I would just like to point out to everyone in this thread who has commented about how much they loved the old builds of Hawken, especially Alpha to early OB, that most of the changes made were a direct result of the community you were all apart of and if my memory serves me (which it often does) many of you agreed to. Some examples of this would be the hud changes... oh how everyone complained about the hud being impractical and yet here I see many of the same people complaining that the hud is not immersive enough.
Anyway my point here is not to make you all seem/feel like hypocrites. I am trying to give us all some perspective. No matter what build we were in there were QUITE A FEW THINGS that many many players all agreed needed to be changed (not everyone agreed on how to go about that change) and then after their were many other people who complained about the change.
I am pretty convinced at this point that most of the community doesn't even know what it wants. No offense to anyone here, but that seems to be the trend over time.
EDIT: I want to add that I am not trying to single anyone out with this post its meant as more of a general comment on my experience having been here from week 2 of Alpha.
Gameplay mechanics aside, who wanted the weak audio we have now? And the down graded visuals and atmosphere in maps? Visuals I can see being a performance thing with the game being free to play, you want as many people as possible playing with an acceptable FPS, so maybe it's the right call. Though Unreal Tournament looks like it has the chops to cripple PC's and it's F2P, so not sure if that argument is valid in 2015.
And game play meta wise CapnJosh and company have some big decisions to make, whatever that decision is, it'd had better be the right one. Is Hawken going back to it's roots a bit, staying about the same, or getting faster more arena focused?
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