Most games in Hawken seem to fall onto a spectrum of skirmishes vs brawls.
Skirmishes are games with lots of marksmanship, poking, and defensive play, played at arms length, where the teams/players try to poke at each other in hopes of an opportunity opening up.
Brawls are games where the main overriding factor is "he can't kill me if he's dead first". Multiple people at close range, trying to tear each other to shreds while trying to remain alive in a whirlwind of enemies and missiles.
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High population servers invariably turn into brawls, due to sheer number of mechs per space.
In reverse, low population servers tend to be skirmishes, due to extra space/cover and relative lack of team support.
Some more skirmish oriented mechs are the sharpshooter, reaper, infiltrator, predator, rocketeer, tech, and the grenadier.
More brawl oriented mechs would be the brawler, vanguard, assault, zerker, and the incinerator.
The others are fine in either.
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Do you prefer playing in skirmishes or brawls? Brawls seem to be more popular, but I personally prefer the intimacy and slower pace of skirmishes.
Also, what mech do you prefer for skirmishes and for brawls? Team diversity is important, of course, but you do have to choose a mech according to how the battle is being played as well.
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