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Azran posted:So I just downloaded this game, and holy poo poo - it's great. I'm playing with 218ms and I'm still ranking in the top 3, even though I just jumped into a match without using the tutorial. You're in luck! The starter mech gets free unlockable parts that make it look really cool and actually have different models, not just a different skin.
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The walking microwave is the best robot of the year. 
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May 7, 2014 05:39
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Haha, holy poo poo. I ended up getting the G2 Assault, and while it took some getting used to (it doesn't really have the mid-range power that the G1 did) it loving TEARS poo poo UP in close quarters. If you manage to flank somebody, they're dead.
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May 7, 2014 16:32
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I wish they would count the Fred towards the need to max the Assault in order to buy the G2 with blue points. I maxed the Fred but don't even have the assault. Is the regular assault terribly different from Fred?
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May 7, 2014 16:41
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Assault was my second mech, and my second rank 6. I had this whole bulletpoints thing highlighting the differences, but it really just comes down to the Assault being a tougher (most HP out of any B class but the Assault G2), Faster Recruit that unlocks the Assault rifle last, and starts with the SMC. The main Advantage to the Recruit is the 4 second natural heat cooldown (Over the Recruit's 5.75), and having one of the biggest Fueltank/Fuel regen combos and radar of the B classes. If you want more of the same, but "Better" in direct combat, Assault. If you want some variety, something else. Also, people making "Recruit is OP" Threads because everyone expects starter mechs to be pieces of self destructing poo poo that can't kill them like MWO trial mechs were when I last played MWO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WyEfmD7qhs&index=133
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May 7, 2014 17:36
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 More patch notes! Sad that thrusters and repair drones weren't universal like camos? Dry those tears! Frustrated at Technician not having a prestige weapon for nearly a year? Change is on the way! https://community.playhawken.com/topic/58215-may-update-patch-notes/ quote:Greetings pilots!
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May 8, 2014 04:50
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holy poo poo this is boss fe: gonna need a new thread title! quote:* Added "Exploration Mode", a new single-player feature that allows players to explore each map with no time limit. Hit TAB to toggle between 3rd person and 1st person perspective.  new emblem circa 1996 
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May 8, 2014 04:59
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Well, here's hoping that set of thrusters and Repair Drone I have been eying for my Incinerator are still retroactively global if I buy them two minutes from now before the price hike. Also holy poo poo. a Tech prestige weapon. I still haven't even touched the tech but hey, progress. EDIT: Oversized fire trail thrusters and squirt gun drone it is then. Section Z fucked around with this message at 07:31 on May 8, 2014 |
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May 8, 2014 06:39
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Section Z posted:Well, here's hoping that set of thrusters and Repair Drone I have been eying for my Incinerator are still retroactively global if I buy them two minutes from now before the price hike. Yeah, they should be retroactive, barring a problem with the system - the camos were all retroactive when they made the global switch for them.
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May 8, 2014 07:26
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Hopefully we'll still get MC refunds for thrusters/drones we own duplicates of like we did with camos. Either way, this is great. All that remains now is global taunts.
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May 8, 2014 12:55
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Was the match joining system fixed in the last update? I was finally put on a decent team on Missile Assault and actually managed to win a match for the first time since downloading this game a few months ago. Also, any plans to add more co-op modes?
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May 12, 2014 15:02
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Dr. Lenin posted:Was the match joining system fixed in the last update? I was finally put on a decent team on Missile Assault and actually managed to win a match for the first time since downloading this game a few months ago. I occasionally get dumped onto a hopeless team who gets dismantled trying to triple-cap the silos or gives up on the AA and just plinks away at the enemy ship from spawn. It isn't all the time though. Maybe one out of every 5-8 times I hop in the queue. I really wish the US Central server was more active. I get fair to decent latency with the East and West servers but the Central ones are lovely when I can get a match.
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May 12, 2014 15:54
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More patch notes have just arrived! Including one thing very near and dear to me. Here's the direct link: (click) quote:Greetings pilots!
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May 15, 2014 03:53
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It's pretty cool that they're doing this for the community.
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May 15, 2014 04:13
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I'm so down to get destroyed in Goon Club. On an unrelated note, Hawken has been crashing if I run it on my second monitor (off my laptop). It used to run fine in this config. Anyone else having this issue? It still works fine if I just use the laptop screen but it's small and not so great.
