All Guides Update: Hawks Death Causes an Automatic Mission Failure

What the Official Update Establishes

• If Hawks dies in combat, the current mission fails and must be restarted rather than continuing without the protagonist.
• The supporting first-party source is the EA community Q&A, published July 21, 2026.
• The game remains scheduled for August 27, 2026 on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.

For the All Guides hub, the usable conclusion is narrow and practical: practical player guidance and launch-ready decision rules can now be organized around this confirmed boundary. Details the source does not provide—such as final numerical balance, exact unlock timing or every mission exception—remain reserved for launch verification.

Why This Matters for All Guides

The page is intentionally scoped to the relationship between this announcement and practical player guidance and launch-ready decision rules. That makes it different from the general announcement page: readers entering through this navigation tab receive the implication that is relevant to their current task, then can move to the source or related guide.

After launch, this URL will be updated only when the shipped game or a later official statement changes the specific answer. Patch-dependent information will be dated rather than silently replacing the original evidence.

Launch Verification Checklist

Record the exact failure message, checkpoint behavior and difficulty-specific restart options. Keep that result separate from the three-Injury rule that applies to the wider roster.

The resulting evidence belongs in All Guides only when it answers the navigation intent described above. Screenshots, version numbers and observed exceptions will be attached to this route instead of generating overlapping pages.