HAWKEN General Discussion

1st of November thread...

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 00:45:48 +0000

Is it fuzzy or is it not? That is the question...

This game has the WORST matchmaking I've ever experienced

Fri, 31 Oct 2014 03:22:28 +0000

This game is pretty awesome in many ways - particularly the free to play model with cash shop for vanity only (all other things being easy to unlock by playing). I love the gameplay, art style, sound effects and music.. all of it is great.

The matchmaking, however, is fuzzy bunny awful. I think many others can attest to this. It seems that it's coded to 'autobalance' by rank rather than by KDR or any meaningful common sense practice... leading to NEARLY EVERY (I'd guess like 4/5 or even 9/10) game being completely one-sided. It's not a fight when your team of 5 has three new players who don't even know how to do objectives, even after you spam in chat 'PLEASE STAND INSIDE THE AA' over and over.

Just take a look at your Siege win/loss statistics and tell us if there's a huge margin of one-sided dominations. Because if that's true, as I feel it very much is, you guys need to fix this game-breaking matchmaking.

Otherwise, keep up the good work. I come back every few months to check on Hawken. (I've donated)

PS: Consider slightly nerfing berserker damage and slightly beefing predator flak cannon damage, that gun is garbage-tier awful.

someone contact a fuzzy bunny to let him know on the friends list issue, PLEASE.

Fri, 31 Oct 2014 03:13:00 +0000

Someone contact a fuzzy bunny to let him know on the friends list issue, PLEASE.

Do it, please, for the sake of the game and community, please'.

For instance by just posting a brief note on the producer's twitter space. Just an idea though. The FL issue is quite a negative step back in the HAWKEN' scene.

Best wishes and regards,

@Kenobi

Edit: No idea on why the word deeveloper gets replaced by fuzzybunny...........................................

Is it possible...

Fri, 31 Oct 2014 01:56:20 +0000

Is it possible for the developers to stop being total hacks and post literally a(1) word about anything whatsoever? I wouldn't give a fuzzy bunny if all they said was the word "Hairstylist." I just want to know whether not I can officially give up on this rotting corpse or if there are plans to resuscitate it. How about you either own up to the fact that Hawken is dying, or give us a date we can expect anything to happen on and follow through with it?

I find it hard to believe that none of your employees has the 5 minutes it would take to log in and post a one line report on your progress. I feel like all of the players that have been funding your little science project in the hopes that one day it actually goes anywhere would appreciate that.

"Things are coming along swell. Also Hawken isn't going to die."

Easy. Go.

Farewell

Thu, 30 Oct 2014 19:51:40 +0000

Tired of the community and the game. I'm out guys.

This game has been basically my life for a few years and my work with it landed me a great job, but the stress the game's state and community has been putting on me is too much, so I need to just get away for good. I will leave scrimbot online, in the hopes that chat comes back up. If it does not, use Shadeness' sexy app instead (I will still help him with it).

I will still hang out in the IRC, so you can still catch me there.

Farewell. Hopefully I'll see some of you guys around elsewhere in other games or other places. <3

do not erase plox

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A Hawken Story - A positive one :-)

Thu, 30 Oct 2014 15:07:42 +0000

I just thought I would add something positive to the current Hawken community.

I believe this game is special and hope it survives in one form or another.

I was never attracted to the F2P model and only feel it works for me when there is an option for a subscription as with Planetside 2 as an example.

The way I look at it currently, I was drawn in by the Steam offer and also bought the smaller 'package' for my two Nephews.

In total I have spent less than £50 not just on the game but including the soundtrack and the graphic novels/comics. I believe that to be pretty good value these days. For the number of hours I have logged, I feel comfortable with what I have spent.

It is a shame that player count is low when I get chance to play but the East Coast US servers have always had games I could join, even if the EU servers did not.

The learning curve is steep and I am glad that it is that way. I have even become accustomed to the MM...well almost...

A good game with great potential. Fingers crossed.

Why haven't the devs updated anything for the game? Is the game dead?

Thu, 30 Oct 2014 10:13:43 +0000

It has been like 2 months since the last news of free mech test drive: https://community.playhawken.com/news/_/game-info/free-mech-test-drive-infiltrator-assault-and-vanguard-r394 that they haven't updated any news, any patch or even updated any statuses on facebook. This makes me feel worried. I trully love the game but with the silence of the devs, i'm starting getting worried like they won't do anything to the game anymore, let the game die slowly.
But now, my only question is: Are the developers still working for the HAWKEN - my favourite sci-fi game?

