Starhawk

[saberdragon]

Just played a game of CTF & the teams were so onesided (as normal) pounded by the Hawks again by high ranked players some of them level 30 odd....

I made a comment on air about how peeved I was about the Hawk pilots never going for the flag & just pounding everything that moved...

A voice (a american) from the other team started the normal "dont play then" why buy a game thats based around Hawks , which is a fare comment...

I posed the question what will you do when in a months time theres nobody or very few ppl to play this game & the answer?

Well move on from this to the next game like we did in WARHAWK......

Thats the type of player thats far far to frequent in the gaming community grab the trophy's/platinum & wreck the game for players in the future..

Every game is a Death match to them.....

[Bilbo_bobbins]

I do agree with you, I have found a lot of games where this has been happening, cluster bombing the hell out of my team. The only way to beat them is grab a rocket launcher and constantly try to take them down, build lots of beam turrets and upgrade to flak turrets. Build a hawk and go and get them in the air too.

I have found that way to many games are very one sided, but its early days and once people get the hang of the game, it will mature and you will find better and fairer games.

[urmyleander]

I find that games go 1 of three ways, 1 rushed by hawks straight away and r8ped for the entire game, 2 both sides get ox tanks and the game becomes a stalemate of shield barriered ox tanks pointlessly shooting at each others shields and hawks play no part whatsoever they just fly about killing each other or 3 one side gets ox tanks quicker then the other and the entirety of the game is spent r8ping the other team.

I enjoy the game, its alot of fun but base r8ping is far to easily achieved and very difficult to break out off seeing as your r8pists are given a nice headsup on exactly where you are going to land........

Also giving hawks a bloody thermonuclear missile which they can use on your base in the opening 5 minutes of a game is well a bit silly now isn't it.............

Like the majority of games lately (especially ive noticed in PS3 exclusives like Resistance 3) there are some serious balance issues.

I understand the game is called starhawk but why bother having any other vehicles, buildings or weapons in he game if your going to make the starhawk cheap and OP at least the Ox tank with all its OP goodness takes time to deploy.

The Nuke Torpedo shouldn't be released till like halfway through a game, hawks shouldn't have the ability to remain cloaked when they go robot mode, Bubble shields need a timer or there should be an infantry class with temporary Invisibilty.

Although the Hawk invisibilty may counter the bubble it also means 1 hawk can easily destroy an entier bases AA guns and shields and r8pe it entirely by walking round in invisible robot mode, where as an infantry ability giving short term invisibilty would allot them in and destroy the shield without being OP.

[geddesmond2]

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Bilbo_bobbins wrote:
I do agree with you, I have found a lot of games where this has been happening, cluster bombing the hell out of my team. The only way to beat them is grab a rocket launcher and constantly try to take them down, build lots of beam turrets and upgrade to flak turrets. Build a hawk and go and get them in the air too.

I have found that way to many games are very one sided, but its early days and once people get the hang of the game, it will mature and you will find better and fairer games.

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You think the games one sided now just wait for when good clans start forming and those words will have a whole new meaning. As soon as that happens it will be either join a good clan or say hello to a new kind of baseraping. Thats when this game will really die out.

[Zorak_79]

A tactic which I try and employ when my teams base is getting hammered by hawks is to jump in a hawk myself and do base defence from the air. Instead of flying over to attack the enemy base (which is what a lot of people tend to do) keep circling taking pot shots at any approaching Hawks or ground vehicles who attempt a base assault. (Admittedly I'm not that great at flying yet but its still fun)

Also if enough infantry base defenders carry rocket launchers then they can make short work of any Hawks.

Even if it is a bit unbalanced at the moment  I find its still a blast to play and I for one am lovin it. In time any issues will hopefully be addressed. 

[geddesmond2]

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Zorak_79 wrote:

A tactic which I try and employ when my teams base is getting hammered by hawks is to jump in a hawk myself and do base defence from the air. Instead of flying over to attack the enemy base (which is what a lot of people tend to do) keep circling taking pot shots at any approaching Hawks or ground vehicles who attempt a base assault. (Admittedly I'm not that great at flying yet but its still fun)

Also if enough infantry base defenders carry rocket launchers then they can make short work of any Hawks.

Even if it is a bit unbalanced at the moment  I find its still a blast to play and I for one am lovin it. In time any issues will hopefully be addressed. 

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Yeah the tactic I used last night against a team full of hawks was jump in a mech, build an A.R.M and just stay in mech form defending the flag and shooting any hawks that flew near. The only time I went airbourne was to refill ammo and do a perimeter of the base to catch anyone sneaking up on the base. The enemies side went from 8 players to 4 after 5 minutes and I went 20 kills to 1 death.

[Cheeker-Route66]

I hate weak *hits like that, which play just to kill, but in modes oriented in battles for a flag, or zones. Grow a pair and join a TDM!! 

I dont have a problem with base ravages, but the enemy should go and storm the flag, when you are down like that. Its embarrassing as hell, when not even one enemy guy goes for the objective, when dominating like that. 

Players are just people and people are just...

[Zorak_79]

The more I play CTF the more I see games ending in stalemate due to people just unable or unwilling to get the enemy flag.

Usually when a successful flag capture happens it tends to be 1 or 2 brave souls who make a mad dash at the enemy base, several times now I've tried to grab the flag sometimes I've even made it out of the base and half way back (I actually managed to capture it once ) but I got little to no support from my team mates as they were all too busy flying around trying to shoot one another.

I think over time this will get fixed, perhaps I need to look at joining a clan, the only problem with that is due to family commitments my gaming time tends to be irregular.