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May 15, 2014 04:18
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I decided to start up Hawken a few minutes ago to see the new stuff they've added and it installed .NET framework. Since I was already up-to-date, it's now forced my computer into an infinite "update" loop that automatically reboots my computer after about a minute. I'm currently in safe-mode trying to figure out how the gently caress I'm going to fix this so I can use my computer again. Great job guys! EDIT: Found the bastard. If this happens to anyone else, boot in Safe Mode and run CCleaner. Kill UE3Redist.exe from the Startup list.  Congrats on accidentally creating a rootkit on up-to-date computers. The Joe Man fucked around with this message at 05:15 on May 15, 2014 |
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May 15, 2014 04:31
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It's amazing how much hate I've been getting lately since I swapped my scout from dark angel green/gold to basic black with vanguard gold wings. I've been told to get cancer tonight. Guess I'm doing something right.
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May 16, 2014 04:48
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loving Christ, about drat time they reduce the prices. I'm in as SewerShark and I need to hang out with dudes so I don't get stuck with pubbies who refuse to stick together.
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May 16, 2014 04:50
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I'm not gonna have a comp for a solid 2 weeks, but I'm actually kinda pumped for this update.
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May 16, 2014 23:06
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Anyone using the new Tech gun yet? I'm near to buying it but the stupid G2 fatboy drained my HC.
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May 16, 2014 23:23
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I'm trying the game for the third time, (Alpha, Beta, now) and this is the first time I've felt it was worth playing. Been doing pretty well, and I've got enough to pick up another mech. I was thinking about the G2 Assault, as double machine guns seem fun, but I'm getting mixed messages as to whether it's good or not. Have any of you tried it? Also, the button to buy it with in-game cash is greyed out. Do I need to buy the first gen before I can get the second gen?
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May 19, 2014 02:45
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Magnetic North posted:I'm trying the game for the third time, (Alpha, Beta, now) and this is the first time I've felt it was worth playing. Been doing pretty well, and I've got enough to pick up another mech. I was thinking about the G2 Assault, as double machine guns seem fun, but I'm getting mixed messages as to whether it's good or not. Have any of you tried it? Also, the button to buy it with in-game cash is greyed out. Do I need to buy the first gen before I can get the second gen? You need to buy the 1st gen Assault, and then get it to max rank before you can unlock the G2 with HC. That said, the G2 is pretty fun, but in my experience it requires you to be a lot more careful than the G1 does. It can shred enemies quickly, but it builds up heat fast, and the minigun spinup requires you to be careful too. It's really fun when played as a close-range ambush class though - sneak up on an enemy, spin up, and tear them apart before they can even turn around. Just remember that you can't do poo poo at mid to long range.
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May 19, 2014 02:58
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Freak Futanari posted:You need to buy the 1st gen Assault, and then get it to max rank before you can unlock the G2 with HC. Oh, that's mildly annoying. About how long does it take to max rank something?
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May 19, 2014 03:49
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Magnetic North posted:Oh, that's mildly annoying. About how long does it take to max rank something? They have since lowered the rank up requirements somewhat, but in my  note taking across my Recruit, Assault, Infiltrator, etc I averaged about 9 hours of mech playtime for rank 5, 15 hours total for rank 6.On that note, I was averaging around 15k HC at rank 5, 19k HC at rank 6 before they lowered the rank up requirments. It is almost 13k to buy the G2 Assault, and most robots. That "Weapon and Item price reduction" of about 1k for the weapons and top tier Items means it now takes ALMOST as much as a mech to unlock your guns, instead of AS much as a mech  Baby steps, all the other changes have been awesome and charitable (Hello, Global Thrusters and Repair Drones). Even if it is still basically a decision of "Do I buy guns for a Mech, Fill out my Deploy Item Slots on one Mech, or buy an entirely new mech for the same price?". While I have been unlocking guns on principle, and Internals are generously priced, I have barely touched Items.
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May 19, 2014 07:48
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I played a game for the first time in a few weeks today (I got distracted by Titanfall and Dark Souls 2) and it turns out I lost all my awesome skills. Trying to play a Scout did not go well, but I did marginally better with my Assault, so I guess I'll take it the rest of the way to rank 6 so I can get the G2. That said, where the hell is everyone? It used to be that Hypha would be online at all hours but now the entirety of my friends list is offline.
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May 25, 2014 01:17
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Lemon Curdistan posted:That said, where the hell is everyone? It used to be that Hypha would be online at all hours but now the entirety of my friends list is offline. I had to uninstall indefinitely until they fix their installer infinite-reboot loop.
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May 25, 2014 01:23
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I'm also coming back to Hawken after getting a little tired of Titanfall. I really like the increased time to kill and how it affects firefights. I'm finding most of my score is a mixture of cowardice and simply walking everywhere instead of boosting, it's surprisingly easy to sneak up on people in this. Also the load times on the maps are crazy fast, I guess the levels are kind of small objectively?, but doesn't feel that way.
