So been playing Hawken for the last week or so with some friends. Streamed a little, been boss moded by LadyTiggs several times and it;'s given me the opportunity to look at the game, whats on offer and what Hawken could benefit from.
Firstly are the Match Team Modes. 3v3 is nice 6v6 is nice. But what if theres 8 or 10 of you wanting to pit it out? I like the 3v3 and 6v6 mode, maybe they could be used in a special competitive ranking mode? But perhaps in custom made matches we could have the options for 4v4 and 5v5.
I'm really enjoying Siege Mode. But I personally think that new players don't quite get the gist of the mode unless their team yells at them for 5 minutes. Which isn't very constructive. We have the basic tutorial for movement, attacking etc. How about a game mode Tutorial? It would make the game a lot more user friendly. instead of a matches played restriction. Have players run the 5-10 minute mode tutorial in order to unlock that particular match mode.
Hawken Credit Gains. HC seems to be extremely slow to gain. I'm unlocking parts for a mech and buy the time I can afford those parts, I've unlocked the next set of upgrades. Maybe give some HC for pilot levels to help? Just seems really slow to me to gain those upgrades.
PC controllers. I've tried using the Xbox controller, but still when in menus the game heavily relies on keyboard and mouse input. Is there a way we can possibly have the option to select input device? So say for example we select Control Pad as in put, the cursor is replaced via the gamepads Axis sticks and primary D-Button becomes left click, Secondary D-Button becomes cancel etc.
New Feature - Pilot Perk Program.
Our mechs are awesome, but I feel the pilots are second rate at this point. Every time we level up, we get more consumables like Holo Pucks. Maybe at Key levels we could unlock a new Pilot Perk (for example Battle Hardened Pilot. Gives +2 armor every 2 seconds when out of combat) or maybe achievement based (for example Slayer - destroyed 500 mechs in rated battles. Slayers can pinpoint armor weaknesses of Mechs). Just something a bit more flavourable towards leveling our pilots.
I will no doubt think of other things along the way so will edit this post when I can think of anything else :-)
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