I have not been able to play for over a week. Just says connecting

Just got the all mechs bundle but every time it installs it deletes the main game. Is there any fix for this?

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I played Hawken for a few months back in like 2017 or 2018. Started playing again recently for a few weeks now and am enjoying the game so far but have some questions. I've been trying to get more solid kills and dying less but maybe I'm being too impatient sometimes for better results but I see a lot of the more experienced players just run in and basically take out 4 mechs almost consecutively without taking a hit. Some of them move so fast! I'm trying to move the same but can't seem to find a good balance of speed/maneuvering and accuracy. For mechs I usually go between G2 Assault, G2 Predator but have a nief I'm trying to get better with and just got the Sharpshooter because I feel like that would be a good one to be versed with also. I've got the sensitivity set about where I feel comfy and really am trying to better my technique. Any suggestion is accepted.

So yeah… we need players.

I used to play this in 2016, I come back and it’s dead. Understandable why, however, my little gamer heart NEEDS these TDM matches.

Gather your friends, your friends’ friends! Hold people hostage until they develop the addiction!

Pls and thank you ❤️

So...bad news first...it may end up being a gacha game of sorts, and the controls might need a touch of polish, but otherwise, the hope burns alive once again - at least for me.

I just received my playtest invite last night and played my first few hours of tutorial and early mission...and by all the deities old and new, the combat and pacing is exactly the style to scratch my Hawken / Anthem itch.

Personally, the thing that took me from interested to sold is the support mecha. The ability for the healer to swap between ally support and dealing some enemy damage but not both at the same time reminds me so much of the healer mech in Hawken that as long as this game is even half decent, I'm am so in.

Fair chance it will get a little fanservice-y as it is by Seasun who does Snowbreak, but so far I didn't see anything terribly egregious outside of tight space suits lol

The graphics and detail on the mechs are very Gundam-esque and a little more stylized than the grit of hawken, but, if you're anything like me then that's not a deal breaker hah

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2452280/Mecha_BREAK/

I've been getting onto the PS version lately and one thing is bothering me. A guy who plays every day is actively cheating and I don't know how. I'd assume a game this dead wouldn't have that. But as a SS main, and a Kerby secondary, I know firsthand when you nail a sabot on an A class, it's at least half their health. But this guy runs around as berserker and infiltrator while taking 4 direct sabot hits to kill. I am constantly putting up 2 to 1 damage and not getting kills as he can just run away. He also seems to have all the attachments he wants, dodged are max distance, heals after a time out of combat, can boost indefinitely, like he's got all the space in the world to just add on all the attachments.

He's a good pilot too, can't take that away from him, but why in the world do people feel the need to play like that?

I haven’t tried to play Hawken since 2016

I came back…

What happened!!!!??

This was amazing and the “reborn” version is nothing compared to the original.

Hey we have been trying to play online today been sitting in the lobby for 3 hours with no one to join the lobby to be able to play. To whoever is able to and does join. Thank you much appreciated for the support 🥹

Yo! hey everyone it's UNSC JUMPER, we have a team of 3 inexperienced players but love the game. The lobby is dead does anyone want to jump on and kill each other in mechs? Thanks. Pvp matchmaking won't find any players

I been playing the game for a couple weeks and I want to purchase the assault mech to kinda start getting more into tdm instead of co-op. I feel like I gotta get better in general of course but I want a good competent build to compete with rather than winging it with my best judgement. Help?

Hey ive reinstalled hawken on ps5 havnt played since it was on pc just wondering do many people still play it or is there a private server on pc? Its such an amazing game honestly way before its time especially with combat ty:)

Hey I'm new to the game so sorry for the stupid question. I just bought the Reaper Mech. I wanted to buy the EMP III for that but it's locked and it won't let me purchase. How can I buy them?

A link to my original "How to make a successful Co-Op HAWKEN game from 4 months ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/HawkenReborn/comments/1b0e881/how_to_make_a_successful_cooporiented_hawken/

When I originally started writing this thread, it was fresh off of playing it after the four month hiatus I was away. I was originally going to title it two steps forward, two steps back, but the more I worked on the list of pros and cons, the more I realized nothing that has been changed is actually a definitive "Pro" to the game. So far it appears as though only a singular suggestion was taken from the original thread.

