Wednesday 30 November 2011

Starhawk private beta looking tidy..

... but what's this, talking about a private beta publicly? Think I'll lose my beta programme priviliges, or worse - face legal action?

Nope, check this out from Lightbox:

REMINDER: players in all territories are free to publicly discuss the Starhawk Private BETA, post videos, etc. We apologize for any confusion on the matter and the SONY attorneys have modified the EULA to make sure that it accomidates free and open public discussion!
Many Thanks to the SONY PlayStation Legal Team!
This is the most radically engaged PS3 beta I've been part of, the point updates are every couple of days, there is an RSS feed to share update details and balancing stats, Lightbox are pushing for active forum participation, both US and EU forums are up and running.

 The game - we've only got CTF for now, it's radically different from Warhawk, the most noticable at first being the button selections, then the build and battle elements, but as expressed in the run-up, it does feel familiar - "spiritual successor" is dead on. For a very early beta, it's super solid, seemingly lag free and stable, nice accurate long shots, grenades, close quarters - all good. Only critisism so far, looks a little lo-res, this could simply be colour selections though. Oh, and it kept me up till 1am on a work night.

 Now I've 100%'d the Saints Row 3 missions, this beta could soak up a lot of my time...

11 comments:

  1. Great isn't it!? @Tone did you get an invite? I offered you one by email...

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  2. @ reakt - glad you're enjoying it, thanks for the invite but i'll pass on that. got too many other games to be finishing right now so no time for betas.

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  3. no worries. Yes there's a lot of cool stuff around right now.

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  4. it is good, very different and lots to learn about lots of things... I was thinking today "right, better dedicate several rounds just to wall placement"

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  5. Good stuff Mr Jimmy. Glad to hear the Beta is looking sharp. I didn't play much Warhawk, but I'm really looking forward to this one - the clan integration sounds excellent.

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  6. FYI: Eurogamer "Gotham City Impostors" beta!

    The codes are valid from this Thursday:

    [ http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-12-12-30-000-gotham-city-impostors-closed-beta-keys ]

    BFN,

    fp.

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  7. got a Starhawk beta code today. may have to give it a go at some point i guess :)

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  8. I got another code today, they are not transferable, that code there is just for you tone! BTW:SR3 I've got the assasinations to go then I'll be v close to platinum...

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