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#1 Anti-Flash

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Posted September 25 2014 - 07:47 AM

I'd like to destroy with a good ping for the first time in about a year. I see that USWest servers are a new thing.... Not that anyone can see those buttons to change it... They need to fix that UI-cliping fuzzy bunny ASAP IMHO. Love the game. Also I'm sure its been suggested maybe write something in to check for pings allover as to default players into the correct domain.

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(Tl;dr: to me, not being able to see the right 3rd of my screen AND pinging 200-300 is a broken game. None of my other betas do that.)
As for that UI bug, I think the devs underestimate how many people play on lowest settings with smaller monitors. My bet is most player can't SEE the button to change regions, I can't. Imagine that. Imagine if a majority of players didn't know to change regions for better pings.. They would eventually experience a few to many ping related deaths and abandon the game, thus causing the better players so slowly dwindle down, steadily owning noobs before they hit the straight after the curb; so they leave too. And suddenly, POW, abandoned game while still in beta.. Damn..Almost..

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Posted September 25 2014 - 07:56 AM

You should be able to adjust your game resolution under video settings. Have you tried that?

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View PostAmidatelion, on May 24 2014 - 01:36 AM, said:

Yeah, but dude, we are at 1750. As much as we would like to be Professional Yolodrivers like you [Meraple] and Lightangel112, we're not there yet. It's something to aspire to, sure, but there's a lot of ground to cover.

View Postcomic_sans, on October 31 2014 - 05:50 PM, said:

SS, you wanna fight me?  I'm druuuuuunk????? You could maybe win?!!

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Posted September 25 2014 - 08:04 AM

Majority? I don't think so..

Also this:

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System Requirements

Minimum:
OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 (32bit or 64bit)
Processor: 2Ghz Dual Core
Memory: 3 GB RAM
Graphics: 512 MB Graphics Card Supporting DirectX 9.0c and Shader Model 3.0 (NVIDIA 9800 GTX or AMD HD 5670)
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Hard Drive: 5 GB available space
Additional Notes: 1280 x 720 or Higher Resolution

According to steam hw stats less than 2% of people have 1280x720 or less resolution.

Edited by shosca, September 25 2014 - 08:10 AM.


#4 cornshuckerprime

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Posted September 25 2014 - 08:17 AM

Good luck playing with those system specs!

To the OP: are you playing on Wifi or Ethernet?
it's always been wankershim

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Posted September 25 2014 - 08:17 AM

View PostTwentyFirstPilot, on September 25 2014 - 07:56 AM, said:

You should be able to adjust your game resolution under video settings. Have you tried that?

I think part of OP's problem might be that the game's UI scaling for lower resolutions is just plain pitiful
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Posted September 25 2014 - 08:23 AM

View PostAnti-Flash, on September 25 2014 - 07:47 AM, said:

I see that USWest servers are a new thing...

I see that you're a new player...

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Posted September 25 2014 - 08:25 AM

livin in the west coast, most of the people are console players....

transfer hawken to ps4 and xbox 1. lol.
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Posted September 25 2014 - 08:26 AM

I don't, in any way, want to come off as rude or annoying while talking to the community. I love this game and community, so don't take my stupid rant the wrong way. My monitor is capable of 1024x768,which sucks apparently. Also even 1280x720, I read, is not supported since the last update. Yes I tried settings and INI tweeking. I dunno I gave up. Apparently to fix it I have to run the game in 1920x1080 or something. Not that it matters link to stats?

I mean the west servers being BACK I guess. I remember a year ago I had trouble getting people on west servers.

Edited by Anti-Flash, September 25 2014 - 08:27 AM.


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Posted September 25 2014 - 08:56 AM

the lowest rez i've run the game in 1366x768, and the ui worked fine.  

but seriously dude, you need a better monitor.  how can you game on 4:3 monitor?  

here you go http://www.newegg.co...=9SIA5HA1UN6964 $53 with shipping.  Sure to be an upgrade to whatever you're using.

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Posted September 25 2014 - 08:59 AM

Lol I am so poor its sorta hilarious. But I did mean to put in my post that it's cool because I'll update eventually.

Edited by Anti-Flash, September 25 2014 - 09:00 AM.


#11 Massive_Assailant_Stingray

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Posted September 25 2014 - 02:04 PM

I'm playing on a crt that I run at 1024x768. The game runs at 720p for me and has always scaled pretty well honestly. It used to do a wide screen effect with black bars at the top and bottom. It was kind of annoying because of course it looked pretty small that way, but everything fit on the screen nicely. Now for some reason after the last time I took apart and cleaned my pc it started displaying 720p a little funny on my monitor, after playing around with my resolution settings and refresh rates for a bit I have it to where it displays 720p to stretch out and fill the screen. Looked a little odd at first, but it took no time to get used to and everything still fits the screen. Not to mention it's no longer tiny widescreen and everything is much more visible.

So that's what I would suggest to you. Play around with resolution settings and refresh rates. Idk if you have a crt, or what kind of graphics card you're using, but in my nvidia control panel was able to set up a custom resolution for 1280x720, and even though I run 1024x768 on the desktop it still uses this custom 720 resolution for hawken.

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Posted September 25 2014 - 02:27 PM

Is this 2005?  Holy fuzzy bunny...
You can probably get a free monitor on craigslist that is better.
Seriously.

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Posted September 25 2014 - 05:34 PM

View PostMassive_Assailant_Stingray, on September 25 2014 - 02:04 PM, said:

I'm playing on a crt that I run at 1024x768. The game runs at 720p for me and has always scaled pretty well honestly. It used to do a wide screen effect with black bars at the top and bottom. It was kind of annoying because of course it looked pretty small that way, but everything fit on the screen nicely. Now for some reason after the last time I took apart and cleaned my pc it started displaying 720p a little funny on my monitor, after playing around with my resolution settings and refresh rates for a bit I have it to where it displays 720p to stretch out and fill the screen. Looked a little odd at first, but it took no time to get used to and everything still fits the screen. Not to mention it's no longer tiny widescreen and everything is much more visible.

So that's what I would suggest to you. Play around with resolution settings and refresh rates. Idk if you have a crt, or what kind of graphics card you're using, but in my nvidia control panel was able to set up a custom resolution for 1280x720, and even though I run 1024x768 on the desktop it still uses this custom 720 resolution for hawken.

Wait, you play on a CRT? That's awesome. We need pics of your battlestation

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View PostAmidatelion, on May 24 2014 - 01:36 AM, said:

Yeah, but dude, we are at 1750. As much as we would like to be Professional Yolodrivers like you [Meraple] and Lightangel112, we're not there yet. It's something to aspire to, sure, but there's a lot of ground to cover.

View Postcomic_sans, on October 31 2014 - 05:50 PM, said:

SS, you wanna fight me?  I'm druuuuuunk????? You could maybe win?!!

#14 Hell_Diguner

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Posted September 25 2014 - 11:40 PM

Looking back, I find it amazing how fast individuals and businesses upgraded their CRT monitors and televisions to some type of flat screen with wide aspect ratio.

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Posted September 26 2014 - 09:55 AM

I was a tv repair guy (crt specialist) at the time that flat panels were rising to prominence...  but it's a different world now, everything is disposable, there's so little money left in maintenance that most of the industry has moved on.

The biggest factor imo that drove people away from the old squares was the adoption of hd television content and how much people hated the black bars on their DVDs and movies.




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