KEK
Stillborn f2p when?not like anyone would still touch it
it took Evolve a year to realize their game is shit
considering how Battleborn already have no dignity
>already content with pocket change from selling it 60% off 3 weeks after launch
>selling it again for 50% on summer sale
>milking their 400 player base with real money item shop
>inb4 servers full of latinos too stupid to pirate real games
I'm going to try it out now that's free... But I'm not expecting much
What's with early birds getting so fucked over this year
>Evolve releases for super high price (including DLC)
>game flops immediately
>Battleborn releases for a full $75 (including season pass)
>40% off in a week
I think what we can learn with this is that you don't release new game concepts for AAA prices.
>>344142145
Or don't release them at the same time as Blizzards new hot piece of shit.
>3 years from now when you bought some game and it let you down, didnt live up to your expectation. you can always be like... you know what im gonna play evolve, cause god damn it that game is still fun.
>>344142227
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M4RwGwQslM
>>344142385
I wonder if they watched that since they mentioned hype and flashy events in the announcement.
So is this the new practice? If a game is multiplayer only sooner or later it goes F2P? It happened to Evolve, it happened to some extent to Siege, it'll happen to Battleborn. Do I even need to buy games anymore, I should just wait until they all go F2P.
It was always their plan to go f2p. The first year was only a part of their long term revenue plan.
>>344141735
>Evolve goes free to play
I'm happy, I really liked the beta
I was looking yesterday how evolve was holding up only to find you couldnt buy it anymore.
And now this. Glad this thing gets the ending it deserves
>>344142773
most games that are pay to play now also have an ingame shop for maximum cashing in. So if a game dies an untimely death there is no reason to just make it free and milk a bit with your ingame store.
so what's in it for the people who bought it
did it show up on anyones library yet?
>>344143215
special status and items and shit.
honestly its probably so dead they finnaly get their money's worth.
i remember pirating the release for singleplayer and my PC could hardly run it. iv OCed an extra 0.6 gh but i doubt il be able to enjoy it.
potato race loses no matter what
Im not banned anymore? yay!
>>344142227
I'm actually really looking forward to this. Evolve was very fun with my friends on the free weekend but none of them owned the game so we just kind of moved on. But now? Now we get round 2.
>>344141926
>evolve
>servers full
pick one
>tfw bought literally all of the Evolve DLC
actually was a great game
deserved better fans
Is this PC-only? Consoles shouldn't be left out.
Perfect game to make friends
You are always playing with the same people.
>>344142805
pathetic attempt
>>344143331
I checked both the game and my library but no option to download it yet. Then again it's 50 gigaridoo the whole game.
>>344143614
Console cucks are still playing this game massively
>>344143517
You might be the stupidest mother fucker alive.
I am actually glad it is going to be free
they will prevent it from dying somewhat and I can sometthing more to play
>>344143695
Wouldn't they be obligated to go f2p on all platforms? Don't think there's a precedence for this.
>>344143740
we are talking about Battleborne and Evolve.
but here's a ''you'' now fuck off
>>344143740
As someone who played the beta and then dropped it I agree. The level of content provided didn't justify the price at all.
>>344143740
THIS
>>344143382
nice troll
>>344141735
>buying multiplayer only games
>>344143740
its not worth the 60, however it is getting new content, we just need to see what pace they will work at,
but i have no urge to buy any game day 1 after dark souls 3, ill wait a year before i look at it. im content with occasionally playing it at a freinds.
>>344143517
>skin pack
>skin pack
>skin pack
>skin pack
>skin pack
k
>>344143776
>prevent it from dying
>>344142227
>>344142385
>>344141735
I liked Evolve but they went money hungry with no patches to fix shit to fast. I was always a big fan of 1vs every one else games like SS13 or Parasite.
Currently playing Dead by daylight but the creators have no idea how to balance it.
>>344142385
they're not lying. the game is fun, but that $60 tag for basically everything we got to see in beta, was a joke.
should've launched at $20 with more skins and another game mode.
>>344144541
Why didn't you like Dark Souls 3?
>>344144621
>people complain when DLC is cosmetic just
>people complain when DLC is more than just cosmetic
>>344145285
>should've launched at $20 with more skins and another game mode.
so basically what we're getting now? minus the $20.
also the game had plenty of game modes. no one played them because hunt was the focus of all the balance and map design.
at least theres arena now.
>>344141926
I tried the beta and had a lot of fun with it for the 15 hours I played it.
>>344141735
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
This is too good. only took em 15 months.
The game's been dead in the water for over a year now, perhaps if they actually did this a year ago someone might actually care.
