(Ps3) Starhawk Beta Music Gameplay
0Basically the guns suck in this game. The default player gun and the Starhawk gun. There is a sniper rifle, rocket launcher, and shotgun for the player to pick up but overall the player weapon's suck. The Starhawk has a bunch of pickup weapons including what is essentially a giant nuke missle, but it is still kind of difficult to enjoy this game. Gotta set the flying controls a certain way too.
The idea, I think, that the developers had was to make the weapons work better in a group. 3 Starhawks can take down 1 Starhawk in the air pretty easy if they are working together. Same goes for a group of players gunning a Starhawk walking around on the ground. Being in a group is better, and if your group have rocket launchers you'll be ok.
The turrets create an interesting situation for flying near an enemy base in that when there are 2 or more, a player can not fly near a base. Interesting strategy involved in using energy wisely and not setting up a bunch of useless buildings or walls, especially when on a bigger map like the second beta map, where you need to establish other areas as bases in order to control the battlefield and get back into the fight where ever it is quickly, and not run or drive or fly across the entire map again and again.
The problem is that once you can't fly near a base, you have to go into it on foot, and if your team is not "playing with you," than it is a bothersome game, cause you are on your own with pretty aweful weapons. And being on your own with the weapons this game offers is not much fun even when in a group. I would play it every so often if I owned it simply for its rare oddity appeal these days, but I don't and am kind of doubting I ever will.
Lastly, any game that has player cooperation built into it the way this game does; really needs to take into account the individual player more than this game has. Individual players are stupid and noobs and could give a shit about anything anybody else is trying to do and are based on my experience in the beta more apt to tear down your fort for energy, than to help you defend it. To be fair, I got killed by a few Starhawks up close and personal pretty easily. I could just never get the same results when I had a chance the few days I played.