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[DER3Z]

So it's been about 3 years since I last stepped into hawken forums. Some of the old fart vets said I should post some old videos of hawken back in the day. I apologize in advance, some of the video are scattered,  but I can get you stuff from alpha/beta. Enjoy enjoy the stages of hawken pilots. *A lot of these was taken from my twitch so just fast forward through some parts lol*

 

Hawken A mech

https://youtu.be/y1o3DEpzvpM?t=25m22s

 

List of videos

https://www.youtube....cL8X8QsPXRSKiu9

 

Closed Beta

 

Hawken Ascension

https://www.youtube....YfT4PsygYKqO9Up

 

Hawken Open beta

https://www.youtube....wHsOtIJEg3aa8Li

 

Hawken Steam

https://www.youtube....IJ14Ylgl7qk8Qos

 

Hawken Mecha Love

 

Hawken BSB montage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7qyRM1TAPw&list=PLIJ6PzWYz2gGUT1RIZzSH3d8ioHZ3Xkar

 

Twitch

http://www.twitch.tv...file/highlights

(some of the gameplay is buried)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[-Tj-]

Holy fuzzy bunny! DER3Z! Welcome back. Back for good, or just stopping by?

[DerMax]

3 years ago it wasn't even 12.12.12. If I recall correctly, last time you posted on the forums was post-Steam, when you announced you quit Hawken.

[SS396]

3 years ago it wasn't even 12.12.12. If I recall correctly, last time you posted on the forums was post-Steam, when you announced you quit Hawken.

 

Nevermind

Edited by SS396, 28 October 2015 - 01:41 AM.

[CrimsonKaim]

Closed Beta video:

 

"I love how versatile the EOC is [...] projectile [...] higher skill [...]."

 

ADH: Even though the EOC requiers more skill, that doesn't justify it to be better if used correctly.

 

- Nerf EOC direct hit damage

- Nerf EOC mine damage

- Nerf EOC mine lifetime

 

? ... ?! ... ??? ... ?

 

And that is when the noobisht weapons became the most powerful ones. 

 

ADH: We don't want noobs to have 'bad' weapons and even though they are very easy to use (hitscan, no heat-gen, no ammo, uber high accuracy, etc.), that doesn't justify noobs shouldn't be able to compete with vets.

 

- Buff every sustained weapon

- Removed inacuracy when boosting, dodging, hovering (only static acucary in EVERY case)

- Increased damage

- Increased range

 

 

? ... ?! ... ???! ... ??

 

 

Let's go back to Closed Beta where (nearly) everything was fine. 

 

- Vets would stomp noobs day in day out.

- "High skill weapons" are actually better than "Low skill weapons"

- No Air Compressor (Though I wouldn't mind the AC as long as it would follow the physical rules - no instant vertical speed loss when dodging)

- This awesome HUD/Cockpit ... got removed because of low-end players unable to afford a decent rig. So they changed the HUD into ... what we have now.

- Customization Tree (Offense, Defense, Agility aka red-blue-green)

- Internals had tardeoffs

- Don't worry, EMP. (Was actually broken AF)

 

Ofcourse closed Beta wasn't perfect but FAAAAAAAAAAR better than this BS ADH left Reloaded behind. Hawken got worse with every patch from closed beta on. 

Ascension was the descension of the whole game.

 

- Uber high TTK (Tank A-Classes)

- Ugliest HUD ever

- Arbitrary customization system

- Removal of tradeoffs for internals

- Unrealistic internals (fuel convertor? Increased dmg resistence when dying? Sudden repairs when you kill a mech from a distance?)

 

 

Oh, don't forget the unneccessary heatsink update where basically every heat-gen was removed and an insta-3-sec-cooldown added for extra simplicity regarding some kind of resource management (fuel and heat management were completely removed. Believe it or not, there was a time where dodging would burn a small amount of fuel and you actually had to watch your fuel supply from time to time and yes, you were indeed unable to dodge without fuel. Sounds so unfair, right? (not) That's why it got removed.)

 

I miss the old but gold times of HWK.

Edited by FakeName, 27 October 2015 - 11:51 PM.

[Houruck]

DER3Z, my man!

Long time no see.

These videos, you made me feel nostalgic again.

[comic_sans]

Spoiler

 

Nice to see some old matches and you as well, though, Der3z.  What was your FOV back in the open beta days?  I feel like I get a better sense of scale and it's partially because of that.

Edited by cynical_smarms, 28 October 2015 - 08:14 AM.

[OdinTheWise]

come back to use D3rez 

[ticklemyiguana]

3 years ago it wasn't even 12.12.12. If I recall correctly, last time you posted on the forums was post-Steam, when you announced you quit Hawken.

I was actually gonna say I have recollections of this player both on the forums and in game and like...

 

 

but uh. welcome back.

[DER3Z]

Just stopping by and checking out hawken and the forums. I know its been awhile tho, not exactly 3 years but still its been awhile. I'm not sure what my FOV was back then, I might have turned it up all the way or just slightly.