Back from the dead? edition.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/273350/
http://evolve.wikia.com/wiki/Evolve_Wiki
>What is Evolve (stage 2)?
Evolve uses an asymmetrical structure where five players, four playing as hunters and one as the monster, battle against each other in an industrialized alien planet called Shear.
Stage 2 is the transition to Free To Play + a lot of gameplay changes.
>I heard the game was dead?
It was (at least on PC). 100-200 players and little to no updates from the developers. If F2P can bring it back is unknown, but as of right now 18k people are playing it.
>Should I "get" it?
It's free. 18GB. Download and test it out.
>F2P Model?
Copy paste:
Every week, four hunters (one of each class) and one monster will be in the free rotation. There are currently 24 Hunters and 7 Monsters in total, though some are variations of others. By playing the character tutorials, you unlock one hunter (Markov) and one monster (The Goliath) to keep forever.
Additional monsters, hunters, perks, and skins are unlocked by earning silver keys. Silver keys are earned by playing the game, leveling up, or getting login bonuses. Currently you can't actually buy silver keys, presumably so they can test the unlock rate, but that's coming later.
There is also a monthly login bonus punch card. You get one punch for each day you log in. Beyond silver keys, this can directly award new Hunters and Skins.
>Microtransation?
None as of yet.
Anyone got a tier list? Who to avoid playing in particular and all that?
Games pretty fun when the lobby is relaxed, just a shame about all the twitch fags and tryhards
Are monster op or am I/my team just bad? They make so much damage, are a tank and fast as hell.
I only win like 3 out of 10 games against monster
Anyone playing right now?
Can we make this the Evolve AND Battleborn general?
>>147818230
You're just fucked if even a single person on your team is retarded, which obviously happens fairly often.
>>147818504
How would anyone play if the server keeps shitting itself?
>>147818230
early on like right now with a lot of new players, monsters will win most of the time unless the 4 hunters communicate. Later on, you'll see hunters begin to win more especially since all 4 can dome and trappers have a instant track button.
>>147818612
Huh, I guess so. I thought it was just one match, but I haven't been able to actually start the last four matches i've been matched into due to disconnecting.
>>147818612
I can start matches but everytime I pick someone I bought I spawn as a hunter from the free rotation.
Do you think there's any real hope of this game being able to prosper now that Dead by Daylight is a thing?
They seem to be very similar games.
>>147819228
This keeps happening to me too, really annoying
Despite looking down on it for a shitty launch and bullshit DLC on top of the base price, I really hope this game does well now that it's f2p. There are too few good asymmetrical games on the market right now and as it stands the game is FUN. Here's to a good run for a decent game.
>>147819451
Between the balance issues and pretty shitty community I doubt it will have any lasting power.
>>147819451
Dead by daylight right now is incredibly unbalanced heavily in survivor's favor, and the devs have no idea how to fix it. Granted, its not much better here, but also Evolve is more combat oriented with more strategy.
>>147819228
yeah apparently they are aware of the bug and a hotfix is coming shortly.
annoying as fuck.
>>147819743
Poor sods must be panicking overtime right now. The most players this game has had in years and suddenly this shit.
>>147819451
DBD is very simplistic compared to Evolve.
>>147818158
The game has just had a massive overhaul so I can't really say who's super strong.
I can only say to avoid Emmet, he's fucking garbage. Laz historically is only get at low levels and exceedingly high.
Aggressive supports like Cabot, Bucket and Kalas are also difficult to use in a pub environment. Griffin has great offensive but low survivability and no self peel.
>>147818230
I've won the vast majority of my games pubbing as a hunter, but then again I am a veteran. At very low levels the monster is advantaged in the fact that he has perfect teamwork, on account of his only team being himself, whereas the hunters require teamwork.
>bought Monster Race edition way back for $74
>game died
>earned elite on almost everyone so hey whatever
>the overhaul is released
>they took my elite skins
>>147819870
I'm pretty mad they took my fucking badges.
Going to have to elite that boring basic bitch caira just to get my snake back.
>>147819870
>bought Monster Race edition
My condolences.
>>147820336
If he elite'd everything he got his money's worth.I know I did.
Do the hunters get stronger as the game goes on too? It's weird but when they catch me in the dome at level 1 I tend to shit on them, but after I get to stage 2 or 3 they put up a way tougher fight.
>>147820724
No, they don't. They just don't respect your capabilities as much at level 1.
>wanna play support
>get medic
>ok
>pick Val
>get Caira
>trapper is a retard who runs off alone and dies to a plant
>Hank does fucking nothing but use his gun when we dome the monster
>trapper dies to wildlife again
>I get downed because no support
>we die
>WOW MEDIC YOU SUCK
So how do I open the boxes that I've unlocked?
