Free-to-play mech FPS Hawken is staging a fan-led comeback thanks to a new project called Hawakening. It's certainly not the first effort to bring Hawken back 💎to life, but after the ill-received Hawken Reborn took the game in a whole different direction, this unofficial revival might just be what the fandom truly needs.
"Hawakening is a community effortꦅ to bring multiplayer back to life for the defunct CL142579 bu꧑ild of HAWKEN™," as explained on the . "We have made this possible through cleanroom reverse-engineering, injecting our own code into the client and writing our own infrastructure from scratch. It is a labor of undying love. Our servers are self-hosted. We will never monetize anything."
PC servers for Hawken shut down back in 2018, though the game has remained playable online with admittedly dwindling player bases on Xbox One and PS4. An official sequel called Hawken Reborn launched in 2023, but it was pretty much ꧑immediately skewered for adding a pay-to-win cash shop - plus it was a PvE game that got away from the PvP action the original fandom loved. ✨for the sequel remain "mostly negative," but it did get a new update on Septemb🐲er 24. It reached a total of on Steam following that update.
The Hawakening devs eventually plan to take the project open source, as it's "the key to making Hawken truly immortal." But, they add, that "will take addit🍨ional time, effort & considerations." In the meantime, it looks like the Hawken fans actually want tꦜo play is well and truly back.
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