As of Wednesday, the new 1.4 patch for Warhawk was released. Why it didn’t contain the new trophy patch (That will be the 1.5 patch that should be out “soon”), but instead it contained two very nice new game modes.

The first new game mode has to be my favorite of the two, Hero.

Yes, this is what it looks like when you are the Hero for your team (Change color when needed).
Basically the game mode plays out like this. Team Death Match style, but on each team there is one hero. The hero is randomly selected and upon becoming the Hero, your backpack becomes full with all the fun weapons you love. On top of this you get a bonus to your armor(health?) All in all you can take a whole lot more damage, and you can dish TONS of it out. Your weapons become much stronger, for example, I blew up a tank with my assault rifle!

Once you die, a new hero will be randomly selected. If you manage not to die, about after two minutes you will lose your hero status and a new player will be selected.  So far I have become the hero at least twice a game.

The next game mode is called Collection, which takes capture the flag and puts a twist on it.  If you look closely on the map above, you will see four little biohazard symbols. These are where the cores are. Your job is to grab a core, and take it back to your base. Here’s the catch though, the points improve the more cores you have. So if you turn in one core, you recieve one point. Two cores = three, three cores = six, four cores = twelve I believe. Although I have yet to see four turned in at once. It’s different, but a little odd feeling. If you’re a fan of base defense like Mike K. is, you might find you need to adjuts your play style, since the bad guys will never come into your base unless they are chasing you down.

This patch brought in a few other features and tweaks, but I mainly wanted to go over the new game modes.