>>344145432
balance is bad, is not just poise or r1 spam either, an example is shit like stabbing with the shield up straight up dosnt work, you still take damage along with all the traditional drawbacks.
its also really linear, and many areas are obviously unfinished, the profane capital is particularly bad. all that lore and hype and you can run from the only bonfire in the actual location to the bossfog in a minuet 30 easy. and there is nothing to really explore.
>>344145459
yeah, sure. I had a lot of fun during beta. the people complaining about the "running" are just bad. sure, you spent time tracking the monster, but having a good trapper made things easier.
>>344143517
Please end yourself, Evolve fans are fucking retarded.
Their constant circle jerk telling the devs they could do no wrong massively contributed to the game turning in to the dead shit-show that it is.
Literally a year ago people were telling them the game needed to go F2P, the unbelievably slow trickle of patches and disasterous DLC had already killed the game this time last year, if they just did what every other smart dev did and made it F2P with cosmetic microtransaction it might have survived.
This F2P mode won't be the game's rebirth, it's just a death rattle.
Balance is still fucked too.
>>344145728
in 3 months it was already terrible.
>>344145917
having a bad trapper also guaranteed that you would fight at the relay with a stage 3, fully armored monster. thats what they changed.
i enjoyed the hunt, i dont like the new dome changes. however ill take giving the game a second chance over never playing it again.
all the retards had to do was have at least 10 different aliens and no DLC bullshit
there you go could have had a game that would last a couple years
not 1 monster at release then make 2 more slowly release
how many monsters are in the game now 3?
ah can't wait for the idiots who actually bought the game and dlc to try and pretend like it was F2P that killed it and made it bad, not just them being idiots buying what always was and has been a shitty game
HOW IS THIS ALLOWED?
>buy game on launch
>game dies
>f2p
How can they get away with it?
>>344142145
Or don't be early adapter for 2k releases- both games had the same publisher.
Also, Evolve was last year. I think.
>>344143891
Why would they be? TF2 never went f2p on console.
>>344146112
funny thing is all the diehard fans are going to have to deal with the (small) flood of newbies that dont know or give a shit and are just playing to kill time.
>>344146163
that's the gamble you take.
>>344146163
i dont thinks its getting away with anything here
>>344142145
>preordered Overwatch
>didn't get fucked
>>344142773
just dont buy online games
The online game meme is pushed by publishers because the suits think online games are instant hits
That is to say online games that are primarily meant to be played in multiplayer and/or co-op
>>344146253
arguably you wouldn't be allowed to make it ftp on xbox, due to ms polices
hell valve wasn't even allowed to fix the pyro without it being dlc
>>344146109
i know this is a shitpost but there were 3 at launch and now theres 5 going into f2p. unless you count the meteor goliath and elder kraken which are different takes on their skillset. then its 7.
>>344146256
well a small flood for evolve is like a tidal wave for any other game
but it'll be fun watching all these ELITE players try to pretend like they didn't suck balls at the game when they started
>>344142385
man watching this channel is so depressing, the videos on evolve, ouya, vr, kinect and ubisoft downgrades really makes you lose any hope that you have left for the gaming industry.
>>344146109
5
There were 3 at release
2 more were locked behind a pay wall and weren't released until 2 and 6 months after launch, respectively.
On paper it sounds fine, to a cunt in a suit.
To anyone they were trying to convince to buy it, it sounded like a shit show, because it was and is one.
>>344142773
>it'll happen to Battleborn
It's almost guaranteed, probably before the end of the year. They already have the nickle and dime character unlock in place for it.
>>344146506
It means you need to stop being part of the HYPE culture and get critical about things. Don't become a jaded fuck, just don't get so emotionally invested in things.
>>344146406
if it is dead after a year blizzard will just make it F2P as well
>>344146728
That's a pretty big "if" sir
>>344145728
Oh stop being cheeky, people do care, I'm sure this will be on the top 10 played for a week at least, game is pretty good
The reason it flopped is that no one wants to pay $60 to buy less than half of the fucking game, everything is a DLC
>>344146728
You mean "when" it will be dead in a year.
>>344141735
Even f2p I'm not touching that shit
>>344141735
>implying they're not just doing this to reset the metacritic score
>>344142773
To be fair, I considered Siege a good game that sadly never got the attention it deserved. Starter Edition is at least cost of entrance so people can see it's different.
>>344146958
>>344146839
I dont know and I dont care how its state is in a year. The point is that saying overwatch wont become F2P whatever the cost is just stupid. They already have the lootbox system and any non-retarded company will rather milk some kids that try it F2P and end up buying lootboxes than keep it pay 2 play for some people who put money in and would feel bad because of it. First of all many of those people left (since it is dead), second the people left probably want more players. Third, and most important, those people already gave you money so you can just fuck them up the ass.
>>344147197
> Starter Edition is at least cost of entrance so people can see it's different.