>>147818558
HAHAHAHAHAHA
>>147821020
They're not boxes, they're more keys. The icon's extremely misleading.
>>147819870
I know this feel. At least I have a platinum skin for the Goliath now...
IT'S NOT THE FUCKING SAME
>>147821002
>runs off alone
He runs off alone or the rest of the team doesn't follow him? Not my fault if you all follow the tracks like idiots instead of using them to predict where the monster will be.
>>147821717
>be medic
>team doesn't know where to go
>found tracks
>run off alone trying to find the monster
>team is still at the other side of the map
>monster goes to stage 3 ez and kills everybody
>>147821152
>boxes give you keys
>keys usually unlock boxes
>keys are actually the name for currency
this game is fucking me up
>>147821002
>not following the trapper
He's the huntiest of the hunters, you three are the ones running off.
>get in a game with all new people
>Assault just sits in spawn looking around
>medic just stays with him
>trapper runs off and dies to wildlife
>I leave
>get in a game with more new people
>guy gets trapper and bitches the whole time
>everyone splits up
>>147822321
>>147821717
He was a level one who'd never played it before. He would run the OPPOSITE way that the monster was going.
>>147819830
defensive supports are dead (Except sunny) offensive supports are significantly better now since defensive supports shield was nearly cut in half.
most of the assaults are ass, Markov and a damage amped blitz are very good, lennox is above average. Hyde is mediocre, everyone else is pretty garbage now unless you run a slim/torvald/cabot comp.
For the medics, Val/rogue val are as solid as ever, Caira is decent. Laz is a pubstomping god still, slightly less so than before though. I have no idea what the fuck they did to emet but RIP. Slim lost his smart choke and a good chunk of his self heal, in exchange max spread was reduced slightly. He's a hyperspecific niche pick, but solid in that niche.
For trappers, Jack is DEAD, Waggie is DEAD(damage reduced by 75% lololol), regular maggie is aight due to the daisy buffs, Crow has reduced damage and gobi, but it's not really a step-down. Abe/Griffin share the throne as KINGS. Abe is the best soft CC in the game, with griffin having the best hard cc in the game.
Krakens OP as fuck still, perhaps even moreso due to the massive nerfs parnell got
Goliaths are solidly balanced, meteor needs his burn dot toned down a little bit though.
Gorgon is 6 levels of bullshit, but bearable if you got an abe, griffin, or markov (pick one, any one, pick either trapper + markov for best results though)
Wraith is weird, her damage has been cut by about 40%, but her AoE has practically doubled. Rogue Val is a good counter to her. can be somewhat bullshit at times due to warp blast, but reasonably balanced enough.
Fucking krakens though, if you go up against one that has any level of brain and skill you're going to get DEMOLISHED.
>>147822556
Looked for something like htis
So
(def) -Sunny
(ass) -Markov/Lennox
(med) -(rogue) Val
(trap) -Abe/Griffin
is kind of the best group for now
Alright I've made up some dosh and want to choose between 3.
Lennox, EMET, or Crow
>>147822556
>They somehow manage to make krakerino OP yet again.
Ancient kraken is what kraken should have been.
>>147823530
Not emmet.
Lennox and Crow are both good.
>Playing monster.
>Stage 2 now.
>Hunters have Hank and Ciera.
>After losing half my health finally kill Hank.
>Rest of them are suddenly so much easier to kill.
Always get the hank first lads. Always
The new Hunter adaptions will be
Hyde
Caria
Abe
Cabot
I can never decide who to go for first as the monster: support or medic?
Ugh, I forgot how annoying Sunny's shield bot is, it never targets who I want it to target
>tfw goliath hits stage 3 and we've barely scratched it but your lazing at the end saves the game
2k still being massive Jews?
Turtle rock showing how much they suck balls?
Season pass 2 was just a nail in the coffin for me
>>147825814
why are you here
>>147825908
Because unlike others I actually like this game and the atmosphere Turtle rock are retarded though
FUCK HEUG armor is my favorite design
>play Slim
>monster targets the assault every time
>don't know if he's retarded or my spore is working
>>147826378
honestly most of the time I have no fucking idea who I am attacking as the monster. I try to remember the medic and support name and go after them since I'm having a hard time seeing their colors during a fight
WHERE THE FICK ARE MY ELITE SKINS?
DID YOU KNOW HOW FUCKING HARD HYDES WAS
AND HIS WERE THE BEST
Is it supposed be ez win as Hunter every game? I thought they fixed the game.
>>147826818
There are a lot of new players obviously
>>147826613
There's a colour blind mode.
