New Pilot Guide

This guide contains knowledge gathered by veteran pilots through an enormous amount of combat, trial and error.
Welcome to your new pilot tutorial!
Here we are going to talk about the new pilot stuff - what mechs and weapons to use, how to get the proper materials and more!

Buckle up, friendo, we are in for a wild ride together, let's goooo!

Let's start with the basics - you unlock:

* Apex at the start of the game, a good all-rounder
* Hornet at level 6, an early speedy mech
* Atlas at level 7, the mech with the best hull and shield hp
* Shark at level 16, really speedy one
* Nimbus at level 17, quite speedy and great shield recharge

Currently, the highest TL Mech is Atlas, the highest TL Weapon is Tornado and the highest TL Thruster is Tanker. What does TL mean? Threat Level. It can be PTL and WTL. PTL means Pilot Threat Level - your overall gear score, you can see it at the top and WTL is World Threat Level - the TL level of missions and enemies shown at the bottom left.

Example:

Through lots of testing, we've determined that the DPS of your weapon calculates its TL. Meaning, you need to modify the weapon in ways that will increase its DPS - reload time, crit chance, crit rate and so on.
You can see the optimal damage builds here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A4bOfGhJ5qOHc61a5jm8uskSVukUBH73USPfhX9Wjr4

Thank you very much, Ahlakes!

On top of it, the RNG when you upgrade your mech, thruster or weapon also increase its TL, so if you are lucky - you will have higher TL than someone else.

Now, I've heard lots of new pilots have issues with crafting. Let me tell you - if you've crafted your mech once - please, please, for the love of Gods, don't go to the Workshop and create a new one thinking that you are upgrading the previous one. You are not upgrading your previous mech, you are crafting a new one! To upgrade your previous mech, go back to Hangar, then select Modify and Upgrade, done! You are welcome for me saving you materials! Let's not tell Laila that this happened and you should be good!

Done with upgrading your mech, weapons and thruster? I'm sure now you've seen those red laser abominations - Asteroids.

Here they are in all their infamous glory:

At first, it's quite difficult to deal with them, but I can already hear you saying:
"Broski, I'm sure you have a way of dealing with them!" and yes, my friend, I do!
It'll take some time to get used to, but you need to carefully time it - when an Asteroid is about to start the spin death disco due to getting to low health - fly up high right above the asteroid and stay there blasting it into oblivion! Now that's some action, yeehaw!
If you are more about tactics - try shooting one from cover or standing on higher ground, such as regular terrain, pipes and just anything you can think of!

About the Asteroid's little brother, Meteor. When they get to low health - they charge you like there is no tomorrow. For them, there isn't going to be one, because they self destruct, haha! Back on track, you can avoid getting damage from them, if during their damage dealing material delivery they will hit an obstacle. Let's say, a stop sign or a building. Boom, done, no damage and materials right at your step for you!

Going further beyond - you might have issues with the Giga Shards. They are quite shy and like to show up at higher WTL, so grab your best mech, weapons and thruster, and show them what you are made of!

Let's talk about missions - did you know that you can skip the ones you don't like? And I don't mean abandoning them through your handy UI - you can stay near a place where missions start, let's say the bridge over where Neil the bard
gets stuck in the box, and the mission will never start.
A little something extra, as people say, when missions start - they spawn material nodes around them. You could gather them, if you really want to beforehand and gather them when a mission spawns, but they don't go to waste if multiple missions spawn in the area - they will just be all around the place, so keep an eye on them!

Also, missions can give you Credits, Giga Shards and...

*drum roll*

Scrip. They are quite rare, but not as rare as those explosive materials that everyone's been having issues with lately.
Oh, about Scrip! You can craft or buy anything you want with them - just be careful to not to spend everything in one go on some easy to get materials, save them for the future or in case your mech gets destroyed in action!

Here is how they look like:

Materials, materials, materials. Remember that the higher the WTL is, the better materials you'll get. At level 50 you get the Common materials - White color , 60 is Uncommon - Green color and Rare - Blue color, around 70 is Epic - Purple color and all around that is a possibility of getting Legendary materials - Orange color. All of it works for both the materials that drop from enemies, and the materials that drop from material nodes.

You can always check my Material Farming Guide if you have trouble finding material nodes:

https://hawkenreborn.fandom.com/wiki/Material\_Farming

Thank you very much to a pilot named Corvus with sharing his knowledge in this guide!

That's it, for now!
If you'll have any questions - come join us on our Discord Server, where our pilots, young and veterans, gather, and share their knowledge, chat and more!

Link:

https://hwkn.link/Discord

See you there!

Safe travels on your patrols and let your loot be good, pilot!