Warhawk: Operation Broken Mirror [Out Now]

[BurnZ]

Operation Broken Mirror is now released.

Price: $9.95
Download size: 132MB

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Operation Broken Mirror is a booster pack that is confirmed for release in the future and will feature one new vehicle -- an Armoured Personnel Carrier that acts as a portable spawn point and equipment producer -- and a new battlefield. New game modes are also in the works, but they will not be a part of the booster pack. Instead, game modes will be released for free and integrated into patches and updates.

More info when it becomes available.
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R.I.P. DEJA VU - 21/08/2010
R.I.P. Tanya - 16/04/2011

[mipac]

I believe you, but I dont suppose you have a link?
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[BurnZ]

Of course. 1UP
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R.I.P. DEJA VU - 21/08/2010
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[BurnZ]

New Warhawk expansion pack to arrive this April on PLAYSTATION®Network



Operation: Broken Mirror the new Armoured Personnel Carrier rumbles into action on the icebound Vaporfield Glacier



Since the first expansion pack (Operation: Omega Dawn) was released on PLAYSTATION®Network (PSN) last December, Warhawk™ soldiers have been stepping up the attack around the world, battling for domination on the ground and in the air. To fuel the battle and keep morale high, expansion pack Operation: Broken Mirror will launch exclusively on PSN in April, bringing the mighty Armoured Personnel Carrier into the fray as troops battle it out in the seven arenas of the new Vaporfield Glacier.



The Glacier is a new Eucadian stronghold where snowy conditions blanket an intricate network of freeways and towns, the hub of which is the war torn Radial Village. Desperate for an advantage, the Eucadian army has established a research base in the southern polar wastes, far away from the active battle fronts. However, there is a mole in the camp and secret intelligence has been leaked to the Chernovan command instigating a lethal invasion force. The battle will be decided across seven arenas capable of holding different numbers of players – up to 32 gamers can fight in Tundra Assault, for example, while Olsavik Village is designed for smaller battles with four to eight players.



New terrain requires new equipment and what better for ground assaults in the snow than the Armoured Personnel Carrier? Designed for rapid infiltration, the tough and swift APC allows six passengers to fire weapons through its side hatches and features a ‘speed boost’ to charge through enemy lines more effectively. Once the APC reaches its destination, it acts as a forward spawn point for swarms of reinforcements. There’s also a driver-activated E-POD (Electrostatic Plasma Ordinance Disrupter) that emits a burst of energy that absorbs enemy fire to provide a temporary shield for your troops. It’s also a hazard for enemy Warhawk which are destroyed if they come into contact with it. The APC comes in two forms; one Eucadian (M-22 APC/SW) and one Chernovan (HE7-Walrus).



Before Operation: Broken Mirror, there’s another addition to your Warhawk experience via a downloadable patch. Early April, two new troop weapons are coming to the theatre of combat: the wrench and the Bio Field Generator. The wrench pickup replaces the knife and can be used in the same way – as a melee weapon that can kill enemy infantry with a single strike - but it’s not just a weapon; it be used to repair friendly vehicles. By simply standing next to the vehicle and striking it with the wrench, the lifespan of the vehicle is extended - with the opposite occurring when enemy vehicles are struck. The Bio Field Generator also replaces the knife and is deployed like a proximity mine, sticking to walls and vehicles. It generates a nanite cloud of your team’s colour - allied troops standing within the cloud experience rapid health regeneration with the opposite occurring to the enemy.



The Warhawk landscape has changed once again - download Operation: Broken Mirror for Warhawk via PSN in April and get ready to change the way you wage war…




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R.I.P. DEJA VU - 21/08/2010
R.I.P. Tanya - 16/04/2011

[Felonioustub]

Looks pretty sweeeeet.
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[BurnZ]

Operation: Broken Mirror has gone “gold” and will be available in the Playstation Store on April, 17th!!

Here’s a quick summary of what Operation Broken Mirror includes:

10 layouts on a brand new winter battlefield, Vaporfield Glacier. 2 new Armored Personnel Carriers (Chernovan and Eucadian styles). 10 bonus layouts for battlefields from the original game so that you can play with the APCs. First let me write a bit about the new battlefield.

