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As the title suggest im curious as to how we all found Hawken,what attracted you to play and stay etc...

Personally i produce music from my home i built my own computer to do so for need of more cpu power,one day i wanted to play one of my favorites armored core but i didn't feel like getting my.PlayStation so i did a search for pc games most similar to A.C. and came accrossed Hawken,and consequently my computer was built with perfect spec for the game downloaded,loaded up and the rest is history im addicted.
Im interested in your storys aswell,see you on the battle grounds.

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Steam, pretty much just that. I was browsing through the F2P section and found it, fell in love with it.


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In one of your "Mechwarrior online vs HAWKEN" articles.


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I was browsing in the Tegra Zone and saw the live wallpaper there. HAWKEN might have been in Alpha then. I didn't bother to dig up about the game. Later I installed steam and saw a familiar name there. HAWKEN!! I checked it out. Downloaded it. Loved it ever since through its ups and downs.


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This video, which I have mentioned before elsewhere.



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Youtube. Nuff said.


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This Kotaku article from 2012. After that read, I had to get the game.

http://kotaku.com/59...i-played-hawken

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A friend pointed out that this game has similar mechanics as Global Agenda (which I was a HUGE addict of with thousands of hours played) and that I should check it out. Things went downhill from there.



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Steam, pretty much just that. I was browsing through the F2P section and found it, fell in love with it.

Same :D


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A YouTube channel that I frequented decided to showcase Hawken. Downloaded immediately.



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Found it back when it was on the featured section of Steam. Decided to give it a whirl and here I am.


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Saw an ad for it before it was released. Was all "yes". Forgot about it for some time and one day I was all "what was that game I wanted to try three years ago?"

Hawken.

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I saw an article on some a gaming news site...

This Kotaku article from 2012. After that read, I had to get the game.

http://kotaku.com/59...i-played-hawken


Yup, that's the one.

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I was looking for games featuring mech girls. There was one but it was pay-to-win, and I could tell straight away. So then I looked at MechWarrior Online, fondly remembering playing MW4 in my earlier years. I read up on that and apparently that went to poop, so more and more digging eventually led to HAWKEN.

 

You now have a Touhou fanboy wandering in-game, wondering when a shrine maiden plushie will be a cockpit thingus.


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Saw the very first trailer video they released in 2011 and I signed up for Alpha testing.

 


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My wife...... I don't know...... That's just how it happened ok.   :sleep:

 

LOL I got into the game because of my husband!  He saw it on steam and thought it would be something I'd like.  I logged on and haven't logged off!


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I saw an article on a gaming mag and I was instantly intrigued.  I didn't have a gaming computer at the time, so I waited till black friday of November 2013 to get into the game.


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October 2013 on Steam.  I bought all the bundles and fell in love!


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Was looking for a F2P, then found Hawken and World of Tanks both appealing. I chose the one with smallest install program...


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My brother told me about it. Registered and got into Alpha. Don't remember ever playing and wish i did. Then forgot about the game and got an email about open beta. 


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Saw the very first trailer video they released in 2011 and I signed up for Alpha testing.

 

The same here.  Luckily I got into Alpha and have been playing on and off ever since.


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Steam.

 

Looking for free games, And Hawken just...existed.

And well, The huge graphical qualities, Sexy mechs, and "Ruined" style really left an impact.


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nVidia Facebook post.


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My friend was an original beta tester, and he told me about it.

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I saw it on steam sometime in February last year. I first overlooked it, but then, after looking at it, I was like :O :O :O :O :O I WANT TO PLAY IT :O :O :O :O


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nVidia Facebook post.

THIS!  with the sidebar advertisement link to the trailer, with the guy looking for help finding the girl with the possible cure to the Hawken virus. mid-late 2012!

 

edit: holy crappitycupcakes, i found it! July 2012!

 

i just get a bit sh!teating grin every time i see this one.


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I blame my brother. Of course now i am 100% better than him and i can rek him however i want.


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was watching a show called EP Daily which is a show that focuses on videogames and gadgets and things, and they interviewed Khang Le and showed some gameplay footage. I was so intrigued by it, (I had always loved mechs) so a few days later, I was on my PC trying to remember what it was called, finally I got it, signed up and here I am! Been here since Feb of 2013.

