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Hawken

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This product was abandoned during development. It is covered here for historical reference.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 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 on IGDB
Hawken on MobyGames
Hawken on Wikipedia
Hawken
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
Steam (unavailable)
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Windows

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) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/271290/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

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

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
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

Remapping.
Remapping.

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
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
English
French
German
Japanese
Russian
Spanish

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.[6] LibOVRWrapper might work for this game.
Windows Mixed Reality
OSVR
Devices
Tracked motion controllers
Traditional controller
See Input for details.
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. 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