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[Ashfire908]

He looked lonely, so I chatted with him for a couple hours. Seems like a pretty cool guy!

Spoiler

[OdinTheWise]

proof of life that is good

[Amidatelion]

Dear Poopslinger et al.,

 

shut the fuzzy bunny up

 

Love,

 

The Lord of the Scrubs

[Merl61]

I have that sweatshirt and it's amazing.

[Silverfire]

clearly a FAKE photo

 

notice how the top righthand side is just blank white, while the rest of the photo is so meticulously detailed.  It's like Ashfire got lazy when it came to finishing creating this picture, it's like he forgot to finish the photoshop, pasting in the rest of the beige building

 

4/10 for effort but an incomplete job nonetheless

[hellc9943]

I have that sweatshirt and it's amazing.

It's probably yours. 

Edited by hellc9943, 17 March 2016 - 07:34 PM.

[Ashfire908]

clearly a FAKE photo

 

notice how the top righthand side is just blank white, while the rest of the photo is so meticulously detailed.  It's like Ashfire got lazy when it came to finishing creating this picture, it's like he forgot to finish the photoshop, pasting in the rest of the beige building

 

4/10 for effort but an incomplete job nonetheless

 

gr8 b8 m8 i r8 8/8

[Amidatelion]

clearly a FAKE photo

 

notice how the top righthand side is just blank white, while the rest of the photo is so meticulously detailed.  It's like Ashfire got lazy when it came to finishing creating this picture, it's like he forgot to finish the photoshop, pasting in the rest of the beige building

 

4/10 for effort but an incomplete job nonetheless

 

You're fired.

 

 

 

 

It's probably yours. 

 

 

You're hired.

[DerMax]

Did you tell him that the dev update is long overdue?

[Aregon]

You're fired.
 You're hired.

You remind me more and more of Donald Trump from the Apprentice. Maybe that's why you don't wanna show your face.

[ticklemyiguana]

That's the biggest damn forehead I've ever seen.

[dorobo]

That's the biggest damn forehead I've ever seen.

Think about it. It has to be that big. All the hawken's inside there.

[SS396]

You remind me more and more of Donald Trump from the Apprentice. Maybe that's why you don't wanna show your face.

 
You mean Donald J. Drumpf....
 

 

Spoiler

Edited by SS396, 17 March 2016 - 11:51 PM.

[Elite_is_salty]

That's the biggest damn forehead I've ever seen.

 

Nope that will have to be Jackfilms'

Edited by Elite, 18 March 2016 - 12:37 AM.

[PoopSlinger]

Someone has clearly removed Josh's skin and is wearing it around as an impersonator.

[LaurenEmily]

You found him on the street ? Is he homeless and jobless ? :(

[Pelanthoris]

Next time you see him, spank him back to development. This is no time to wander the streets.

[Kindos7]

Hawken coming to PS4 confirmed.

[Amidatelion]

 

Hawken coming to PS4 confirmed.

 

 

Welp, gg. It's been a good run, folks.

[Hyginos]

 

Hawken coming to PS4 confirmed.

 

I would guess that Josh still has some involvement with RLD beyond just Hawken, and APB did just get a PS4 port.

 

With that said I think HWK would probably port well to PS4. Better than pretty much any FPS game really. 

 

(That is, of course, assuming this pic isn't secretly from a previous GDC event to cover the fact that josh is ded)

[hoghead]

That's the biggest damn forehead I've ever seen.

 

[Ashfire908]

Someone has clearly removed Josh's skin and is wearing it around as an impersonator.

I'm glad you were still able to come up with something
 

You found him on the street ? Is he homeless and jobless ? :(

Idk this "GDC" thingy he had a badge for said he was a "Producer" at "Reloaded". So I think he has a job, but was just lost.

(That is, of course, assuming this pic isn't secretly from a previous GDC event to cover the fact that josh is ded)

It says on the badge what GDC event this was for.

[DerMax]

It says on the badge what GDC event this was for.

iDreamSky. The largest mobile game publishing platform in China.

 

...what

[Ashfire908]

iDreamSky. The largest mobile game publishing platform in China.
 
...what

Entire Hawken community has ADD. Confirmed.

[OdinTheWise]

maybe he is a zombie 

[dorobo]

iDreamSky. The largest mobile game publishing platform in China.

 

...what

 

pretty large..

 

This pc game is bollocks. Mobile ftw. It's where the real money is at! People you should feel honored to be gettin this pic at least 

 

And it's all because of these dummies with smartphones that just couple years back scorned your pc gaming.

Edited by dorobo, 18 March 2016 - 10:30 AM.

[Sylhiri]

Entire Hawken community has ADD. Confirmed.

 

Part of me wanted to believe that was just a joke.

 

Also he is clearly a hologram.

Edited by Sylhiri, 18 March 2016 - 09:20 AM.

[_incitatus]

Josh last seen alive around 760 Harrison St. in San Francisco.

Alert the authorities, maybe it's not too late...

[CounterlogicMan]

iDreamSky. The largest mobile game publishing platform in China.

