Dylan Jobe discusses Warhawk 1.1 patch

[BornOfFire]

http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.ps3fanboy.com/media/2007/10/warhawkarbiters23.jpg (http://blog.us.playstation.com/2007/10/19/warhawk-v11-patch-and-arbiters/)
If you've been keeping an eye on the PlayStation.Blog (http://blog.us.playstation.com/) you will have noticed that Dylan Jobe has recently posted up a nice piece of news regarding Warhawk. Several pieces, actually. To begin with, Warhawk version 1.1 is on its way and will arrive sometime before the end of October (that's this month, by the way). The update doesn't add anything to the gameplay but, instead, is mostly focused on stability and glitch fixing and will work alongside recent stability fixes on the server side. This is great for those of us who still suffer from weird stats errors (we get rank increases almost every time we login) or who still can't make it onto ranked servers. The full patch list can be found after the jump.

The second big announcement involved new Warhawk police - called Arbiters - who will be overlooking the leaderboards and who will be joining games in order to maintain the Warhawk peace. With guns. They have a wide array of punishments at their disposal including kicking, banning and sending harshly worded emails to you and your parents. So if any of you are sneaky cheaters then you'd best watch out - the Arbiters are after you.

Finally, Jobe mentions an announcement regarding update v1.2 coming soon. This will probably be the December Expandsion we've been hearing so much little about. I'll keep you posted.

[BornOfFire]

The folks behind Warhawk know how to treat their fans right -- not one, but two patches are in the works, which together will add everything from new map layouts to community moderation and DualShock 3 support.

Patch v1.2, slated for release in December, has most of the fun stuff. In addition to refining some game rules and fixing glitches and exploits, the patch will include five new layouts designed for small, 4-8 player games. "We have found that while a lot of players like playing the really large games, there was a pretty big segment that was playing smaller games," said Dylan Jobe, Warhawk game director, in a Playstation Blog posting today. "With that trend, we wanted to rig some new layouts that are more geared for smaller games; 4 to 8 players." The new layouts are titled Eucadia: High City, Island Outpost: Standoff, The Badlands: South City, Destroyed Capitol: Garden Showdown, and Archipelago: Close Corridors.
Again, patch v1.2 also adds DualShock 3 support, which won't mean much as Sony has inexplicably set the US release for the DualShock 3 in the spring of next year. If you just can't wait that long to have some rumble with your Warhawk, you should be able to use import and use a Japanese DualShock 3 when it releases later this year.
But before you'll be rumbling your way through new layouts in December, you'll get to download the patch v1.1 by the end of this month. Jobe detailed this patch in its own PlayStation Blog posting (http://blog.us.playstation.com/2007/10/19/warhawk-v11-patch-and-arbiters/) last week, and in addition to general network and connection fixes, the new patch will add Warhawk Arbiters. "These are members of our online services groups in both the US and Europe that will be overseeing the leader boards, community stats and will also be 'in the trenches' joining game servers for first-hand observation," described Jobe. "Their PSN account names will remain a secret. They have the authority to warn players, call a player out to prove his or her skills, or render judgment & think Judge Dredd." Rendered judgments can include "an email warning, forum post, a kick, temporary/permanent ban, or the Warhawk Arbiters can request your Warhawk stats be 'cleansed.'" How Draconian!