I believe it replaces their names with their class symbols. That might help you out abit.
>>147822556
>Sunny meta
God have mercy on our souls.
How is Bob?
>>147825358
deppends on support or medic they play
alway kill Hank first
>Faster, faster, faster
>tfw no Caira gf
>>147827082
Abe go back to hunting the monster
>vs Gorgon
>hit stage 2
>hit stage 3
>still not even encountered it, though you see birds fly on the minimap or see dead animals everywhere
>it attacks us and wipe us ou
how to fuck with Gorgons?
>>147827021
Is there a priority list?
>Tfw want to play sneaky stalky monster and fuck with the hunters
>The new mechanics for this patch make that impossible
>>147827832
yea, but new nooby players make it possible
Why can't you easily just look at what every character does in this game instead of trying to base things off of the little descriptions in the shop? Was the game always like this or is this just a result of some hastily thrown together shop for the F2P launch? You really shouldn't have to go to google to find out what a character does
>>147822556
EMET is good
Stay far back shove missiles up the monsters ass one Hunter dies use the beacon
Is there voice chat? How's playing w/ friends and matchmaking?
Is itfun?
>>147817843
>People bought this game
loving every laugh
>>147828653
His healing is shit.
>>147828853
Yes to voice
Matchmaking is full of streaming and screaming faggots and people who just don't know how to play. With friends it's a bit more bearable
It's ok since it's free. Fun enough for the price
>>147829087
>People bought this game, played it till exhaustion, were satisfied with their purchase, and are now once again enjoying now thaat it has gone free to play and been revitalised.
lmao. What nerds.
Griffin is so OP against new monsters lol, they don't understand that they have to melee the tether to break free. I feel so bad
>>147828461
This is my biggest complain as well
I have never played Evolve before and I don't even know what I am really doing with the others, because I don't even know how my skills work. For example what does Sunny's robot (key 3) do?
I really like the game, but I am very frustrated, because I lose as good as every match as hunter. I watch some Twitch stream to see how the actual game should be played to enjoy it, because as it is now, if you play monster, you win.
>>147829472
Read the description of each skill you retard.
>>147829231
>played it till exhaustion, were satisfied with their purchase
>>147829554
Where? I can't find anything in game
You literally have to use the wiki
>>147829231
>played it till exhaustion
I hope that lobby simulator was worth the money
>>147829672
The only way to do it is make a custom game and read the description of each hunter. It gives a general idea of what each thing does.
>>147829472
Robot key?
You mean the shield drone?
You put it on the ground and it charges up. It shields the first target in line of sight to take damage.
It only starts to shield AFTER the target takes damage, it doesn't do it preemptively.
>>147830036
It shows it in the fucking 1 minute you have in the lobby, plenty of time.
You can also read the wiki.
Tech Sgt. Hank is the best support. Prove me wrong.
>trapper doesn't use his tracking ability for the entire match
>only end up fighting the wraith once they're level 3
cool
>>147817843
I have made this wildlife buff in 2015 when the game was in open beta, anyone knows if this is still accurate?
>>147832110
Nevermind, buffs were reworked since then.
>>147832110
>>147832550
so it's /eg/ and not /evog/, I didn't know. If the f2p becomes a success, maybe OC like that will come back as well.
SOMEBODY GIVE ME GORGON TIPS
I swear to fucking god.
When you're jetpack bar is glowing
It means you're boosted.
USE THE BOOST TO DODGE
Which female is the best in their class?
I only play female characters.
>>147834208
Put a spider trap down right at the start when you gain control of your character.
That's all I got
>>147834517
Sunny is pretty good, Lennox is great, Val and Caira are both good, and Maggie is OK.
How do I Behemoth?
Elder kraken is FUN.
FUN.
>3 decoy 1 supernova Wratih
Holy shit this is hilarious.
>>147835804
Don't be cancer.
>>147835804
Kill yourself faggot.
>>147835894
I could get used to it, but I probably won't use it much otherwise i'll never want to play any other way. I just had to try it once though
>>147835804
seriously, stop
>>147828653
they dropped his self heal from 750 to 250. Kind of a massive deal and I can't tell if they reverted the buff he had gotten last hotfix. Used to heal 500 global, 750 to himself if he was near a buoy when he used it. then they removed the need for him to be near a buoy to get the 750 self sustain.
>>147835804
I'll take you any day of the week over a kraken player.
>people tell you Bucket is shit
>deal 4,5k turret dmg on average
>additinal to 2k dmg with your rockets
How do you team chat?