And then grind more versus the version that was on Amazon not even 2 weeks later for the same amount and was pretty much the launch edition.
Ubisoft. Not even once.
>>344147224
also, having it F2P would make people download Battlenet
>>344142385
>damn i love playing that game!
>i know, its so much fun!
>evolve is super fun!
i love this chick
>>344147309
Yeah well, Ubisoft. I bet their goal is you'll upgrade to full game.
>>344144541
they are blizzard, expect one content patch to last whole year
>>344147537
I always find all women that cover games are either women with no affiliation whatsoever and are just actors who are paid to act cheerful. Or they are women who work at a videogame website and just want to be home doing girl things and have to pretend they enjoy themselves.
>>344147224
Yeah. Also, it makes sense for player base to get older aka players achieve higher levels because it takes a long time to get your next chest by leveling up. At at that point will be much more inclined to just buy boxes or specific overpriced skins.
>>344147663
you're a journalist, or at least you're pretending to be, so you cover what you're told to cover. there's a reason why video games journalism is such a joke. Also, fishing for husbands over at rich publishers, obviously.
>>344147717
exp requirements for a level levels around level 30. So 70 to 71 is the same as 90 to 91. And with prestige you can reset your level.
Weird how they've been updating it so much since release. Doesn't it have like 100 players on every platform?
>>344147858
No I mean that its obvious they dont like to sit through these long shows. A show on a website is just 20 minutes of cheerful talk about how awesome games are then you can go back home and hammer out a review of a game you didnt play and mail it. But at the e3 and such they cant do that and they are on site all day. You can really notice they have no feeling for games at all to sit around in a gamehall all day.
The ones best at covering up their boredom are women just hired to be cheerful
>>344147884
they cant feed their children if they didnt push out enough DLC.to be serious it is obvious they cut the initial game up and had a bunch of DLC halfdone. No sense not just finishing that up and pushing it out before abandoning ship
>>344147884
it hasnt gotten an update in a long time specifically due to this update. everything they wanted to push onto the live version got delayed for the f2p update.
Nice another game turned into p2w f2p game I would install, play 10 minutes and then unistall.
>buying boring games
I'm still sad about Evolve's wasted potential
Is it wrong that I'm kinda excited to try this game out with some friends? I mean, none of us wanted to buy it but wanted to try it.
>>344148828
no anon. no matter how much others shit on you for enjoying the game it isnt wrong. the game is good, even amazing with friends. you'll likely have a great time.
WHAT THE FUCK I BOUGHT IT DURING STEAM SALES FUCK THEM FUCK9ISDUI
I bought Evolve way back at launch.
I thought it might be decent, boy was I wrong, what a waste of potential.
Their monetization was fucking terrible, but so was their balancing.
I might come back and shit all over the new guys as monster, partly because it might be fun, but mostly because I want to ruin the new players' experience and make sure this piece of shit dies.
Fuck you Turtlerock, I want my money back.
>>344148828
Yes. The game is fucking awful, and you and your friends might have a good time laughing about how bad it is, but that's probably all you'll get out of it.
>>344149179
i've never had someone do the exact opposite of what i did. thanks m8.
>you're not allowed to enjoy what i dont enjoy
its fine you dont like what TRS/2k did to evolve. i dont either but this update could genuinely fix things. theres no need to shame others because they might enjoy something you hate.
>>344149043
>tfw I can once again do a full hunter wipe at stage 1 with goliath
>tfw I can once again hunt down monsters purely by sound and annoy the piss out of them with Griffin until my team catches up
>tfw newbie monsters never break the tether
Playing against experienced hunters get boring tbqh
>>344149043
>, but mostly because I want to ruin the new players' experience and make sure this piece of shit dies.
>denying others fun because you cannot enjoy yourself
yes. The best kind of FUN is fucking others over. Godspeed anon
>>344149179
>684 hours
>The game is fucking awful
uh-huh....Hmm...
full patch notes for those who are actually interested.
https://evolvegame com/news/en-evolve-stage-2-patch-notes
The game is a huge burden to both the devs and publisher. By going F2P and knowing the horrible history, it's an excuse to close down the game six months later as it will never meet the expectations.
So is this going to be an "Open Alpha" thing, or do I need to sign up?
>>344149601
link doesn't work, brings me to google somehow
>>344149950
just go to their main website and look for the patch notes announcement under the timer.
>>344149950
did you fill in the dot he spaced out?
Is the game actually good? Did it fail only because they went too far with DLC and offered too little content in the base game or is it legitimately a bad game?
>The MOBILE ARENA is now a shared ability that always centers on the Monster, and all four hunter classes have been redesigned to be more easily accessible and have better team synergy even when you’re not playing with friends.
