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#1 Exeon

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Posted February 17 2013 - 10:23 PM

IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY SCRIMS PLEASE HAVE MUMBLE AND HAWKEN INSTALLED BEFORE HAND, THANK YOU!

For a while now #HawkenScrim IRC channel on QuakeNet has been organizing games between players who know about the channel. Now we want to start nightly games at a specified time to get more players interested in either competitive or just organized play.

For now we want to try and get our games going around 6 PM PST(9 PM EST) so hop in around those times if you are interested in playing some organized games. We have a lot of great players and a lot of new players participating so don't worry just come on in and play. Due to the small community games may not happen every night right now but we hope enough players start to come around to allow us to have nightly games and eventually multiple games running a night.

View PostAshfire908, on February 24 2013 - 10:03 PM, said:

The bot has been updated! Here's how to use it now:

To see if there is a pickup active: !status
To join an active pickup: !join
To join a pickup with your actual callsign: !join <callsign>
To leave a pickup game: !leave

Big thanks to Ashfire908 for setting up the HawkenBot for the channel. There are even more updates to it to come

If you're unfamiliar with IRC a quick and easy way to join up would be to go here:

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If you're more familiar you can join us on QuakeNet in #HawkenScrim

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*these are not all the IRC clients, just a couple that I am aware of. If you'd like more added to this list just PM me with their names/webpage thanks.  

For those of you with a closer proximity to the EU servers, please check out: EU Organized Game Night

Edited by Exeon, February 24 2013 - 10:10 PM.

View PostDew, on April 04 2014 - 01:15 PM, said:

There's a difference between making the hoop 14 feet high and telling all the players that you have to wait for half a second after running before you can shoot the ball.


#2 Rei

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Posted February 17 2013 - 10:26 PM

We will most likely start matches with at least 10 plays (each side might get a random, but it's whatever for now).

These are for fun and to try to help everyone get better in a competitive environment!
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Posted February 17 2013 - 10:44 PM

If you're getting bored with Hawken, these matches should rejuvenate interest again! +1

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Posted February 18 2013 - 02:47 AM

If you're unsure about how these games go, some of the games from the scrims can be seen here: Rei's #HawkenScrim Matches Thread

There are quite often very very close games, many sub 50-0 wins and are a lot of fun

View PostDew, on April 04 2014 - 01:15 PM, said:

There's a difference between making the hoop 14 feet high and telling all the players that you have to wait for half a second after running before you can shoot the ball.


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Posted February 18 2013 - 06:52 AM

I wish I could be more involved in these. Sleep seems to be necessary for maintaining sanity though. Who'd have thought, huh? :/

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Posted February 18 2013 - 07:46 AM

Yeah, it would be nice if the EU scene was more into this as late night games on a work night aren't practical and it's difficult to stay competitive on high latency.

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Posted February 18 2013 - 08:40 AM

Yeah, it's hard to time these for all 3 time zones (GMT, -5. and -8) As a working man myself, I usually have to get to bed by 11PM or so.  Sometimes get a few EU players though.
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Posted February 18 2013 - 08:47 AM

View Postdefekt, on February 18 2013 - 07:46 AM, said:

Yeah, it would be nice if the EU scene was more into this as late night games on a work night aren't practical and it's difficult to stay competitive on high latency.

On weekends we could specify a special time in the afternoon say 2pm-3pm EST which would be 8pm-9pm Euro time?  We would need at least 6 interested Euro's to make it worth it though.  We have had a decent Euro crowd idling, so maybe we could make this happen.

We could then also do the regualr times of 9pm EST when the regulars come around.

Edited by RentAKnight, February 18 2013 - 08:48 AM.

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#9 Exeon

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Posted February 18 2013 - 08:50 AM

Honestly we could just setup a time specifically for EU players to do this, jump into #HawkenScrim, i'm Exeon there as well. If we get enough EU players interested I'll add to the post and hopefully you all can have some of your own scrims setup.

View PostDew, on April 04 2014 - 01:15 PM, said:

There's a difference between making the hoop 14 feet high and telling all the players that you have to wait for half a second after running before you can shoot the ball.


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Posted February 18 2013 - 08:50 AM

View PostRei, on February 17 2013 - 10:26 PM, said:

These are for fun and to try to help everyone get better in a competitive environment!

The organized games also create a nice closed enviornement to playtest mechs, weapons, and items for imbalance.