>>147836914
bucket is good with specific medics. Really bad with slim and emet, but he's good with the vals, caira, and laz. I'd personally recommend him with regular val because that grants insane levels of single target healing and party sustain with val + his Sentries can make use of the weakpoints she creates.
>>147836914
I do more damage with cowboy trapper. What the fuck is wrong with you?
What are the main differences of Kraken and Elder Kraken? Which one is better?
>>147837619
Kraken is you are a little bitch and want to stay up in the air doing little bitch shit.
Elder Kraken is if you want to get up in people's faces and slap their shit up.
All of the abilities are significantly different, read about 'em.
All I know...I expected four hunters trying to survive in an open rich area while a monster hid and hunted them one by one.
Instead I got four ganging on a marathon monster running and then blowing shit without aim. This goes both sides.
I expected, hiding spots. I expected fright from every corner and instead...meh.
Instead I got
>>147838167
I got SHAME.
SHAME
SHAME
SHAME
>>147837619
Elder kraken is currently stronger but harder to play. he has some really bullshit animation canceling shenanigans.
>>147838167
used to be that way, then they removed the whole hunting aspect and replaced it with a chasing aspect.
>>147837750
I like being a bitch. Kraken it is.
Any recommendations on how to spend talent points?
Why can't I be revived sometimes after being killed?
What exactly is Slim's Spore Cloud supposed to do? I have read about it on the wiki, but when I use it while playing with friends they say that they don't notice a difference in anything. Is it even useful?
Anyone want to play? I'm enjoying playing healer, what should I unlock as my first healer who is fun as fuck?
>>147838441
2 lightning strike, 1 banshee, 1 vortex. at stage 1. I recommend you add +1 point to Vortex at stage 2, do whatever you want with the rest of the points.
if they have a lazarus i'd recommend you pick up at least 1 point of aftershock so that you can find his bitch ass when he tries to cloak and hide.
If you decide to run T2+T3 damage perks, when you hit stage 2 make sure you max lightning strike.
>>147839009
Lazarus if you like being a FUCKING CUNT, Slim if you like shooting the shit out of stuff in order to heal faster.
Val is pretty much mercy from overwatch
>>147839213
Mercy or medic from tf2? Does she revive people faster or something?
>>147838529
it's garbage. it reduces the range that the monster can smell when he's in the cloud, but since they removed the smart choke from slims shotgun, he'll still be able to smell you and the assault since you need to be within that range to reliably land pellets.
>>147839294
Mercy. she can single target heal and create a weakpoint on a monster to increase everyone elses damage against it.
All hunters revive at the exact same speed except lazarus who might be half a second faster with his glove revival.
>>147839494
>147839494
Thanks for the info.
>>147839494
Val's bread and butter is her tranq.
Just finished dl and tried it.
Almost feel bad for turtle rock studios. Game is surprisingly good.
>close game
>new tab in firefox
>"evolve - thank you"
hope it does better now
>>147841278
game has potential, but damn the balance
>>147841278
i mean it's now a fps with the level of grinding that a moba like HotS or Smite has (without a godpack) It'll run you about 250 hours for you to unlock everything from scratch, shave off about 40 hours if you're a "Founder"
Thanks TRS for this grinding bullshit, appreciate it. $100 spent supporting this dead fucking game and I get 30 hours of grinding taken off the total time. Cheers.
>>147841780
Grinding isn't bad.
I'd almost say it's too easy to unlock shit.
To say it's like hots is ridiculous.
>>147842047
making 400 keys a win when it's 4800 for a single level of a perk when there's 3 levels and 12 gold perks. Silvers are like 2400 and there's another 12 of em.
>>147842047
>Character prices varies from 6500 to 9500 keys
>You get about 50-75 key per match on average
>About 86 matches at best or 126 at worst to unlock a new character
Assuming a match is 10 min long it takes about 14 to 21 hours to unlock a new character.
Challenges not included.
>>147842620
>400
You wish. Just wait for the leveling to slow down.
>>147842749
Hunters are 5500 keys.
I get about 400 keys per match.
85 keys is you like he waits at the spawn and you kill him stage 1.
>>147842982
>kill the monster
>at stage one
I have sat at the starting point and stealth pounced then killed the entire hunter team off the bat with stage 1 blitz plays more times than I can count since F2P launched.
The hunters always immediately panic.
For bonus points, make tracks leading off and around a corner for them to all blindly follow while you instantly down one of them with stealth pounce.
>>147843156
they took out all the good peel in this game except griffins harpoon, and supports shields are total ass that only stop a single attack each.
All a monster has to do is focus the medic or support and gg.
>>147843156
MOTHERFUCKER IT WAS YOU!!! IMA GONNA KILL YOU!! YOU KILLED MY MAGGIE!@!!!