So yes, finally it’s a snow level…something that everyone has been asking for. And no…our next expansion will not feature a lava-level !!

It does feature dynamic weather so in some screenshots you will see the sun is shining, there are shadows and very little, if any snow falling. In others, you may notice that the weather conditions have changed. When the sun is behind the clouds, the snow is stronger, whipping back and forth, the shadows flatten and the lighting becomes more diffuse. And yes… the weather state is synchronized across the network.

Vaporfield Glacier is a vast, windswept valley filled with huge chunks of glacial ice, raised highways, deep chasms, with military bases and research facilities scattered around the frigid landscape. At the heart of the battlefield lies Olsavik Village, a small abandoned town whose people have long since left their homes after years of bloody conflict in the Eucadian War.

While our last booster pack, Operation: Omega Dawn sold really well (thanks to all of you) and was received very positively, some players on the Warhawk forums did voice a concern that the Omega Factory battlefield was too large!! Something that I must admit I was surprised to hear but nevertheless, it came from our player community so we took it very seriously.

So…we took a different approach with Vaporfield Glacier. The naked battlefield is in-fact larger that Omega Dawn. However, we decided to include twice as many layouts so that we could provide players with more variety in small and medium maps. We also included something else that our community has been requesting for quite sometime — asymmetrical layouts.

So like I was saying, Vaporfield Glacier battlefield is large but it’s carved-up into a bunch of smaller layouts that would provide players with a lot of layout variation. Here are the layouts that you’ll get with Operation: Broken Mirror:





We’re really happy with the way these layouts play and hope all of you enjoy them as well. I was also really glad that SONY was cool with us doubling the number of layouts without increasing the price.

As you know from our previous Booster-Pack we like to “retro-fit” the new vehicles into the core battlefields to keep things fresh. In Operation: Omega Dawn, we included the Dropship into each of the big layouts from the 5 original core battlefields as “bonus” layouts.

Well…this time around, we really wanted to increase the number of bonus layouts because the APCs play really well on both large and medium layouts. So I’m happy to say that Operation: Broken Mirror includes not 5 but 10 bonus layouts that feature the APCs.

Now…on to the APCs. And they are jam-packed with Yummy Gameplay Goodness! I should trademark that so that I can say something like “our new booster features YGG technology!”

…but I digress.

APCs – They have a ton of features so here’s a quick YGG summary:

APCs support a driver and 6 other troops in “pop-up” hatches that allow troops to use their own weapons, making the APC like a customizable weapons platform. APCs act as mobile spawn points for your team so you can setup field bases, help coordinate ground assaults, and spawn directly into them as another player is driving them around. When you spawn into an APC, your troop is rewarded with an additional weapon based on an internal loot-table. APCs can activate a huge shield by placing an E-POD. APCs have a boost ability that not only allows them to traverse distances more quickly, but it also acts as a ram-attack that obliterates other vehicles (except the tank because of its super-heavy armor).

I’m probably gonna have to respond to a lot of comments and questions from this post so that you can get some specific answers. So let ‘em rip!

Oh, and because I know someone is going to ask me…”why is this booster pack called Broken Mirror?”

Well… and maybe this gives too much exposure into how my mind works (or doesn’t work I guess), I found the fracture patterns of broken glass very similar to the crystalline structures of ice and snow — So there…”Broken Mirror” 0052 - 006F - 0063 - 006B - 004F - 006E - 0021
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R.I.P. DEJA VU - 21/08/2010
R.I.P. Tanya - 16/04/2011

[Maikii]

More from blog.us.playstation, Dylan Jobe in comments:
"We are currently tracking an April 2nd release date for the v1.3 patch (free, 2 new weapons) and an April 17th release date for Operation Broken Mirror (as above)."

[BurnZ]

I just noticed that they have already added the Armoured Personnel Carrier into the stats. Must of mistakenly put it into the 1.3 patch.
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R.I.P. DEJA VU - 21/08/2010
R.I.P. Tanya - 16/04/2011

[BurnZ]

Operation Broken Mirror is now released.

Price: $9.95
Download size: 132MB
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R.I.P. DEJA VU - 21/08/2010
R.I.P. Tanya - 16/04/2011