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This is a personal opinion piece, so experiences may differ, etc.

After a few hours of playing, I find the game to be very so-so.

I'm not really a fan of the matchmaking system. I understand it's a design decision but it felt very jarring to log on to a game and play with my friends only to discover that outside of a couple co-op modes, we'd likely be facing off against each other. Not a fan of that.

The game crashed twice. Both times it was during match making.

Being in a party whilst waiting for the party leader to start a game results in a lot of waiting at the main game interface without any feedback or information whatsoever. Simply sitting, waiting for the connection screen. And if the game your party leader joins is full you simply just don't get into the game at all and have to sit and wait for your friend because the 'play' button is disabled. And again, zero feedback whatsoever. Highly confusing.

Also, though I understand this is a 'port from the PC, it doesn't seem too well optimized in places. Loading into a new battle includes a minute or two of frame rate loss. Same when too many mechs are on screen.

The customization options are lacking, to say the least.

All in all, whilst I've been waiting for a mech shooter for a while now, I find myself growing disinterested with Hawken after only a few hours. It's free to play, so one can't expect too much, but there doesn't seem to be an experience curve at all. Shoot mechs, buy better mech, rinse and repeat.

In any case, I doubt I'll stick with this game for long, but thanks for bringing it to PS4.

Edited by (PS4)Errathe, 08 July 2016 - 01:17 PM.

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There are imense bugs, i spent 100+ Euros today, for "supporting" the game. Like you said there are alot of problems. And the biggest: YOU DON'T FIND LOBBYS IF YOU ARE A HIGHT LEVEL! I reach 13 I guess, kd over 3. And why do we have those stars? You can't play with a friend too like you said. But for what do we need stars on console. And WHY YOU CAN'T UPGRADE MECHES HOW YOU LIKE. LIKE ON PC. That are the points that I hate.

 

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Edited by (PS4)shortnameGAME, 08 July 2016 - 01:40 PM.

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fuzzy bunny port. 

 

such a great game on PC and a horrible port. FAIL!!!

 

i used to play this a couple of years ago on pc and loved it. disappointed how idiotic the port is.

 

told my friends about it every one downloaded it cuz i was praising it and after 30 min all of them deleted it. giving me hell "is this the great game you were talking about?"

 

well guess what this is not the game i was praising because this crap compared to the PC version.

 

And FFS give us the mech customization, dont know what bloody bright idea came into the dev heads when they thought of removing that from console port.



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fuzzy bunny port. 

 

such a great game on PC and a horrible port. FAIL!!!

 

i used to play this a couple of years ago on pc and loved it. disappointed how idiotic the port is.

 

told my friends about it every one downloaded it cuz i was praising it and after 30 min all of them deleted it. giving me hell "is this the great game you were talking about?"

 

well guess what this is not the game i was praising because this crap compared to the PC version.

 

And FFS give us the mech customization, dont know what bloody bright idea came into the dev heads when they thought of removing that from console port.

 

SAME HERE, DAMN SAME! My friends said, what a crap is this? Well this is crap, pc version is okey. But we console players are too dumb do customize our mechs.


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This is a personal opinion piece, so experiences may differ, etc.

After a few hours of playing, I find the game to be very so-so.

I'm not really a fan of the matchmaking system. I understand it's a design decision but it felt very jarring to log on to a game and play with my friends only to discover that outside of a couple co-op modes, we'd likely be facing off against each other. Not a fan of that.

The game crashed twice. Both times it was during match making.

Being in a party whilst waiting for the party leader to start a game results in a lot of waiting at the main game interface without any feedback or information whatsoever. Simply sitting, waiting for the connection screen. And if the game your party leader joins is full you simply just don't get into the game at all and have to sit and wait for your friend because the 'play' button is disabled. And again, zero feedback whatsoever. Highly confusing.

Also, though I understand this is a 'port from the PC, it doesn't seem too well optimized in places. Loading into a new battle includes a minute or two of frame rate loss. Same when too many mechs are on screen.

The customization options are lacking, to say the least.

All in all, whilst I've been waiting for a mech shooter for a while now, I find myself growing disinterested with Hawken after only a few hours. It's free to play, so one can't expect too much, but there doesn't seem to be an experience curve at all. Shoot mechs, buy better mech, rinse and repeat.

In any case, I doubt I'll stick with this game for long, but thanks for bringing it to PS4.

 

 

We've made changes late yesterday to the party system. It now allows the Hawken party to join a match and be on the same team.  We're looking into other changes that we can do to make this a more pleasant experience for groups. 

 

The game crashes we've seen happening on the back end should also be fixed as of late yesterday.  We hope we got all the crashes cleared up but we won't know until we see the game performance over the next day or two. 

 

We agree that there needs to be better notification for what's going on and we'll be looking into addressing that in an upcoming patch. 

 

Customization is being reworked and it will be introduced at a later time. 

