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So, the last time I played Hawken was sometime early 2014.  I was looking through my list of games on steam and clicked on the Hawken page and noticed that it was listed as "early access"...  I thought that was kind of weird, I don't remember it being listed as early access when I was playing it a few years ago.  So, I check out the official page and apparently this game is still in development but... has changed hands?  Kind of confused as to what is going on.  So, I decide to install the game and see what (if anything) has changed from what I remember.  So, my pilot progression is still there but my mechs have all been reset?  I am kind of confused and kind of surprised this is still being worked on.  I honestly thought this died a long time ago and essentially became vaporware.  I knew it was being worked on years ago (though not listed as "early access" on steam), but I never saw any progress except the occasional "buy more vanity stuff", which just said to me they stopped working on the game and were going to leave it as is.  Anywho... so apparently this game is still being worked on?  What kind of road map is planned?  Is there going to be anything other than just more multiplayer?  It was fun for a short while but that stuff became pretty repetitive after a while. 



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So, the last time I played Hawken was sometime early 2014.  I was looking through my list of games on steam and clicked on the Hawken page and noticed that it was listed as "early access"...  I thought that was kind of weird, I don't remember it being listed as early access when I was playing it a few years ago.  So, I check out the official page and apparently this game is still in development but... has changed hands?  Kind of confused as to what is going on.  So, I decide to install the game and see what (if anything) has changed from what I remember.  So, my pilot progression is still there but my mechs have all been reset?  I am kind of confused and kind of surprised this is still being worked on.  I honestly thought this died a long time ago and essentially became vaporware.  I knew it was being worked on years ago (though not listed as "early access" on steam), but I never saw any progress except the occasional "buy more vanity stuff", which just said to me they stopped working on the game and were going to leave it as is.  Anywho... so apparently this game is still being worked on?  What kind of road map is planned?  Is there going to be anything other than just more multiplayer?  It was fun for a short while but that stuff became pretty repetitive after a while. 

Tl;Dr: We don't exactly know. 


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Tl;Dr: We don't exactly know. 

If you're on hiatus from Hawken, stop posting.

 

 

So, the last time I played Hawken was sometime early 2014.  I was looking through my list of games on steam and clicked on the Hawken page and noticed that it was listed as "early access"...  I thought that was kind of weird, I don't remember it being listed as early access when I was playing it a few years ago.  So, I check out the official page and apparently this game is still in development but... has changed hands?  Kind of confused as to what is going on.  So, I decide to install the game and see what (if anything) has changed from what I remember.  So, my pilot progression is still there but my mechs have all been reset?  I am kind of confused and kind of surprised this is still being worked on.  I honestly thought this died a long time ago and essentially became vaporware.  I knew it was being worked on years ago (though not listed as "early access" on steam), but I never saw any progress except the occasional "buy more vanity stuff", which just said to me they stopped working on the game and were going to leave it as is.  Anywho... so apparently this game is still being worked on?  What kind of road map is planned?  Is there going to be anything other than just more multiplayer?  It was fun for a short while but that stuff became pretty repetitive after a while. 

The original development company Adhesive went bankrupt because of massive misspending on the part of their production company, Meteor. Reloaded Inc. bought the IP and the game and have been slowly working through the back-end and restarting development.

 

Very.

 

Slowly.

 

The road map to date has been: sort out the back end, become familiar with the code, deploy existing almost-complete things left over from Adhesive's development days, do original development.

 

We're somewhere between "sort out the back end" and "deploy existing almost-complete things". With a side of mysteeeeeerious partnerships that will end in tears we don't know anything about.

 

Nothing is known about non-multiplayer aside from "open to it," which may as well be as you say: vapourware. Expect Hawken to be a multiplayer-only IP for a long while to come.


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its called the twisted existence that is hawken 


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Capnjosh did say something about a major conent update within the first half of 2016.  If that arrives on time, we should see that within the next couple of months.  Hopefully.



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With a side of mysteeeeeerious partnerships that will end in tears we don't know anything about.

 

 

 

Mysterious partnerships? Haven't heard about that.

 

I hope I hope I hope it's bandai and they're going to rebrand hawken into ZOIDS: MEGA ZOID COMBAT THE GAME. That'd be rad.

 

 

 

 

Siiiiick.


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Mysterious partnerships? Haven't heard about that.

 

I hope I hope I hope it's bandai and they're going to rebrand hawken into ZOIDS: MEGA ZOID COMBAT THE GAME. That'd be rad.

 

 

 

 

Siiiiick.

i COMPLETELY forgot about this show and now i have to binge watch every episode

 

thanks for that

 

also i would play the hell out of that game



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Mysterious partnerships? Haven't heard about that.

 

I hope I hope I hope it's bandai and they're going to rebrand hawken into ZOIDS: MEGA ZOID COMBAT THE GAME. That'd be rad.

 

 

 

 

Siiiiick.

 



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we need "siege tank" and i also heard murmurs of more g2's maybe ss?


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we need "siege tank" and i also heard murmurs of more g2's maybe ss?

 With a 120mm Shock Cannon?


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I was hoping for the matching pink or blue fuzzy bunny mechs with fuffly mech ears. They could hop all over the map, Wait. Nevermind. Idiots from WoW come here and hop around like morons now. OK HUGE Gundam mechs then, thats what I heard.


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Contrary to popular belief, or maybe it's worry, I'm still here.  We're all still here.  Hawken is still here.  And quite a bit of progress is still being made every day.

 

We just still can't talk about it :)

 

Is it cool, like a Fight Club kind of "don't talk about it"?  yup.

 

Now on to all the fun with all the datas!

 

In short, there was an unfortunate deployment about a month ago that threw a lot of thing out whack.  Some temporary data loss even crept in.  <Queue the scary music used for when the scary nocturnal Illal carnivores come around>  During the process of fixing all this, a separate issue jumped in and added a bit more complication.  Imagine when a stray TOW rocket happens across your mech in mid-repair.  It's not catastrophic, since most everything is in the process of being fixed, but it's certainly been anything but convenient.

 

The goal from here going forward is to first prop up the data layer with some extra love and attention.  Then we're going to continue turning toward more polish and performance.  Then we're going to start seeding the world with some good bits of new Hawken love - this is when things start to get happier.  Then we're going to head into what some in the industry have fondly described as "launch season", that wonderful time of year when a game gets to show off how much its been training in the off-season.

 

I will leave you to ponder the wonder that is Hawken, and of course to reply with pithy giphy posts, because if we're all honest, those have a high rate of enjoyment.

 

 

-capnjosh

 

 

 

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And if you believe that, you'll believe this......................

 

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we need "siege tank" and i also heard murmurs of more g2's maybe ss?

 

IMO Pusher is more likely to come out first.... We'll see?


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See Spot run. Run Spot run.


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Have you went tubing, and the current stopped?  You have to row yourself out of the waters to keep your sanity.   We're all still here, so,.....

 

 

yea...



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STILL WAITING...................


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Have you went tubing, and the current stopped?  You have to row yourself out of the waters to keep your sanity.   We're all still here, so,.....

 

 

yea...

We don't know how to row. 


 

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So, again, I completely forgot about this game.  Checking steam, see an "update"... say to myself "this is still in development?"... come to website and see that I asked the same question earlier this year... lol.  So, apparently there has been 0 progress from April of this year?  I know this is free, but since it has supposedly been taken over by a legit development company I would expect more. 






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