Increasing or Decreasing the ranks, Positive vs Negative Influance

Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:20:21 +0000

Hawken is a awesome game. I like to see the player base go up. This thread is about how we the commuinty can support hawken  And draw in more long standing players. That being said  I will be going over a few things that hinder that goal or outright alinate players from our commuinty.

(THIS IS NOT A HAWKEN IS DEAD  THREAD , OR COMPLAINT THREAD. ) If that is  your  intent make your own thread. (Do not post here!) this kind of negative thinking does none any good. It is one of the problems.

The hawken commuinty is very positive and Like to get your guys oppinions on things that we could do to get and keep more players. This could be sugestions to devs or direct support from us .

Smurf acounts are a not a good idea becauese you are higher mmr but you are just stomping new players that might not come back.

Giving new players advice if you see them doing somthing wrong if done in a congenital maner could help players improve and stick around.

Negativity in all its forms is counterproductive to gaining a player base.

What do you guys think could pull in new players or what could we do as a group to incurage new plaers to play and stay ?

beautiful siege game

Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:08:52 +0000

They claimed the AA with heavies, grenadiers and incinerators. Held it _very_ good!

Things were going south. I tried to go behind enemy lines and tried to lower their health with reaping shots. Rasti finished them off with his raider. Things were going even until the end, it was 240-120 and they launched first and held the aa.

We managed to pick them off from behind and actually got the aa back. What a game!

Thanks Galaxy and Rasti! Im still shaking with adrenaline..

Friend list problem

Wed, 29 Oct 2014 16:27:05 +0000

So not sure if there's a topic already but: one of my friends added me in game, the alert came up and i hit accept, but it's not showing him on my friends list, or me on his, how do i fix this?

Importance of awareness and backing up your team.

Wed, 29 Oct 2014 16:03:24 +0000

Look this is more for new people but I have seen some vets here ingnore this rule as well.
Be aware of radar of teamates and enemys.  There are so many here that just ingnore radar or teammates taking fire and just rambo it.   Here are some ressons you should  be aware.

1  Never feed a death ball ... stop blindly running into 3 or more enemys please.

2  Every mech in this game benefits from positional defence.  For the love of god. If you see somone on radar comeing around a conner. ( take cover)

4  If you see a teamate taking dammage you can be sure the other guy is taking dammage too. A soft target is a easy target. Go kill them. Do not let them kill and run and repair.

5  A team that assists and supports each other wins. Team lonewolf will always die more and loose.

6  Radar is not the only way to locate the enemy. Most weapons are trackable meaning you can see were they are comming from. Use this as a indicater where to focus fire when in doubt.

7  Stay in a loose formation. Loose not on top of each other.  There are really only a couple of mechs that benefit from solo work. pred, ss are the ones that come to mind.

8  Stop walking in front of people shooting You are just causing them to dammage themselves, and acutely working against your team. If a teamate is pred genadeier incinerator or like walk around Them do not boost into there line of sight .

9  Stop boosting it keeps you off radar. Boost when you need  to get away or to reposition around that coner. Boosting is really a defencive move, use it as such. A well placed boost can spell death if you ninja it.

I am not saying you have to adopt a full support model. All I am saying backup your team. Second pick your targets wisely.  Choose who and when to strike. Always flank if possable.

Lastly if you are lucky enough to get a good tech coperate with them ... aka do not run from them when you are almost dead. Or expect them to be your liferaft It is your job to doge reasonably. Second note if a tech goes red beam focus fire in their target. Especially when they use redox. Techs need back up more than any oneelse in game. Help them help you .

  Give a cloaked pred  or infi some space they do not  want you fallowing them  giving away their position or taking indirect fire because somone is shoting you.

I am sure there is more to add but I'll leave that to you guys.

Certain in-game graphics breaking down

Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:25:11 +0000

I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed a slow trend lately towards more and more bits of the graphics in Hawken missing?

I keep running into increasingly frequent occasions where a certain polygon in the map is missing... or a missile from a silo... or parts of a mech. The most noticable is that I'm seeing a lot of mechs without legs or arms when viewing the after-match carousel.

If I'm alone in this, I must need to reinstall the game again. If not, I'm guessing this is just more negative results from a lack of server maintenance (like the failure of the friends list).

