Or when you know where the ambush corners are and you toss a grenade before you walk up and they die... its hilarious.F-Pina said:The knife is awsome.
If you stand still in a corner in a shadow the enemy does't "see" your name above your head anymore, so he doesn't know you are thereIt's more awsome when you catch someone doing that whithout him seeing you
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Warhawk - The Official Thread
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AranhaHunter
Banned
I didn't know pre game stats counted towards your overall stats, I always fucked around there before the game started....
The Take Out Bandit
Member
Good to see some GAF peeps remembers Warhawk Wednesdays.
Now about the rest of you dirty so-and-so's!
Now about the rest of you dirty so-and-so's!
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
So far Warhawk is both awesome and crappy, although I've only been playing team deathmatch. The mode itself is awesome, but my team was sooo dumb. I'd immediately capture every point, but my guys would stay at our home base and jump into turrets, which nobody would ever go near. They kept only using our original spawn point, and didn't even try to defend any of them.
It's not like the other team was any good, I kept killing tanks and other dudes while on foot. I'd run up to turrets and blow those up, I blew up a Warhawk with a tank (wasn't hovering, that was satisfying) and I seemed to be able to stay alive in a Warhawk forever. If I babysat one point, all the others would be captured, although I kept recapturing because it was easy, but that wasn't enough to win.
It seems like the game didn't pay attention to stats, so one team would get 4 good guys and the other would suck, so you'd win or lose if you were on the good team. So I'm thinking maybe regular deathmatch may be more my thing or maybe all the guys that aren't stupid are playing with the booster packs.
I do love all the thing you can do, and the controls are amazing once you turn the sensitivity down (WTF @ default settings) and it has great balance.
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Haha, I just realized that Team Deathmatch is like a crappy hybrid mode. I didn't know standard Deatchmatch is a team-based setup, and I didn't know there was a Zone mode where all my hard work would actually mean something rather than just give my dumb teammates more spawn points to disregard. This is about to become my favorite game...
It's not like the other team was any good, I kept killing tanks and other dudes while on foot. I'd run up to turrets and blow those up, I blew up a Warhawk with a tank (wasn't hovering, that was satisfying) and I seemed to be able to stay alive in a Warhawk forever. If I babysat one point, all the others would be captured, although I kept recapturing because it was easy, but that wasn't enough to win.
It seems like the game didn't pay attention to stats, so one team would get 4 good guys and the other would suck, so you'd win or lose if you were on the good team. So I'm thinking maybe regular deathmatch may be more my thing or maybe all the guys that aren't stupid are playing with the booster packs.
I do love all the thing you can do, and the controls are amazing once you turn the sensitivity down (WTF @ default settings) and it has great balance.
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Haha, I just realized that Team Deathmatch is like a crappy hybrid mode. I didn't know standard Deatchmatch is a team-based setup, and I didn't know there was a Zone mode where all my hard work would actually mean something rather than just give my dumb teammates more spawn points to disregard. This is about to become my favorite game...
The Take Out Bandit said:Good to see some GAF peeps remembers Warhawk Wednesdays.
Now about the rest of you dirty so-and-so's!
Sorry, but I've currently got a rented dumpster in the driveway that I'm filling up with all the shit from my basement and garage every evening, so I'm tied up this week. I also probably won't be able to play in any clan matches this weekend for the same reason.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
I hate CTF in any game. I've never understood the draw.icechai said:Zone, Collection, Flag, and Hero are pretty much the only modes I play, and out of those its usually CTF more often than not
Dice said:
I agree. Although its the best way to get points in this game, so a lot of people play it exclusively.
My favorite would be a mode like Assault I think in UT, where you take your base, then the next closest one and so forth, building up. And you cant attack back bases of the enemy. So that way you get fights over 1-2 central key bases until one team pushes the other towards their own base. Zone mode is fine, but on a huge map, the back bases are under attack, and turn over, but there is little incentive in terms of points to stay back and defend.
Warhawk needs to improve the points award system to be more rewarding for little things. First kill in a round. Rivalries (you killed Joe234 5 times bonus). A driver point award bonus (so instead of running around trying to collect cores or the flag, people actually protect and carry the core carrier or flag carrier). If you give 25 for flag capture, give 5 for driving the flag carrier, and 1-3 to each person protecting him. Also give a point for each assist, not every 5.
