Starhawk dev rethinking DLC strategy: It 'might be surprising'

Hope this game is good. I will try the public beta first. Transforming ships are always awesome.

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I loved the way they supported Warhawk both paid and free DLC.
But I didn't enjoy the Starhawk Beta that much. I guess I was expecting more Warhawk but it's not Warhawk.

Not sure if I will buy it now. It is fun but it has a bunch of issues like the 5 ft knife lunge. Since it is a Beta and the Public Beta one is starting soon I hope it will get better and it will sway me to a purchase.

"Bonin says the mix of veteran Warhawk and new players caught a lot of unsurprising bugs and balance issues"

It's a beta, sure, but the phrasing made me do a double-take for some reason. So I peeked at the article and found this:

"There was nothing that wasn't surprising and we've been able to address a lot of this stuff."

Surprise! I guess.

This game is really good! I was on the private beta, I didn't noticed any bugs, just had fun. ^^

Hope everyone has a chance to play it, it's very addictive. It improves from Warhawk, and it's really fun.

Free DLC is always welcome. (;

When they added jetpacks... good times.

I tried the beta for a few days, but it just feels too dated and amateurish for me to get too much entertainment out of it. It feels a lot like the old CnC Renegade game for PC. Not a bad thing if I was playing it a decade ago.

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"accept the credit card"

Nobody is going to give a cc# with that grammar.

Heres a dlc strategy: no dlc because you'll include everything on the disc. Just saying

Been in the beta for a while...really liked it.

I'm looking forward to this but I'm with the developer on one thing - I'll buy this when I'm damn good and ready to after I know it's bug free.

I loved the crap out of Warhawk. I feel bad that they stripped out so much of what made that game so great. Suppose I'll have to wait for Warhawk 2, if it ever comes.

Starhawk was weird just plain weird. Didn't have that same wanting to play it again and again like warhawk.

I wanted to like Warhawk. There seemed to be a fine line between those who could fly, and those who couldn't. And by fly, I mean stop and start erratically like a mosquito with missiles. I had these visions of flying around in VTOL aircraft that behaved semi-realistically, where there's an amount of inertia to your jet. What I experienced was a kind of FPS in the air that sorta felt like flying. I also got owned pretty badly on most servers. Even if I had managed to master the stop on a dime and go flight style, I wouldn't have cared for it.

I'm hoping that Starhawk doesn't tread down this same path, but figured it would. However, it seems like some Warhawk fans aren't happy with Starhawk, and I wonder if this has anything to do with changes (if any) in how fighters maneuver?

On the subject of DLC, if it's a multiplayer game, the DLC must be free if it affects gameplay at all, e.g. maps, expansions, etc. Otherwise I tend to play a game until paid DLC comes out and disrupts the community (I dropped Killzone 3 like a rock once map packs came out). DLC that affects things like how a player looks, sure, charge for that.