I know Hawken is still in beta, so everything is changing, and the competitive end is still changing quite a bit, but there are practical applications for an extra forum. Mainly, having a knowledgeable group of people gather in one place to discuss strategy can go a long way towards finding and coming up with solutions to the abundant and problematic balance issues throughout the whole game. Even finding a simple solution to a small problem could save hours of dev time with a simple tweak. The top players also need a place to start nailing down effective competitive play strategies and spreading them around where other people can pick them up, or at least know what not to do in a given situation. I know that top players are already devastatingly effective, but that knowledge isn't being passed around. I rarely hear top players give advice to other players, and most of the amazing nuggets are hidden away in obscure forum posts in topics complaining about the state of the game. I see WAY too many downright pathetic players, and they aren't going to want to stick around to learn how much fun this game is if they can't get an easy start.
If Hawken is going to be ready to get out of beta any time soon, it needs a community to support the new players coming in, and a strategy corner would be an awesome way to do that. If League of Legends can produce dozens of guides, I'm sure we can get a few players to make some guides for the 15 mechs Hawken currently has, especially since most of them share common weapons. Adding in a new forum is simple, the possible benefits are high, and the worst case is it has to be closed in a month because no one is using it. We've got a subforum for spammy forum games. We should get a strategic subforum.
Edited by Super_Pickle, November 20 2013 - 10:05 PM.

 

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