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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  • Awesome job on the patch! It looks great! This is a good sign that Home may follow pretty soon.

    I have a question: Is there anyway I can know who specifically is speaking when someone talks on a microphone in game?

  • so you must know then whe home is launching?? lol

  • Lol i had to send my email on the insignia twice ,the first time i send it without it lol good times good times

  • Will the wrench have unlimited ammo just like the knife or will it be limited to a certain amount of times it can fix a vehicle before another wrench is needed?

    • yes…the wrench does have a limit on how much it can repair other vehicles.

      However, if you sabotage enemy vehicles with the wrench, causing them damage, the \”ammo\” for your wrench will go up…kinda like getting spare parts and then being able to use them on your own vehicles…thats or crazy fiction anyway ;-)

    • yes…the wrench does have a limit on how much it can repair other vehicles.

      However, if you sabotage enemy vehicles with the wrench, causing them damage, the \”ammo\” for your wrench will go up…kinda like getting spare parts and then being able to use them on your own vehicles…thats or crazy fiction anyway ;-)

  • One feature I would love is the ability to filter for servers that allow split screen play. Split screen online is the best way to play, imo.

    • This has come up a lot…maybe we can look to host some split-screen dedicated servers.

      The only issue with this is that we strictly forbid ranked games from being split-screen…for obvious reasons of cheating and stat padding.

  • Please please please please please turn friendly fire back on and consider turning off team randomization until the logic behind it can be improved.

    Thank you very much for the coming update! I can’t wait to see how the gameplay reacts to the new features.

  • Hey Dylan, I got 2 quick questions for you.

    Question one would be, is there any plans for us to get any form of reward to flying the drop ship? I love the Drop Ship, cause I can actually pilot the damn thing (not just jump in it like most idiots and yell LEERROOYYY and fly off and get its ass handed to it) but piloting it too, I notice, then I get shafted for points. AKA, you get nothing. Any plans?

    Question 2 would be, Any plans for troops with Jetpacks? I cant help but feel it would be awesome cool to fly around with one!

    • We are looking at supplementing our awards system to cover new content like the dropship, wrench, bio field, and other stuff.

      Nothing concrete right now though.

  • Dylan you are amazing for answering all those questions!!! I’ll chug one for ya for being on the ball!!! thanx!!!

  • Hey Dylan..

    I really love the game.. and I know you guys are striving to have people cooperate and play together as teams..

    One thing that is horribly missing IMHO is the ability to invite people to your game. If gamerA and gamerB are online and I am in a game.. It would be awesome if I could access my friends list or my clan list or something to invite people to the match i’m currently in.

    I think this would help alot especially since the Clan menu doesn’t really update very often for some strange reason.

    Is this something you have been or could look at?

    • cross title invites would be sweet, no question there! We dont really have access to that in the API at least right now.

      What we were able to do is present players with a friends list once they have launched Warhawk. If you go to the buddies screen in the game, you will see all of your friends and be able to tell if they are currently playing Warhawk, from there, you can select their name and Warhawk will jump you right into their game.

      Not exactly what you wanted, but it helps.

  • I’ll have to pop this game in again for another run :)

  • Dear Dylan, Being a beta tester for this game I fell inlove since day one and it just keeps getting better. Now that im a Home beta tester i am now glad again to try out some new things, will this warhawk patch work with the Home Beta client’s new update or will this only be for the final release?

  • Oh, and when you kill some one there is always a nice funny noise to immitate later will the wrench make a *tink* noise when you whhhack some one with it i thing a nice *tink* or *whhhack* will be perfect.

  • Talk about the timing. I just got back into playing Warhawk, and look at the things that are to come. First of all that Bio Generator is going to be a great thing to see, but in the right hands the enemies that have this are going to be virtually invincible, I can’t wait to see more with this.

    Home integration is sweet, enough said

    VOIP features are pwn all, enough said

    The Paint Schemes are greatness, enough said

    This really is enough said. Can’t wait to see all of this stuff

    Oh one more thing, all this talk about home has gotten me suspicious, with GDC next week, along with the current rumors :-P

  • Hey Dylan..
    I am a huge fan of Warhawk … and there is one problem … I live in Bahrain and my country dont have a psn store … so i cant get the new map (OMEGA) … My PSN account name is shytoon. I wish you can do some thing about this !