 

 

Thank you for your constructive criticism, we appreciate you giving it a try and hope you try it out down the road again.  


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We've made changes late yesterday to the party system. It now allows the Hawken party to join a match and be on the same team.  We're looking into other changes that we can do to make this a more pleasant experience for groups. 

 

The game crashes we've seen happening on the back end should also be fixed as of late yesterday.  We hope we got all the crashes cleared up but we won't know until we see the game performance over the next day or two. 

 

We agree that there needs to be better notification for what's going on and we'll be looking into addressing that in an upcoming patch. 

 

Customization is being reworked and it will be introduced at a later time. 

 

 

Thank you for your constructive criticism, we appreciate you giving it a try and hope you try it out down the road again.  

 

Parties aren't fixed it's still speek party thing, and you can't play if the star level of your bud isn't the same like yours. And that fps is underrated even for ps3. You can make the game minimum 3 times better in grapics and flew. 


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Also, you need a custom button mapping option for controllers. Adding more preconfigured layouts isn't an ideal solution since it still leaves players who want triggers and bumpers swapped, or primary fire on the right, or a lefty config, etc. without a recourse unless you plan on adding every possible configuration to the game. Please note that Armored Core offered full button mapping back in 2008 so it's not that complicated to implement. It is also worth noting that while PS4 has a button override option, Xbox cannot do the same without investing in an Elite controller. Furthermore, no PC client would offer controller support without full mapping options so for the sake of uniformity it would make sense just to offer custom button mapping instead of preconfigured layouts.

Right now Hawken feels like an open beta, not a release version. Oh, and please add a capture the flag game mode!

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Also, you need a custom button mapping option for controllers. Adding more preconfigured layouts isn't an ideal solution since it still leaves players who want triggers and bumpers swapped, or primary fire on the right, or a lefty config, etc. without a recourse unless you plan on adding every possible configuration to the game. Please note that Armored Core offered full button mapping back in 2008 so it's not that complicated to implement. It is also worth noting that while PS4 has a button override option, Xbox cannot do the same without investing in an Elite controller. Furthermore, no PC client would offer controller support without full mapping options so for the sake of uniformity it would make sense just to offer custom button mapping instead of preconfigured layouts.

Right now Hawken feels like an open beta, not a release version. Oh, and please add a capture the flag game mode!

 

Yeah you are right the old good version of hawken, with 2016 grapics, I remember that time. 

 

- Hawken feels like a ps3 game on ps4, no graphics no patches, only shi*. 

 

And if they want to make money from hawken, spin rulette with money for skins and parts $3 per spin :) That idea is copyrighted if you use it you will have to give me the that founders bundle from pc.  :thumbsup:  :thumbsup:  :thumbsup:  :thumbsup:  :thumbsup:  :thumbsup: . ( if you want to ) :D

 

Rate my secound gameplay wihle then.

 


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We've made changes late yesterday to the party system. It now allows the Hawken party to join a match and be on the same team.  We're looking into other changes that we can do to make this a more pleasant experience for groups. 

 

The game crashes we've seen happening on the back end should also be fixed as of late yesterday.  We hope we got all the crashes cleared up but we won't know until we see the game performance over the next day or two. 

 

We agree that there needs to be better notification for what's going on and we'll be looking into addressing that in an upcoming patch. 

 

Customization is being reworked and it will be introduced at a later time. 

 

 

Thank you for your constructive criticism, we appreciate you giving it a try and hope you try it out down the road again.  

thanks i had noticed it has been better for the most part  of the day keep up the good work 



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i don't mind this, controls are easy to use, makes it easy to run and gun around, don't know what the fuss is. all the controls you are explaining are stupid aren't even in my game, like primary fire? both R2 and L2 shoot the correct the side of the mech weapons, if there is machine gun on the left the L2 shoots it if there is a rocket on the right the R2 shoots it, heal is O, items are square and triangle, and X i don't know what it does yet. the left and right D-pad is emotes. the down is call for assistance. R1 is jump and use jet-pack. L1 is boost and strafe out the way. pressing the Touchpad is Scoreboard. R3 changes to 3rd Person View. and that's the basics. its straight forward, don't know why you think it is hard and doesn't make sense

 

the only problem i'm getting is the CONSTANT 5 minute disconnection error, which once i press the X on the start screen give it 5 Minutes (i used a stop watch and its the same time each time) and it disconnects, no matter what i do it disconnects, playing a game, in the garage, loading, finishing a game, it disconnects from the HAWKEN Server. the problem is, when it disconnects while im in a match the match goes on and everything goes normally, like the connection error just stays over the top while i'm still connected, haven't played a full match yet because of this, i finished 1 while it was over half way through but nearly finished and it disconnected.

 

the FPS lag isn't a deal, the Pop in textures are annoying but not game breaking.



