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Updates - Articles http://community.playhawken.com/news/_/update/ Sat, 01 Nov 2014 02:21:56 +0000 86400 News, announcements, and general intel regarding HAWKEN. Increasing Language Support http://community.playhawken.com/news/_/update/increased-language-support
HAWKEN will be available in the following languages at Open Beta:

English
Danish
German
Spanish
Finnish
French
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese (Brazilian)
Russian
Swedish
Turkish

As HAWKEN grows we’ll continue to add new languages, not just in the game but also with the level of community support.

Overskrift: Udvidelse af sprogunderstøttelse

Vi håber at du kan lide HAWKEN lige så meget som os, og vi ved at det at have spillet understøttet på dit eget sprog, vil gøre din oplevelse endnu mere fantastisk! Vi fortsætter med at rulle nye sprog ud så hurtigt vi kan.

HAWKEN vil være tilgængeligt i de følgende sprog i Open Beta:

Engelsk
Dansk
Tysk
Spansk
Finsk
Fransk
Italiensk
Japansk
Koreansk
Norsk
Polsk
Portugisisk
Russisk
Svensk
Tyrkisk

Som HAWKEN vokser, vil vi tilføje nye sprog ikke kun i spillet men også med hensyn til Community Support.

HAWKEN teamet

Überschrift: HAWKEN in immer mehr Sprachen
Wir hoffen du magst HAWKEN genauso wie wir. Wir wissen auch, unterstützt vom Spiel-Support, die Spielversion in deiner Muttersprache wird deine Erfahrung unvergesslich machen. Wir geben neue Sprachversionen so schnell wie möglich heraus.

HAWKEN wird in folgenden Sprachen in der Open-Beta Version zur Verfügung stehen:

•Englisch
•Dänisch
•Deutsch
•Spanisch
•Finisch
•Französisch
•Italienisch
•Japanisch
•Koreanisch
•Norwegisch
•Polisch
•Portugiesisch (Brasilien)
•Russisch
•Schwedisch
•Türkisch

Da HAWKEN wächst, werden wir weiterhin neue Sprachen hinzufügen, und das nicht nur im Spiel, sondern auch zur Unterstützung der Spielergemeinschaft.

HAWKEN Team

Esperamos que te guste HAWKEN tanto como a nosotros y sabemos que adaptando el juego a tu idioma tu experiencia será asombrosa. Estamos implementando nuevos idiomas tan rápido como podemos.

HAWKEN estará disponible en los siguientes idiomas en la versión Open Beta:

• Inglés
• Danés
• Alemán
• Español
• Finlandés
• Francés
• Italiano
• Japonés
• Coreano
• Noruego
• Polonés
• Portugués (Brasileño)
• Ruso
• Sueco
• Turco

Al tiempo que HAWKEN crezca, añadiremos nuevos idiomas tanto en el juego como a nivel de la comunidad de soporte.

Equipo HAWKEN

Toivomme, että pidät HAWKENista yhtä paljon kuin me, ja tiedämme miten paljon pelituen saaminen omalla kielelläsi parantaa pelielämystäsi. Lisäämme peliin uusia kieliä niin nopeasti kuin vain on mahdollista.

HAWKENin avoin beta tulee olemaan saatavissaa seuraavilla kielillä:

• englanti
• tanska
• saksa
• espanja
• suomi
• ranska
• italia
• japani
• korea
• norja
• puola
• portugali (Brasilia)
• venäjä
• ruotsi
• turkki

HAWKENin kasvaessa jatkamme uusien kielien lisäämistä ei ainoastaan peliin, vaan myös peliyhteisön tukisivuille.

Nous espérons que vous appréciez HAWKEN autant que nous, et nous savons que la version du jeu dans votre langue maternelle rendra votre expérience encore plus exceptionnelle. Nous sortirons les nouvelles langues aussi vite que nous pourrons.

HAWKEN sera disponible dans les langues suivantes à partir de l'Open beta:

• Anglais
• Danois
• Allemand
• Espagnol
• Finlandais
• Français
• Italien
• Japonais
• Coréen
• Norvégien
• Polonais
• Portugais (Brésilien)
• Russe
• Suédois
• Turc

Au fur et à mesure qu'HAWKEN se développera, nous continuerons à ajouter des nouvelles langues, non seulement pour le jeu mais aussi pour le support à la communauté des joueurs.