  • good work, warhawk is awesome. keep the updates coming. One thing id like to see sometime. A shotgun for the foot troops. And please, dont put parachutes with the warhawks. When you think about it, its not a good idea.

  • this sucs i had to register again cause i forgot password.

    have u guys thought about adding boats or submarines?

    would it be possible?

  • Hello,
    Great update, but I have a suggestion, will it be possible to add an option in the future to autorize or not the respawn. With respawn turn off, the stress during the match will be at the top, and each members lost during a match will be key for the victory.

    ps: sorry for my american, but I am french.

    • Respawn times are a sensitive issue :-)

      We may look to develop server options in the future for this but noting is on the drawingboard just yet.

      But I do agree, while Warhawk is a very fast paced game, occasionally playing it in a very tactical mode could be a fun change of pace.

  • have you guys thought about adding a way to send clan invites during the game??

    or

    setting a insignia for the whole clan?

    or a clan battleing syestem(like gamebattles)?

  • Dylan:

    I have some questions regard to the wrench.

    How will it work out when you have a wrench overwield your knife in the scenarios below.

    1. You are using a wrench and there’s a driver in 4×4 idling ahead of you. You go ahead and swing your wrench. What will happen? If it was knife the driver will be knifed. But for wrench does it damage the 4×4 and the driver or it is either 1.

    2. You sneak up behind a tank and found out there are two people in it; and the other player just happen to have their body above the hatch. If it was knife the person will be knifed. What will actually happen?

    • The Wrench is like the combat knife in that if you strike an enemy, its a one-shot kill.

      But, if the wrench strikes an enemy vehicle during that strike, it will damage the vehicle as well.

  • He Dylan good to hear about the 1.3 patch! You guys are doing a very good job to keep Warhawk alive :) It started a little bit rough but from 1.2 its getting just kickass fun!

    I have a question:
    I can host up to 20 players with my internet connection (and im doing it almost every day). But i would like to see more control for me in my own server ingame.

    For example:

    1. The ability to, while the game is played, manually switch users from one side to the other (I miss this soooo much).

    2. The ability to free roam the game, just a check to see if the others are playing fare.

    Also i have a nice addon idea for patch 1.3/1.X:
    (Colored) smoke grenades! A few different colors for the following support:

    air support
    ground support
    pickup needed
    Enemy/Friendly flag position
    normal smoke

    Also please make our headset ingame accessible, it sucks to quit the game to set my heaset :( Or is the release period of HOME doing something about this? (i know PR ninja’s)

    Thnx alot and as always ROCK ON!

    Greetings from the Netherlands!

  • Hello and thanks for another great game info update. Two things. Firstly, I wish it would be faster to select an insignia for the warhawks. With over a hundred of them, I wish you could see all of them on a sheet or full screen instead of one at a time.
    Also, PLEASEEE move the flags for capture the flag from the edge of hills or not give points at all if someone throws the flag over a hill or off the platform of Fortress. I have a list of over 50 people who cheat on Destroyed Capital by throwing the flag over the edge of the building nonstop, along with Fortress, and Close Corridors.
    If you go into any Official server at 3AM EST and there are only two people, they are more than not cheating. Where are the Arbiters? You can’t get over 250k points with less than 16k combat points. No way like 3 in the top 20 scorers. Please have someone catch these people and ban them or have somewhere I can report them. Thank you for your time.

    • We are always looking for cheaters and the Arbiters have rendered hundreds of judgments on people since we started them.

      With a game like Warhawk we need to do our best to keep up with the padders and cheaters.

      I do agree that throwing the flag is a catalyst point for a lot of the cheating and padding that occurs.

      We are strongly entertaining the notion of disallowing the ability for a player to throw the flag. Although we haven\’t made a final decision yet.

      What are your thoughts?

  • Talking with friends outside of servers would be a great help in deciding who’s choosing the server and what type of game everyone wants to play.
    Instead of just refreshing and hoping one of your friends is taking the initiative to find a server.. or worse yet.. multiple people find games and no one ends up playing together.

    Of course in game XMB might end this problem if it ever rolls around.

