Most of our readers and Warhawk aficionados know that we recently held a contest for players in the US to submit their own insignias and aircraft paint schemes. The response was fantastic and we received a ton of entries. Thus why it has taken us so damn long to review them all, then pick the winners, contact them, and secure all the paper work required by our lawyers.

Welp… the winners are now selected and integrated with the upcoming Warhawk v1.3 update!

Before we reveal the new designs, why don't you take a gander at this new 1.3 trailer and get hyped up for the awesomeness that these new designs will be flying around in:

• The team was really impressed by the quality of the submissions. Many of you spent a lot of time designing really great stuff and it's going to make a great addition to the game — aside form the fact that it's just plain sweet to get your stuff in a game!

  And like I said before the team was really impressed by the paint schemes especially since they clearly took the most time to create. Our artists were so happy with the results that they took the time recently to generate hi-res renderings of all the winners.

  The images turned out pretty damn cool and I thought that I would post them here as the announcement rather than a standard text list — text is soooo old-school

  Thanks you all for entering the contest – all your great designs add a lot of value to our new v1.3 update!!!

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  Fellow internet-peeps (not to be confused with the seasonal, addictive Peeps), here are the winners!!!

  
  

  Here are the winning insignias!

  

  We really liked these insignias be cause they were so diverse; from simple abstract shapes all the way to literal items. These should really help our players personalize their troops and aircraft!

  Now of course I can't leave this BLOG entry without updating you on the v1.3 patch and the upcoming Booster-Pack Operation: Broken Mirror.

  The v1.3 patch is "basically" done and our international teams are in the last few days of test so I should be able to announce a release date very soon.

  Operation Broken Mirror is also "basically" done but hasn't gone "gold" yet…in hindsight, I wonder if there is a law or some form of internet etiquette that limits how many words I use in a single post with "digital-air-quotes"? Doh…there's another one.

  ~blah~

  I will be making an announcement about this very soon as well. And I must say, the team and I are really happy with how much fun this new Booster is. Between it and the new equipment added in the v1.3 patch, Warhawk feels like a fresh game!

"So far, Warhawk players have logged over 7.3 million hours of gameplay and have scored over 206 million kills!" Jobe wrote. "And during this time, we've keenly observed the battles, looking for opportunities for us to further balance Warhawk's gameplay and over-arching 'combat economy.'"

The result of the team and Jobe's observations is two upgrades for troops on the ground. First is the Mechanic's Field Wrench. Used to repair vehicles, Jobe wrote you'll swing the instrument when you're near an allied vehicle and -- BOOM! -- it's fixed. Run into an enemy and you can use it for one-hit kills or to damage their vehicles. Up next for grunts in the field is the Bio-Field Generator. You'll grab this device and hurl it like a mine. The generator will stick to whatever it lands on and if an ally stands in the resulting field, he'll regain health. If a bad guy walks into it, he'll get fried.

What else does the patch bring? How about some Home integration?! Once you get the patch, Jobe says you'll have the tools to "form groups, meet in their apartments, discuss tactics, and then launch a game of Warhawk…all together!" Games launched from Home will appear on the global games list in gold.

"When you're in your apartment, all you do is whip-out your virtual PSP, select 'create game' and pick Warhawk," he wrote. "From there, you get to start your own player server, pick a game rotation, set server options and then…BAM !! Launch Warhawk with all of your friends!! You can also pick to not make your game viewable to the other Warhawk players around the world, or you can make it a 'public' game that puts all of your friends into the server together, and leaves open slots for other global Warhawk players join."

The new patch will also allow players to choose push-to-talk or open-mic when chatting in game, adjust the voice-activation level, and clearly see who is talking. There's even a new all-talk server so players "can enable cross-team trash talk."

Jobe says that the patch is getting tested right now but doesn't have a release date yet.

~Exerpt from IGN.com

Hi i'm Rare3 and you maybe wondering why I created this Forum when there is a perfectly good forum already. Well, if you didn't already know, we on the Warhawk board have been plagued by a particulaly nasty breed of troll called W_R. He has many profiles, including W__R, VV_R and Waffle_Roffle. This union is just meant to be basically the same forum BUT with several differences.

1) No trolls (This union is invitation or approved application only)

2) Can post pictures and proper smileys for GameFaqers

3) I can sticky topics w/o having to wait for mods to approve (I think ) so we can have useful FAQS at the top of board.

Hope you express interest

Peace!