L'équipe HAWKEN

Speriamo che amate Hawken tanto quanto noi, e sappiamo che avere il gioco tradotto nella vostra lingua renderà la vostra esperienza straordinaria. Stiamo implementando nuove lingue il più velocemente possibile. Hawken sarà disponibile nelle seguenti lingue in Open Beta:

• Inglese
• Danese
• Tedesco
• Spagnolo
• Finlandese
• Francese
• Italiano
• Giapponese
• Coreano
• Norvegese
• Polacco
• Portoghese (Brasiliano)
• Russo
• Svedese
• Turco

Mentre Hawken cresce, continueremo ad aggiungere nuove lingue, non solo nel gioco, ma anche nel supporto della comunità.

Team HAWKEN

"タイトル：　言語サポートの増加について

私たちと同様に、皆様にHAWKENを気に入っていただけるよう願っています。ゲームをあなたの母国語でサポートすることにより、さらにゲームを楽しんでいただけることでしょう。私たちはできるだけ早く新しい言語を展開しているところです。

HAWKENはOpen Betaにて以下の言語で利用できるようになります：

•英語
•デンマーク語
•ドイツ語
•スペイン語
•フィンランド語
•フランス語
•イタリア語
•日本語
•韓国語
•ノルウェー語
•ポーランド語
•ポルトガル語（ブラジル）
•ロシア語
•スウェーデン語
•トルコ語

HAWKENが発展すると同時に、ゲーム内のみならず、コミュニティーサポートの面でも私たちは新しい言語を追加していきます。

チームHAWKEN

"제목: 언어 지원 확대

저희는 HAWKEN 을 이용하시는 모든 분들에게 최고의 즐거움과 경험을 선사해 드리고자 각국 사용자분들의 고유 언어 지원율을 신속하게 확대해 나아가는 중입니다.

HAWKEN은 오픈 베타에서 다음에 언어들로 제공됩니다 :

• 영어
• 덴마크어
• 독일어
• 스페인어
• 핀란드어
• 프랑스어
• 이탈리아어
• 일본어
• 한국어
• 노르웨이어
• 폴란드어
• 포루투갈어(브라질)
• 러시아어
• 스웨덴어
• 터키어

HAWKEN 이 성장해 나아갈수록 저희는 게임뿐만이 아닌 커뮤니티 서포트를 위한 새로운 언어 지원을 확대해 나갈것을 약속합니다.

Hawken 팀"

Overskrift: Økende språkstøtte

Vi håper du liker HAWKEN like mye som vi gjør, og vi vet at å ha spillet tilgjengelig på ditt eget språk vil gjøre opplevelsen din enda mer fantastisk! Vi fortsetter med å legge til nye språk så raskt som mulig.

HAWKEN vil være tilgjengelig på følgende språk i Åpen Beta:

• Engelsk
• Dansk
• Tysk
• Spansk
• Finsk
• Fransk
• Italiensk
• Japansk
• Koreansk
• Norsk
• Polsk
• Portugisisk (Brasil)
• Russisk
• Svensk
• Tyrkisk

Som HAWKEN vokser vil vi fortsette å legge til nye språk, ikke kun i spillet, men også med hensyn til Samfunsstøtten.

HAWKEN teamet

Zwiększamy liczbę dostępnych języków
Mamy nadzieję, że kochacie HAWKEN tak samo jak my. Wiemy , że możliwość gry we własnym, ojczystym języku uczyni wasze doświadczenia jeszcze lepszymi. Pracujemy nad nowymi językami tak szybko jak to możliwe.

HAWKEN będzie dostępny na otwartych serwerach BETA w następujących językach:

• Angielski
• Duński
• Niemiecki
• Hiszpański
• Fiński
• Francuski
• Włoski
• Japoński
• Koreański
• Norweski
• Polski
• Portugalski (Brazylijski)
• Rosyjski
• Szwedzki
• Turecki

Z większym rozwojem HAWKEN będziemy kontynuować dodawanie nowych języków nie tylko w grze, ale również na poziomie wsparć społecznościowych graczy.

Drużyna HAWKEN

Esperamos que você goste de HAWKEN tanto quanto nós gostamos. Temos certeza que jogá-lo em sua lingua materna será uma experiência incrível. Lançaremos o jogo em novas línguas o mais rápido possível.