You think that the SS is OP?  Try running one in an organized game and then reconsider your conclusion.  Same goes for EMP and rev-GL.  Are they as viable when the other team isn't blindly running into you?  There are no rules for these organized games.

Edited by RentAKnight, February 18 2013 - 09:11 AM.

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Posted February 18 2013 - 08:59 AM

View PostRentAKnight, on February 18 2013 - 08:47 AM, said:

View Postdefekt, on February 18 2013 - 07:46 AM, said:

Yeah, it would be nice if the EU scene was more into this as late night games on a work night aren't practical and it's difficult to stay competitive on high latency.

On weekends we could specify a special time in the afternoon say 2pm-3pm EST which would be 8pm-9pm Euro time?  We would need at least 6 interested Euro's to make it worth it though.  We have had a decent Euro crowd idling, so maybe we could make this happen.

We could then also do the regualr times of 9pm EST when the regulars come around.

I'd definitely be up for this.

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Posted February 18 2013 - 09:29 AM

Do you run scrims on us east only? If you run some us west runs you may see me there, as I'm not used to ping on east servers.
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Posted February 18 2013 - 09:38 AM

View PostConquistador, on February 18 2013 - 09:29 AM, said:

Do you run scrims on us east only? If you run some us west runs you may see me there, as I'm not used to ping on east servers.

last night, because of empty server availability, we had 11 EAST players out of 12 playing on a WEST server.  Practically every single person had 100+ ping.  We played the game out and there was little ping QQ.

It helps out if everyone sacrifices / compromises.  We have no problem switching between east and west depending on what players we have, but we don't have the playerbase for all 12 East or all 12 West players.  

Also keep in mind Euro's ping 100+ to East and 200+ to West.

Come to think of it, you MM'd into the server we were using at the very end of it.  We had just played 2 games.

Edited by RentAKnight, February 18 2013 - 09:46 AM.

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Posted February 18 2013 - 09:58 AM

I'm not disputing that, it's just I've been getting weird artifacts in the last patch whenever I played on us east that carried over to my west servers. Where the camera would display me for a few frames on the bottom of titan when I was really on the top, then flash back to the place I really was at. I've been ghosting this way since the last patch and it honestly makes me want to puke.

I can't play on serves where the disorientation makes me dizzy, because I'm not teleporting forward or sideways, the game literally teleports me back to where I was a minute ago and then back to my current position. This has been recurring on east since the last patch, and my gut can't take it for very long.

At that point the game ceases to be fun and becomes detrimental to my health.
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Posted February 18 2013 - 10:02 AM

View PostConquistador, on February 18 2013 - 09:58 AM, said:

I'm not disputing that, it's just I've been getting weird artifacts in the last patch whenever I played on us east that carried over to my west servers. Where the camera would display me for a few frames on the bottom of titan when I was really on the top, then flash back to the place I really was at. I've been ghosting this way since the last patch and it honestly makes me want to puke.

I can't play on serves where the disorientation makes me dizzy, because I'm not teleporting forward or sideways, the game literally teleports me back to where I was a minute ago and then back to my current position. This has been recurring on east since the last patch, and my gut can't take it for very long.

At that point the game ceases to be fun and becomes detrimental to my health.

Wow that sounds gnarly.  Can you try to record a video of it?  Have you created a bug report?
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Posted February 18 2013 - 10:34 AM

View PostCulex, on February 17 2013 - 10:44 PM, said:

If you're getting bored with Hawken, these matches should rejuvenate interest again! +1

This sounds like a testimonial rather than advertisement haha.


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Posted February 18 2013 - 11:00 AM

I'll definitely be getting down on this. For some reason the past few days have been a little hard to find decent matches at night.

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Posted February 18 2013 - 05:30 PM

Coming up on 6, hop in anyone interested in some organized games tonight!!

View PostDew, on April 04 2014 - 01:15 PM, said:

There's a difference between making the hoop 14 feet high and telling all the players that you have to wait for half a second after running before you can shoot the ball.


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Posted February 18 2013 - 06:16 PM

STARTING SCRIMS IN #HawkenScrim COME JOIN NOW!

View PostDew, on April 04 2014 - 01:15 PM, said:

There's a difference between making the hoop 14 feet high and telling all the players that you have to wait for half a second after running before you can shoot the ball.


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Posted February 18 2013 - 06:38 PM

Stream up: TR3KS Stream

View PostDew, on April 04 2014 - 01:15 PM, said:

There's a difference between making the hoop 14 feet high and telling all the players that you have to wait for half a second after running before you can shoot the ball.






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