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#1 [HWK]HUGHES

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Posted December 21 2013 - 06:04 PM

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Greetings Everyone!

Thank you for joining us for another Development Update. This update will be rather brief but we still wanted to provide a few updates and give a few reminders!

ONLINE SERVICES

We've mentioned it before but our service is undergoing a rather significant overhaul and it might result in some occasional bumpiness for some players. This means potential disconnects, strange inventory mishaps and purchasing errors. It's a necessary evil as we take everything we've learned from the past year about what's working with the online service and what isn't to make significant changes. The online backbone of HAWKEN is something that needs to develop just like the client does, expanding and improving to eventually get to a release state.

The work mentioned is scheduled to complete in January but that doesn't mean symptoms will continue for that long. It's just temporary but if you do happen to encounter any of symptoms above, feel free to create a support ticket. Please do not assume that something you are experiencing is a global issue. There is a high probability that it might be specific to your account so please file a support ticket so it can be investigated!

CLIENT DEVELOPMENT / UPDATES

We just finished a development sprint yesterday and will start a two week one on Monday. We continue to work hard, even all these months later and the next major patch will contain quite a few important changes to the game. Once released we hope it'll help with many of the concerns expressed right now with gameplay balance and getting into appropriate matches. We've mentioned some of what's on the horizon in past Development Updates but only in a simple bullet point fashion without many details. I need to work with ZamboniChaos on how we want to start sharing the specifics with all of you. Removing the BETA tag is a true goal for us and we are looking to do that Q1 of 2014.

We hope everyone gets some rest during this holiday season and enjoys the time available with family and friends! Personally, I love this time of year but have to fight the temptation to go into hibernation. Actually, I have family coming over tomorrow for dinner and we've done rather little to prepare for that so when I finish this up I'm going to have to go help clean. It'll be a full house that's for sure!

Happy Holidays from all of us on the HAWKEN team and we'll see you again next week! Thanks Everyone!

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#2 GKxDK

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Posted December 21 2013 - 06:08 PM

Keep up the great work! Love this game! XD

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Posted December 21 2013 - 06:13 PM

The developers are human, just like us beta testers! o.o'
Have fun with your family, Hughes!

Hopefully the overhaul of the back-end will fix the spotty voice-chat.
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Posted December 21 2013 - 06:48 PM

Have a wonderful Holiday Hughes and the rest of the team. Looking forward to the next patch! :D

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Posted December 21 2013 - 06:48 PM

Fantastic game in years!! i love it XD happy Xmas and keep up the good work

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Posted December 21 2013 - 07:12 PM

Wish The Hawken team happy holidays.

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Posted December 21 2013 - 07:41 PM

Any chance to support the modding scene in 2014?

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Posted December 21 2013 - 08:28 PM

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Posted December 21 2013 - 09:49 PM

6 vs 6 party fights are something I'm waiting for ... also some tweaks for hellfires are necessary

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Posted December 21 2013 - 11:12 PM

Happy Holidays to the entire Hawken Team!!!
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Posted December 21 2013 - 11:50 PM

Merry Christmas and a Happy holidays Hughes and all the Devs! :D
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Posted December 22 2013 - 12:38 AM

Hey Hughes^^

Thanks for yet another enlightening update on your work.

Merry christmas and an easy and painless slip into the new year for you, your family Zamboni and the entire Teams at Adhesive and Meteor!

You've done an outstanding job over the last year (i joined in february i think) and i hope you will continue to be as approachable and helpful (and industrious) in the next.

Best festive regards from the land of the Christkind and the Weihnachtsmann

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Posted December 22 2013 - 01:54 AM

Happy Holidays to all Hawken players & Hawken developers. Love the new Wreckage map!

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Posted December 22 2013 - 03:23 AM

Big thanks as always for the update! I hope you guys and girls have a great Christmas and an even better new year. Really looking forward to all the new things that are coming. This is by far one of the best games around, free or otherwise.

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Posted December 22 2013 - 03:41 AM

Great job making my favorite shooter ever.  Happy holidays to the whole staff and keep up the good work.

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Posted December 22 2013 - 04:01 AM

Happy Holidays to the Staff and the fine Beta Testers and may you all have a Fun but Safe festivities.
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It's the Jake that rides beside 'em whose nerves are edged with steel.
It's the jakes that ride behind them when the truck rolls to a call.
The sirens blare and we say a prayer 'til they're home safe one and all.

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Posted December 22 2013 - 04:15 AM

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Posted December 22 2013 - 06:48 AM

Merry Christmas Hughes! Hope ADH has a great holiday and I look forward to more content and fixes as usual. :)

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Posted December 22 2013 - 08:06 AM

View Post[HWK]HUGHES, on December 21 2013 - 06:04 PM, said:

We've mentioned it before but our service is undergoing a rather significant overhaul and it might result in some occasional bumpiness for some players. This means potential disconnects, strange inventory mishaps and purchasing errors. It's a necessary evil[...]

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A necessary evil?

I hope that is simply a bad choice of words. It should be at the very least unwanted side effects. The worst part in all this is of course you take no action to secure the accounts of your players or inform them of the possibility of errors, its their job to notice the things you fussy up and then contact support.

This not only demonstrate the poor quality product you are willing to produce, but the poor care provided with the product.

GG Hawken for not taking proactive actions to secure the goods of your customers and keeping up your practices of not warning your customers of their MC investment, changes in previous purchases and hidden fees.

Click me! I dare you.

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View Post[HWK]HUGHES, on March 15 2013 - 08:35 PM, said:

Oh don't always listen to h0B0. Lol.


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Posted December 22 2013 - 08:25 AM

I wish you a merry Christmas and successfull New Year.
I hope support can solve my problem, because I need friend list and global chat to run tonight's EU Fight Club.

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