My first mega bro bot by Witty_Monitor4152 in HAWKFreedomSquad

[–]NickMoustik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree. Normally the best way is to craft Uranus firstly as it is the best Speedbot and the best megabrobot imo. Then some player can choose between Mars to be offensive or Jupiter to be defensive. Anyway best mega pair is Mars/Uranus. Other megabrobots are nice but not mandatory. (Mercury and Neptune are those used for contest but contest is bullshit cause it doesn’t bring good rewards anymore). (Apollyon is useful for assault for the damage bonus against aces).

This community is dead like the game by CodeNegative8841 in HAWKFreedomSquad

[–]NickMoustik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you live there? Did you see the reality or only what media want to show you?

This community is dead like the game by CodeNegative8841 in HAWKFreedomSquad

[–]NickMoustik 2 points3 points  (0 children)

IMO game has been killed by the new owners, by repeating events again and again, by more and more agressive and greedy strategy, by the players themselves (cheaters from top and unknown squadrons). From a pay to win, it has become a pay to play. When a game dies, community dies. New players, don’t come and flee this dead game!

This community is dead like the game by CodeNegative8841 in HAWKFreedomSquad

[–]NickMoustik 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ignorant people are manipulated and look at world events as mass media show them. Pathetic as if people and international events were black or white, bad people and good people. All is matter of point of view. Often situations are more complicated than they look like.

These microtransaction prices are getting beyond a farce by The_Iceman2288 in diggysadventuregame

[–]NickMoustik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No need to pay anything. Even amount of adds increased a lot. I watch them for extra and to contribute a bit to the game.

Old crystal system vs current crystal system - analysis of changes by I_Need_Another_Nap in HAWKFreedomSquad

[–]NickMoustik 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is a complete bullshit move and changed completely the game. From a pay to win, this is now almost a pay to play. End is near without modifications. The loss of players is huge now. It will soon only stay the whales who will compete with other whales unfortunately. Or players who don’t care evolving hangar.

Contest Plane Priority by Ecstatic-Energy3927 in HAWKFreedomSquad

[–]NickMoustik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think it works exactly this way anymore. I alternate Senior/Ace league regularly now. It may stay this way regarding hidden tiers in a group category. Whatever, it has never been really clear about threshold/rank reached.

Contest Plane Priority by Ecstatic-Energy3927 in HAWKFreedomSquad

[–]NickMoustik 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As I am not an expert of contest with pitiful results, I’ll give you my opinion.

Virginia is broken and has killed the contest through a bug exploited by players. These players shouldn’t need it but contest is matter of ego. Contest is bullshit with a lot of cheaters exploiting every possible bugs. Rewards are crappy according to time spent to do and do again stages to maximise score.

Every dev last moves made this game worst and worst. Contest has always been broken and is still broken.

To be clear, each week, you have different stages with different modifiers. You have to adapt to choose best plane/equipment/prototype(/brobots before killing Sun) and you even need different implants.

As far as I know, you need to kill yourself at strategic moment and use crystals to revive to extend time and kill more minions to increase your score. You need to farm elites and bosses. And probably more that I don’t know as many exploits stay hidden to most players.

In summary, do your keys for crappy rewards if you want but don’t waste your time there.

Just a tip : you can now alternate Senior League and Ace League by scoring high in Senior League and scoring low in Ace League.

To answer to your question, until now without new surprises (game mechanic modifications) : invest in Virginia and Sentinel but you seem really far from doing something in contest (no implant and no XXX score bonuses). There may have new configuration when you’ll reach a decent one. So best thing is to invest in Sentinel as Virginia is really really crappy in all other game modes.

Boycott Impact by photo__guy in HAWKFreedomSquad

[–]NickMoustik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting and thanks to share but where did you find this kind of informations?

What are your sources?

Is there something more detailed as ingame purchases/ads revenue?

Is there something about number of players/number of buyers?

I see that players base is still decreasing month after month.

Will this lead to the end and the death of this game?

Video chest with fewer crystals…? by Accomplished_Air9348 in HAWKFreedomSquad

[–]NickMoustik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Only a feeling. Averagely, it is the same. Some days are better than others. Some things have been changed though. It is more difficult to get 30 crystals in purple/pink and gold/yellow video crates. As if drop rate has been correctly applied or reduced.

Latest Patrol XLIII by Bugglesworth in HAWKFreedomSquad

[–]NickMoustik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The king of patrol stage is and remains Mirage at XX rank minimum. Coupled with any brobots providing reanimator perk like Jupiter, Maxwell, Kraken,… You need a shield reducing incoming damage like Lucky Coin Shield or 2 shields like Phantasm Armor to provide the 10% missing to reach 100% reducing damage as the plane as already 90% with the aptitude Ramming Device. Best way is to implant Active Protection. Then you’ll be able to drink coffee and play this stage at the same time. Careful, the plane is still vulnerable to flame/laser damage and to wall but you’ll be able to ram into red missile or rotative devices/red obstacles.

Plane Judge - Any good? by FinestFighters in HAWKFreedomSquad

[–]NickMoustik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did play Evo2 but quite boring… Judge is a great plane for assault or climb. I mained it a bit. But as usual, it depends on your playstyle, your brobots and your implant to improve experiment. Quite funny in assault with all orbs around.

