Incognito has continued to give amazing support to Warhawk on the PS3, adding to the gameplay experiences in many ways. Free patches with gameplay tweaks and additions, Trophy support, and now a third expansion pack, Operation: Fallen Star. For the cool price of $7.99, you get a new map, Tau Crater, as well as the new Icarus Mk.1 Rocket pack.
Warhawk is getting another free update around August 27th, making the game v1.5. Incognito has put in tons of effort to make the game better and better. Along with Trophies, here’s all you can expect from the new free content:
That’s a ton of new stuff to keep you occupied. Warhawk is still one of the best online communities out there. If you haven’t joined in on the fun, get the game right away.
Dylan Jobe dropped by the official PlayStation forums and talked all about the upcoming Trophy support for Warhawk. No, they aren’t out yet. Soon, young Jedi. Soon.
Trophies are coming in update v1.5. But wait, v1.4 isn’t out yet. Don’t fret, as the two patches were developed in tandem and will be coming “very very very soon”. Yeah, I like the sound of that. There will be 56 achievements in all, with 10 being retroactive to medals and awards in the game. That’s right, if you already have them, you’ll automatically get the Trophies. Then there’s 34 achievements that are all new and have nothing to do with the current in-game medals. I’m betting things like a certain number of headshots, shooting down aircraft, etc. That leaves 12 more achievements. There will be 4 for each booster pack. But there’s only two out now, you so. Hmmm. Guess what’s coming…
Gotta give a lot of respect to Incognito for really staying behind the community of their game. Glad to see this awesome online shooter will be getting some nice updates and Trophies. Stay tuned as we get more information on a release date for both patches and the new booster pack.
Fire up your copy of Warhawk on the PS3 today and you’ll be prompted for the new v1.3 patch. Here’s what this free update will give you:
Incognito is definitely putting in a good deal of time and effort into making Warhawk a prolonged success. I wish more developers would be as forthcoming and dedicated to their games.
Want to know what to expect with the new v1.3 patch for Warhawk? Here’s a trailer to show off the new elements in the game. The new elements look pretty bad ass. I just wish there was an easier way to create a party with your friends in the game.
Not content with sitting on their laurels (what exactly are laurels anyway?), developer extraordinare Incognito is running a contest for you to create your own paint schemes and insignias for Warhawk. The upcoming version 1.3 patch will include 50 user created insignias and 20 user created paint schemes, all chosen from this contest.
User created content is all the rage these days, and Incognito looks to be embracing it whole heartedly. The rules for the contest are pretty simple, but check them out here.
The submission deadline is February 15th at 11:59pm PST, so get designing people.
[via PlayStation.Blog]
Warhawk will be seeing two patches in the near future on the PS3. The first patch, v1.1, will be hitting a console near you in the very near future. This patch will introduce both server-side and client-side fixes for the game. Here’s what you can expect fixed in v1.1:
Server-side updates
* Stat database stability improvements
* Improved server stability
* Max Clan limit changed from 32 to 64
* Viral Rank-up bug fixed and correct for players that were accidentally ranked up.
* “Time-in-Vehicle” Stats fixed so certain awards can now be granted properly.
Client-side updates for Patch v1.1
* Stat connection, fetch/post fixes
* Significantly improved client connection stability
* Quad “????” Ping display bug fixed.
* Added support for Player-Ranked Servers.
* Game synchronization fixes due to fluctuating network conditions (packet-drop).
* Crash fixes for end of game and split screen.
The development team at Incognito did some server updates today for the Warhawk servers to alleviate that stat collecting issues some users are seeing. Dylan Jobe, who should have PR job offers flowing in from every company in the industry, posted information on the official PlayStation forums:
We are deploying another server-side update and system restart during a maintenance window of 5am to 7am PDT. on Friday.
This is to further address stats related issues — surprise, surprise!
So the update should be finished now for everyone. Let us know how it worked out for you. I know a couple readers here who had some issues with their stats.
Dylan Jobe, one of the developers at Incognito that worked on Warhawk, gave us some new information on the status of Warhawk on the official PlayStation forums. While analyzing data on the servers, here’s the major issues they came up with and are working hard to solve:
I really have to hand it Incognito. If every development team kept an open dialog with the community like this, there would be a lot more harmony in the gaming world. Sure, there are problems. Nothing will ever be perfect. But letting the users know that you’re working on them and regularly giving updates (even if there’s no good news) is really what’s needed in this generation.
If you’re having some problems with Warhawk, you can rest easy knowing that Incognito is on the case.
We have been pretty quiet recently as we look to determine the root cause of some of the issues that some players are currently experiencing. Some items we have fixes for, some we are still working on — probably not the exact response that you wanted to hear, but its at least a status update.
The three main issues that we are tracking are:
- Stats and Ranking errors, delayed posting, missing stats.
- “Connection Failed” or otherwise messed-up join game errors.
- Network Drops/Disconnects (we have a fix for these and should be deployed in the next service window)
Open communication to the community is key these days, and Incognito seems to get that.
I’m not going to spin it and say “oh….we just had soooo many players…..so successful…blah, blah, blah.”
That’s a bulls&*#$t PR answer. The fact of the matter is that, there were some unforeseen issues that occurred once we went live…plain and simple. From here on out, look for far more frequent updates from us…even if its bad news.
I seriously want to frame that quote and mail it to every developer. Incognito is now my favorite developer just for saying that.
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