>>147843725
Ha ha ha, get fucked.
I bashed your dog when it went to revive someone too.
>>147843685
>Stop a single attack
Literally always this way.
Learn to dodge. Monsters can no longer stagger and hunter jetpacks got some crazy fucking buffs.
>>147836914
I do 20K damage with lennox's plasma lance
>there are people who willingly set assault as their number 1 and then pick Markov or Hyde
Why. Do they hate themselves?
>>147844384
Is Torvald still broken as hell? That dude did obscenely retarded damage when he came out.
>>147844473
He's not obscenely retarded anymore.
And noobs aren't going to be good with him.
>>147844473
Problem is that f2p players only have access to markov and hyde.
>>147844384
>Not liking Hyde
u wot m8
>>147842749
>50-75 keys per match
How to spot the /v/irgin that literally just listens to memes and comes to generals to shitpost
then again, that's just /v/
>>147843925
before the shields used to stop a rank 3 rock throw or lightning strike with about 15% of the shields leftover. Now the damage from either of those at rank 3 bleed through the entirety of the shield and deal health damage as well.
Evolve general? How long have this been a thing?
>>147844832
Not memes just calculation based on the rewards I got while not counting challenges. I could make some proper calculations but that would take some more time.
WHAT DO YOU GET IN THE BOXES AND HOW DO I OPEN THEM
AAAA
>friend picks abe and I pick val
>carry every pub
this is pretty alright desu
>>147845821
you get coins
>>147845704
even without leveling and challenges you can still get 400 or so in a match. That's a lot better than "50 - 75"
>>147845931
Where do I redeem my coins
>>147846038
you get them automatically when you finish the quest
it's including into the end match total if you ever decide to read through them
>all players has been found
>game is still searching
what's up?
>>147846620
requeue.
It happens.
>kraken
this monster is broken.
Ida is a fucking badass grandma, I feel like I'm playing Monster Hunter more than Evolve.
Does anyone know which medics basically do the work for me? I'm dogshit with Ciara and not sure who to buy instead
>>147847423
It does not help when people cannot take a hint.
If someone has a kraken avatar and is pref monster pick markov for crying out loud.
>buy Lennox
>that fucking damage output
>ramming my fist into goliaths Asshole
>Cabot boosts damage
>melt the goliath till he runs
Holy fuck Lennox is strong
does emet even heal
both times I've had him on my team we got wiped at stage 1
>>147817843
>see first wraith
>won 7 games in a row
>we finally find and dome him after he was unseen for 10min and evolved once
>he does some jump around thing that pins me and instantly downs me pretty much
>everyone else dies soon after
>"wow nerf him pls"
he's probably not OP we just don't know what the fuck he does and everyone is playing like it's a goliath
>>147817843
Is there any optimal Daily rewards? Should I reroll?
For example in hearthstone there are quest that gives 40 / 60 / 100 gold, so everytime you get a 40gold daily you try to reroll it for a better one.
>>147847423
Shitty players who can't heal or use their abilities are broken.
Out of 10 matches with Goliath or Kraken I have won all 10 rounds.
10 Rounds as Hunter later and I won 2 rounds. 5 Rounds lost at stage 1.
Let that sink in for a while.
>>147845972
>>147848184
that's the best you're gonna get.
>>147838476
People die when they're killed.
I lost my 1st match because I had no idea what any of my abilities were, but after that...
3 points in decoy and supernova :^)
>>147848754
Will literally never work against decent players.
Good job being cancer.
>>147848123
It-s a she.
You must tame it by performing her dancing call. Montain Dew and Doritos for a trap.
>>147848754
Fucken Slut.
>>147848754
Those fucking hips...
unf!
>>147848754
I wish I saved for Wraith instead of buying Gorgon
>>147849491
Buy bob if you want to have fun.
Bob is the most fun monster to play as/against.
So uhh, where the is the option to buy currency? Free to play games usually waggle that shit right infront of you but I cannot find it for the life of me.
I don't even want to buy any I just want to know the going rate
>>147850184
Nothing as of now
>>147849585
He's in jail until the devs "fix" him, but I completely agree. Most interesting abilities, most interesting movement options.
lol developers just gave a streamer dude 100k silver coins.
>>147851338
>Community favourite
>TRS' founder constantly cites Behemoth as his favourite monster of the cast.
>Most unique and interesting abilities.
>Relaunch the game without him purchaseable.
What the fuck TRS
>>147851851
He's 4750 or something. He's literally the first thing in my store. Behemoth, right? Says he has a lava bomb and licks people.
>25k players on steam
is it undead
>>147850184
I believe they're testing the base f2p drops before they add back in microtransactions.
