So the HWK Discord Server is up, named Hawken Refugees; be certain to connect and say hi. If you use a differnet Discord name like I do, just change it via a nickname to the one you used in your HWK Pilot days. The tutorial channel will get you up and running on a East Coast Sever. The one who set this up is pretty clear that this is it and don't ask for other servers ( like one on the West). Nonetheless, it's very cool that this is up and if some of you like me, who didn't buy the console have a place to get our grove on or rust broken off.

PM me for the link as I have one to share for those who missed my initial blast of PM's.

/Jelly

I just learned tonight of this terrible news about Brandt 'bkcat1' Hatch.

(thx Merl for sending me the link)
https://community.playhawken.com/topic/4954-rest-in-peace-bkcat/#entry96003

Here is what I posted in that thread:

I use to steam call him to get West Coast matches going when coms didn't exist. He was a well rounded guy when interacting, showing kindness and grace.

Some side stories;
He took time to play with my daughter and I in HWK, trying to keep her alive in tdm using the Tech. My daughter has always asked after that when I play(ed) HWK if bkcat1 was playing before moving onto the next name she remembered.

Sometimes he had friends over showing them things in HWK or Space Engineer's when I dropped him a line to see if he would join us. When he could, he was in doing his thang, crushing me! Like Crockrocket said, he would have to que last to get in with us.

Doing some duels, he was explaining to me how to boost, side boost, boost, side boost to get away when low health. I told him he might as well be warping ( ping/lag) because he was uncanny at avoiding shots when he evaded ( more like my poor aim). He laughed (knowing it was my poor aim), so I asked him what keyboard he uses..., he responds with "stock". I'm confused a little and say "stock what?", bkcat1: "stock HP keyboard".... hahaha, I lost it as I thought it was funny yet I was on a cliff hanger to research this OP keyboard he was using. Such a down to earth guy, maximizing his tools, his talents in the sketch book ( would love to see it in person ) and making lasting impressions upon people he met.

You're truly missed by many bkcat1, blessings to your friends, family and loved ones.

/JJ

Let's show the world how West gets down!

Since war Wednesday starts at 6pm our time, I think it would be cool include a west component later in the night, either once ww slows down for the night, or at 9, depending on the night.

Think about it, we get all those east coasters good and drunk at war wednesday, lure them to west, and then BLAM! They'll never know what hit 'em!

In all seriousness, I think Western Wednesday would be a good day to try and fill a couple servers and hit some game modes other than our trusty tdm. And, we would get to show off some west coast friendliness and play style to the rest of hawken!

As some of you may know, Hawken Facebbok page posted twice today. Here is the Reddit link Crocketrocket passed along to me, have a gander!

http://reddit.com/r/hawken


/Jelly

For the time being, I'm hosting a TeamSpeak server for West Coast Syndicate players.

Here are the links for download,setup and a video tutorial:

http://www.teamspeak.com/?page=downloads

Video tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=S32AGZdY5yA

Server name is: West Coast Syndicate

For server ip and pw, please pm me through steam.

*****update*****

Since Merl is uniting as much as he can for HWK, and is hosting multiple channels, we are going to use the West Coast Best Coast Channel under this address: ts5.gameservers.com:9152
This is for when we are locking out the server on West and just hanging out.

Hope everyone can join in on the fun!!

/Jelly