 

 

This was part of the footage I saw on TV that exposed me to it, dang the old hud, just a few maps, the game was.....simple. Those were the days....

http://epn.tv/all/spotlight/hawken-pc/

 

Khang Le interview:

http://epn.tv/all/ty...ctor-interview/


Edited by BaconOverLord, 07 April 2015 - 02:06 PM.

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What if we just give some bacon paint, some bacon holo-emotes and change Bunker from snow to bacon.

 

This way, everyone will be happy.

What you should really do, is replace your parts with bacon, so you can cook games and eat bacon

Obviously the wallpaper would be cooler if bacon was incorporated into it.

 


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It was summer '14 when I was looking for a f2p shooter on Steam to play with my friends.

 

Never played any mech game before, but I came for the trailer and stayed for the atmosphere Hawken provides!


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Summer of 2012 I was sitting in a chatroom and someone said we should check it out. I did and loved it. Signed up for closed beta. I didn't really care for FRED then, I do now but not then, lol. I really like the Sharpshooter. SS396 taught me how to use it. I got some pointers from Saturnine. (He prolly don't even remember talking to me then. Hell I was nobody, just another guy asking questions. ) I found this pic in some of my old stuff.

 

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I saw an ad and thought, "that's how mechs would actually be in order to be viable war machines. Highly mobile. Dangerous looking and feelin. Not giant, slow, lumbering things that could be stopped by a single RPG to the knee because it couldn't move out of the way. I'm going to play that."

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The 1st hawken alpha footage video all those years ago (back when adhesive was just 9 people strong), was hooked instantly. :D



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I was in the closed beta for Mechwarrior:Online and the name "Hawken" kept being tossed around.


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I was in the closed beta for Mechwarrior:Online and the name "Hawken" kept being tossed around.

so you got converted then


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What if we just give some bacon paint, some bacon holo-emotes and change Bunker from snow to bacon.

 

This way, everyone will be happy.

What you should really do, is replace your parts with bacon, so you can cook games and eat bacon

Obviously the wallpaper would be cooler if bacon was incorporated into it.

 


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I've typed this out before, but wth:

 

I was walking through Hall 'C' of the Las Vegas Convention Center, at the Consumer Electronics Show, 2013, on the 8th of Feb.  I was going through the Toshiba booth, and saw the trailer playing on one of their laptops.

 

I signed up as soon as I got home.  Don't think I've gone four consecutive days without playing Hawken since.


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I was sitting at my computer one day, and thought, hey, I wonder if there is any good mech games? I didn't have any ideas in particular, just wondered if there was any. I used to play some rpg 2-d mech game online, but I forget the name. Anyway, I was hoping to find something better, something more appealing visually and just more fun. I searched for mech games, found Hawken, was flabbergasted at the descriptions, and downloaded it. this was two-ish years ago. I had a bad laptop, and it didn't run well, so I shelved it for two years. I picked it up a month ago, right after it was acquired by Reloaded games, and I fell in love all over again. I since have tried to get everyone I know to play it.



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Saw a Hawken teaser over on the Escapist a few years ago, well before it was released, discussing the Oculus Rift support, and advertising with "While the mechs may look like scavenged trash cans, they move like lightning"

 

 

Years later, I was itching for a Big Stompy Robot game, and remembered the name of the game with the "Trashcan Mechs", and decided to try it out (After reading that MWO was pay-to-win garbage with terrible game mode design. A shame - I was really looking forward to that one.)



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Friend mentioned it to me pre-alpha, I signed up, and kind of forgot about it.

 

PAX 2012 there was a big line to play it, he waited in line, I had other things to see and planned on getting back to it, but wasn't able to.

 

One of the things he got was a second round alpha code, then ADH announced there was some problem with the first issuing and reissued a second code to a lot of players.  He checked with ADH, got the green light, and I got the extra code.

 

Been here ever since in one form or another. :smile:


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i heard about hawken from something on G4 if any one remembers that way back in 2010 i think. a small mention, looked at the website then forgot about it till my brother told me that there was a sign up for alpha. i have been hooked ever since the word was out that hawken was even going to exist 


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