Starhawk

[Shifty_Geezer]

When Dylan Jobe told us:

Starhawk’s party system allows you and your friends to hop from game to game together. You can even add people to your party as you go if you meet someone you want to roll with along the way. We didn’t have that in Warhawk and that was a bummer. But we have it now!!

(http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/05/17/building-and-battling-dylan-jobe-discusses-starhawk/)

Was he lying or just confused? Because all through the beta this party system was never demonstrated, and I kept asking for clarification and it never came, and then I bought the game believing it was going to have this fabled Party System only I can't find out how to actually put my friend's in a party so we hop from game to game together. Not even changing one Coop map to another. We want to join games on the same side playing together, just as we were told we could. What happened?

[dawve30 · Accepted solution]

I've been told you invite your friends to your multiplayer homeworld and add them to a party in there, once they accept you can then jump into games together.

[Causton97]

Actually, come to think of it, I don't know HOW to invite someone to a party...

I've joined them before but never made one! Haha, how strange... 

So, anyone mind telling me how it's done?

[Shifty_Geezer]

Ah, yes. Obviously. Foolish me for thinking it'd be an option in the menu. It's just a simple case of going into the Multiplayer hub, inviting friends, then after they've joined, clicking their name in the interface and inviting them into the party. Then they reply to the message by going to their hub and accepting the party under your name, at which point you get no notification that they're in your party other thana change of the tagline under their name. I guess it's that obvious that it probably wasn't even worth covering in the extensive manual, although given the size and complexity of that mammoth tome, I'm sure it goes into great detail about such things in one fo the chapters.

Anyway, lousy interface design and hideous complexity aside, party is in and does work with clear chat, so party gameplay is present. Huzzah!

[TheTreeFrog]

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Shifty_Geezer wrote:

Ah, yes. Obviously. Foolish me for thinking it'd be an option in the menu. It's just a simple case of going into the Multiplayer hub, inviting friends, then after they've joined, clicking their name in the interface and inviting them into the party. Then they reply to the message by going to their hub and accepting the party under your name, at which point you get no notification that they're in your party other thana change of the tagline under their name. I guess it's that obvious that it probably wasn't even worth covering in the extensive manual, although given the size and complexity of that mammoth tome, I'm sure it goes into great detail about such things in one fo the chapters.

Anyway, lousy interface design and hideous complexity aside, party is in and does work with clear chat, so party gameplay is present. Huzzah!

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Chapter 14 of the 'Party System' section - page 138.

[BoomTartanArmy]

games been out for a whole weekend, how dare you attack Dylan Jobe when it is u thats the noob here lol jk