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Herokuapp tells no lies.  DEVS!!!

It's crunch time. This is Prime-Time Hump Night, and pitiful, can we spam the net with definite/or at least projected estimates of new content of Any Kind?

We're where that derigible-battleship (guns of icarus?) game was last year. I don't want to go that way...

i'm a pathetic HWK gameboy. i need this Thing. besides, i've got hundreds in this, and wanna throw more at it. c'mon!

not a RANT.

 


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hold on, but, EM, think about this. Hawken hasn't been successful in its current state. What will bringing new players on do other than add to the growing pool of people who've "tried that game"?

 

Basically, why?


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First, Guns of Icarus was great. Having a random Irishman and Australian acknowledging orders with near-perfect Herbert the Pervert impressions while sailing through violent skies is still one of my happiest memories.

 

Secondly, I agree with Tickle's sentiment: I think that Reloaded has a limited amount of marketing pushes that they can make, and I don't want them wasted on the same unfinished Hawken that we've had for a year plus. I want the devs to roll out basic tweaks we've talked about and then unleash the marketing with a free unique skin or something. 


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While I agree that hearing from the team in some official capacity about what is coming and some idea of when would be nice I don't think they need to be advertising Hawken until it is getting a steady stream of new content and the kinks have been worked out of the system.

 

Yes we all know and love Hawken, some of us for years now, but Hawken is far from perfect and this is a huge part of the reason why it never really took off. Reloaded has been busy working on things behind the scenes which definitely needs to be done but Hawken is far from ready to have its name thrown back out there for people to come check it out. I say this as someone who gets poor performance on the New Jersey servers to the point where I'll get massive lag spikes now and then which others on the server experience as well. 

 

They need to be smart about advertising Hawken and making sure they've got the content and capacity to handle a huge player spike. Right now Hawken is pretty light on the content side of the things and with server performance being somewhat questionable I doubt the game would handle populations spiking several thousand users suddenly. 

 

I know it sucks but you just gotta give it time and hope that Reloaded has learned enough from Adhesive/Meteor's failures to market Hawken appropriately and build a sustainable audience.


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While I agree that hearing from the team in some official capacity about what is coming and some idea of when would be nice I don't think they need to be advertising Hawken until it is getting a steady stream of new content and the kinks have been worked out of the system.

 

Yes we all know and love Hawken, some of us for years now, but Hawken is far from perfect and this is a huge part of the reason why it never really took off. Reloaded has been busy working on things behind the scenes which definitely needs to be done but Hawken is far from ready to have its name thrown back out there for people to come check it out. I say this as someone who gets poor performance on the New Jersey servers to the point where I'll get massive lag spikes now and then which others on the server experience as well. 

 

They need to be smart about advertising Hawken and making sure they've got the content and capacity to handle a huge player spike. Right now Hawken is pretty light on the content side of the things and with server performance being somewhat questionable I doubt the game would handle populations spiking several thousand users suddenly. 

 

I know it sucks but you just gotta give it time and hope that Reloaded has learned enough from Adhesive/Meteor's failures to market Hawken appropriately and build a sustainable audience.

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Herokuapp tells no lies.  DEVS!!!

It's crunch time. This is Prime-Time Hump Night, and pitiful, can we spam the net with definite/or at least projected estimates of new content of Any Kind?

We're where that derigible-battleship (guns of icarus?) game was last year. I don't want to go that way...

i'm a pathetic HWK gameboy. i need this Thing. besides, i've got hundreds in this, and wanna throw more at it. c'mon!

not a RANT.

Yeah according to steam, I havent played hawken since november 1st :/ Im in dire need of some new stuff to draw me back, I'm not giving up on hawken at all its just that Planetside 2 is pretty enjoyable and until new hawken content comes out, I think I'm going to be playing alot of PS2


  

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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CapnJosh and company shouldn't say anything until they have something to say. I have an inkling that very little has been accomplished, with very little advancement planned for the immediate future. It appears that Reloaded is treating Hawken as a low risk, low investment type of project. Invest as few resources as possible (tiny staff), work with what you got (can't even put items on sale correctly), and if you can make it better over time (fix code) and it works out that content creation becomes profitable, great.

Tl;dr I'm not surprised in the slightest we haven't seen or heard anything from the devs. I don't expect to see anything for some time. It's best not to out deadlines on anything at this point for the devs.
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I agree with everyone else don't advertise until it's time etc etc.

 

That said, it has been over a month since the last dev update on the forums. It'd be good to see another one of those even if it's just hey we're still here even though we don't have anything for you yet.


