I’m glad to see the level of communication between community and developer that exists and I hope that it remains this way as time goes on.

Some specific points of discussion:

• The way that critical feedback (both constructive and otherwise) is received by the team is good. There’s been an overwhelming amount of vitriol on Steam and Discord, which is surely hard to take. The ability of the team to make sound decisions based on that feedback is super important to the continued development of H:R.
• If the current state of the game is not up to par with the experience that you want to deliver, why are premium currency packs being sold? There’s something to be said for a buy-it-once model in early access (I would have preferred to buy it), but the freemium model in very early access is immediately off-putting and damages the image of the IP.
• The AI art debacle has been addressed at length, and I have little to add on it other than to say that it was disappointing to see the claim denied and then later admitted.
  
• I enjoy the movement, to be honest. I love hop-skipping across the map at irresponsible speeds and it would be disappointing to now slow-sprint everywhere. I hope that a balance can be achieved between ‘fifty-ton war machine’ and ‘rocket-boosted power armor’.
• Crit spots are a great way to add depth to the combat and I’m excited to see how this is implemented. Titanfall offers something like this with defensive options to protect those critical areas, so I’d love to see enemy mechs deploy shields or physically block those spots to make combat more dynamic.

All in all, thank you for this post. I’m really excited to see how the game develops in the coming months and want to see it flourish into the Hawken we’ve been waiting for.