First off, I would like to apologize to OP for derailing his perfectly decent thread, where he asks some vaguely worded questions about the "realism" of hawken(I think), which is answered with halfway decent canon/ex machina. I then call out the fact the title he made is grammatical click bait(which he admits to using deliberately later on), and then we are lambasted with a post that calls for not one, not two, but three drinks, according to the rules. I would like to get this thread back on the tracks of the OP's post, or, at least what I interpret as the intentions of the OP's post.
First off, HAWKEN in its current state, at least to say in the depths of the capabilities of its current developers, is as realistic as this game is going to get. What hawken needs - according my interpretation of the consensus of the current community - is not a more realistic hawken, but a functioning one.
@OP: I don't know how much you have read of these forums, or how much you have paid attention to the content of the topics and posts within. I will kindly tell you that there are some details about fuel consumption, when interpreted along a particular scale, is realistic:
- fuel consumption for light mechs boosting forward requires more fuel than heavy mechs - momentum.
- fuel consumption for light mechs hovering upward requires less fuel than heavy mechs - inertia.
Its a sci-fi game. not even that - it's a mech arena shooter, with an indelible gameplay mechanic that so many of us love. How much one loves the aesthetic features of the game will be subjective, but its core gameplay mechanic will keep most of us playing every day. trying to add "realism" will change that, and more than likely, that particular change would be drastic, to the point where we would not call it HAWKEN anymore. You can't even establish a baseline to how "real" HAWKEN "should get", because it is science fiction.
Most of us like where the "realism" ends and begins. I think that it is the sweet spot for HAWKEN, and I, for one, don't want it to change. What really needs to change is the stagnation that it has experienced, with no major update to the game since august of 2014, and that is only because of time.
You came back to these forums when HAWKEN is in limbo, where its past has left it with the musty smell of stagnation, but we are trudging the quagmire with it because the new developers have made noises to us that they will clean and polish the hunk of junk we love so much, making it shine again.
you can make "realistic" suggestions that the developers can actually implement soon™, or you can make a shitpost that has been done to death, in as so much that the horse has been kicked so many times that it is now split in half.
choices...
Edited by (TDM)coldform, 15 February 2016 - 10:37 PM.