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[[HWK]ZamboniChaos]

On Thursday, September 19, we will be deploying a minor hotfix for HAWKEN: Ascension. For this patch, we've implemented fixes for matchmaking, parties, team balance and more. Thanks for your understanding as we continue to make adjustments and improvements in order to make HAWKEN an enjoyable experience for everyone!

Special Notices

[*]Some players have experienced issues with account migration, such as not having Mech Ranks correctly unlocked, missing elite skins, missing Mech Ranks or Pilot Levels, etc. If you've encountered these problems or issues like them, please submit a ticket to Customer Support, and they will assist you in restoring your account to its correct state.

[*]Currently, players can accept a party invite after the party has already joined a match, which can lead to various problems. If you do join a party that has already deployed to a server, we recommend you leave the party to avoid complications.

[*]We have implemented a fix for the "Sync Failure" issue when attempting to join a match. This was resulting in players missing mech parts or items. If you experienced this problem and are still missing parts of your inventory, please contact Customer Support.
[/list]General Improvements

We are working on a more comprehensive fix to address unbalanced matches caused by Matchmaking logic and large Parties. In the meantime, we’ve implemented some quick fixes to help with unbalanced matches while we work on the larger fix.



[*]Matchmaking

[*]Adjusted matchmaking logic for parties to help prevent unbalanced matches.
[*]Added mid-match auto-balance to help with unbalanced teams.
[*]When matchmaking, player skill is now weighted higher than Pilot Level.
[*]Players can now join games within 8 levels of their Pilot Level. Increased from a range of 5 levels.
[*]Players will no longer be placed into empty servers. They will instead remain in the matchmaking queue until an active server becomes available.
[*]Adjusted advertising for better filtering. This will help match players into more appropriate servers.
[*]Quick Match queue time out has been increased from 30 seconds to 5 minutes to give players more time to be placed into a match.
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[*]Parties

[*]Reduced max party size for team based game modes to help with unbalanced matches caused by parties.

[*]Team Deathmatch: Max party size reduced to 3.
[*]Missile Assault: Max party size reduced to 3
[*]Siege: Max party size reduced to 3
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[/list]Gameplay

[*]User Interface/HUD

[*]Made slight visual tweaks to improve center reticle contrast against brighter backgrounds.
[*]Added scroll bar to party window to support parties of 12.
[*]Updated game mode descriptions to include max party size for each mode.
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[*]Maps

[*]Fixed collision caused by some of the tree roots on the Last Eco map.
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[/list]Internals

After listening to and discussing the community response regarding internals, we've made a few slight adjustments to address some concerns. These adjustments are simply the first step in our evaluation on the intended functionality for certain internals, and more changes are planned for the future.



[*]Armor Fusor

[*]Decreased Armor generation from getting a Kill from 15% to 13%.
[*]Decreased Armor generation from getting an Assist from 7.5% to 6.5%.
[*]Increased duration of regeneration effect from 10 to 20 seconds.
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[*]Advanced Armor Fusor

[*]Decreased Armor generation from getting a kill from 25% to 20%.
[*]Decreased Armor generation from getting an assist from 15% to 13%.
[*]Increased duration of regeneration effect from 10 to 20 seconds.
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[*]Power Surger

[*]No longer grants bonus speed to boosting.
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[*]Basic Power Surger

[*]No longer grants bonus speed to boosting.
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[*]Evasive Device

[*]No longer grants bonus speed to boosting.
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[/list]Bug Fixes

[*]Fixed a bug where players would get a connection error after the deploy countdown completed.
[*]Fixed an issue that prevented players from changing their resolution or video settings
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[Silverfire]

Yay! Internal fixes, hopeful reticle contrast improvements, party system rebalance! Thanks ZC and ADH! Hurrah for fixes...Except.

Is there a manual team-switch button, or is the auto mid-match autobalancing going to move you without you knowing so_ Manual button is good option, so that we're not completely reliant on a system that we don't know exactly how it works. Not saying auto mid-match rebalancing won't work, but could you expand on that_

[Exeon]

Bravo adhesive, this is absolutely amazing!

EDIT: Can you give us the ability to queue as 12 into team based game modes_

Edited by Exeon, September 18 2013 - 06:12 PM.

[DarkSpock]

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Armor Fusor

• Decreased Armor generation from getting a kill from 25% to 20%.
  
• Decreased Armor generation from getting an assist from 15% to 13%.
  
• Increased duration of regeneration effect from 10 to 20 seconds.

Advanced Armor Fusor

• Decreased Armor generation from getting a Kill from 15% to 13%.
  
• Decreased Armor generation from getting an Assist from 7.5% to 6.5%.
  
• Increased duration of regeneration effect from 10 to 20 seconds.

Advanced Armor Fusor vs Armor Fusor typo detected!

Edited by [HWK]ZamboniChaos, September 18 2013 - 06:13 PM.

[SandSpider]

Nice one.

[h0B0]

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  Players will no longer be placed into empty servers. They will instead remain in the matchmaking queue until an active server becomes available.

Does this mean no servers will be opened via matchmaking and require server browsers to join empty games to create active servers_
Or does it simply mean that the MM will wait until a reasonable amount of players are waiting to queue them up in a new server_

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Reduced max party size for team based game modes to help with unbalanced matches caused by parties.

