Well, now I'm just thinking out loud, so please add opinions.
I bought Hawx 1 for cheep, and enjoyed it. As a long standing Ace Combat fan, I thought it was a nice alt. Even if I had a garagfe sail flight stick
Though Hawx dose have a few sore points, that I think I can fix, and some I don't know if I can.
1) Basic Weapon Pack-The "Basic" Weapon pack is just normal missiles and flairs. That's it. Look at the Aces, and even the starter plane had a bomb. It's sorry to see some high Lvl planes like the F-15 Active get this too.
2)the MiG-23 Flogger- Not a Bad plane, just the most unilateral bad guy around. They show up on the Last Mission! I mean dude!
3)Bland Skins-I have a few new Skins from the Hawx official forums, yet vast amounts of planes still need help.
4) Skitzo cutscenes- In one of the earlier lvls, you have a picture of one plane, yet the corner vider shows something else! theis happens a few more times.
So I've started to look into Modding the Original Hawx into a somewhat Nicer Game. Well, here's to the Clancy Man's Ace Fighter.
Never modded HAWX but been meaning to look into it too. How far can you mod into HAWX than just adding custom skins? I'll consider looking to it of its possible to add new planes and effects or even better, capable of changing the entire content of the game.
I know you can add new planes(IE ace planes, yukikaze, some others around) and chane other things, yet I have not delved into it yet.