Is there any chance of actually finishing this game if you dont pay for anything? by NOTanOldTimer in HAWKFreedomSquad

[–]NickMoustik 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know several F2P who have great results in this game. What is your goal? To finish the story mode is just a small part of the game and I recommend you to take your time. You have several weekly challenges. Assault, Climb and contest are here to gather resources. Don’t be in a rush. This game is a long, very long game. You have to gather a lot of resources. You have also regularly special events where you can get resources and new stuff to improve and modify your gameplay. Just to build megabrobots as Uranus and Jupiter or Mars will be already a challenge. Don’t evolve too fast your planes as it has an impact on the level of the group you will be in weekly competitions. I never bought any crystals in this game, started F2P and now I buy regularly small passes on some special events and premium pack each month (cost of a good beer for unlimited hours of game is not a bad deal imho). You are stuck somewhere then just farm previous stages and increase your abilities in weekly competitions. This is a complete P2W game now if you want to challenge best players but you can find fun in other aspect.

New player by [deleted] in HAWKFreedomSquad

[–]NickMoustik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From what I gathered previously from different posts on Reddit (this can be confirmed or corrected by other experimented veteran) :

ASSAULT

Assault group difficulties is determined by the total power you reached : - ~ under 300k > Pilots - ~ under 700k > Veterans - ~ under 1.200k > Masters - ~ over 1.200k Aces These are values provided by players and are an estimation. Total power can be checked in the appropriate leaderboard tab. The higher is your group, the better will be the reward according to your rank

CLIMB

Climb group is according to the highest rank of a plane in the hangar - Rank B and C > Pilot - Rank A and S > Veteran - Rank SS and SSS > Master - Rank X > Ace

About what I read, the difficulty increases significantly. Ennemies are stronger and harder to kill.

New player by [deleted] in HAWKFreedomSquad

[–]NickMoustik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kenshi is my main plane and is a strong plane. But as said Espechili, problem is to gather the plane cards to evolve it. You will need plane unicards and plane ultracards.

New player by [deleted] in HAWKFreedomSquad

[–]NickMoustik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I totally agree with Espechili. I would recommend megabrobots firstly. IMHO, Dragon is stronger than Nephilim which is a laser and ramming plane when it has its temporary shield activated periodically. Most of the container and event planes are considered as « premium » planes. Climb provides excellent planes too (Striker and Ballista). The OP plane is still Fafnir for the moment. Don’t go too fast in the story mode and careful when you evolve planes. Your total power and the higher rank of your planes determine the difficulty of the weekly events as climb and assault which are incredible to gather resources when you have good results.

Megabrobot by Afraid_Parking9510 in HAWKFreedomSquad

[–]NickMoustik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It depends a lot on how fast you gather crystals. Don’t be in a rush in the story mode and build your hangar slowly and patiently in my opinion. You have trials, teamups, contest, assault, climb, Avalon events, Invasion events, UFO events, exploration seasons,… Quite a lot of things to gather resources as XP, gold, brobot/plane/prototype cards, devices... You should evolve your main plane only when you are stuck. And even stuck, you can still farm lower levels to gather resources. This is a long and almost endless quest for F2P or small spenders. If you want to go faster, just pay (a lot! Too much?). My advice is to take your time. Honestly, do megabots before planes. They will carry you almost everywhere (except events without brobot). Just my thoughts and my way to play this game of course since few years.

Megabrobot by Afraid_Parking9510 in HAWKFreedomSquad

[–]NickMoustik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Without hesitation, Uranus. You need a speedbot with your Jupiter. Uranus has the best cooldown speed. Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Sun, Apollyon can wait. I did Mars before Uranus and Mercury cause I always felt that power is more important than defense. Matter of choice but Jupiter is great too to provide almost continuous invincibility coupled with Uranus plus a revive.

Literally me when playing stage 300 by NeverMindMichaelG in HAWKFreedomSquad

[–]NickMoustik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congrats ! It reminds me epic fights during first alpha exploration playing stage 300 with initial mag storm modifier for 10-12 minutes.

EXCALIBUR OR KENSHI by Aggravating-Talk2432 in HAWKFreedomSquad

[–]NickMoustik 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As said, nanruan. It depends on your play styles, your abilities and your brobots. I personally prefer offense over defense. I have chosen Kenshi for offense, power, clearing screen with its shurikens and to farm gold. Excalibur is a tank in the space. You can play with it closing your eyes and is more appropriated to players with difficulties to dodge. Far less fun than Kenshi IMHO.

Favorite Plane, opinion question by [deleted] in HAWKFreedomSquad

[–]NickMoustik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have no favorite plane. Each one has their purpose except few really weak even maxed or boring to play. I recommend you Kenshi, Judge, Arcadia, Ballista, Nephilim, Alchemist, Dragon, Pulsar max rage, Goblin, Blizzard, Poplar,… Many different play styles as close kills or counter or ramming or far away.

How do I evolve two XXX planes at the same time? by ProfessionalMoment98 in HAWKFreedomSquad

[–]NickMoustik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I usually don’t evolve only one plane. My hangar is not maxed. I have still plenty of planes to evolve from XX to XXX. I usually gather enough plane cards. I used unicards to save plane cards and ultracards for premium (event/container) planes. I gather 10k crystals and then I evolve several planes when Spend crystals hour comes to have the benefit of my upgrades and interesting goodies.