Hawken: Indie FPS mech combat

[Der Helm]

HAWKEN will be free-to-play for all Steam users starting this Friday, March 7. The Early Access period will continue and bundles will still be offered for sale, but a purchase will no longer be required for new users to start playing.

Guess what I bought yesterday ? 

[Setanta]

At least you got free mechs from it  (as did I).

TBH I really want to like this game because of my love affair for Shogo and Earthsiege/Starsiege but it's just not doing it for me.

I'd like it a bit more if I could play in third person as I feel claustrophobic in the cockpit but even then, I never quite feel like I'm in a mech.

[jakonovski]

Man, I'm not having high hopes for this game, matchmaking is shitty even with the F2P influx of new players. Often a match is decided by who has more players at the start.

Even so I really like how this game plays, though the devs clearly aren't able to innovate much apart from graphics. The game is basically CoD with mech military mans and longer life bars. All they'd need for true greatness is a physics system and melee weapons. I want a cleaver on my mech.

edit: also I need a gaming keyboard. Changing directions while boosting is hard with this shitty old thing I have at the moment.

[Venkman]

Yea I agree. Like I said, I was happy to throw them the $10. If it was f2p I'd not have paid a dime and probably played the same amount. The game just looks all types of fantastic. Really great art style. Except those stupid goddamn holographic floaty PNG icons. Every time I see one of those at the end of the match I feel like someone is tearing off the fourth wall and pissing all over it. Stupidest things...

But it's CoD except with dodge. That's fine and all, just won't keep my attention.

Was a good filler before Titanfall though, for which I see no interest around these parts 

[luckton]

...Titanfall though, for which I see no interest around these parts 

It's Xbox One or EA Origin, of which neither one I could give two shits about. 

[Falconeer]

I've been pumped about Titanfall for more than a year. It has been automatic day one purchase since I heard about it. I've been raving about it to everyone I know for months... and all that passion has been wiped away in 30 minutes of betatest.

Great game (Titanfall), just not what I am looking for. Cause it feels like the giant robots are a gimmick (on a timer  ), not the point of the game. It's future CoD in MOBA sauce where the Titan is your Ultimate. Meh..

[ezrast]

I started playing Hawken today and holy shit everyone is bad. I end up on top of my team's scoreboard almost every game and I'm fuckin' terrible at FPS.

I love it.

[Pennilenko]

I started playing Hawken today and holy shit everyone is bad. I end up on top of my team's scoreboard almost every game and I'm fuckin' terrible at FPS.

I love it.

Hawken has hidden matchmaker shit that does a pretty good job of rating you. Keep doing well and you will find yourself in ever more challenging games.

[ezrast]

I seem to have stabilized in the mid-1700s now and the opposition is much more challenging, but it's still the only FPS I can remember playing where I don't feel like a below-average scrub all the time. Still enjoying it a lot, though there's something uniquely rage-inducing about it. I'm constantly on the verge of tilt whenever I play.