TICKLE STREAM BATTLE FRIENDS MUCH JOIN

Wed, 29 Oct 2014 01:14:31 +0000

http://www.twitch.tv/ticklemyiguanas

vR vs RATA starting soon

IronBurning looking to start a Brazilian TPG Team

Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:35:19 +0000

Told IronBurning that I'd make post looking for Portuguese-speaking players willing to play on a TPG team and help with translating (Portuguese to English, and vice-versa).

If interested, please contact IronBurning through Steam (IronBurning) or the forums: https://community.playhawken.com/user/482198-ironburning/

so empty

Tue, 28 Oct 2014 20:29:17 +0000

is it just me or is there less and less players.
i just played for a bit after a month of not playing and there's really not many people playin

TPG League Update: Last Week of Preseason

Mon, 27 Oct 2014 19:51:59 +0000

Hello everyone,

I'd like to remind teams that TPG's Hawken preseason is winding down this week. Currently, three games remain unplayed:

Axe Attack vs. Moose

Vanguard vs. Vendetta

Rick and the Astleys vs. Super Awesome Sparkle Cakes

Please schedule and play these games as quickly as possible. If anyone requires help contacting an opposing captain for scheduling purposes, give me a shout on Steam (OmniNept).

An updated ruleset and regular season schedule will be posted by week's end.

I hate aimbots and wallhacks

Mon, 27 Oct 2014 19:29:32 +0000

I've been playing since cb1.  I can usually tell right away when someone is cheating.  Lately, I've been using the pred to watch them.  Just now I saw a player that I always just thought was a good player track me through walls right to me.  To be clear, i was a pred, cloaked and walking.  Not laying mines and I had just spawned a bit before.  My "mission" was simply to see if this player was using at minimum a wall hack.

So tell me how an assault mech tracks a pred through walls.  He fired as soon as he turned the corner.  I was stationary against a wall watching.

I'm noticing it a lot more now that the devs are "away".  Seems like everyday there's one or two people running around using hax.  What I'm a little surprised at is the number of people using it on mechs other than snipers.  This assault user is just one in a string of many I've seen recently using sustained fire mechs and obviously wall hax.

Again, I've been around long enough to know when something isn't right.  I'm also noticing that things get laggy/buggy when there's someone using this stuff.

Honestly, I'm going to be done now for a while again.  To me, this just ruins it.  Some lame arse who can't play the game without a cheat has to ruin things for everyone.  If you use this stuff, I hope you sleep well at night knowing what kind of a pathetic looser you are that you have to resort to cheating to win at a form of entertainment.

gl/hf

If mechs were animals, what animal would each one be?

Mon, 27 Oct 2014 11:46:16 +0000

I think infiltrators would be cats or tigers. Probably cats cuz, A class is small

Is Taunting Effective?

Mon, 27 Oct 2014 02:47:47 +0000

You're dueling (enter pilot name), and you are both close in skill, mmr, moves, jive... whatever.

He wins, by a hair.

He then proceeds to press the J key while standing over your smoldering chassis.

Maybe even drop a halo to rub-in the rubbing-in.

Has this happened to you?
Do you make a point of getting revenge?

I have noticed that it makes some players angry enough to effect their skill.
They start making mistakes.
They have to get revenge no matter the cost sometimes.
You taunt them again and they make more mistakes.

What have you noticed?

Rider's Gameplay Thread

Sun, 26 Oct 2014 23:28:54 +0000

I will be posting any games that I happen to record here.

Deathmatch

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Team Deathmatch

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Siege

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Missile Assault

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Bot Games

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Friendlist Gone

Sat, 25 Oct 2014 12:01:45 +0000

Friendlist = ded. Is it part of the server migration or just a sign of the inevitable end? Whaddya think?

Game dead y/n in terms of production???

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 23:45:47 +0000

I hope this game is not dead in terms of production and while I haven't been here for a while and I do realize the company is working on internal factors like server migration, but I haven't seen an update since basically when I started this game (around early summer). I really hope this game is still in some sorta work even if it's just more mechs, internal issues, etc, rather than completely done.

Have a giftable steam copy of Hawken: Nemesis left. Anybody intersted in trading me something for it?

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 18:35:16 +0000

Any offers are welcome.

Long time break! Who still plays

Thu, 23 Oct 2014 16:09:16 +0000

I bet you all have gotten a lot better

Where exactly is the pilot sitting inside the mechs?

Thu, 23 Oct 2014 12:43:02 +0000

Because a mech is piloted by someone inside, there has to be a space where the pilot is inside controlling the mech, but where is that place?