A versão Open Beta de HAWKEN estará disponível nos seguintes idiomas:

• Inglês
• Dinamarquês
• Alemão
• Espanhol
• Finlandês
• Francês
• Italiano
• Japonês
• Coreano
• Norueguês
• Polonês
• Português (Brasileiro)
• Russo
• Sueco
• Turco

Conforme HAWKEN cresce, nós continuaremos adicionando novos idiomas - não apenas no jogo, mas também em todo o material de suporte à comunidade HAWKEN.

Equipe HAWKEN

Мы надеемся, что вы любите Hawken также как и мы. Мы знаем, что возможность играть на своем родном языке доставляет огромное удовольствие. Мы постараемся выпустить игру на разных языках в ближайшее время.

Hawken будет доступен в Open Beta на следующих языках :

• Английском
• Датском
• Немецком
• Испанском
• Финском
• Французском
• Итальянском
• Японском
• Корейском
• Норвежском
• Польском
• Португальском (Бразилия)
• Русском
• Шведском
• Турецком

С развитием Hawken, мы будем продолжать добавлять новые языки, и не только в игре, но и на уровне поддержки сообществом.

Команда Hawken

Vi hoppas att du älskar HAWKEN lika mycket som oss. Vi vet om att ha spel stöd i era respektive modersmål kommer att göra upplevelsen mer fantastisk. Vi kommer att rulla ut nya språk så fort vi kan.

HAWKEN kommer att vara tillgänglig i följande språk i Open Beta:

• Engelska
• Danska
• Tyska
• Spanska
• Finska
• Franska
• Italienska
• Japanska
• Koreanska
• Norska
• Polska
• Portugisiska (Brasiliansk)
• Ryska
• Svenska
• Turkiska

Medans HAWKEN växer kommer vi att lägga till nya språk, inte bara i spelet utan även på communityt och supportsidor.

Team Hawken

Hawken oyununu, en azından bizim kadar beğendiğinizi umut ediyor ve oyunun anadilinizde sunuluyor olmasının oyun deneyiminizi daha ilginç yapacağını biliyoruz. En kısa zamanda yeni dillerle karşınızda olacağız.

Hawken, Open Beta'da asağıdaki dillerde hizmetinizde olacaktır.

• İngilizce
• Danimarkaca
• Almanca
• İspanyolca
• Fince
• Fransızca
• İtalyanca
• Japonca
• Korece
• Norveçce
• Polonyaca
• İsvecçe
• Türkçe

Hawken gelişirken, yalnızca oyunda değil topluluk desteği çerçevesinde de yeni diller eklemeye devam edeceğiz.

Hawken Ekibi

]]> Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:48:43 +0000 9fc3d7152ba9336a670e36d0ed79bc43 Producer Letter: Closed Beta Event 1 http://community.playhawken.com/news/_/update/ProducerLetterCBE1 http://community.playhawken.com/topic/8501-producer-letter-closed-beta-event-1/

Greetings HAWKEN Pilots,

Team HAWKEN wants to thank everyone for participating in our first Closed Beta event (CBE1)!

Successful First Closed Beta Event is Successful

We have received an amazing amount of great feedback from the HAWKEN community and we have been pouring through it to see where our focus is most needed to balance and improve the game before Open Beta arrives on 12/12/12.

Our goal is to create the best online mech FPS experience available and to do that takes a lot of hard work and careful balancing to make sure the experience is truly top notch. Games in a beta state are incomplete and the parts that are complete, we actually do sort of hope you find ways to break. That's the nature of these events. We trust you guys, our intrepid Closed Beta Event pilots, to break stuff and you truly came through for us in CBE1!

Closed Beta Connectivity Issues? This Too Shall Pass!

A big aspect of our first Closed Beta event was infrastructure and server testing. At launch, there were many difficulties with our servers. As many of you already correctly pointed out on the forums, this was due to a huge number of people wanting to play and not enough servers being available to hold them all.

For any online game, stress testing servers is a key part of preparing the game for launch and making sure that everything will run smoothly when we unleash the full fury of the unforgiving internet on our systems. We wanted as many of you as possible to be able to play and demand was actually way more than we expected. We couldn't have asked for a better test of our systems. Our team learned a lot from the pummeling you so aptly provided. As a result, login, matchmaking, and general connectivity have been greatly improved in anticipation of our second Closed Beta event (CBE2) scheduled to start this Thursday, November 8!