Points are the driving force to a certain extent and they need to be more liberal with them in a way that promotes teamwork. Give points for repairing a tank, for laying down a health spray when friends heal, for the rider in a tank, for the driver of a jeep when the machine gunner kills someone... That way people work smarter knowing that no matter what they do they will get rewarded.
BadlyCookedTurkey
Member
ChryZ said:
If the teams are balanced though nobody ever even attempts to go for the flag, because doing so normally results in insta-death. It's still fun, but it doesn't really feel like CTF.
Playing smaller maps is better. Archapelago (sp) is most awesome in CTF.
Generally I find collection to be a better mode though.
BadlyCookedTurkey
Member
ChryZ said:Create a back bone of bases, rack up a few kills, go in, once the flag is on the move then your team will follow. IF they're not totally retarded
If voice comms was decent you'd have a point.
I love all the modes, but there's a certain special kind of chaos you can get with CTF that you rarely find elsewhere. Even in Zones there's rarely just one single focal point of EVERYONE'S attention. The most balls-out crazy moments of both teams rushing to a single point that becomes a cauldron of exploding hell are nearly always found in a good CTF game.
Then there's the thrill of pinning down the enemy to their home base and trying to get the flag out from under the noses of the entire enemy team. I love it so much. >
Then there's the thrill of pinning down the enemy to their home base and trying to get the flag out from under the noses of the entire enemy team. I love it so much. >
andydumi said:
Agreed. Although, the points system has been getting tweaked for about a year now. Don't forget that the reason a lot of points AREN'T awarded is because they could be easily abused to pad stats. Repairing a tank for example, one person throws grenades the other bangs away on the tank etc. I think Incog certainly needs to start up some double points weekends and whatnot, I've got around 700 hrs in this game over the last year and I'm only half way to General. It makes my Warhawk Platinum trophy feel like it's another year away....ughh. I love the game but should a person really have to put 1000+ hours into a game just in order to get a platinum trophy? You can get platinum in Uncharted in a week or less. I had always thought that they should have made the ranking system more dependent on in game accomplishments and less on points. Then they could have just kept adding more ranks along with some of the booster packs/game patches/skin additions. The free skins kind of took away a lot of the drive to rank up, the last 40k points have felt like a grind and I'm sure the next 140k will too.
devildog820
Member
Dice said:
Squad rushing the flag! Two jeeps, a tank and a couple of Warhawks for air support. Coordinated assaults are so awesome. The first jeep is basically a minesweeper/target, the tank protects you from other tanks, and the air support backs you up. Awesome stuff.
The Frankman
Banned
just started out and and playing in the recruit_practice server. Join in if new to the game!
The Frankman
Banned
Maybe to Warhawk but not games of that ilk. I'll frag you in under 10 seconds if you mess with me.mintylurb said:Mmmm fresh meat..
The Frankman said:Maybe to Warhawk but not games of that ilk. I'll frag you in under 10 seconds if you mess with me.
It's on!
So it seems, does it not, that perhaps you were playing the same trick as mintylurb? I mean if you're an old hand... and you're in "recruit_practice"... hmm!
The Frankman
Banned
no, I am really playing Warhawk for the first time. But Deathmatch/CRT games? I've played them for over 10 years, including fighter games on PC (JetFighter 2).slider said:
EDIT: Although one setback... flying planes on a controller doesn't feel as comfortable as a keyboard. Weird, but plane combat is not that easy for me. :C
The Frankman said:
Haha, it's all good in the hood. If I was that intrigued I would've asked for your PSN and checked your stats.
I just pictured you having lots of experience of similar games then going into a noob server and dishing out hell on a plate to all those suckers.
I've never done a "flight-sim" on keyboard. Well not for years. I'm struggling with the concept. Have you got WH set up for motion control? I don't but I think a lot of the experienced pilots do. May be worth experimenting.
The Frankman
Banned
Yeah I should probably try that out it might interesting (using the motion controller that is). I'm trying to raise my level past recruit. Also for some reason after about 35 minutes I get randomly disconnected. That a common occurrence?
I know some people suffer occasionally. I never have. What's your PSN connectivity like generally? Ever get disconnected in other games? I think the servers do very occasionally get temperamental - but I do mean very, very rarely.
Whilst I'm here I'll just throw this out for discussion... since the last update I've found the controller buttons aren't as responsive as they used to be. There hasn't been a FW update in that time so I'm sure it's only in the case of WH.
