Hawken
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This product was abandoned during development. It is covered here for historical reference.
Developers | |
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Former | Adhesive Games |
Current | Reloaded Games |
Publishers | |
Meteor Entertainment | |
Engines | |
Unreal Engine 3 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | February 14, 2014 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 73 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | Free-to-play |
Modes | Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | First-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Action, FPS, Vehicle combat |
Vehicles | Robot |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Sci-fi |
Series | Hawken |
Hawken | |
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Hawken | 2014 |
Hawken Reborn | EA |
Hawken is a multiplayer first-person action, FPS and vehicle combat game in the Hawken series.
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 (Dead link.)
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Steam (unavailable) |
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Use -nomoviestartup parameter[2] |
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Use the |
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] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Hawken\HawkenGame\Config\ |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/271290/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | See the WSGF entry. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | Numerical slider up to 110° (horizontal). | ||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | FXAA | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | If frame rate is under refresh rate disable "Capped Smooth Framerate"[4] For more information see the Unreal Engine 3 page. |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | ||
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers |
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PlayStation controllers |
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Tracked motion controllers |
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Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Master, Game SFX, UI/Menu SFX, Voice, Menu BGM, Game BGM | |
Surround sound | Auto detects up to 7.0 output[5] | |
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Japanese | ||||
Russian | ||||
Spanish |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Notes | |
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LAN play | |||
Online play |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Matchmaking | ||
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
VR support
Headsets | State | Notes | |
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SteamVR | |||
Oculus VR (LibOVR) | DK1 only. Add -vr to the Steam launch options.[6] LibOVRWrapper might work for this game. |
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Windows Mixed Reality | |||
OSVR |
Devices | |||
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Tracked motion controllers | |||
Traditional controller | See Input for details. | ||
Keyboard/Mouse |
Other information
API
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | XP, Vista, 7 | |
Processor (CPU) | 2 GHz Dual Core | 3 GHz Dual Core |
System memory (RAM) | 3 GB | 4 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 |
Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 AMD Radeon HD 6850 1024 MB of VRAM Shader model 3.0 support |
Notes
- ↑ File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/271290/
in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (271290) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
References
- ↑ Beleaguered mech shooter Hawken is shutting down on PC - last accessed on 2020-05-25
- ↑ How to login automatically at Hawken launch - HAWKEN Forums - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ How to login automatically at Hawken launch - HAWKEN Forums - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ 120 FPS @ 120 Hz - HAWKEN Forums - last accessed on 9 June 2023
- ↑ PC Gaming Surround Sound Round-up - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Oculus Rift Help - Support - HAWKEN Forums - Multiplayer Mech Combat - Hawken: War is A Machine - last accessed on May 2023