Hardpoint Idle
Sit inside the cockpit of a giant walking mech as it stomps across a ruined frontier. Enemies appear as specks on the horizon and grow as they close in. Your guns fire on their own, and you tap the canopy glass to put extra shots where you want them. Fight through 30 sectors to destroy HARDPOINT PRIME, then race the Hall of Fame clock or push on into endless mode.
HOW TO PLAY
- Tap or click the canopy glass to fire where you aim. Hold to keep firing.
- Spend scrap in the Mech Bay on arms, reactor, hull, legs and coolant.
- Spend cores on the Weapons and Armor tech trees for new guns and defences.
- Hit OVERDRIVE when it is charged for a burst of fire.
- Every 10th wave a sector boss arrives: tap its glowing weak point.
- Send salvage drones out, close the game, collect the haul when you return.
FEATURES
- First-person cockpit with parallax, footstep sway and enemies that grow from the horizon.
- Scrap drones, crawler tanks, walker mechs and gunships, plus the Fortress Crawler, the Siege Spider and the final boss HARDPOINT PRIME at sector 30.
- 9 weapons: autocannon, gatling, railgun, rocket pods, swarm missiles, artillery, laser, beam sweep, plasma lance.
- Armor tech: plating, a hex energy shield and repair drones.
- Repeatable MK ranks under every finished tech branch, kept through prestige.
- Six biomes with their own skies and weather: dust, toxic spores, rain.
- Drone Hangar: 5-minute, 30-minute and 2-hour salvage runs that continue offline, with cargo, thruster and scanner upgrades.
- Neural Re-sync prestige from sector 5 for permanent pilot perks.
- Endless mode after the finale, with Prime Protocols perks, a gold paint and a Prime Core charm.
- Paint jobs, cockpit charms and two canopy frames.
- No game over: at zero hull the mech retreats one wave and repairs.
- Online Hall of Fame: real time from your first ENGAGE to the fall of HARDPOINT PRIME.
- Portrait on phones, landscape on desktop, switching live.
CONTROLS
- Mouse or touch: tap or hold the glass to fire, tap monitors to open them.
- Keyboard: Space fire, E overdrive, W A S D aim, 1-6 monitors, Tab cycle, Esc back.
- Gamepad: A fire, X overdrive, left stick aim, shoulders cycle monitors, Start opens the Nav Map.
SAVES
Progress saves automatically in your browser's storage. Play in the same browser to keep your mech. New Journey on the Nav Map starts over on a fresh clock.
Development log
Comments
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Great game, a few nitpicks: the text in the Mech Bay small screen is cutoff on the right, and when you have more than 2 drones the timers for the other drones do not appear in the Drone Hangar small screen. I also do not see a button for getting back to a main menu?
Update fixes the displays. Main menu button is in the nav map menu. Thanks for the feedback!
Looks great, question: where do we see the paint schemes when applied? I have tried several but don't notice any change. I do see the charm that is selected and the different canopies but no difference in paint.
You can see them on the mech in the mech bay.
Went afk for a few hours to watch anime and check other games, but got my high score in. Was a fun game. Got all the way to 30 on a run from like level 15, but couldn't take out the final boss and had to do another lap from level 9. Kinda steamrolled after, but gee these buddies get tanky.
Adjusted some of the balance issues let me know what you think
is it possible to remove the damage numbers? Can't se were my aiming thingy is
Latest update should fix this let me know if it still needs work!
Much better, thank you :)
Good presentation, easy and intuitive controls, multiple currencies and a pricing schema that doesn't push a single upgrade schedule / allows for choice in how the mech develops. Fun!
A few downsides. 1- EDIT : FIXED IN UPDATE. 2- The in game economy feels WAY off - I have nothing left to spend cores on by level 12 of 30, and drone returns quickly make standard upgrades outpace enemy difficulty in a given zone. 3- Crashes are very common once all the gun systems are up and running, at least on my phone. It's not a brick, and even with all my other apps shut down it is crashing the browser window every half hour or so. 4- When a aspect of the drones is leveled up to 15, it is at its max and cannot be boosted again. But the option is shown, along with a cost (which is not available for selection, even if the player has the currency displayed)
Latest update should fix the crashing. Also did some economy and drone balancing. Thanks so much for the feedback!
With the update, I was able to push through and finish.
I enjoyed my time with this - thank you for doing the work to make it engaging and layered, and for the tenacity to dig back in to fix the initial issues.