So in the four months that it's been, I do want to congratulate the dev team on the speedy progress they've made thusfar. There are enough changes that warrant acknowledgement that they are, in fact, actively working on this and regularly implementing changes, whether good or bad.

Without further ado:

Pros:

-They (at least it appears to be the case) finally gave you all three mech classes to try out from the start. This needs confirmation, as I just noticed I had an extra Hornet and Apex in my hangar on top of the one I already had.

-New content has been added, including new mech classes: one additional of each size.

Neutral:

-Objectives are now much more direct and shorter, which is both a good and bad thing. It means the area difficulty is now much faster to rise, which could be overwhelming to new players, but it also means you don't need to go trapesing across the map just to clear one objective for a small gain.

-There do appear to be some balance changes with mech ratings, as far as I can tell.

-Objectives no longer have any dialog. I assume this is because they're reworking the story, but as it stands, not having this just makes the objectives feel bland. I'm adding this to neutral instead of cons, because I know this is likely just a placeholder change, and am not trying to be too overly critical while they try this out.

Cons:

-Objectives are now a clusterfuck of multiple things stacked on top of each other in one area, which bloats the UI with a bunch of unnecessary information all at once. Multiple objectives, chests, etc all within 250m of each other did not strike me as a positive as I was playing through it. Less chests and objectives spread out a little more with greater rewards, instead of stacking multiple chests with smaller rewards, would be the better option.

-I remember before I stopped playing last time talk of them adding a timer to the patrol mode. This is just as arbitrary and pointless as it sounded when it was announced. It changes nothing, except to limit just how much you can do in a single sortie. The game already had this. It was called scaling difficulty. It didn't also need yet another arbitrary thing to make players go back to the hub.

-Nothing about the looter shooter mechanics have changed. Everything is just as grindy as it was before, particularly with the process of gaining currency, which has always been the biggest offender. Salvage seems to be easier to acquire at least (or at least that's how it appeared), but that means nothing when you still have to go out multiple times just to be able to afford one upgrade of the multiple required to raise your tier.

-Weapons now seem to be limited to specific mechs, which just railroads people into even more limited choice. This is more like OG Hawken, but I don't remember anyone from the old days jumping for joy that this was ever a thing. Especially when considering this game is PvE focused, it just doesn't make sense.

-They are still selling fully made weapons and mechs in the store, instead of just cosmetics.

Hi I'm pretty new to Hawken and just started playing in Console. Any tips and tricks I should learn to improve at the game????

Who are the best Hawken Players on Console [Xbox & PlayStation] do you know?

I joined a band this year, but never knew the dudes before. So we’re all getting to know each other through the music we make. The guitarist/does it allist, Mitchell, really loves this game and I plan on sitting down for a session soon, but haven’t yet.

It’s mostly gonna be about the children you encounter online who’ll make a kill and then dance on your grave. I think my buddy said they “throw laughing coins” or something? Anyway, he calls them “nobbies”. Old word and pretty funny way to describe them. Think I’m gonna write it about skilling up enough to go out stompin’ nobbies.

For now, as I’m writing lyrics and trying to learn about it, any lore you want to spotlight or common phrases used in gameplay or favorite gear used would be welcome!

Like the title says, I am one card short (Engineer) of completing my Hawken badge on steam. I played religiously for years before the game was shut down and am hoping to have the badge to remember it. If anyone has that trading card and would be willing to sell it to me, I would be greatly appreciative!

I know the history and know it'll always be dead forever BUT what about modders? Fans of the old stalker games have made so many games from the core of the old game engines the best one being Stalker Anomaly. Literally a whole ass game developed by fans for fans and it's free. Of course!

I know there was some sort of Hawken mod PC server back in the day. But damn. I just want to play like the old days again.

Ps4 is always an option but I play my gaming laptop more these days and I'm always on the move for work so I would love a PC option for Hawken again. Damn.

Maybe I'll just get the new armored core?

it's currently priced at 50 dollars US. It's a lot of money for an all but dead game. I played a lot on PC back in the day, and I recently rediscovered the game on console. Most the time I'm just playing against bots. But it's still fun in doses, and I do miss my old mechs.

Tell me why this wouldn't work, other than not enough interest?