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#1 Outsider1337

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Posted August 25 2014 - 03:06 PM

Hello everyone!

I recently found about this game on steam. I was amazed how good game came out for free, and its already out for some time! Im just wondering how nobody mentioned it before!!!

Anyway, I have few suggestions.

1. Why not make players be able to get out of mechs and fight in first-person? Im sure this would attrack a lot more players and make game much more flexible.

2. Game needs more advertising. I will tell everyone about this game, but there should be some kind of advertising on steam! :)

3. As newcomer, UI overall is a bit too much complicated. Its hard for me to get used to it. All I see are icons and it takes me some time to find my way around. This must and has to be simpler so everyone can understand clearly, even newbies :)

Well thats it from me :)

Thanks for this amazing game!

Cheers!

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Posted August 25 2014 - 03:43 PM

0. Welcome to Hawken. We all appreciate your enthusiasm and hope you stick around.

1a. Use that search function. This topic has been discussed maaaany a time.
1b. The general consensus is that allowing this would give it an "M" rating and for whatever reason that would be bad. I personally enjoy it being strictly mech v mech, though I could see some room for human interaction entirely separate from the frontlines (siege battleships/command and whatnot)

2a. Advertising costs money. Much of that budget was spent in the earlier days on starting (not finishing) a live action series as well as the graphic novel.
2b. The game is not complete. In addition to some bugs that the developers have known about practically forever and haven't got worked out, they've been working on achieving their own vision of the game. It wouldn't make much sense to start an advertising campaign for a game you can already play, but still isn't finished.

3. You'll get used to it, but I agree, there's some work to be done. It's not a priority however.

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Posted August 25 2014 - 06:22 PM

View PostOutsider1337, on August 25 2014 - 03:06 PM, said:

Hello everyone!

I recently found about this game on steam. I was amazed how good game came out for free, and its already out for some time! Im just wondering how nobody mentioned it before!!!

Anyway, I have few suggestions.

1. Why not make players be able to get out of mechs and fight in first-person? Im sure this would attrack a lot more players and make game much more flexible.

2. Game needs more advertising. I will tell everyone about this game, but there should be some kind of advertising on steam! :)

3. As newcomer, UI overall is a bit too much complicated. Its hard for me to get used to it. All I see are icons and it takes me some time to find my way around. This must and has to be simpler so everyone can understand clearly, even newbies :)

Well thats it from me :)

Thanks for this amazing game!

Cheers!

1. Hawken =/= Titanfall.  Yes, it might attract more players, but it would also draw people to label Hawken as a Titanfall clone, so that wouldn't be very wise at all. Better to differentiate yourself from the competition instead of copying them.  Plus whole new mechanics and animations would have to be developed for something that would be hardly effective in the game's current meta.

2. Advertising when the game is done and ready to be presentable. Honestly it is not in its current state.

3. UI is a bit confusing at first, but I suppose you'll get used to it. Sensory overload! I do agree that it needs some serious streamlining though.

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Posted August 25 2014 - 11:15 PM

View PostOutsider1337, on August 25 2014 - 03:06 PM, said:

Hello everyone!

I recently found about this game on steam. I was amazed how good game came out for free, and its already out for some time! Im just wondering how nobody mentioned it before!!!

Anyway, I have few suggestions.

1. Why not make players be able to get out of mechs and fight in first-person? Im sure this would attrack a lot more players and make game much more flexible.

2. Game needs more advertising. I will tell everyone about this game, but there should be some kind of advertising on steam! :)

3. As newcomer, UI overall is a bit too much complicated. Its hard for me to get used to it. All I see are icons and it takes me some time to find my way around. This must and has to be simpler so everyone can understand clearly, even newbies :)

Well thats it from me :)

Thanks for this amazing game!

Cheers!

1 - This is Hawken not Titanfall

2 - Advertising would be great but the Dev's haven't posted to the Forums in months...

3 - UI ... I got nothing... You nailed it. But... As an alpha we have mentioned it before.

#5 Outsider1337

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Posted August 26 2014 - 01:37 AM

Even Titanfall is out there, I see no reason not to implement out-of-mech combat.

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Posted August 26 2014 - 05:09 AM

View PostOutsider1337, on August 26 2014 - 01:37 AM, said:

Even Titanfall is out there, I see no reason not to implement out-of-mech combat.

People will not then see the difference between Hawken and Titanfall and naturally opt for the more popular one. It still may draw people to Hawken, but only because it would be similar to Titanfall. Hawken wouldn't be as unique anymore, simply put.

Plus out of mech combat would be really ineffective, IMO. The reason why it works in Titan fall is because the mechs are so much slower than in Hawken. If you're a human, good luck trying to deal with a Scout. You'll be torn to shreds with a single Flak cannon. It simply wouldn't be worth it to get out, I certainly wouldn't, given the advantages of being in a mech.

"It would be cool" isn't a valid argument. Titanfall is based in infantry squads supplemented by Titans, but Hawken is strictly mech mech combat. In the lore world, mechs have completely supplanted infantry as the primary fighting unit, and that should be due to the general ineffectiveness of infantry versus mechs.

Besides, whole new mechanics would have to be developed and it would significantly change the game into something else, something Hawken generally doesn't need. Like I said before, better to be different than the competition than to flat out copy them. People will probably call the game out on unoriginality due to the pre existing mechanic in another game.

I would ask you, why should human combat be added to the game? How effective would it be in the game's current meta?

Edited by Silverfire, August 26 2014 - 05:11 AM.

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Posted August 26 2014 - 07:51 AM

View PostOutsider1337, on August 25 2014 - 03:06 PM, said:

Hello everyone!

I recently found about this game on steam. I was amazed how good game came out for free, and its already out for some time! Im just wondering how nobody mentioned it before!!!

Anyway, I have few suggestions.

1. Why not make players be able to get out of mechs and fight in first-person? Im sure this would attrack a lot more players and make game much more flexible.

2. Game needs more advertising. I will tell everyone about this game, but there should be some kind of advertising on steam! :)

3. As newcomer, UI overall is a bit too much complicated. Its hard for me to get used to it. All I see are icons and it takes me some time to find my way around. This must and has to be simpler so everyone can understand clearly, even newbies :)

Well thats it from me :)

Thanks for this amazing game!

Cheers!

1. This is Hawken, not Titanfall. Titanfall is already dead, Hawken at the current time is more populated then TF on a day to day basis.

2. It indeed does but lets face it, Meteor closed their Seattle brach and is now bunking with ADH in Cali. So not really so much money to go around for adverting, unless we all start adverting for them for free.

3. The UI is pretty straight forward. You have your radar on the bottom left, health and fuel in the bottom middle, items to the bottom right. Enemy and friendly UI icons are the best your gonna get as to no sap more resources. Last but not least the menu UIs are extremely straight forward, albet there needs to be confirmation prompts when buying things.
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