Playing Matchmaker in HAWKEN

Matchmaking needs to do one thing: maximize the fun time (piloting giant mechanical death machines) and minimize the less-fun time (finding games, joining games). To make sure it's tuned correctly we need your help. We call upon you and your friends to join the coming Closed Beta events with the goal of pushing our systems to the limit again.

Our Matchmaking feature gauges several aspects of a player's skill, performance, history, and experience. We also take the level of your mechs and their items into consideration. This system is designed to match players with other players of a similar skill and mech level. That said, if you currently use the Server Browser instead of the Matchmaking feature, you bypass this system.

What does this mean for you and your fellow pilots? Well, if you would like to ensure that you are always being put into as fair a match as possible, please use the Matchmaking feature during this next Closed Beta event. You can continue to use the Server Browser, and we would encourage you to do so for the purpose of helping us test our systems, but it might not yield a fair fight.

HAWKEN Will Be Free-to-Play

Team HAWKEN loves free-to-play (F2P) and we see it as a great way to be able to continually offer fresh content and a high-quality game experience.

In HAWKEN, all the mechs can be purchased with HAWKEN Points (which are earned by playing) as well as Meteor Points (which are bought with money). Additionally, every mech is continually balanced against all the other mechs in the game. We want to ensure that when a player purchases a new mech, they are purchasing a mech that's different, not superior. You're still going to need to master the necessary skills to make your mech effective in order to realize success on the battlefield. You don't ever have to spend a dime to end up with a mech exactly as powerful as anyone else's. It might not look the same and it will take you longer, but at the end of that road you're going to be in a fair fight. There the only excuse for winning or losing will be skill.

CBE1 helped us learn that the accrual rate was off and we have doubled the speed at which HAWKEN Points are earned for CBE2. You're welcome!

TL;DR

CBE1 helped us make HAWKEN better, faster, and stronger. Thank you!

We are very excited to welcome our dedicated test pilots back to HAWKEN starting this Thursday. As with previous events, keep an eye out for familiar callsigns sporting Adhesive or Meteor clan tags: [ADH] and [MTR]. Staff members will be playing in Closed Beta Event 2 whenever we get a free moment: there’s nothing more enjoyable than exchanging missile salvos and hot lead volleys with our hardcore fans. Remember to keep those Vulcan cannons spinning; dev blood is like unicorn blood. And it’s time to make it rain.

Happy hunting, pilots!

Paul “PabloPwnage” Loynd
Producer, Meteor Entertainment

Forum Thread: http://community.pla...d-beta-event-1/]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:41:19 +0000 2b44928ae11fb9384c4cf38708677c48 Producer Letter: Closed Beta Event 2 http://community.playhawken.com/news/_/update/producer-letter-closed-beta-event-2-r12
Team HAWKEN would like to thank all of you for participating in our second Closed Beta Event (CBE2)!

An Educational Experience

Your diligent ~~playing~~ testing has yielded valuable insights into how the community enjoys HAWKEN and areas we can improve it. Throughout the event, producers, designers, artists, and more staff members all read the forums, looking for constructive and critical feedback from you, our players. As we march closer and closer to Open Beta, community insights will be key in helping us identify and resolve issues. Speaking of issues…

Yo Dawg, We Heard You Like Muting…

We've all been victims of it, and most of us are guilty of it: leaving the mic on while playing. Everyone on your team gets to hear all the details of sensitive guy's lovely brunch with mom at the cafe, each and every smack, crunch, and slurp of hungry dude's dinner, or the furious torrent of violent keyboard clacks as fashion expert guy vehemently defends the artistic vision of elastic waistband jeans. As awesome as these moments are, sometimes we just want to play in peace and choose when we want to hear and engage with our fellow teammates.

To this end, we will be speeding up our implementation of the muting system so that you can choose when you want to hear a team member's diatribe on the social relevance of cat memes. By bringing up the scoreboard and clicking on a player's callsign, the “Mute” option will now silence their voice chat as well as text. Simply click it and enjoy your quiet time!

