Public Starhawk BETA

[ShadowFlareX]

Warhawk is my all time favourite multiplayer game and I think it's the best multiplayer game I've ever played. So I came into starhawk with high hopes. I purposely tried to keep an open mind because the game will have differences to warhawk and I didn't post on this forum until after a good few days of playing starhawk as I wanted to give it a chance and learn the gameplay properly, not just slate it and say "this should be like warhawk" all the time.

So after playing it for what 2 weeks now, I've come to the conclusion that starhawk is better then warhawk. I've got to say, I'm utterly addicted to it. It's how I felt when I first started playing warhawk. Everytime my ps3 is on I have to put starhawk on. And it's terrible because I was meant to publish my LBP2 level this month.

It's just so different and free compared to warhawk, the change is exactly what was needed and I feel LBI took the right direction with this game and they've done an outstanding job. There's actually not many gripes I have about starhawk. There are some imbalance issues and some other issues but on the whole, the concept works.

I think for a newbie, it's quite daunting, confusing and difficult. Not many things are explained well so I hope there will be a good tutorial. It took me 2 days to realise I could respawn cars and hawks.

This game really is incredible though, it's like nothing I've ever played, and I can see it shaping up into something quite incredible. I can't wait for 32 player matches. Tanks and bikes, geez.

I'd like to give LBI a virtual pat on the back and handshake because as a person who loved warhawk, I love starhawk even more now. That's no easy thing to say. I trust you guys will balance the game up fully, and I trust you to make this epic.

Can't wait to get home to play it again. Wish the daily maintenance wasn't at 8pm for the UK though lol

[jersyi]

ok, i have to ask cause i cant seem to be able to find it

but how can u shoot multiple rockets at once in a hawk

i have found that yellow weap (dont know the name yet, sorry just started playing) which does an auto lock on a hawk or jetpacker

but sometimes when i'm flying i see multiple rockets incoming towards mee, how do they do that 

pressing L1 just fires one rocket with me :/

i feel like a noob, and that after playing warhawk for about a year

[TheTreeFrog]

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jersyi wrote:

ok, i have to ask cause i cant seem to be able to find it

but how can u shoot multiple rockets at once in a hawk

i have found that yellow weap (dont know the name yet, sorry just started playing) which does an auto lock on a hawk or jetpacker

but sometimes when i'm flying i see multiple rockets incoming towards mee, how do they do that 

pressing L1 just fires one rocket with me :/

i feel like a noob, and that after playing warhawk for about a year

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I've set mine up more like Warhawk. There is a setting in the settings menu which allows L1 to be used to lock-on rockets. With this setting switched on you hold L1 and the number of rockets locked-on will increase and then release L1 to fire.

I'm not sure how you do it with this switched off.

[jersyi]

so it was just a setting

dont think there is a lockon without this setting, so i dont know why this isnt turn on by default ...

[mikeymonty]

the default setting should auto-lock swarms onto enemy hawks and jetpacks but for many ppl (myself included) it didn't seem to work that way. as mentioned above, go change your settings to hold L1 to lock missiles warhawk style.

[MazinkaizerSKL]

Auto locking Hawk weapons is the most ridiculous design choice ever.

It feels like Lightbox is trying to make Starhawk a game that appeals to the Call of Duty fan in the ground combat, and making the air combat useless and borderline brain dead:

- Canned scrubbing moves

- Reduced flight speeds

- Auto locking missiles.

- Even more generous to players who keep flying into object that Warhawk.

Get rid of missile autlocking entirely, or bring back ground troop weapon lock from Warhawk.

Aiming a gun in a video game is not a mechanic I enjoy. It's why I enjoyed the gun play of Warhawk so much. More importantly Warhawk was incredibly fast paced and if you were on a skilled team you had many vehicles at your disposal to fit your play style.

Starhawk feels nothing like Warhawk in a bad way. At this stage in the Beta it feels like Lightbox would be better off changing the title to something different and distance the game from Warhawk entirely. Starcraft Warriors is a more apt title.

[Commandofin]

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MazinkaizerSKL wrote:

Auto locking Hawk weapons is the most ridiculous design choice ever.

It feels like Lightbox is trying to make Starhawk a game that appeals to the Call of Duty fan in the ground combat, and making the air combat useless and borderline brain dead:

- Canned scrubbing moves

- Reduced flight speeds

- Auto locking missiles.

- Even more generous to players who keep flying into object that Warhawk.

Get rid of missile autlocking entirely, or bring back ground troop weapon lock from Warhawk.

Aiming a gun in a video game is not a mechanic I enjoy. It's why I enjoyed the gun play of Warhawk so much. More importantly Warhawk was incredibly fast paced and if you were on a skilled team you had many vehicles at your disposal to fit your play style.

First you whine about autolocking and next you praise it. Let me tell you something, Warhawk had heavy aim assist on ground and heavy aim assist on warhawks too except they locked only at air targets. Starhawk has slim to none aim assist but hawks have it when they fight in the air.

Starhawk feels nothing like Warhawk in a bad way. At this stage in the Beta it feels like Lightbox would be better off changing the title to something different and distance the game from Warhawk entirely. Starcraft Warriors is a more apt title.

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[MazinkaizerSKL]

You're misunderstanding my point.

Holding your lock box over an enemy while dogfighting to obtain a lock while holding down fire is the method that should be standard in the hawk.

There should be no just fly around and point your hawk at an enemy for free lock-ons in the options. It's beyond ludicrous.

[JoshBall]

I am more than impressed with the beta so far, it really is addictive. Like others have said there are little issues which I'm sure shall be rectified, I think mainly for me it will be just adjusting the hawks, making them more powerful and more like the warhawk controls/manouverability.

[BrainAngel]

is the beta trial time already over? cant activate/download it with my recieved code.