>>147852294
Let's wait and see 2 months from now
>>147852201
Oh looks like they unlocked him. I'm >>147849491
and he wasn't available yesterday when I bought Gorgon.
>>147852457
I played against him last night, too. I think an Evolve day starts at 8pm EST. Should I get him or Wraith? I haven't played much monster but I'm pleased with the current rotation of hunters and wanna give it a try.
Newfag here, my game wont start when I try launching it on steam. Am I missing some stuff not included with the game?
>>147852535I'm having a lot of fun as Wraith.
>>147852853
probably VC++
you need 2010 and 2012 I think.
>>147853294
I reinstalled a bunch of them and it didn't do shit, I have to download a bunch of .dll files instead
>>147851418
>watching Lirik
that guy is cancer
>>147854074
mute him
>>147854215why, don't you want 100k?
How do I wraith without being cancer?
I just tried her the first time and wrecked the hunters with 3 decoy, supernova.
>>147852201
>>147852457
>>147852535
Did you guys own the game before F2P? Because I think that's why, I know that people who already know Behemoth can play him.
>>147855185
try kraken with 2 lightning strike, 1 banshee mine, 1 vortex.
>>147855312
Nevermind, seems they added him recently. Weird that they didn't announce it.
>>147818230
I think they really are. The armor regen is way too broken.
I went on a 9 game streak as monster and have now lost 5 hunter rounds in a row
>>147855738
So is he really that shit at the moment? I got a founder's pack, so there's not really any other characters I want to buy.
>Wraith's Decoy no longer cloaks her apparently.
>Trackers have a fucking instant track button
>No such thing as monster stealth anymore
>Liked the idea of being a fucking truck sized sneaky fuck.
Well shit. Fuck you too.
so is that girl the same voice actor from left for dead, zoey?
>>147856045
Decoy still cloaks
For anyone curious Elite skins unlock at level 35 and 40 respectively.
>>147856557
you're a monster.
>>147855185
warp blast is your core move.
>>147856665
>burn monsters armor down
>do 1/3 of his health
>dome drops with a minute left
>monster runs away
>has full armor even though we didnt lose him once and he never ate
>do 1/3 of his health
>runs away
>monster is level two
>full armor
>half hp from 1 ability
monster is so fucking op is not even funny
So monsters keep like half their armor now when they evolve? Why did they make that change? It's too much.
They used to lose it all as I remember, but I haven't played in a year.
>>147857018
They completely removed stealth so usually the monster has no choice but to fight if they sit still and evolve. Overall they've completely fucked the balance.
It's better as a monster now to just rush them at spawn than to waste your time trying to evolve and hide.
>>147857181
you either secure the kills at spawn, or look for large creatures that are in a good arena for you and force the fight there.
>Install it
>Do tutorials.
>Try and queue with a friend
>Various errors and full lobbies.
>Finally get into a game
>Gold Wraith played by someone who fucking eSports level played the game.
>Died very, very quickly.
Well, I never claimed to be the best, but if MM's shit, this won't last long.
All the same, doing just enough "secret challenges" to get 700 keys a fucking loss is pretty awesome. I don't feel threatened to pa-
>Use keys to level up perks.
This game's fucked. Monster players, get your fun on newbie stomping while you can!
>>147857461
Actually you can upgrade every perk by just levelling up characters/monsters.
I agree about the MM though.
>>147857375
Yeah this.
Your chances of killing the monster at lvl 3 are basically 0, and even at lvl 2 your chances fucking blow
But then one match we got him to like 5% hp at the start and he ended up getting level 3 just buy running around and never stopping since he had full armor every fucking time
>>147857461
>>147857642
If they did an MMR reset (which they should have), it's pretty obvious there are going to be quite a few terrible matches until everyone gets to their true MMR.
If that continues ~2 weeks from launch though there is indeed a serious problem.
>>147855998
Haven't played him yet! I doubt his overhaul was too severe, can't seem to find the patch notes on it. I played against a decent Behemoth earlier, but the thing was our medic and support were so good he couldn't really get much done, so it's hard to say.
That Monster tutorial is shit.
How exactly -do- you play monster properly?
>>147818230
Leave the game tier.
>Someone picks Wraith / Gorgon
Yeah. Pretty shitty.
How to make money: It's so hard now that I am not getting any level up bonus
>>147857461
wow 2% more cdr!
You can't even buy currency atm.
>>147857018
It was changed to counter the hold till evolve strat which became meta for years.
my game just searches for people forever. Sometimes it even finds all players, but it will continue searching.