The “Insanity” Maps Were a Little Insane

During the second Closed Beta event, many of you saw the 32-player “Insanity” servers we had put up, and many more of you actually jumped in to try these servers out. We want to take a moment to clarify that these servers were experiments designed to test the strength of our game servers beyond their actual designed capacity. We are happy to report that they stand on their feet even when server population goes well beyond their intended capacity. Your testing helps us make sure that server performance is totally streamlined and that in a full 6v6 match, you can focus on good old-fashioned mayhem and destruction rather than lag spikes.

Showing Love to Older Gaming PCs

We here on Team HAWKEN know that everyone loves a pretty game that plays smoothly. I know I do! We also know that not everyone has a fire-breathing PC that was forged in the fires of Mordor and thrice-blessed by the High Priests of Ptah. We are continuing to optimize all aspects of HAWKEN so that it will run better on lower-end computers. In our third Closed Beta event, you will see even better performance across all levels of PCs and we will continue to optimize and tune HAWKEN until we feel it is fun and playable for the widest range of configurations possible.

Multiplayer games are all about playing together, whether it's with our friends, clan members, or that guy that keeps taking a full spread of your Flak Cannon and TOW Missile to the face (repeatedly). We want to make sure that as many players as possible can come and play HAWKEN and enjoy the experience. This is why we greatly appreciate your continued testing and feedback on how HAWKEN performs on all of your different machines. You guys are great!

Our Matchmaking System is Learning!

In this round of Closed Beta, you all provided even more testing for our Matchmaking system which has led to even more fixes that will make server placement faster and more accurate. Under the hood, Matchmaking is a complex and complicated system that requires serious attention to detail and many lines of code to get it right. That said, it should be a simple process of choosing game modes and clicking a button for our players. Making sure that a player is put in the right match is very important to us. We are all gamers too and want the experience to not only be seamless and fast, but fair in the way it chooses where you should be placed. In our third Closed Beta event, we are rolling out a number of changes that will make Matchmaking more consistent and fair in its placement of players, which brings us to our next major update.

The Server Browser Will Be on Vacation in CBE3

In order to make sure that Matchmaking is working as intended and accurate in funneling players to the right servers, we have removed the Server Browser for our third Closed Beta event. Before you write up an impulsive reply about this decision, let us explain the reason behind it. In any FPS game, the Server Browser is a community feature in that they allow you to see a list of servers that you can become familiar with and return to when you play in the future. This is because those Server Browsers list dedicated servers that are online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

These servers represent communities of players, and those communities are important and meaningful to the ecosystem of a game, especially an FPS. Because HAWKEN spins up servers and takes them down as needed and does not support dedicated servers yet, the Server Browser does not perform its intended function. Instead, it randomizes player balance in servers since joining through the Server Browser bypasses the Matchmaking system entirely. In order to make sure that Matchmaking has the best chance of getting you into the right game with players near your skill level, we need to make sure that it is the primary method used for entering a game. You will still be able to join a friend on a server they are playing on, or invite a friend to join your current server (new feature for CBE3, by the way). We aren't preventing you from playing with your friends! When we are ready to roll out dedicated servers as a feature, the Server Browser will make its triumphant return. We are excited to see the communities and clans that will be built around dedicated servers, but all in good time.

The XP and HC Rates Are Works-in-Progress

We are continuing to tweak and adjust the experience (XP) curve as well as the accrual rate of HAWKEN Credits (formerly HAWKEN Points). These are very important gameplay factors and we will continue to change and tune these rates until we feel a good equilibrium has been reached. Earning progress is fun and drives us to want to keep playing to get that next cool item, weapon, or level. We want to make sure that always remains true for you, the player. HAWKEN is a game, not a job, and it is very important to us that we maintain that feeling throughout the HAWKEN experience.

Two Down, One Last Closed Beta Event to Go!

All of Team HAWKEN is working at full speed as we prepare for the third and final Closed Beta event starting on November 20. We thank all of you for your help in testing HAWKEN during these events. Your efforts help us to further improve HAWKEN so we can deliver the best experience possible to all of you. We're warming up your mechs and getting them ready for battle! As before, Team HAWKEN will be popping in and out of servers to play with you so watch out for those [ADH] and [MTR] tags on our callsigns.

See you on the battlefield, pilots!

Forum Thread: http://community.pla...d-beta-event-2/]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:56:03 +0000 7f6ffaa6bb0b408017b62254211691b5