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Funkameleon posted:I'm also coming back to Hawken after getting a little tired of Titanfall. I really like the increased time to kill and how it affects firefights. I'm finding most of my score is a mixture of cowardice and simply walking everywhere instead of boosting, it's surprisingly easy to sneak up on people in this. This, and the fact my Assault Rifle could reliable tickle to death almost finished enemies running off into the distance are why I ended up with a 12 and 10s killstreaks on my Recruit, and Assault/Infiltrator. On that note, my experiences trying to flank with the Recruit and Assault served me better than the cloaking device ever did when I picked up the Infiltrator and had a great time with it. I probably wouldn't have quite as much fun with it now that the lower rear damage bonus to turret mode C mechs means charged EOC and Grenade will not punish them as much for sitting back all match never helping their team capture the AA. EDIT: vvv This man speaks the truth about Recruit/Assault. Section Z fucked around with this message at 12:33 on May 25, 2014 |
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May 25, 2014 06:59
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Funkameleon posted:Also the load times on the maps are crazy fast, I guess the levels are kind of small objectively?, but doesn't feel that way. Nah, it's just running UE3 instead of a horrible hacked-together version of Source. Section Z posted:This, and the fact my Assault Rifle could reliable tickle to death almost finished enemies running off into the distance are why I ended up with a 12 and 10s killstreaks on my Recruit, and Assault/Infiltrator. How to Assault/Recruit 101: you're fast, so go for the flank. Unlike Lights you won't explode when the enemy turns towards you, and you've got high sustained damage thanks to coolant flush, so you can really do some damage if you engage the an enemy blob that's being pinned down by the rest of your team. This doesn't stop me from getting carried away by the vulcan and sometimes playing like a TF2 heavy. 
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I don't know if this is the right place, but I have a bunch of these: 8 codes, or $40 worth. If anyone would like to pick them up at a discount, shoot me a PM or an email at legitimateemail AT gmail DOT com
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May 25, 2014 15:21
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Does anyone get any mileage out of the Predator? I played around with it a bit when it was on trial but in the end I felt I'd rather ambush people with scout
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May 26, 2014 22:58
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So how do you go about finding goons who play this game? So far I've only seen one person in the Steam group actually playing.
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May 27, 2014 00:33
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I'm on a sabbatical right now, due to moving. As for predator, each weapon provides different play styles. Breacher lets you blast a guy at short range then snipe them as they run away (or snipe repairing fools far away) t32 lets you stick to people and destroy them up close (not sure if it's been nerfed at all) and eoc-r lets you area deny like a beast, as well as letting you alpha light mechs ezpz. I always preferred eoc-r.
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May 27, 2014 01:44
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So I remembered I had a $25 voucher for this game, is there anything I would want to grab straight off the bat?
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Jun 9, 2014 23:50
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Cosmetics are the only thing you should spend realbux on, now that they're global. Camos, drones, boosters.
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Ok, running around in a berserker is pretty fun. Any specific items/internals I should be getting?
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Acer Pilot posted:Ok, running around in a berserker is pretty fun. Any specific items/internals I should be getting? I haven't played this in over a few months, but Air Compressor brought my Berserker KDR from negative to 2.33, by the time I hit just short of 3 hours total playtime with the thing. I'm too much of a cheapskate for Deployable items, but internals are reasonably priced. Can you still air dodge 4 times in a row on a full tank of gas, 3 on average if you aren't forcing it with an Air Compressor Berserker? Though I got the best use out of it by hurling myself behind cover at the last second, or things like leaping off the top of Origin and then side boosting onto the walkways while people chasing me just hit the bottom. Section Z fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Jun 11, 2014 |
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Just came back as well. Loving the changes to the Vanguard, it was my go-to back in February, and feels like it plays (mostly) like I had imagined it should. Probably ought to join the Steam Group at some point today. The matches seem slightly better at being balanced now, but they're still off by some margin.
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Jun 14, 2014 20:35
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I think the problem is that it's too little too late. Barring a massive marketing campaign, the game will wither out. It's down to like 1000 on weekends now
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Spooky Bear Ghost posted:I think the problem is that it's too little too late. Barring a massive marketing campaign, the game will wither out. It's down to like 1000 on weekends now And 980 are skeetzerkers whose only goal in life is to float in the air before my flak guns like clay pigeons? That poo poo makes the game so drat boring and predictable. I don't just want to win, I want to murder more than annoying little footballs who think invincibility is two feet off the ground.
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