>>147858294
It's literally /fit/: The Game. You go cocoon mode and hide from the rest of society, all while eating as much as possible to get sick gains. Once you've reached your goal body, you go and bully betas or destroy public property.
But in all seriousness if you're having trouble against hunters in actual fights try to focus on the support, then med, then trapper, and assault last. Try to separate them in fights, and if they're too good at staying close and keeping each other's health up, disengage and make them come to you.
>>147858620
gorgon is EZ if you have a markov, Wraith is easy if you have a val and bucket. Kraken has no counters anymore.
>>147858008
From what I can tell Hunt MM is based entirely on your account level, not skill.
>>147858620
I was considering buying Gorgon because it looks fun, what's the problem with him?
>>147858780
Try verifying the cache, same thing happened to me and that fixed it
Any more of those hidden challenges? Got 400 coins from playing with a friend for 25 games.
Best perks for hunters?
>>147859208
I think he said that it is tough to beat so he leaves when someone picks it.
Nerf or not, Wraith is still annoying and unfun to fight.
Is it quicker to start a game now? It seemed like even when got a few lobby it took way too long for the game to start.
Which are the best characters on each role to carry shitters?
>>147859893
>tfw love Stealth, Predator-esque characters like Wraith in both Dead by Daylight and Evolve and have a load of fun playing them
>tfw I know I'm making the lives of the people I'm against hell
I'm so fucking sorry, its too fun damn it.
>>147860373
Wraith isn't even stealth anymore, though.
>>147860373
You're going to kill this game, or get monsters nerfed so the game doesn't drop to 5 people in a week.
>>147860440
Thankfully I like big slow tanky fucks too so Goliath is good fun as well, looking to try out Behemoth next.
Okay, did I miss something? Behemoth's walls seem to melt the moment you put them up, what the fuck is happening?
playing monster is so fucking stressful, I'm literally SHAKING after a match.
Looks like when it finds the 5 players but it's still stuck in "searching" it's because it can't find a server.
A 200 to 22k player leap must be choking the servers really hard.
>>147817843
Last time I played it was during the open beta.
It seems like it's harder to kill the monster on the first engagement now (when he is on Level 1).
Is the respawn part of the meta now? As soon as you get downed and he starts camping your corpse should you hit the respawn?
How do you open the boxes you get from the challenges?
>>147861241
I know right, it takes a while until you get rid of this "anxiety".
>choose Parnell as Assault
>get Hyde???
>entire team doesn't get the hunters they chose either, even the monster got something different from what he chose
What the absolute fuck
>>147861812
Stage 1 is the easiest and most efficient way to kill him. Stage 2-3 your chances of winning are extremely low. You just have to hope you have a good trapper so you can stay on his ass the entire time
>As soon as you get downed and he starts camping your corpse should you hit the respawn?
If you die at the beginning yes, because the timer is only 10 seconds. Otherwise its a judgement call
>>147862001
Bug. Usually the monster ends up with Meteor Goliath too.
>>147862001
There's a bug that makes everyone go to default / free2play rotation selection.
>Asshurt Wraith loses because he doesn't get his OP bullshit.
>Picked Hyde ANYWAY
Feels good
>>147862001
Same shit happened to us. We had a Vulkan too, I wanted to see what he did
>>147862289
>Teammates whining about how its not their fault they lost because its not the character they chose.
Just shut the fuck up and play. The f2p rotation is fucking easy to play.
>>147861241
I was literally rank 1 Goliath for a while during the free weekends/betas and that feeling never went away.
>>147819561
I'm not sure, I have played a couple of games and I'm not so convinced. It seems to have a lot of boring downtime.
Also it seems you have two levels right? One for your individual hunters and one account wide. Does that do anything? Increase your damage or something? Or is it just a "this guy has played a lot"?
So is there any way to test out hunters/monsters you don't own or am I gonna have to turn to youtube? I'd like to know what the the hell their abilities are before buying them.
>>147863226
free perks, cosmetics, and in game currency. Each character has their own progression tree with free shit, your account level gives you free shit too.
>>147862383
That's just it.
Why the fuck would you play any other Trapper but fuckingAbe?Jackis shit and bait for 5500Maggieis shitWasteland Maggie I've never triedCrow's also shit
Seriously. "Challenging" heroes have no reward for the risk. Easy just wins if the monster isn't OP as fuck.
>>147864032
>jack
>shit
>MAGGIE
>SHIT
Maggie is bar none the best. Jack is good if you're good. Waggie a shit since they nerfed her damage.
Abe is only good for keeping pubs on the monster.
>>147864032
Crow isn't shit.
Neither is Griffin.
Jack is apparently nerfed but he has a very strong kit. Both Jack and Griffin can cuck entire abilities, Abe can't.
