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Stylish mech shooter Hawken returning with a free-to-play PvE gameHawken Reborn launches into F2P early access on Wednesday
Hawken Reborn launches into F2P early access on Wednesday
Image credit:505 Games
Image credit:505 Games
Hawken Reborn - Reveal TrailerNot much to see in the announcement trailer, but we’ll get to play it real soonWatch on YouTube
Hawken Reborn - Reveal Trailer
Hawken Reborn will pop us into the cockpits of stompy little mechs to blast through story missions (six available at first, with more to follow) and patrol zones (one at first). Along the way, we’ll upgrade mechs with weapons and power-ups and such. In those patrol zones, the blurb says, we’ll get to take on Radio Missions to earn resources, though the zone will get harder the longer we’re out, and we risk losing goodies if we die.
Image credit:505 Games
Hawken Reborn launchesonto Steam Early Accesson Wednesday the 17th of May. It’ll be free-to-play, both in early access and at full launch. No word yet on how friendly/generous/frustrating/obtrusive/loathsome that F2P monetisation might be.
The original Hawken had a troubled life. After wowing everyone withthat cool prototype trailerin 2011, it launched into open beta in December 2012. “This definitely isn’tMechWarrior: But Named After A Bird For Some Reason,” Nathan Graysonsaid after playing the open beta.
But updates soon slowed, bugs went unfixed, and it seemed developers Adhesive Games might have quietly left it to die.Reloaded Games took overHawken in 2015, planning to revive it. Their interest didn’t last long, and it passed to current owners 505 Games in 2016. 505 worked on Hawken for a while butshut down PC servers in 2018without the game ever leaving early access (though I think console servers are still up?). A group of fans have unofficially got bits of Hawken back up witha project called Hawakening, starting with offline bot play and hoping to add online multiplayer later.
