Yes you can put lore behind it but Illusion of depth might not work out in the long run.
this game need a lore as well as DooM, or Quake 1-3.
hawken lore - it is a devs mistake.
mech weight is 2 tonnes? what? they made from cavr...keiv...cavorit? dafuq?
pocahontas have a better lore than hawken.
hawken is a nice looking. without any lore. appearance speaks for itself. look at gigastructure on Prosk. if you shoot in it, metal shraphels will scatter around, and than recover to normal.
what player think if look at it?
"hm...this metal can regenerate. hm...and you can't destroy it. hm...and this metal swallowed whole city. wow!"
than player see map backgrounds, and look at that giant massive columns from metal.
"hm...this gigastructure... it is grows and consumes all. prbably it is dangerous, and you can't survive without mech"
thats all. thats all what you should know about Hawken. Gigastructure. Mechs. War.
game starts the player's imagination. is it correct player perception or not, it does not matter. It may be different for any each players, but it will always be correct. even if player have a different imagination with khang lee, it doesn't matter. because he can have his own version of hawken events. and probably better than original lore.
the story of game may be more better if it start, for example on Earth, in 22## years. who care about illal?
actually, someone interested why Visor, half-cyborg man trying to kill a giant-fukking-eye with legs in a 19th-century castle where floor is lava? no? xD
so, hawken lore it is actually waste a time. it is the same like made a lore for Counter-strike.
what is actually this game needs?
1)ping (done), optimization
2) camos/parts (for MC, for people who spent money)
3) mechs/maps. new Engines! people love buy a strange and badass engines.
4) some system like tuning, but with pros and cons. which allow player to experiment with mech, but not changed mech abilities too much. and it should be available from 1 lvl, to prevent p2w.
5) Gals and Babaji.
6) Probably events to motivate players (i'm not about bot culling :P). yeah, we have some amount of people who competing between each other, but most people not. they need a stimul, a purpose. new content where they can spent their money.
7) i'm not talking about balance, because game like hawken should have minor balance tweak in Every Patch.
Edited by nepacaka, 18 September 2015 - 12:15 PM.