History VideoGame / Hawken

The game entered open beta on December 12, 2012, then launched and transferred to UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on February 2014.

[[http://www.playhawken.com/ Hawken]] is a first-person mecha-combat game. Made by Adhesive Games Ltd. with Unreal Engine 3. While it was originally thought that Hawken was going to unofficially die due to dormancy since January 5th 2015 until being picked up by Reloaded Games on March 23rd, 2015.

Hawken also spans into an [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFQ7Pg07edc upcoming live-action series]] which has since been cancelled, and comic books (''Hawken Genesis'' series serves as prequel to the game, and ''Hawken Melee'' a collection of short stories.)

* CycleofHurting: The Genadier Rev-GL used to have a bug which caused it to reset a person's walking speed when it hit them. This resulted in people getting spammed by the Rev-GL and unable to walk anywhere. "Stunlocking" was eventually patched out.

* OrphanedSeries: Subverted, it seemed like this was to be the fate of Hawken with the original developers and publishers behind Hawken disbanded in late 2014 until Reloaded Games acquired the game in late March 2015 with the full intent of adding new content.

The game entered open beta on December 12, 2012, then launched and transferred to {{Steam}} on February 2014.

* MightyGlacier: The "C Class" Heavy mechs, are lumbering and move slowly compared to their lighter counterparts, but have high health and defensive capabilities. They can transform into turrets via metal plates mounted on the chassis.
** Brawler post ascension update takes this to it next logical step. It has an alternate mode which boosts its defenses and gives it self healing, and packs a nasty flak gun which can be swapped out for what is essentially a fully automatic sniper rifle and the aforementioned Point-D vulcan. It also has the slowest base walking and boost speed in the game, and even when tuned is still way slower than any other mech in the game, combined with a crippling long weapon cool down period should it overheat (which is very easy to do).
*** Earlier in the beta, the Turret mode's healing and damage reduction made the thing so durable, that it could be near impossible to dislodge one from a choke point without either flanking, or overwhelming (read: your entire team) firepower.
** Also the battleships in Siege mode. You ''can'' take them out using your mechs, but there's a reason the primary objective is a [=SAM=] launcher silo when they're active.

* WarForFunAndProfit: The two sides are corporations fighting for what's left of a world that used to be dominated by three--the third inadvertently unleashed the Hawken virus that is slowly turning the planet into random metal bits, and got blown up in the process. The comic states that not only do they take valuable materials and fuels generated by the viral transformation off of the planet and sell them in space, they take the trope itself down to the civilian level; instead of a draft, they just ''gave'' citizens basic training, mechs and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque letters of marque]] - the company pays bounties for killed enemies, purchases salvaged fuel and resources, and showers the most successful pilots with glory in the media. And it obviously worked: the ''[[AnthropicPrinciple player]]'' is supposed to be one of the schmucks who took the corps up on that deal!

* WarForFunAndProfit: The two sides are corporations fighting for what's left of a world that used to be dominated by three--the third inadvertently unleashed the Hawken virus that is slowly turning the planet into random metal bits, and got blown up in the process. The comic states that not only do they take valuable materials and fuels generated by the viral transformation off of the planet and sell them in space, they take the trope itself down to the civilian level; instead of a draft, they just ''gave'' citizens basic training, mechs and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque letters of marque]] - the company pays bounties for killed enemies and purchases salvaged fuel and resources, and showers the most successful pilots with glory in the media. And it obviously worked: the ''[[AnthropicPrinciple player]]'' is supposed to be one of the schmucks who took the corps up on that deal!

