glitch and my points flew up…..i want to reset everything and start from scratch….how do i do so…..send me a meessage quiet to my email or my psn=simo2593…..ty

  • how do u reset your stats and rank…can u do it manually…if u cant can u start me from scratch plzzzzzzzzzzz…

  • hey Dylan Jobe i have a ? for you why can’t warhawk make a patch of runing in the game.
    warhawk charaxter should run like cod4 it would be more funer that just goging. the charater should sprint more faster.

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