For instance I have to sometimes press a button a couple of times to select, say, the rifle. Similarly, when airborne I'll have my finger pressed firmly to target an enemy and it will not registed until I remove finger then reapply it. Never used to be like that. Anyone else had similar experiences? Maybe my controller's borked; but I haven't noticed it in any other game.
Whilst I'm here I'll just throw this out for discussion... since the last update I've found the controller buttons aren't as responsive as they used to be. There hasn't been a FW update in that time so I'm sure it's only in the case of WH.
For instance I have to sometimes press a button a couple of times to select, say, the rifle. Similarly, when airborne I'll have my finger pressed firmly to target an enemy and it will not registed until I remove finger then reapply it. Never used to be like that. Anyone else had similar experiences? Maybe my controller's borked; but I haven't noticed it in any other game.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
This might be the greatest game ever made...
Using a tank was pretty sweet, but blowing up a warhawk with a grenade is incredibly satisfying, makes me feel like a jedi or something (specifically Luke taking down an AT-AT). I'm guessing only a far sniper headshot on a pilot not in hover mode would be better.
Warhawk controls are so perfect and natural, I feel like an air-ninja. When I get irritated by ground stuff it's wonderful just hopping in and getting away from it all, it's almost like a whole different game in the skies.
Using a tank was pretty sweet, but blowing up a warhawk with a grenade is incredibly satisfying, makes me feel like a jedi or something (specifically Luke taking down an AT-AT). I'm guessing only a far sniper headshot on a pilot not in hover mode would be better.
Warhawk controls are so perfect and natural, I feel like an air-ninja. When I get irritated by ground stuff it's wonderful just hopping in and getting away from it all, it's almost like a whole different game in the skies.
Dice said:
I always laugh when a warhawk comes after me and i run around with my knife out and he thinks I have no weapons, and he gets on the floor and then I toss a grenade or a mine on his wings... and watch his ragdoll fly.
I have had people harass me for the whole round after killing them that way.
Okay, after compiling everything, here's the state of the current roster:
SCROLL TO THE RIGHT TO SEE ALL THE DATA.
Thanks for all the responses, we've got a lot more info now. There's still a lot missing though, and a lot of you read my PM but never replied. >:| The last guy who hasn't played since the first half of the year has been cut, so new cuts will come from outstanding idle invitations first, and people in the roster who haven't provided data second. There's also a few of you who did reply, but didn't give complete info. EVEN IF YOU REPLIED BEFORE, PLEASE CHECK BY YOUR NAME. I've added a new column for booster packs, with O, B, and F representing Omega Dawn, Broken Mirror, and Falling Star respectively, so I'll need to know what everyone has there. Thanks to Steroyd for initially pointing that out.
Again, the first number is how many pieces of data haven't been supplied. A lot of the 1's are just missing the booster pack info, but there's still quite a few below them that are missing some/all the info. Please PM me with the info for anything that has a "?" on the row with your name.
A recap of what we're looking for:
- How many people you can host: To find this out, just log on to Warhawk, go to Create Game, and the game will test your connection. Under Server Options, go down to the Max Players option. The biggest number you can host will be there.
- An email address we can use to contact you about clan business: If you don't wish to submit an email address, that's fine, just tell me so and I'll mark you down as a "No". All email addresses will be kept private within the clan, and only used for emails about matches or clan stuff.
- Your time zone: Let us know where you are in the world so we can coordinate playing times better.
- What booster packs you have: Just list the ones you've got, and we'll be able to make better server rotations to accommodate everyone.
- Your username on gamebattles.com: If you don't have one, that's okay, just let me know that you don't. Registering on GB is optional, but in the event we start up GB activity again, you'll need to register if you want to participate in GB clan matches.
- Your general availability: Just a basic summary of the typical times you're playing Warhawk. If you're completely irregular or always available, just say so.
Anyone new who wants to join the clan will need to provide this info first.
Now, about the Warlord trophy. People have been asking me to pass it around, and I fundamentally don't have a problem with this, and I don't want to stay clan leader for long. But like I've said before, I'm going to wait a while to see what happens over on the Warhawk boards just to make sure Incog doesn't start wiping stats for trophy padding as well as stat padding. There's been a lot of clans who have done this already, and I want to see if anything happens to them. Color me paranoid, but I've put a thousand hours into this game and I don't want to lose my stats because people are too eager for a trophy. :/
If anyone is impatient, and wants to temporarily leave the clan to get this, I have no problem inviting you back when you're done.
