Neat

This looks pretty cool. Can you post some info on what kind of game it is? Other than a mecha game, I mean. Thanks in advance.

>>7443566
OP here, I'm not actually sure how it plays. Looks like it is 3rd person action with base building/defending and a bit of strategy. 32 players online with vehicular combat.

Well I find out more later when/if the beta is released.

>>7443577

>3rd person mecha fightan with base building and actual strategy required

What sorcery is this. This sounds way too good to be true.

>>7443566

Online 3rd person shooter with lots of emphasis on vehicle combat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlYXnD51yVs

>>7443586

>That fucking trailer
>My face throughout the entire thing

Well, it's finally out. Sigh, it got released late last night.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/02/21/starhawk-beta-open-to-all-psn-users-today-get-top-tips/

Downloadin' right now to check it out.

I was in the Starhawk beta since it did it's closed invite only. Got in as a "friend" because I bought Warhawk way back when.

It's not a mecha game. It's a Third Person Shooter with real time strategy elements. The multiplayer is basically the base building of an RTS combined with on the ground third person action using a space western motif.

It's pretty neat, but I liked Warhawk. It's still fairly Battlefield-meets-Halo like Warhawk was. The Hawks are slower than Warhawk sadly, but everything else is a blast. You can even pull off full on Itano Circus maneuvers in hawk mode.

Some of the best moments were swooping down with a team of 3 to 5 hawks blasting away at the enemy base then dropping turrets and beam turrets in the middle of their base, swinging around cover avoiding rockets, and coming back in doing another bombing run only to transform on top of them and stomp on enemy heads while shooting up their base.

Oh, and transforming out of hawk mode shakes off missile locks so you can pull FUCK PHYSICS moves like speeding away, transforming mid flight, dropping 20 meters and turning around while falling, and transform back into a hawk and flying away. Sometimes I like to shake a guy off my tail by transforming midflight for that instant slow down, watch him zoom past me, transform back into a hawk, and get an 8 missile lock on him and blasting that fucker to space dust.

Hawken is apparently due this year some time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVa7B1bLv8I (gameplay starts at 0:30)

http://www.hawkengame.com/blog/

>>7446948
Cool, like the Macross thing where valkyries get behindq pursuing enemies by swinging engines forward for near-instant reverse thrust.

I've played several hours and its not bad once you figure out the controls (no tutorial yet..and note, I focussed on ctf primarily)

Basically, its like command and conquer in a way:
0. Deploy from orbit in a pod you can steer to the ground, able to hide in the pod for ten seconds before it opens (a godsend if you drop in a strafing run)
1:you have to wait to gain the building essence 'rift energy' - or kill,destroy buildings ect
2. Once done, you press one of the right triggers to bring up a build menu - then you position the hologram where the building/turret/wall/hangar is to be and then deploy it - several seconds later it lands and builds up - each player however has a maximum number of buildings they can place (I think - I never reached the limit as the starhawks blew them up)

This means the number of hawks/tanks/buggies is based on how many people build the facilities for them (it also helps stop the 'hawk jacking' of the previous game unsurprisingly) although I do worry about non-stop spawn camping having more effect now (c)

>>7446960
Now the starhawks - Gone is the hover mode, now the hawk switches from a biped mecha to the warhawk-esque plane - not equipped with anything but a cannon, ordinance is picked up in flight - one cool thing is the hawk biped mode has a 'stomp' attack - capable of squashing infantry and a limited jetpack, same as the infantry

The infantry jetpack needs its own building and on top costs two rift energy to buy the jetpack itself - but when equpped, pressing and holding l2 lets you fly for as long as the fuel allows (currently it regens on the ground and running out of fuel midair just means a slow glide to the ground) - Its highly versatile - I've learnt its very useful in escaping long enough for my health to restore (yes, it has restoring health)

As to infantry weapons, I've seen a sniper rifle, a missile launcher (with godawful anti hawk targetting), a sniper rifle and a shotgun besides the standard grenades and rifle

The netcode seems to run well, abeit due to being a beta server, somewhat laggily but from what I've seen so far, I'll be forking out for this game when it comes out - if only for that sexy starhawk mecha

>>7446958
Yeah, pretty much. Mech mode is ground only though so there's no crazy flying mech maneuvers besides using mech mode as a strategic STOP RIGHT FUCKING NOW button and doing crazy falling and shooting shit attacks because rockets/laser missiles/homing missiles can't lock on to ground targets.

>>7446963
Missiles lock on to anything that flies friend. You haven't seen hilarity until 4 starhawks empty their entire salvo of laser missiles on a single jet pack infantry unit simultaneously and hear the utter rage of one guy being raped by 32 laser missiles when it only takes 4 to kill him.

So far from the videos, I see jetpacks, four-wheeled jeeps, and the starhawk mecha. What other vehicles/transport equipment are there?? I hope there is more.