Why not make parties fight eachother. You are limiting the amount of friends i can play with and also limiting the competitive scene simply because of a poorly design party system that allows premades to fight pugs. Reducing the amount of players won't fix the issue, it will only make it less noticeable but create other issues in the process..

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• Added scroll bar to party window to support parties of 12.

DM premades rejoice!

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• Made slight visual tweaks to improve center reticle contrast against brighter backgrounds.

Can we look forward to a total redesign of the HUD since a lot of very usefull information is missing or made considerably less noticeable_ Fixing the center crosshair doesn't help with hit recognition, primary and secondary cooldown, AA occupation, turn cap, etc...

Edited by h0B0, September 18 2013 - 06:19 PM.

[hoghead]

As frustrated as I've gotten with this new patch I still love this game![ mostly just getting used to it]. Personally Devs I think you guys are doing great.

[[HWK]ZamboniChaos]

DarkSpock, on September 18 2013 - 06:08 PM, said:

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Armor Fusor

• Decreased Armor generation from getting a kill from 25% to 20%.
  
• Decreased Armor generation from getting an assist from 15% to 13%.
  
• Increased duration of regeneration effect from 10 to 20 seconds.

Advanced Armor Fusor

• Decreased Armor generation from getting a Kill from 15% to 13%.
  
• Decreased Armor generation from getting an Assist from 7.5% to 6.5%.
  
• Increased duration of regeneration effect from 10 to 20 seconds.

Advanced Armor Fusor vs Armor Fusor typo detected!

Thanks. Fixed!

[eth0]

[RipperT]

Could you be more specific about the mid match auto-balance addition_

[Aims]

Some good stuff in here BUT does it include a fix for the Oceanic servers which no one has been able to join at all, all week_

EDIT: Sorry was just informed that our servers will be working again by thisafternoon. Thankyou guys!

Edited by Aims, September 18 2013 - 06:46 PM.

[Requiem132]

So how are we supposed to make scrims happen now if max is 3 per party_

[Dreadess]

I agree that I would like to know more about the mid-match autobalancing. How would this work if you are in a party_

The nerf to those internals was a must. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I look forward to the tweaking of the HUD as its much needed as well. Thanks Devs and keep up the good work!

[WarlordZ]

The armor fusor changes look like an improvement in the area of internal vs internal balance.  However, the "on kill" condition will still make the internal favor the already-winning players over the underdogs.  All the numbers changes in the world won't fix that, it's a logic problem.

Also, I'm not sure what the speed boosters are for anymore_  If you don't give a speed bonus to boosting, you aren't really doing much for speed.

The rest looks great though.  Map fixes and especially matchmaking changes are greatly appreciated.

Edited by WarlordZ, September 18 2013 - 06:25 PM.

[[HWK]ZamboniChaos]

h0B0, on September 18 2013 - 06:11 PM, said:

• Players will no longer be placed into empty servers. They will instead remain in the matchmaking queue until an active server becomes available.

Does this mean no servers will be opened via matchmaking and require server browsers to join empty games to create active servers_
Or does it simply mean that the MM will wait until a reasonable amount of players are waiting to queue them up in a new server_

Matchmaking will wait until there is enough players to start a match.

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Why not make parties fight eachother. You are limiting the amount of friends i can play with and also limiting the competitive scene simply because of a poorly design party system that allows premades to fight pugs. Reducing the amount of players won't fix the issue, it will only make it less noticeable but create other issues in the process..

While this is something we would like to see in the future, it requires a significant amount of work to implement. It's not something suited for a hotfix, but a more complete patch.

In the meantime, we have made adjustments to party matchmaking to help prevent the unbalanced matches we were seeing. See this note in the patch notes above:

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Adjusted matchmaking logic for parties to help prevent unbalanced matches.

[FuryMonster]

DAT 61.25% armor fuser nerf stronk_

i think the flat 25% nerf from 25% onkill > 20% was suffice

or 50% nerf from the duration increase alone would be enough

Edited by FuryMonster, September 18 2013 - 08:42 PM.

[Krellus]

Thanks for making these changes so quickly and I look forward to seeing the reticle tweaks. Hopefully oceania servers will be working!

[OmegaNull]

HERMES HAS BEEN NERFED! NOOOOO!!!! It was needed.

[Molten]

The changes to internals completely miss the point and are terrible. For one, the power surger is completely useless if it doesn't apply the movement speed to boosting. For two, WarlordZ is right, the nerf to the armor fusor does not at all address the core problem with it, and the internals need to be massively changed instead of just nerfed. I'd rather have all internals be very powerful rather than all of them being barely noticeable like it was pre-ascension.

[[HWK]ZamboniChaos]

Molten, on September 18 2013 - 06:34 PM, said:

The changes to internals completely miss the point and are terrible. For one, the power surger is completely useless if it doesn't apply the movement speed to boosting. For two, WarlordZ is right, the nerf to the armor fusor does not at all address the core problem with it, and the internals need to be massively changed instead of just nerfed. I'd rather have all internals be very powerful rather than all of them being barely noticeable like it was pre-ascension.

From the patch notes:

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These adjustments are simply the first step in our evaluation on the intended functionality for certain internals, and more changes are planned for the future.

We're not finished evaluating internals yet, you can expect more adjustments and changes in the future.