    • keep in mind that you can always access your friends from the the Warhawk buddies screen.

      From there you can select their name and jump right into their game.

  • Have you thought about adding a clock somewhere? Time has a tendency to just fly away when playing Warhawk and a clock somewhere on the hud or map screen would be a great addition. At least until Sony gets their act together and put a clock on the PS-button screen.

    If you decide to do it, please respect the hour format setting in the PS3 (12h or 24h).

    Thanks

  • Damn, everytime i get away from this game you guys suck me back in with some great new patch or upgrade. Cocaine is a helluva drug!

  • my id lim_ryan
    i got my badge 4×4 since yesterday still not yet update??…..i need to up rank….
    thanks to all warhawk team to support the game life

  • In the next update, MATCHMAKING should be added. Server lists are just a pain now.

  • This is awsome guys, I might start playing Warhawk again when Home gets released.

    Do you have any hints on when Home is beeing released?

  • great path guys

    oh and I’ll make a suggestion….

    you guys should give tutorals,hints,ect. in the game, so new players know what to do, other than finding out themselves.

    it make things for new people, who just got the game,a whole lot easier.

    • there already is an in-game hints system that lets new players know about tips and how to use the different weapons and vehicles.

      Do you think there should be more of them?

  • “Players also now get to more clearly see who’s talking. It’s displayed on the right side of the screen.”

    Aww i love you! :) All the other stuff is amazing now! With these additions, i can drop COD4 completly and go back to Warhawk all day everyday! :)

    And home intergration? is it coming soon??? **fingers crossed**

  • Dylan’s a cool dude =3

    Other than that I’m PSYCHED :O
    Omega Dawn blew me away, it was otherwordly, beautiful stuff to the core.

    Now seeing this new FREE update! Gotta emphasize the FREE :D I’m blown away again tenfold!

    Wow you bet I’ll be all over this when it comes out. I love this game, it shows that 3rd person action is still the funnest thing and most adaptable(unlike FPSs).

    HOME will be amazing, I’m telling you it’s gonna revolutionize gaming.

    Icognito, you guys rock!

  • hi i want to rank faster, want to fell progresion!

    • I hear you…we have gotten a lot of feedback that the points \”nerfing\” that we did in the last patch was too much.

      We are looking to make some adjustments with v1.3

  • Hi dylan – cool updates!

    Not a problem with ranking up lol.

    But my ‘most killed by’ is some guy with 170 times! I didn’t think i was that bad. I think a few people may have this problem as well.

    Anyways if you want to check it out, my handle’s the same as my username on here. Cheers!

  • It’s great to hear about the HOME integration. I’m really excited by this. Just us some more info… like a release date!

  • What about controlling areas that bestow some sort of persistent affect while serviceable and under team control?

    Like controlling a missile silo at location x calls in random well tuned airstrikes/orbiting sattelite salvos at location y. Not enough to be unfair, but just enough to randomly spice things up during crunch time.

  • Dylan, hope you are still reading this. Here is a simple request/question for you.

    Would it be possible to add to the server filtering options the ability to choose a specific language rather than the simple “All” / “My Language” options we have now?

    The thing is I’ve set my XMB language to English despite not being my first language (I just prefer it that way) but I’d still like to be able to filter servers by another language (say, Italian) without having to change the XMB one accordingly everytime.

    That’s it. :)

  • Dylan,
    I think you answered comment 85 on 84. What do you say to comment 84, about server filter settings?

    • I\’ll talk to the team…I hate to admit it but I thought it already *was* like that :-P

      …sometimes its hard to keep track of everything ya know?

      I\’ll look into it on Monday.

  • Wow great news. Thanks for your continuing support of the game. It really does make you look good.

  • Dylan!

    Nice to hear about some of the features of the upcoming update.

    Unfortunetly, I can’t enter a color design for the Warhawks as I live in the UK but I would have it mainly black, a few parts of the aircraft red and I would have the “PLAYSTATION Network” logo on one of the wings and the “PS3” logo which appears on the blurb of the PS3 retail cases on the other wing, I suppose you could use those logos as Warhawk is a game for the PS3.

    Anyways back to the patch. Home support! I didn’t see that one coming at all! I welcome the VOIP support, its good because sometimes when I chat during gameplay using L3, I usually get killed lol!

