Another free update for Warhawk soon

By Robert Purchese Published 12 August, 2008

Trophies, training tutorials, paint jobs.

Warhawk will get another free patch on 27th August, adding all sorts of features such as Trophies, training tutorials, paint jobs, and more, Sony has announced - confirming previous reports.

First is custom in-game music, which will automatically disable the Warhawk music when used, according to game director Dylan Jobe on the US PlayStation blog.

Trophies, all 56 of them, are next. That number includes booster packs, and some will be awarded retroactively for various server-side statistics.

Jobe is introducing training tutorials to ease new players into the community, with three lessons to learn and a Trophy awaiting their completion. The best of the trio is "Flight Practice", apparently, which can be replayed over and over until you can do a 4G inverted dive like Maverick.

European-designed paint jobs and insignias are on their way in update v1.5; Jobe selected 20 of the best paint-jobs and 50 of the top insignias for inclusion from the recent design competition.

GGL competition entrants from a while ago will be gifted a ceremonial blade for their participation, while the winning clan will get one-off blades to whack people with.

Finally, in another effort to help newcomers, Jobe and team are colour-coding rookie servers, which will also appear top of the list if you are eligible for them. Clan invites should be retractable now, too, to stop people procrastinating for eternity or for those no longer welcome.

Jobe concluded with the hint of a Booster Pack announcement later this month at the Leipzig Games Convention.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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  • GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #1 4 years ago

    Hurray a flight training mode, finally i can learn what to do in the 10 secs after taking off !!!

  • mcbi4kh2 #2 4 years ago

    Cant wait fot this! Easily the best game Ive played this generation.

    @GamesProgrammer
    This video helped me a lot if you mean you get shot 10 seconds after you take off?
    http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=VX1gDnqJBGM

  • Octoroc #3 4 years ago

    "Hurray a flight training mode, finally i can learn what to do in the 10 secs after taking off !!! "

    n00b!

  • Widge #4 4 years ago

    Shockingly, I'm seeing this as one of the best multiplayer games I've ever played too!
    Can't wait for the excuse to dive back in ...

  • allywidd #5 4 years ago

    ive been playing this for months and months, the flight trainin will help to get that elusive ribbon, then ill be able to jump up 3 ranks. lol

  • Widge #6 4 years ago

    I really must give Pro Flight a go... but I'm not really much of a Warhawk flier. Mainly used for transport purposes...

  • mcbi4kh2 #7 4 years ago

    I was with you Widge, I hated the Warhawk until I had to use it for ranking up. Now I'm always in it! Still not very good though but definetely improving.

    Pro flight is awesome, I dont think it gives any great advantage over normal but flying upside down is just cool :)

  • Netweb #8 4 years ago

    I am one of the insignias winners.. the eagle one :D

    Put my insignia or i kill you all! xD

  • Widge #9 4 years ago

    The thing with Warhawks is that I'm usually on 32 player servers and there is far too much out there to cause big warhawk death rapidly on the maps, turrets, rocket guys, other warhawks... bit more of a measured place down on the ground. I only ever take to one unless the team is getting hammered from the air without anyone doing anything to respond. Still thats the beauty of the game, many styles of play to suit all.

  • Widge #10 4 years ago

    Are the Burnout ones free?
    Don't know about that, but barring Bungie dishing out Halo maps for free, I never see anyone else giving out treats like the Warhawk ones!

  • Beano #11 4 years ago

    "Are the Burnout ones free? "

    No, bikes in Burnout Paradise will not be free.

  • SeesThroughAll #12 4 years ago

    "Are the Burnout ones free? "

    No, bikes in Burnout Paradise will not be free.

    Yes, they will be free.

    "Here’s what Burnout Paradise players can look forward to, when they get the FREE Burnout Paradise Bikes Pack next month. (This is the pack formerly know by the codename “Davis”.)"

  • Widge #13 4 years ago

    and all the other updates have been free too I believe. Good on them then.

  • oreillymj #14 4 years ago

    The 1 big annoyance about this game was how poor the instructions where.

    There can be an annoying amount of spawn camping going on, however it was only recently that I discovered that you could select your re-spawn point. A well organised team can mount an offensive on a re-spawn point and rack up large numbers of kills.

  • Beano #15 4 years ago

    "Yes, they will be free. "

    Exellent!

    I'm sure they once said (on their podcast) that the bikes would not be free, but glad they have changed their minds :)

  • Beano #16 4 years ago

    Also glad to see support for custom soundtrack in Warhawk... the standard soundtrack get VERY annoying after a while :)

    Can't wait to know more about the jetpacks - sound like this could change gameplay a lot.

  • GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #17 4 years ago

    @mcbi4kh2

    OMG thanks i cant beleive i didnt know this, this will definatley get me back into the air next time i play!!