Despite its late arrival to consoles, HAWKEN is the best mech shooter on the market, even rivaling some of today’s most popular shooter franchises
Expect the game to only work offline right now.
As we trend ever deeper into a world of games that require servers maintained by the developer or publisher, we see more and more games disappearing from the world. What happens when these games are shut down? What does it take for a game to survive beyond this point?
I was going to say that. Lol!
Actually, "Just ask Atari where ET is."
But basically the same joke.
Most modern games that have online components like destiny rely so heavily on co op between players that even if you had a full disc version popping it in and playing won't be a fun experience as you can't play the actual game after hitting a wall with difficulty levels of they even boot
But classic titles like vice city will still be the same in 2049 as they were in 2001 provided you play on a disc not stripped down digital versions that have the soundtrack cut out ten years later
Hawken, the free to play mech shooter has had its servers closed on Steam, but it will remain live on consoles.
This is exactly why only online multiplayer games won't last very long. It's important to have a single player campaign (a good one, not a throw-away trash story) or some kind of offline multiplayer mode.
it's doing well on console mostly because xbox gamers haven't had a good game for a few years.
I’ve played some great MP-only titles, so needing a SP isn’t really an issue, so much as it’s the developers needing to make the game good and offer content to keep people coming back.
When it's fighting Mechwarrior Online, another PVP mech game from a franchise with an established fan-base, it couldn't really compete. While MWO does have its issues, it has solid combat with a very generous F2P model, unlike Hawken, which forced you to use a starter mech and then buy every other one.
PUBG does not need a sp campaign. Never let me catch you speaking such rot again.
Hawken was never a very popular game, i think its peak concurrent user count was a little over 8k. There is plenty of other popular old MP games, heck the original Counter Strike has a pretty large user base lol.
It's alright, definitely not the best mech shooter out though!
Eh, I thought this game was dead in the water. Might check it out when I knock out more of my backlog.
Love this game. One of the best PC exclusives for a while. It's about time console gamers got a piece of this. Enjoy.
A quick heads up to anybody about to play this on PS4, beware of "Neif", its small, its nimble, and shoots homing missiles, its free for PSN+ subscribers, and I entered too many matches where just 1 or these mechs just dominated and blew out entire teams.
Now whenever I play, I keep seeing 2 to 3 neifs being used per match especially on Seige Mode.
Is it multiplayer only?