stir the pot. i'm a 2012 vet from Hawken, and saw a familiar vet IGN in a match and the text popped up "well, look who's here". and never saw him again. i suggest the entire dev crew do 2 things: take a few passes in flight school, and go skeet shooting or game-fowl hunting. apply those mechanics to the game.
you bump the stick or yoke all the way back, and you don't hug the target's tail--you skid through the air until aerodynamics start working, then you have to center the stick so you don't stall. the game is just YOLO driving around, what with noobs, bot crowding, and jerky, freezing screens (not my system's fault, i'm running a 8350, rx550, and 8gRam, on a fat pipe). this not acceptable in any "MMO" game, but this is so glorious of a game i hope it stops alienating new folks, and quits bleeding vets (which incidently is exactly what happened to Hawken, over 100,000 registered, with <40 ingame).
Be Excellent to each other! -O.