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[[HWK]ZamboniChaos]

A while back, community member Elix helped us gather together the community's burning questions with the Community Batsignal threads. This allowed the community to ask the HAWKEN team their most important questions, and gave us a chance to have a productive dialogue with our players. In the spirit of the Batsignal thread, we are again opening the floor to all of our pilots for them to come forward and ask their questions!

Guidelines

[*]Post your question in this thread.
[*]Players are limited to 1 question per person, so make it a good one!
[*]Do not attempt to engage other players in discussion. This thread is for questions only.
[*]Any posts that are not questions directed at the HAWKEN team will be deleted.
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This thread will be closed on Monday, September 30 at 12:00 PM PT (GMT-7). After this point, no more questions will be accepted.

Once this thread has been closed, we will review the submissions and post our answers in a separate thread. Obviously, we will not be able to answer every single question that is asked. However, we will read all the submissions and answer as many as possible!

We're looking forward to your questions pilots. Let us know what YOU want to know!

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[diablodevil2]

How far away are the destructible environments, in terms of months, roughly_ Or as accurate as it can be, of course. =p

Edited by diablodevil2, September 26 2013 - 11:29 AM.

[Aregon]

Are you planning to add more mechs into the game soon, or will you start adding them when the game goes out of Open-Beta_

[KraZKill]

With this new 'mech progression' system, some mech trees aren't filled out (e.g: suppression has 3 mech, but long ranged only has 2). So are there any plans for future mechs_ What about new weapons_ Because it's not too thrilling to just have new mechs with only a different combination of weapons.

[Raygin]

How long until we see the release of a proper spectator mode_ Will it also be able to have the spectator mode's HUD hidden for cinematic use_

[Conquistador]

When will see iterative test builds for balance purposes_ (like HAB, only public and in parallel)

Test servers are commonplace for weapons and class rebalancing in games like TF2 and WOT, and provide useful environments for developers to glean hard statistics on proposed gameplay changes before they're pushed to the official build.

Edited by Conquistador, September 26 2013 - 11:50 AM.

[InfiniteWin]

When are you planning on fixing the autobalance system_

[Daumber]

Any plans to release the game on Steam_

[DerMax]

Countless people have reported that their latency is (considerably) higher than it should be. What is the reason behind sticking to Amazon servers_

Edited by DerMax, September 27 2013 - 10:00 AM.

[Saturnine]

Will we get any sort of roadmap or timeline for what direction and form Hawken's gameplay and support will take, its overall direction, what it's design goals are, and how they will be attained, if possible_

Edited by Saturnine, September 26 2013 - 11:40 AM.

[TheVulong]

Winter/snow map_

[Houruck]

What features will be in the clan system and when_

[RipperT]

Will a system for dueling based primarily for one on one or two verse two with associated queues and maps ever be introduced_

Edited by RipperT, September 26 2013 - 12:09 PM.

[chuiu]

I'll let other people ask the hardball questions that need to be asked so that I can ask something that bothered me when I found out this was an online only game:

Would you guys, at some point, consider a singleplayer/multiplayer co-op story mode for the game_  With mech customization and possibly an arena mode akin to other awesome mech games like Armored Core or Mech Warrior.  We really haven't had a good mech game on PC in a long time, and many of the titles coming out for consoles are mediocre at best.  I don't know about some of the people here, but I was ready to pay full price for a full featured game that included single player/multiplayer.  Since you're already set with your FTP multiplayer, and you already have your game engine and assets, it should save a lot of time on working on a cheaper ($25_) single player campaign.

[davek1979]

What is your take on communication with your community and listening to suggestions appearing on these forums _

[KillaKiwi]

Are you planning on adding complete descriptions for weapons and items like range, cooldown, dps and so on_

[Sylhiri]

What was the reasoning behind choosing killstreak (armor regen, speed increase, etc.) or stat effecting (damage reduction, fuel gen, etc.) internals over sidegrade internals (weapon modifications, more movement options)_

Edited by Sylhiri, September 26 2013 - 12:04 PM.

[FakeName]

What will you do to prevent "map destroying" by spamming TOWs as they have unlimited ammo when destructible environments [font="play, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"]arrives_[/font]

Edited by FakeName, September 26 2013 - 09:20 PM.

[hawkendestroyer]

The aerial combat with greater importance in the game can be considered an attempt to return hawken to the initial state (the original gameplay in videos of "work in progress")_

[OdinTheWise]

Could we get an itemized list of current/future/possible projects in the works based on priority_