NOW SEND ME DATA! Let's get some clan matches together this weekend!
Code:
Miss PSN Name GAF Name Host Email? Timezn Packs GB Name Available
0 carlos carlos 2 Yes EST O gafcarlos Anytime
0 Foil Foil 12 No EST - - Irregular
0 hank_scorpio slider 8 Yes GMT OBF - 9pm-10pm GMT some WD, some WE
0 Palantiri the_prime_mover 16 Yes EST OBF Palantiri Evenings & WE 5p-11p
0 Sea_Manky Sea Manky 8 Yes EST OBF Sea_Manky Almost anytime
0 solbad sol_bad 8 Yes GMT+10 OBF - WD >5p
1 AndysPants andydumi 8 ? CST OBF - Evenings
1 angelcage angelcage87 4 Yes GMT+1 ? angelcage WE
1 Arkestra Ceb 24 Yes GMT+1 ? Arkestra F-Su 2p-6p EST, S-Su >4a EST, WD <6p EST rnd
1 burnfout burnfout 8 Yes GMT+1 ? burnfout >8p GMT
1 ChryZ-US ChryZ 4 No GMT+2 ? ChryZ WD 7p-11p GMT, WE 12p-5a GMT
1 cjdunn cjdunn 0 Yes EST ? - WD evenings except We
1 deepbrown deepbrown 4 No GMT ? deepbrown Irregular, after 10p
1 devildog820 devildog820 20 No EST ? - Irregular
1 DireStr8s nickslicl 8 Yes EST ? DireStr8s WD >5p EST, WE
1 ElStupido83 Phantast2k 16 Yes GMT+1 ? ElStupido all week til Oct, WE after
1 Escalation Escalation 20 Yes PST ? Escalation WE
1 F-Pina F-Pina 4 Yes GMT ? Pina WE
1 freethought69 freethought 8 Yes GMT ? freethought 1p-5p WD, some nights, most WE
1 Goonboy Roxas 8 Yes GMT ? Goonboy7777 Most evenings
1 icechai icechai 20 Yes EST ? icechai F-S >1a EST, possible WE daytime
1 JackScofield Jack Scofield 24 Yes PST ? JackScofield Most evenings, WE preferred
1 Jaeyden Jaeyden 8 Yes MST ? Jaeyden Mostly WE, flexible WD
1 Jazar Oni Jazar 20 Yes EST ? Jazar random, mostly WE
1 Mintylurb mintylurb 2 Yes EST ? mintylurb WE 2p-5p EST
1 Nohne kazenone 8 Yes GMT ? Nohne >5p GMT
1 pancakesandsx pancakesandsex 20 Yes EST ? pancakesandsex Su 3p-5p EST
1 PlayerBeyond CSSer 12 Yes EST ? PlayerBeyond WE open, WD 6p-11p EST
1 Queeg500 Queeg 8 Yes GMT+10 ? - Random
1 REDEMPTOR RoH 24 Yes EST ? rohscx WE >3p EST
1 revolverjgw revolverjgw 8 Yes AST ? - WD >9p EST, WE afternoons
1 SgtSpud SpudBud 24 Yes EST ? - 5p-9p, irregular
1 Steroyd Steroyd 8 Yes GMT+1 ? Steroyd Every day except F-Su 6p-10p
1 TEEPO teepo 24 Yes EST ? teepo Irregular
1 TelemachusD TelemachusD 24 Yes EST ? - Anytime with a couple days notice, except after 2a
1 The_Marquis The Take Out Bandit 12 Yes EST ? The_Marquis WE open, WD >8p EST infrequently
1 Tiduz Tiduz 24 Yes CET ? - Irregular
1 Trevelyan Trevelyan 8 Yes EST ? Trevelyan 3pm Sat ok, almost anytime
1 womfalcs3 womfalcs3 8 Yes EDT ? - WD irregular, WE 11a-1p, irregular afternoons, can't host
2 BeeDog BeeDog ? Yes GMT+1 ? - Su, sometimes early Sa
2 BlackGoku03 BlackGoku03 ? Yes EST ? - F-Su >11p, sometimes WD
2 Bloody_Marcel TTP 12 Yes GMT+1 ? Bloody_Marcel ?
2 Cacophony onadesertedisland ? Yes CST ? onadesertedisland >8pm CST
2 Methane47 methane47 ? Yes EST ? methane47 Evenings except Su/We
2 Tntnnbltn Tntnnbltn 12 Yes GMT+8 ? - ?
3 decon89 decon 8 Yes GMT+1 ? ? ?