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Player Retention & Howken

 

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[14:32] <Crafty> hawken is unlike anything Ive played

 

 


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When I saw "128 Players" I instantly thought of how much I miss MAG on PS3 - with it's 32, 64, 128 and 256 player matches.  Such ingenious net code for those servers.


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I think devs should make a few tweaks, add a little something here and there (like at least the splash screens) and then make a formal release on steam. Many gamers do not mess with early access or beta versions of games they wait for the release. That will bring in some $ and players again. While doing that the real plan should be

 

HWK 2.0.

 

Start with a smart business plan at the core and using the newest engine making smooth quality high integrity game play,  positional voip,  and user created and contributed content some of the foundations to build on. The current mechs could be the start of 2.0 like the characters of teamfortress were the start of tf2.

 

The original TF was not much of a success and TF2 struggled plenty at the  beginning. Really, there was a time when it was nothing but cheating scum and malware issues. Several years later they hired an economist (everyone laughed) and are now the ftp game everyone thinks they want to be.  My point is hwk 2.0 can start with some of the same assets and designs to get rolling and grow to become  a huge success.


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Just installed Hawken again after a while. Was like "Hm, okay. I used to enjoy this game for a reason, right?" 

 

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And I guess I uninstalled it for a reason as well. 

Been playing Elite: Dangerous all along and I must admit that this CQC mode (match/round based PvP mode) is - balance wise - far ahaed and Hawken still needs to fulfill basic tasks. 

 

Weapons need complete overhauls

Matchmaker is the worst of all multiplayer games I have played

Mechs need little rebalancing

Basic mechancis lack in depth.

 

 

 

This game was said to stay. Yes it will stay, stay at its crisis state forever without any hope of progress.

 

EDIT: And I have to repeat myself here. This is not Josh's fault. That's still ADH's fault.


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This game was said to stay. Yes it will stay, stay at its crisis state forever without any hope of progress.

 

EDIT: And I have to repeat myself here. This is not Josh's fault. That's still ADH's fault.

Hey, heres a thought.......

 

Why don't you come back after something with the game idk...... actually changes?  Maybe then your experiance will be....... different?



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Nothing changes if it doesn't change


 

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Hey, heres a thought.......

 

Why don't you come back after something with the game idk...... actually changes?  Maybe then your experiance will be....... different?

 

 

So I shall come back Q2 2017? :P


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New players still come.. population is low. They intermingle with veterans. As a result both sides get fuzzy bunny experience. Both go do something else.



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Aaaaand I uninstalled Hawken again. Another 6 month break lol.


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Do us all a favour - let the game uninstalled.

Thanks.



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Do us all a favour - keep the game uninstalled.

Thanks.

Jeebus, you people and grammar


 

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Jeebus, you people and grammar

 

Hey!  What do you mean by "you people"?


To be serious for a moment this is just a joke

 


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I am referring to an over-generalization of anyone who does not understand how English grammar works. I like over-generalizing things. 


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Dallas there are plenty of people on the forums for whom English is a second language. Play nice.


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Playing nice is a fairly foreign concept to me... but I'll do my best from now on. 


 

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Playing nice is a fairly foreign concept to me... but I'll do my best from now on. 

So, what he's saying is, "nice is barely a second language for him."


To be serious for a moment this is just a joke

 


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Something along those lines would be the message I am attempting to convey.

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I am one of the 5 people in the universe who understand your signature. 

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Something along those lines would be the message I am attempting to convey.

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heeeeeeeee. Check out this stupid thread. THE PRESSURE IS ON. Did you know that grammar is fluidly defined? Like, the word itself. Some would say that the preceding sentence fragment is grammatically incorrect, some would say it's incorrect due to syntax or sentence structure. Many would say that grammar includes syntax, but there's room for syntax to stand uncategorized.


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I was not going to say anything but things seem to going the same way as the previous developer.  Capt Josh was very vocal when Reloaded took over the game, but over the months, we are getting less and less feedback.  Are they looking for someone to buy the game?  Whatever happen to the interview?  What happened to having the devs talk?  Ok, maybe they are so busy trying to get an update out that they forgot about the fan base.  An update every couple of weeks would be nice even if it was just to report small progress.  But with no news at all, is pretty disappointing. 

 

I'll be hiding in the shadows hoping that new content come out. 


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I agree with Zorin.  Initially there would be an update every week, then it changed to 2, then 1 month and now we are waiting.  I can see Tiggs is responding on problems in the Hawken Repair Bay so they are still there.  I was hoping for something soon and the low user count makes it hard to match a game these days.  The majority of the servers available normally have x number of people per region and even then it's hard to get in with my MMR.  Sometimes it's a "seed" a server and just wait until someone eventually joins to make a game.  Sometimes it's f&*( this, log out and go play something else.  






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