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the only problem i'm getting is the CONSTANT 5 minute disconnection error, which once i press the X on the start screen give it 5 Minutes (i used a stop watch and its the same time each time) and it disconnects, no matter what i do it disconnects, playing a game, in the garage, loading, finishing a game, it disconnects from the HAWKEN Server. the problem is, when it disconnects while im in a match the match goes on and everything goes normally, like the connection error just stays over the top while i'm still connected, haven't played a full match yet because of this, i finished 1 while it was over half way through but nearly finished and it disconnected.

 

the FPS lag isn't a deal, the Pop in textures are annoying but not game breaking.

 

How odd, could you provide a bit more information such as what region and time you are playing or perhaps something along those lines? I don't doubt you, I'm merely curious since I haven't run into any d/c issues as of yet and I want to know if there's anything that could be derailing your connection from the servers. I would've brought this up in the "Welcome Pilots!" thread but I feel that may not be the best place to discuss it. Despite your objections there, it may require a reinstall if for no other reason than to simply rule it out. In truth I doubt it'll change anything, but it'd at least be a start to troubleshooting the problem.


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Yeah same I had really no problems but today I had a hard time joining one of my friends in a match but I was able to get it fixed once I got in his lobby I just went to click join the server and it fixed it

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i don't mind this, controls are easy to use, makes it easy to run and gun around, don't know what the fuss is. all the controls you are explaining are stupid aren't even in my game, like primary fire? both R2 and L2 shoot the correct the side of the mech weapons, if there is machine gun on the left the L2 shoots it if there is a rocket on the right the R2 shoots it, heal is O, items are square and triangle, and X i don't know what it does yet. the left and right D-pad is emotes. the down is call for assistance. R1 is jump and use jet-pack. L1 is boost and strafe out the way. pressing the Touchpad is Scoreboard. R3 changes to 3rd Person View. and that's the basics. its straight forward, don't know why you think it is hard and doesn't make sense.


I never said that the default controls don't work or are hard, only that they are quite limiting in terms of customization. I used to play Armored Core which is far more complicated and involved quick boosting, which if timed correctly, would boost you twice as far. As a result, I am used to having my boost on my trigger, not bumper so I prefer to have them switched. Additionally, I play with four fingers over the top of the controller so I also prefer my index fingers to control the weapons which requires them to be on the bumpers.

As for switching the primary and secondary, most primary weapons reload faster in Hawken and as most shooters place the weapon control on the right trigger this feels far more comfortable. If had a choice I would make my right arm the primary weapon, but short of that switching the primary and secondary control is perfectly fine in most cases. For the record, even in games like Chromehounds, you had full control over how your weapons were linked and which side of the chassis they were placed so Hawken feels very dumbed-down in this regard.

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Armored Core

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Great, now I just want to break out my old Armored Core collection... It's sad to think the last great entry was on PS2 (at least in my eyes), but I understand if others enjoyed the PS3/360 releases. I picked them up hoping for an experience similar to moving from AC: Master of Arena to AC2, but sadly that never seemed to be the case.

 

I apologize for the off-topic response XD


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Fix frame rate

Allow customization at least say 8 combinations of primary/secondary set ups per mech, plus about 4x the internals options.

HAPTIC FEEDBACK .... best thing about playing on controllers is the force/haptic feedback, vibrate with steps, shake with jump jets, shake when shot etc.

... relatively simple, and if they fix it has ZERO competition on the worlds largest gaming platform....

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Fix frame rate

Allow customization at least say 8 combinations of primary/secondary set ups per mech, plus about 4x the internals options.

HAPTIC FEEDBACK .... best thing about playing on controllers is the force/haptic feedback, vibrate with steps, shake with jump jets, shake when shot etc.

... relatively simple, and if they fix it has ZERO competition on the worlds largest gaming platform....

 

They should do it like on pc, but they already anounced it will come out in a few weeks.


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Oh, and please add a capture the flag game mode!

 

They already offer a mode of this type.  It's the seige or assault type one, you need to collect EU and bring it back to your base.

The other mode is capture the 3 areas and hold domination over them to drain tickets. 



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They already offer a mode of this type.  It's the seige or assault type one, you need to collect EU and bring it back to your base.

The other mode is capture the 3 areas and hold domination over them to drain tickets. 

 

 

Well thats not really capture the flag, siege is fairly unique to the game, a few more steps and a bit more complicated.

 

A mode where you have to infiltrate the enemy base and return something to your base is in order. I think this and siege can happily coexist and not be redundant.



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I have to ask by what you mean when you say "no experience curve"

 

Its an arena mech shooter, using your mech to shoot other mechs is kind of the point. Now if its the simplicity of it you are talking about that is just because your matches are full of beginners and aren't exercising the full mechanics of the game like movement. Trust me, you are going to eventually run into people who are going to stomp your face and you are going to wonder what happened.






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