3 GimmeCat Eccocid ? Yes GMT+2 ? ? WD 9p-11p, WE evenings
3 GoncaloCastro GoncaloCCastro ? ? GMT ? GoncaloCastro WE
3 JohnFkennedy johnFkennedy 8 Yes CST ? ? ?
4 kassatsu kassatsu ? Yes PST ? ? ?
5 J-Wood j-wood ? ? CST ? ? ?
5 m0nkeyhero h3ro ? ? EST ? ? ?
6 aprodigalson ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
6 CaliChronz InterMoniker ? ? ? ? ? ?
6 Flo_Evans Flo_Evans ? ? ? ? ? ?
6 Huggers The Hug Dog ? ? ? ? ? ?
6 InfectedZero InfectedZero ? ? ? ? ? ?
6 JupiterUnleashed so_awes ? ? ? ? ? ?
6 OmegaSpur OmegaSpur ? ? ? ? ? ?
6 PaiPai Pai Pai Master ? ? ? ? ? ?
6 Gowanz007 Gowans007 ? ? ? ? ? ? -- Note, waiting on PSX3 to return
6 TKAwsome TKAwsome ? ? ? ? ? ?
6 seikenchan Seiken ? ? ? ? ? ?
6 aj2good4you2 aj2good4you2 ? ? ? ? ? ?SCROLL TO THE RIGHT TO SEE ALL THE DATA.
Thanks for all the responses, we've got a lot more info now. There's still a lot missing though, and a lot of you read my PM but never replied. >:| The last guy who hasn't played since the first half of the year has been cut, so new cuts will come from outstanding idle invitations first, and people in the roster who haven't provided data second. There's also a few of you who did reply, but didn't give complete info. EVEN IF YOU REPLIED BEFORE, PLEASE CHECK BY YOUR NAME. I've added a new column for booster packs, with O, B, and F representing Omega Dawn, Broken Mirror, and Falling Star respectively, so I'll need to know what everyone has there. Thanks to Steroyd for initially pointing that out.
Again, the first number is how many pieces of data haven't been supplied. A lot of the 1's are just missing the booster pack info, but there's still quite a few below them that are missing some/all the info. Please PM me with the info for anything that has a "?" on the row with your name.
A recap of what we're looking for:
- How many people you can host: To find this out, just log on to Warhawk, go to Create Game, and the game will test your connection. Under Server Options, go down to the Max Players option. The biggest number you can host will be there.
- An email address we can use to contact you about clan business: If you don't wish to submit an email address, that's fine, just tell me so and I'll mark you down as a "No". All email addresses will be kept private within the clan, and only used for emails about matches or clan stuff.
- Your time zone: Let us know where you are in the world so we can coordinate playing times better.
- What booster packs you have: Just list the ones you've got, and we'll be able to make better server rotations to accommodate everyone.
- Your username on gamebattles.com: If you don't have one, that's okay, just let me know that you don't. Registering on GB is optional, but in the event we start up GB activity again, you'll need to register if you want to participate in GB clan matches.
- Your general availability: Just a basic summary of the typical times you're playing Warhawk. If you're completely irregular or always available, just say so.
Anyone new who wants to join the clan will need to provide this info first.
Now, about the Warlord trophy. People have been asking me to pass it around, and I fundamentally don't have a problem with this, and I don't want to stay clan leader for long. But like I've said before, I'm going to wait a while to see what happens over on the Warhawk boards just to make sure Incog doesn't start wiping stats for trophy padding as well as stat padding. There's been a lot of clans who have done this already, and I want to see if anything happens to them. Color me paranoid, but I've put a thousand hours into this game and I don't want to lose my stats because people are too eager for a trophy. :/
If anyone is impatient, and wants to temporarily leave the clan to get this, I have no problem inviting you back when you're done.
NOW SEND ME DATA! Let's get some clan matches together this weekend!
Escalation
Member
I have all three booster packs.
devildog820
Member
PMs people!
:lol
Yeah, that's pretty much how it goes. Usually two or three others are all about rushing the flag though.
Dice said:
:lol
Yeah, that's pretty much how it goes. Usually two or three others are all about rushing the flag though.
Jack Scofield
Member
I have all the booster packs.