Have you been playing a lot of Warhawk lately? I know I have. That dropship in the last contact pack is the shit. More content is on the way, in the form of patch v1.3. Dylan Jobe, the game’s director, dropped off some information on what we can expect from the update.

• Mechanic’s Field Wrench – a new “weapon” that will allow you to fix your team’s vehicles rapidly. Swing the wrench at one of your vehicles and presto. It also works in reverse, where you can do damage to enemy vehicles with your wrench. With that, it’s also a one hit kill melee weapon against ground troops.
• Bio-Field Generator – think of this as a proximity mine, but a biological weapon. Drop this thing of anywhere on the map. If your team walks in, it will instantly restore their health. But if enemis walk into the bio-reactive field, they’re health will deplete rapidly. Don’t worry, the fields are color coded for each team.
• Home Game Launching – Warhawk games can be completely setup and customized with your party in Home. Get all your friends together in your apartment, create the game, and you’re off. Does this mean Home is coming pretty soon?
• New VOIP Options – Everyone likes a little trash talking. With v1.3, you can choose between push-to-talk and open mic for chatting in-game. You can also tune the voice activation level, so you the mic won’t pick up your significant other yelling at you in the background. An “all talk” server option will also be made available, so everyone on the map can trash talk each other at the same time. And with all these options, the patch will make it so the names of the people talking are displayed on the screen to ease things a bit.
• New Paint Schemes and Insignias – Remember that contest where the developers of Warhawk invited anyone to design their own paint schemes and insignias for the game? The winners will have their work added in v1.3. Pretty cool.

Definitely some cool new features, especially since it’s all free. I’ve said it a few times, but if you have a PS3 and don’t have Warhawk, you need to go buy the game (and make sure you have a bluetooth headset).

[via PlayStation.Blog]