* WarForFunAndProfit: The two sides are corporations fighting for what's left of a world that used to be dominated by three--the third inadvertently unleashed the Hawken virus that is slowly turning the planet into random metal bits, and got blown up in the process. The comic states that not only do they take valuable materials and fuels generated by the viral transformation off of the planet and sell them in space, they take the trope itself down to the civilian level; instead of a draft, they just ''gave'' citizens basic training, mechs and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque letters of marque]] - the company pays the pilots for captured fuel and resources, glorifies the most successful pilots, and lets them keep the salvage. And it obviously worked: the ''[[AnthropicPrinciple player]]'' is supposed to be one of the schmucks who took the corps up on that deal!
-->'''Rion Lazlo''': ''For us, the wealth. For them, the spoils.''

* WarForFunAndProfit: The two sides are corporations fighting for what's left of a world that used to be dominated by three--the third inadvertently unleashed the Hawken virus that is slowly turning the planet into random metal bits, and got blown up in the process. The comic states that not only do they take valuable materials and fuels generated by the viral transformation off of the planet and sell them in space, they take the trope itself down to the civilian level; instead of a draft, they just ''gave'' citizens basic training and mechs and told them to go tear up the enemy for money and glory. And it obviously worked: the ''[[AnthropicPrinciple player]]'' is supposed to be one of the schmucks who took the corps up on that deal!

* WarForFunAndProfit: The two sides are corporations fighting for what's left of a world that used to be dominated by three--the third inadvertently unleashed the Hawken virus that is slowly turning the planet into random metal bits, and got blown up in the process. The comic states that they take precious materials and metals generated by the viral transformation off of the planet and sell them in space.

* GlassCannon: The Berserker, a Mech that can dish out plenty of damage and is lightning fast, but will die to sustained fire from anything heavier.

*** Recent patches significantly reduced the health of all mechs as an aim to lower TTK (Time to Kill) which reduced the power of the A-Class mechs the most.

** The Raider is something of a glass cannon by Medium standards, hovering between this and LightningBruiser. It's fast and can do a lot of damage very quickly, but has low health for a B-Class mech.

[[http://www.playhawken.com/ Hawken]] is a first-person mecha-combat game. Made by Adhesive Games Ltd. with Unreal Engine 3.

* OrphanedSeries: While not having existed long enough to become a series, the developers and publishers behind Hawken disbanded in late 2014. The game is unofficially dead with no updates and its upcoming live series long cancelled.

Hawken also spans into an [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFQ7Pg07edc upcoming live-action series]] which has sense been cancelled, and comic books (''Hawken Genesis'' series serves as prequel to the game, and ''Hawken Melee'' a collection of short stories.)

Hawken also spans into an [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFQ7Pg07edc upcoming live-action series]] and comic books (''Hawken Genesis'' series serves as prequel to the game, and ''Hawken Melee'' a collection of short stories.)

** The Vanguard, despite being a heavy mech, is this. With its boosters tuned to max, its faster than all C class mechs, and even out speeds most B class mechs and even a few A class mechs, but it only has 900 base HP, and its weapons are the rather puny SMC, [[ShortRangeShotgun the mini-flak]], and the Point-D Vulcan
* GatlingGood: The Point D Vulcan Minigun and Machine gun turret. What they don't make up for in damage, they make up in sheer firing rate.
** The A2-Assault (M4 Brommens) has a second Point D Vulcan instead of a standard TOW launcher, giving it unparallelled close range sustained fire at the cost of long range capability.

** The Sharpshooter. It has long range, high damage weapons. However its guns are less accurate when unscoped, especially the Sabot rifle, which means it's incredibly exposed in close quarters combat.

* MacrossMissileMassacre: The Rocketeer and Bruiser both have Hellfire Missiles as a special weapon, which fire a homing swarm of missiles, though, for balance, they distinctly don't have much punch and their guidance isn't perfect.

* MiniMecha: The mechs are essentially walking cockpits with guns and, in the case of heavy mechs, armor panels and missiles.

** Similarly, the Raider is a repurposed mech, originally a power-loader/cargo-transporter type known as a Merchantman. This caught a few fighters off-guard in the war, as they thought the Raiders were coming in to sell something and wound up taking flak to the face.