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Revision as of 00:16, 25 May 2020

Warning icon.svg
This product is no longer playable in any capacity. It is covered here for historical reference.
Hawken
Hawken cover
Developers
Former Adhesive Games
Current Reloaded Games
Publishers
Meteor Entertainment
Engines
Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows Early access
Reception
Metacritic 73
Taxonomy
Modes Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, FPS, Vehicle combat
Vehicles Robot
Art styles Realistic
Themes Sci-fi
Hawken on Wikipedia

Hawken is a multiplayer first-person action, FPS and vehicle combat game.

The game was removed from Steam on January 2, 2018 and its servers were shut down.[1]

A group called Hawken Refugees have setup a Discord server for coordinating offline play and multiplayer servers.

General information

Official forum
Hawken Wiki
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

This game is no longer available for PC.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Use -nomoviestartup parameter[2]

Use the -nomoviestartup command line argument.

Automatic Login

The game requires the player to type his password each time it's launched. This can be avoided using the launch properties in Steam.

Automatic Login[3]
  1. In Steam, right-click on Hawken and select Properties.
  2. Click on Set Launch Options.
  3. Put -login="youremail" -password="yourpassword" in the field. Put your own information between the quotes, and click OK

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Hawken\HawkenGame\Config\
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/271290/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General settings.
General settings.
Video settings.
Video settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Remapping.
Remapping.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Spanish
Japanese
Russian

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play

Connection types

VR support

Headsets State Notes
SteamVR
Oculus VR (LibOVR)
DK1 only. Add -vr to the Steam launch options.[4] LibOVRWrapper might work for this game.
Windows Mixed Reality
OSVR
Devices
Tracked motion controllers
Traditional controller
Keyboard/Mouse

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) 2 GHz Dual Core
System memory (RAM) 3 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX
AMD Radeon HD 5670
512 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 3.0 support

Notes

  1. Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References