 

...what

 

They are the sponsor of GDC 2016 that provided all of the badges and badge inserts. 

 

 

 

Hawken coming to PS4 confirmed.

 

 

That would be pretty cool. *looks over at PS4 on desk* But it would require a much larger team than they have now, unless it was outsourced.

[ArchMech]

hey look advertising, everybody go buy a fking hawken shirt and wear it to a mall or something or you're nearest expo the next time you go to one
ash did you think to wear you're shirt to said expo? did you even go to said expo?
 

signs of life- okay,

signs of hawken- ok,

signs of hawken life- flatline

signs of ps4- interesting but theres no point really unless you can do cross platform gaming so platformers can join the pc player base in a match which should be a thing any day now right? that being said, probably not on the ps4 since sony?

 

iDreamSky. The largest mobile game publishing platform in China.

 

...what

signs of a rumor of mobile game hawken- wouldnt that be a good thing with the current slant towards the mobile gaming niche? i mean this dev team is obviously not kitted out to develop that but it was always an interesting concept considering what ive seen of certain mobile game shooters (lets just call it shooters, not arena, not first person, not third person, we dont know which way such a game would lean ANYWAY)

 

somebody, please, hurry up and yank the player base out of some other game on the net so we can get on with some in-depth large scale hawken already

 

im bored somebody help

[Call_Me_Ishmael]

Google Cardboard is/was VR on an Android Platform.

 

Rift's 31-game (or whatever) opening lineup is announced.

 

Maybe Hawken is on an Android VR headset produced in... naw.  That'd be like... starting a rumor or something.

[TURDxSANDWICH]

https://community.pl...le-huh/?p=71853

[thirtysix]

maybe he is a zombie 

 

No shadow... vampire :/

[Ashfire908]

ash did you think to wear you're shirt to said expo? did you even go to said expo?

I'm not a game developer so I don't really have a reason to attend GDC. I met up with Josh because GDC was being held ~3 blocks from my company's office. Also, I'm glad I didn't go, cause I would have probably had to leave to deal with the recent problems.
 

signs of ps4- interesting but theres no point really unless you can do cross platform gaming so platformers can join the pc player base in a match which should be a thing any day now right? that being said, probably not on the ps4 since sony?
signs of a rumor of mobile game hawken- wouldnt that be a good thing with the current slant towards the mobile gaming niche? i mean this dev team is obviously not kitted out to develop that but it was always an interesting concept considering what ive seen of certain mobile game shooters (lets just call it shooters, not arena, not first person, not third person, we dont know which way such a game would lean ANYWAY)

You guys know those pass holders aren't custom to every person right? The pass is just that card in the clear holder.

[TheButtSatisfier]

This thread is a marketer's / advertiser's wet dream

[Amidatelion]

This thread is a marketer's / advertiser's wet dream

 

Pity there's none on staff.

[Draigun]

Unreal Engine makes it a bit easier to port to other platforms iirc, so this game ending up on a console platform wouldn't surprise me.

 

I'm probably overestimating how talented Reloaded's Unreal Engine programmer(s) is/are (I do hope I'm wrong), and I'm also pointing this out in a best case scenario: perhaps the UE engine programmer has already addressed some of the long-standing issues through a full 64-bit, ready-to-deploy, client patch. If so, then the whole dev team might be looking at a port that could coincide with a major overhaul in the form of a content/balance patch. Assuming this is also the case, then this means Reloaded is confident in bringing in more players. Alternatively, Reloaded could be focusing on the PC platform only for now, until momentum—achieved through updates—gives them an opportunity for said console port.

 

However, even if this best case scenario happens, what has to follow is developer consistency and transparency (i.e. communication) in order to erect a sense of active development, and in general, to stabilize the population. Eventually, a new map and a new mech will no longer satisfy those with even the strongest of appetite for Hawken—if they remain silent until another update goes live. On the other hand though, it's been quite some time since new content has been released, so there is really no telling what's going to happen after such a content patch gets pushed to the live branch. The game's stagnation in updates could have deepened the already bleeding wound; it may take aggressive promotion to encourage previous pilots to try the game again.

 

In the beginning of Reloaded's acquisition of the Hawken IP (early 2015), when the developer team consisted only 3-4 people, capnjosh had launched numerous data gathering projects to grasp and understand this game through sheer statistics, analysis and community vote. After a while, he stopped, and the developer team grew by quite a bit (our community manager specifies 15 individuals as of recent). I'd guess half of those are technical artists. Take that information any way you want, but what that tells me is with that developer team of 15—and most of the prerequisites already completed for correctly launching the game into stable from beta, we will probably see one hell of a patch soon_^™.

 

I could be wrong on some of these points though, such as UE portability and the estimation of how much of an impact a new update brings to our player base.

[hoghead]

  I HAVE BEEN NOTICED BY CAPNJOSH AND BEEN FOUND WORTHY OF A LIKE !   ALL SHALL BOW BEFORE ME .......... YOU PEASANTS!   

 

[Kindos7]

He wasn't dead, he was having a good time. Let's give them some time, game's free after all.

 

[CraftyDus]

This proves nothing