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[Reckless Onion]

Hawken open beta starts in 30 min!

https://www.playhawken.com/home

 

[BrokenEchelon]

Sweet. Thanks for informing us!

 

[Calmine]

Awesome been playing since the closed beta time to jump back in.

 

[indigo-cyclops]

This looks quite rad - thanks for the heads up on this.

 

[jetjevons]

Get some!

 

[Reckless Onion]

No problem.

Apparently when the countdown stops, you can download the client from their site.

 

[epmode]

This is a good game, GAF. Unless the grind ruins it, I guess!

 

[LowParry]

Oooooooo, so looking forward to this. Was so sad I was never able to get in closed beta.

 

[mr_nothin]

Wasnt really feeling the closed beta :/

 

[Teknoman]

Finally get to give this a shot.

 

[Reckless Onion]

Yup, site crashed

 

[Shadybiz]

Sweet, will check this out!

 

[Reckless Onion]

Postponed to later today..

https://twitter.com/PlayHAWKEN/status/278954324959301632

 

[Orayn]

This is my last day of classes for the semester, and a very good day for this to happen.

 

[Teknoman]

Postponed to later today..

https://twitter.com/PlayHAWKEN/status/278954324959301632

lol of course. No one is ever ready for the flood of people.

 

[-tetsuo-]

Been waiting a while for this one...

 

[ezrarh]

I had a lot of fun with the beta. Excited for this.

 

[Green Wiggly]

Wasnt really feeling the closed beta :/

Me either. Alpha 2 was fun, but beta felt a bit too grindy for my tastes.

 

[antitrop]

I played the Alpha, but never bothered with the closed Betas after that.

Fucking LOVED the Alpha. I'll be interested to see what they've changed in the last ~3 months.

 

[Sax Russel]

Played a lot of Alpha 2 and some of one of the betas and had a lot of fun with it, but not really feeling a desire to dive back in. Guess I'll check out what's new though. From my earlier experiences I'd say best part: the movement, worst part: weapon selection.

 

[∀ Narayan]

I played the Alpha, but never bothered with the closed Betas after that.

Fucking LOVED the Alpha. I'll be interested to see what they've changed in the last ~3 months.

Yeah. I messed around with the alpha quite a bit and enjoyed it a lot. Haven't touched the beta at all.

 

[DaBuddaDa]

Still ain't up ><

I guess tomorrow'll be the day for me.

 

[To Far Away Times]

Oh shit, I've always wanted to play this...

 

[superdeluxe]

Is this good to kill 30 minutes?

 

[Tesseract]

This is my last day of classes for the semester, and a very good day for this to happen.

hell fucking yeah, same here.

 

[zerokoolpsx]

Still can't download. Tomorrow it is.

 

[Artanisix]

This game is LEGIT. Been playing in the last beta for quite a while. The grind is very reasonable too; you can get a new bot every few games. Extremely fun.

 

[DaBuddaDa]

It's up, baby!

1.9 GB install. Downloading super fast for me.

 

[Jtrizzy]

yeah the download is quite fast.

 

[∀ Narayan]

Is this good to kill 30 minutes?

Fuck yeah.

 

[SomeOneInaHat]

Is this good to kill 30 hours?

Yes

 

[SapientWolf]

How's the performance?

 

[Tesseract]

controller support? i'm kinda disabled at the moment, i can't use kb/m for another month.

 

[∀ Narayan]

Yes

lol

How's the performance?

It's a UE3 title. It runs super smooth on my system.

CPU: Core i7 920 @ 4.2 GHz / GPU: GTX 670 / RAM: 24GB

 

[Xamdou]

Is this like Chromehounds? I love that game.

 

[∀ Narayan]

Is this like Chromehounds? I love that game.

No.

 

[LordCanti]

I'm bummed that I don't have an Oculus Rift in hand to play this on, but I'll try it out in any case.

Is this like Chromehounds? I love that game.

Not really. Chromehounds had enormous maps and more customization. There was also a persistent online mode (capturing territory for your country/faction/whatever) there that this game won't have. I'd say that the pace was generally a lot slower in Chromehounds as well.

If I had to compare this game to something, I'd call it a cross between Virtual On and Mech Warrior.

 

[Plywood]

It's a UE3 title. It runs super smooth on my system.

CPU: Core i7 920 @ 4.2 GHz / GPU: GTX 670 / RAM: 24GB

Super smooth on that system? Shocking, I am shocked.

 

[UnluckyKate]

Downloading.

 

[UnluckyKate]

Is this like Chromehounds? I love that game.

want to play Chromehounds ? Look Mecha Warrior Online, it's amazing and free to play

 

[Weenerz]

Any clue how I can get it to work with the steam overlay? I added it, but it doesn't seem to work.

 

[Kurdel]

Downloading now.

 

[element]

Is this like Chromehounds? I love that game.

To me it is a slower paced Unreal Tournament with mechs.

Any clue how I can get it to work with the steam overlay? I added it, but it doesn't seem to work.

I don't think it has Steam integration yet.

 

[epmode]

Oh great, we have to pay to restock countermeasures. Or grind, I'm still not sure how the currency works. I didn't notice that in the betas. Free to play is kind of awful!

You can get the Steam overlay by adding the actual game executable into Steam instead of the launcher. HawkenGame-Win32-Shipping.exe

 

[∀ Narayan]

Super smooth on that system? Shocking, I am shocked.

Haha. Well, I just figured he might be curious as to what I'm running the game on.

 

[IcyBlueStrawberry]

Super smooth on that system? Shocking, I am shocked.

FWIW the game ran like absolute shit on my system - which is better than his - the last time I tried it.

That was the first alpha, though, so things have obviously changed.

 

[antitrop]

"You tested yourself against other pilots. Your battles helped make the HAWKEN experience great. Sometimes you won, sometimes you lost, but your efforts helped us improve our game, and now it all pays off...
HAWKEN's Open Beta is LIVE."

 

[BudokaiMR2]

I was really into the concept when I first saw it but after playing it at E3 I was a bit lukewarm.

After thinking on it quite a bit I believe I have stumbled on what my problem is. The mechs are too much of an "in-between" for lack of a better term...

For me mech games and media fall into two categories:

Big Stompy Realistic Mechs(MW or Chromehounds)

vs.

Crazy Fast Super Robots(ZOE or ACE series)

Hawken to me really feels like a fairly normal FPS with a pretty mech UI and skin. I plan to try out the Open Beta now and hope it changes my opinion though.

 

[Alex Connolly]

It'll do just fine until I get my new Heavy Gear.

Hawken is a fantastic battlesuit-level mech game.

 

[fallagin]

I'm downloading now.