Stasis doesn't work on shit like leap smash, charge, warp blast, lightning.
Griffin and Jack can block those.
Is anyone else having the issue were they are constantly stuck in the matching making lobby despite all the positions are full?
>>147864270
>Maggie is the best
>harpoons swatted in one hit
>Daisy's a derpbut god that revive is gud
She's not the worst by a fucking longshot, but...fuck that.
>Abe is only good for keeping pubs on the monster!
And that's the pub-scrub carry tactic. No one can be trusted. Must make the game as braindead as possible.
>Jack is shit
He really isNOW. He's definitely not worth the effort invested.
>Griffin
Meh. Harpoon gun is useless, and the sound spikes could stand to be a bit bigger since there's always fucking holes in your detection...Seriously. If you're Jack or a Trapper / Tracker / Whatever with harpoons, you're garbage.
>Playing medic.
>teammates whining about player bug as normal.
>Meteor Goliath decides to face us right when we land.
>Terrible at landing leaps and charges though. Juke him easily.
>All while I'm running around not a SINGLE SHIELD from Hank.
>Not even the special.
>Get downed.
>Goliath runs off to get Abe.
>Hyde is next to me and hank.
>Just fucking STANDS THERE
>NOT EVEN SHOOTING AT HIM
>When monster goes for him he just stands there and left clicks.
>Doesn't even use shield matrix.
I'm going to be laughing at the retardation tomorrow but seriously how bad can you be.
>>147864745
Yep, just back out and try again.
>>147864773
>Harpoon gun is useless
Spotted the shitter
>>147817843
Oh shit
they removed the little replay-minimap at the end of the game?
It was pretty cool to see the hunters and the monster's movement in the previous match
>>147864773
>harpoons swatted in one hit
She can spam them, thankfully, and if she spaces them properly they're more effective than literally any other trapper.
Daisy is already excessive, just by merit of he revive. You don't need her to track, you have the global tracker.
>>147864954
>Use Harpoon Gun
>Enemy Monster isn't Golaith or Behemoth
>Implying you're going to get away with it
>Implying you aren't a liability.
>>147864817
The game makes me hate humanity
>playing abe
>round starts
>everyone following foodsteps
>can see the general direction the monster is going to
>everyone just following the foodsteps going straight after them like some sort of cartoon
>decide do stray from the path and cut it diagonally across the map to cut him of
>Right after I'm split chief Idiot that was following the monster like a fucking duckling yells on mic: "[My Name] WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU GOING YOU RETARD?"
>I go: "Just follow me to the Monster"
>"SHUT THE FUCK UP"
>of course I arrive at the monster alone teammates take a good while to arrive there while I try to keep it busy.
Just.. the thing is FAST don't they get that? I don't think you will have a good time if you just run straight after it.
Ok what the actual fuck. I know the monster has auto-shield regen in the first minute or so but this wraith was regenerating armor literally up until stage 3, and it only dropped when two of us were alive
What fucking bullshit
Everyone is complaining about having shitty teammates and losing constantly as Hunters. I've been maining Monster and running into competent players and only winning about 30% of my games. If anything I think the Hunters are OP because everytime I juke them out they use the scanner a few seconds later.
It basically goes
>Use all 3 jumps in the beginning to put some space between use
>crouch to the left or right
>orbital scan
>use jumps to put distance again
>eat 3-5 creatures, crouch, orbital scan
Then it always ends up in a level 1 dome. Sure you can hit level 2 quickly but only if you have noob players. I'm all for the orbital scan but I feel like it needs a longer cooldown. I've also been playing with friends so they've been speaking on comms and I hear how often the orbital scan is up.
Idk I'm still a new monster I can't really give a great opinion until I play more. That being said I'm having fun and I'm glad the game isn't dead anymore.
Oh and also Turtle Rock please fix the fucken bug where you spawn as something else. 3 out of my 4 last monster rounds it spawned me as the Meteor Goliath with all level 1 abilities and no perks.
>>147865067
I just saw it for 2 seconds before I switched to the game end screen, I think it's just bugged.
Wraith op
pls no nerf
>>147866065
Tracking isnt the problem. Any decent trapper can make sure the monster is never hidden.
The problem is that once the fight starts, hunters dont know how to play their roles. Supports and healers should always be as far away as possible, and trappers should be perma-slowing the monster.
Instead, the support and medic are always in melee range for some reason, and the monster isnt slowed 90% of the time. Then when somebody gets down the team sits together trying to rez instead of distracting the monster and rezzing the guy if the monster fucks off
>>147866440
I can almost tell what the fuck is going on in that webm.
