I'm just asking you to back up what you're saying with some sort of proof, nothing out of the ordinary.
I see effects taking place without PhysX enabled on all sorts of things that have ADDITIONAL effects with PhysX, I also see new effects added by PhsyX... I don't see anything, nor have I ever seen anything where game developers pass off the engine to Nvidia and said "add some crap for us, /yolo".
I'm backing up what I'm saying with an argument. I'll be kind enough to rephrase it:
Games have for a very long time portrayed effects similar to what you see in Hawken with PhysX. Hawken therefore could have a simplified version of those PhysX effects using the same techniques used by other games. But it doesn't. Why? Considering developing any kind of effects requires time and money, developing both the PhysX version of the effects and the simplified version of the effects would cost more than just developing one of those versions. Are you following me so far? From the fact Hawken has only one version of the effect, we can conclude the developers didn't have (or wanted to spend) the time and money to develop both. So in a way, PhysX "removed" the effects.
If you don't agree with my argument, then explain what's wrong with it. Demanding proof isn't a counter-argument.
When you posted that video with obvious laser on force field effects, but cited a CC caption as your evidence, I knew you had NO common sense, so I for one am ignoring you.
Holy shit. How can you not understand? Just look at the picture, forget the caption. Look at the right side and you'll see some greenish stuff, look at the left side and the greenish stuff isn't there. The left side could have a simplified version of the greenish stuff you see on the right. Really, there is no conceivable way to make this any simpler.