Hawken Announced - Mech FPS

Looks like part of the money went into PhysX:

http://physxinfo.com/news/8293/mech-shooter-hawken-will-feature-gpu-physx-support/

Particle effects and environment destruciton, nice!

http://www.playhawken.com/ - only 226 days left.

 

I remember nv saying to devs "we will port your physics engine to physyx"

 

Fucking nvidia, to hell with them and their proprietary shit.

 

So that's where those guys went.

Still remember that video of the tech demo. Looked really great!

 

Most annoying promo trailer ever. Huge text over gameplay, and constantly cutting to those annoying "Best of E3" awards. They really stretched out a minute amount of gameplay footage into a 2:30 minute trailer, and what they did show was obscured by text.

 

Just got the access for the limited Alpha 2 test stage. The installer loads a 32-bit DX9 version of the game.

Here's a shot from the setting menu:



I only got through the training session for now. The multi-player mode is still troublesome to try - matchmaking is DOA for now, as well as manually connecting to the available servers.

 

The open beta is out now.

I've been playing a bit but don't like this game. Basically it's pay to win. The matchmaking system is worthless, pretty much everybody gets dropped in the same game and with a default mech your not gonna win against people with upgraded weapons. I won the second game I entered but only because everybody was a low level and thus didn't have any upgrades.

Controlls aren't great either. You get stuck a lot (your driving a freakin' mech, why can't it walk over it??) and the whole doding thing, I don't know how it works. Seems more like luck than skill. Also turret movement is way to slow. If you get assault from behind your screwed because turning takes forever. There is some kind of instant turn move but that only seems to work when you don't want it.

The only map I like is in the dessert, enough open space and not tons of levels with smallish corridors like on the other maps.

All in all I'm not impressed at all. Maps suck and game balance is unfair.

 

What a bummer. I have been craving a good mech game for quite a long while now.

 

"Free-to-Play", if anything, will be the end of many talented developer teams, a waste of resources and a large loss of faith in the industry from PC gamers.

 

Iron Brigade might be worth a punt. Third person customizable mech combat meets tower defense.

 

@Zaphod
Thanks. I checked out the demo on Xbox Live. The game is a bit "light" for my tastes. I want something grittier, more serious, more badass. Someone has got to be able to make a compelling mech game. If World of Tanks can be fun (and it is!), then World of Mechs would absolutely rock.

 

how about mechwarrior online ?
http://mwomercs.com/

 

Thanks. That's more like it.

Anyone here playing this?

 

Holy crap! Mechwarrior Online is awesome!

 

dont forget Mechwarrior 4 is also free

 

NRP, you dropping in on MWO? I have been playing this last week and love it so far.

 

Where? Mektek doesn't seem to have it anymore? I would love to find MW4 because my old rigs could setup LAN

 

you can grab it here
http://www.atomicgamer.com/files/85847/mechwarrior-4-mercenaries-full-free-release