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  • Hey, Hawken's back

    From Spalls Hurgenson@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 16 10:40:23 2023
    You guys remember "Hawken"? A video game featuring giant robots,
    duking it out in multiplayer combat the way giant robots always do? It
    had a brief moment in the sun back in 2014, but slowly faded away and eventually got shuttered a few years later.

    Well, it's coming back, rebooted as "Hawken Reborn"*

    More FPS than full-bore sim, I never really got into the game.
    Although I loved the idea and aesthetic, the game was just a little
    too fast for my taste; more akin to Quake-style arena shooters than
    the rompy-stompy robots I prefer. Even so, I might have given it more
    of a chance if the developers hadn't started pushing pay-to-win
    mechanics so heavily (the starter mechs were incredibly underpowered
    compared to the real-money robots you could buy).

    Will this newest iteration be any better? It's too early to say
    (especially since it's not even been released to early access yet). On
    the one hand, it looks to be maintaining the same aesthetics and
    they're adding an option to fight bots instead of being multiplayer
    only. On the other hand, it doesn't look any slower, and it's the same developers who over-monetized the original game.

    But giant-mech games are few and far between, so I'm trying to be
    optimistic. The game will be facing off against "Battletech" and
    "Mechwarrior 5", strong competition which may keep its more egregious greediness in check, after all. Either way, I'll be keeping an eye on
    it. After all, who doesn't like giant robots shooting themselves to
    pieces?**





    * here's the (sadly low-information density) trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDWn9VlAeaI
    ** I'm going to regret making that remark after the inevitable AI
    revolution comes to pass. ;-P

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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@21:1/5 to spallshurgenson@gmail.com on Thu May 18 10:15:14 2023
    On Tue, 16 May 2023 10:40:23 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:


    You guys remember "Hawken"? A video game featuring giant robots,
    duking it out in multiplayer combat the way giant robots always do? It
    had a brief moment in the sun back in 2014, but slowly faded away and >eventually got shuttered a few years later.

    Well, it's coming back, rebooted as "Hawken Reborn"*

    And, based on the reviews, maybe it should have stayed away.

    And maybe it's unfair to judge a game when it's still in earliest of
    Early Access, but this game definitely isn't off to a good start. The
    fact that - even before the game is officially released - the
    developers are hawkin'* microtransactions is never a good sign,
    especially since the previous game was sunk by that very problem.
    Visually, the gritty graphics of the first have been smoothed away to
    generic pabulum, and the level design is unexciting. It's buggy as all
    heck too (I mean, sure, it's Early Access, but even so...)

    Plus, there's no multiplayer at all. Now, that personally isn't a
    downside to me - I prefer single-player - but the multiplayer was what
    Hawken was all about, and its exclusion rips the soul out of the game.

    Maybe things will get better; who knows. But "Hawken Reborn" is,
    sadly, not off to a good start.






    * Sorry. I'll see myself out.

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  • From Zaghadka@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Thu May 18 09:22:47 2023
    On Thu, 18 May 2023 10:15:14 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
    Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    * Sorry. I'll see myself out.

    No you won't. Obvious pun is obvious. Well played, sir.

    (*golf clap*)

    --
    Zag

    No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had
    spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten

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  • From Xocyll@21:1/5 to All on Sun May 21 15:37:34 2023
    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
    say:

    On Tue, 16 May 2023 10:40:23 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson ><spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:


    You guys remember "Hawken"? A video game featuring giant robots,
    duking it out in multiplayer combat the way giant robots always do? It
    had a brief moment in the sun back in 2014, but slowly faded away and >>eventually got shuttered a few years later.

    Well, it's coming back, rebooted as "Hawken Reborn"*

    And, based on the reviews, maybe it should have stayed away.

    And maybe it's unfair to judge a game when it's still in earliest of
    Early Access, but this game definitely isn't off to a good start.

    If they are giving (or selling) access then they are inviting judgment.

    Don't want to be judged, then wait till you're at least at an Alpha
    release state.

    Xocyll
    --
    I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
    a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
    Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
    FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr

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