Intro:
I want to say this first. I know its been almost a year since the new team picked up Hawken and they have something planned coming. I don't want to step on their toes and I want to respect and support their design team's decisions moving forward. However I feel that this is an important discussion that will help shape Hawken into a solid game.
I'll get straight to the point. Overwatch and Battleborn are two, I guess you could call them "MOBA shooters", coming out soon. They use ideas generally found in MOBAs, such as classes or heroes (in Battleborn you even level up your character during the match), they have longer TTK, and use many other concepts similar to Hawken that are not normally found in your everyday shooter. Hawken started almost like this, borrowing more from TF2, but back in the early days of Hawken as time went on, the game started to have an identity crisis. I guess because there was hardly much else for Hawken to compare itself to, it was often put up against MechWarrior Online and other popular fps which generally had lower TTK, linear movement, faster speeds, basically everything Hawken wasn't. Maybe it was the publishers or whatever, but as time went on the game slowly changed making it move closer to those fps' while struggling to keep what made the game originally appealing. I think things are different now though, with the emergence of these two MOBA-esk games.
Hawken, given what it is, fits quite nicely into this sub-genre of shooters. It actually already has the back bone for it already, but it needs some of its more "interesting mechanics" fleshing out. For example siege mode, maybe a few tweaks or reversions to movement, the classes, most importantly the current health system (which I know i will make a post on later) just to name a few. I'm not saying overhaul the game (which maybe that's what the new team is doing) as it has improved in some areas, but now there is a possible clear identity goal that it didn't have that we can work towards.
Edited by ShadowWarg, 22 January 2016 - 12:12 PM.
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