    Is there going to be any sort of Party Mode on Warhawk like their is in Resistance and the Halo games? I try a lot to connect to Warhawk and set up a game with my PSN Friends but when I try to join them in a game, the game is usually full!!

    The only other thing I’d like is the Option for Custom Soundtracks, I’d like to play in the background some music with that war theme or music which gives the game some “epic battle” feel to it!

    Thanks for the updates! Excellent work and keep it up!!

    PSN ID: rockmanjoey

  • I really love Warhawk, but what I really want is a way to get out of a Warhawk or Nemesis while flying in the air. The aircraft doesn’t have to fly further on, let it be a self-destruction button. You will be ejected out, with a parachute of course^^, and the Warhawk explodes. Or at least give the co-pilot a chance to get out of the plane. I hate it to fly with a crappy pilot and can’t get out XD .

    What would also be cool, is a remote-bomb, which can be blown out from a distance.
    Aw, that would be so much fun. :DDDDD

    Thanks for Warhawk

    Greetings,

    Patric

  • One thing I wish would be changed for Zones: give out cumulative points for holding the enemy’s main base reduced. Give us 2-3 points for, say, every 30 seconds we keep the enemy’s base down at level 1. I’ve sacrificed myself a bunch of times holding the main base down to make things easier for my teammates, getting nothing for it other than flamethrower and grenade kills from the enemies coming to rebuff it. :D

  • nvm i got the 4×4 badge again though….works now…anyway how to edit post?

  • Thanks for the clarification on the user Paintjobs/Insignias upload deal. :)

    The whole deal was a bit confusing :p

    Do you guys have any plans to add something like that?

  • A game is simply magnificent: balance, weapon, design, maps and other.
    Enormous thank you for excellent work all of developers.

    Suggestion:
    To add hides for a technique (jeep, tank), support 40 participants and possibly water technique.
    Thank you once again for a game.

  • Hey Dylan I doubt your still paying attention but in case you are,you need a post here dedicated to just what things people want added to warhawk.Just make sure to have someone filter out all the crap people post thats unrelated.

    Could you make the Bio-field generator jam peoples radar that are in range to feel its affect.It would be nice to see it have a downside in using it.I would also suggest that when ones placed it creates a mark on the mini-map in the color of which team it was placed by.

  • Dylan, my PSN handle is Kenshin71. I realise you have been working hard on this game and have a lot of demands but I would really appreciate it if you could mention the region locked DLC issue to your Sony partners. Even just knowing they are aware of the issue is a start. Thanks again. Oh and Warhawk rocks!

    • Believe me Kenshin…I have told *a lot* of people about the feedback we have received!!

      And…I never what a potential customer to not be able to buy our Booster Packs!!

  • Warhawk is great one of the best games I have ever played. Any chance of Warhawk 2 ? With boats and destructible enviroments, maybe ?

  • Thanks for the update about patch 1.3, I’ve been checking the blog for over 3 times a day – everyday- this week.

    The new weapons, VOIP settings and new painting thingies :p

    I love playing Warhawk and have played for over 60 hours for the moment – and counting-

    I hope we get more info about the broken mirror expansian next week – its GDC you know :p –

    Once again thanks and as always: Rock On

  • Now we just need to hope 1.4 wont be out before home

  • I had a couple of map idea’s I thought I would ask you people here what you thought about them.

    first there is the abandoned city idea where there are plenty of buildings,alleyways and streets.You would need to be able to get into most of the buildings though and be able to get to the second and third floor of most of the buildings.At both ends of the map would be the starting bases with would be the largest building(except maybe one building slightly taller right dead in the middle of the map)Now this map would be able to provide ground troops allot more cover from enemy warhawks.
    Imagine caring the CTF flag and being able to just jump into the nearest house to escape from a barrage of missiles.Then trying to run from building to building to avoid being blown up.

    ill go on to the next map idea now.

    This ones for a dogfight map and it should be one of the easiest maps to make.Its very simple but I think it would be very fun.Its nothing but a heavily clouded map.Make it large and full of clouds a warhawk can vanish into.

    I have a few more but will wait awhile to post them.

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