Warhawk Gameplay Tips

These are great Warhawk tips for those interested in the way I play. The homing missiles can easily take out somebody in one hit. What I do is get relatively close to them, constantly firing the machine guns while simultaneously locking onto him with the homing missile. If you hit them a few times with the machine gun, it will drop their health enough so the homing missile will destroy them easily. BUT while doing this you have to stay on their butt! keep a medium distance between you and him, then once your homing missile is locked on, hit the after burner and fly up as close as you can then let go of the missile. The closer you are to them, the less chance they will escape it. And since you took down their health a little bit with the machine gun, the missile will do its part and take them down. Now granted you got close enough to him to have the missile hit, hopefully this will have taken him out...BUT if it did not, this persons heath is VERY low. Those homing missiles do serious damage, and once his health is dropped as low as it is, a quick pursuit of the machine gun will take them out almost instantly.

Here are a few basic tips on how to do some serious warhawk killing. (from the way I do it)

-Be on the offense, always! Since following somebody is quite easy, even if they maneuver a lot. Just watch the map and see where they are. Plus, if you constantly are pursuing somebody you will have the advantage.

-Two weapons that will grant you victory is the swarm missiles, and the homing missiles. Always grab the yellow icon homing missile when you can, it is the easiest, VERY powerful missile you can use against other warhawks. And if you can find somebody with 80% or less health.. you can take them down with one hit. Its very easy to go on a killing spree with these, as I usually take people down with each one. But always make sure to use boosters and get as close as you can. The missile is slow but deadly. The swarm missiles are also crucial to destroying the other guy..not so much on their own, since they don't do much damage unless you can get all 8 locked on ones to hit. Use these under quick firefights, where you don't have enough room to lock onto the person with a homing missile. Usually these work great when the person is trying to get behind you, but you keep powersliding and getting a brief look at the side of their aircraft (basically doing circles with each other).. and the swarm missiles lock on time is very short, and you can at least release one or two depending on how good of a look at them you can get.

-Afterburners! Use this as often as you can, it makes you less of a target if your flying by major shootouts going the speed of light. Also, its very useful for pursuing other people when using homing missiles. And if not anything else, it gets you around the map quicker, and getting weapons a lot faster or before somebody else can.

-Learn how to dodge missiles! Its very easy to dodge missiles without the chaffs. All you do is pull up on the L3, and use the R3 stick to do a lot of spinning maneuvers (as your flying upwards, to the side, and backwards). Use this technique with a afterburner, and you will avoid even the most ferocious of missiles.



-The machine gun is your friend. I have gotten more kills with this weapon than any of the other ones. Mainly because by the time you hit somebody multiple times with various missiles and they still live..their health is very low, and a few hits with the MG will take them down quickly. Plus its actually a very effective gun, and drains health very fast. And great for pre-missile launch strikes.

-Learn the maps. Learn where weapons and health are located. If you know the locations of these things, you will have a major advantage.

Anyway, what really counts in this game, and something none of us can tell you about, or how to do it. Is experience. All it takes is trial and error. Find out what works, and keep doing it. All you have to do is play and eventually you will get your own techniques and ways of doing things. And you will end up as good as anybody else. After all, I was not taught how to play, I just played and learned things on my own...and as humans, we are all capable of doing this. You just have to be able to learn.