>With the mobile arena a shared ability, all Trapper class hunters now come equipped with a PLANET SCANNER ability that tells the hunters generally which direction the monster is located within the map. Trappers also get a speed boost when activating the ability to help them close the distance and Dome the Monster.
Welp
dead on arrival again
>>344146253
A shitty mmo by the name of defiance went f2p on the 360.so its very much possible for a buy 2 play game to go f2p on consoles.tf2 never went f2p because valve left the console port to die out in the sun.
>>344150039
the game failed due to a combination of DLC fuckery, which TRS themselves admit to being a huge, HUGE problem and TRSes lack of timely balance changes and bugfixes. they've said they plan on putting out those changes in a timely fashion this time around. we'll find out in a month though.
the game is really fucking good. it holds some of my favorite multiplayer moments.
might as well give it a shot though.
I tried it long time ago, was fun, never bought it.
I did buy it now for 5 bucks so I get the founders shit tho.
>>344145285
They did fuck up big time with this game but seriously, all you armchair marketing specialists need to keep to themselves a little more.
>>344150039
The gameplay is fun but very repetitive. Imagine playing 1 level of a single player game over and over. Same with titanfall, the repetitive nature just kills it. Then there is the DLC train. 2 DLC passes is just completely retarded. Hell the first time anyone heard of the game was them gushing about the DLC fest.
>>344150421
explain mobas then
kek
>>344150421
but both titanfall and ebolbe were fun games
>>344150519
more heroes and slightly more diverse gameplay. Thats the hard part of a multiplayer only game. Not making the game fun. But making the game fun for 1000 rounds
>When it returns to the Steam storefront, anyone will be able to download the free version, which is in alpha starting on July 7. Beta is targeted for August. Expect balancing to happen once the public gets in.
alpha?
what the fuck. The game has been out for a year and a half, the fuck are they going back to alpha for?
>>344150421
>titanfall
>even close to being as bad as evolve
Shit still gets 5 k players on the bone every now and then.just because no mustard played titanfall doesn't make it shit .
>>344150775
it's so they can use the
>i-it's just a b-beta
excuse for glitches and shit balancing
>>344143517
6/10 attempt,
image is saved/10
>>344150775
they have to test the new systems in place for the switch.
>>344150841
anyone who used that as an excuse is a moron anyway.
>>344150893
>>anyone who used that as an excuse is a moron anyway.
yeah, mankind in general is retarded.
>>344141735
There's actual a trend in gaming which is basically taking all those super fun warcraft 3 mods, and making stand alone games of them.
Dota 2, Ark is essentially Island troll tribes,
Evolve I feel was supposed to be a Vampirism/Sheep tag type game.
They made one very big mistake with the fundemental design of the game though. The humans shouldn't be about running and shooting. it should've been about holeing up somewhere and building a defence.
>>344151087
>tfw no island defense
>no Darwinism where you evolve to different stages of monsters while competing against other players for food
>no licensed naruto/bleach/onepiece mobas/hero arenas
the list can go on
I miss staying up all night and playing wc3 mods
>>344151087
it wasnt at all supposed to be that. it was supposed to be a 4v1 hunt where the monster felt more like a boss battle. in evolve you either hunt the monster down and kill it while you have the advantage in stage 1, you're on an equal power level in stage 2, or monster has the advantage in stage 3. if you couldnt enjoy the aspect of the hunt then i dont think the game is for you.
>>344151087
>They made one very big mistake with the fundemental design of the game though. The humans shouldn't be about running and shooting. it should've been about holeing up somewhere and building a defence.
Hell no. The entire point of the game is the hunter/hunted mechanic of it.
daily reminder that a good monster is overpowered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=263C3UiOQTQ
>>344146163
>online only
only retards would buy this shit, especially on release and ESPECIALLY after it crashed and burned
>>344149501
>Few hours played
>"lol you probably didn't even get past the first level, get out"
>A lot played
>"lol what the fuck is wrong with you, you played this game so long and say its bad, get out"
Every time.
>>344142145
>Both are 2k published games.
Gee I wonder if that has any relation at all?
>>344146506
If you couldn't come to that realization on your own in the past 10 years then there's no hope for you
>le so hype generation
I'm happy Evolve will go F2P I was always curious how does it feel like to play the monster in it and hopefuly the game will be alive and have some actual community.
>>344151438
I'd say once you pass the 200+ hour mark you clearly enjoy the game on some level.
No one subjects themselves for 25 DAYS STRAIGHT to something they don't like.
Feel free to criticize the game meta and fine details all you want but your playtime is a testament to the quality of the game's design.
>>344151908
I played it a lot last year. The first third is sneaky and stressful. I recommend getting good. The second third is whichever you make it: sneaky or brawling. The final third you feel like a god.
>>344151438
On my steam list, my most played game has around 250 hours. How are you going to tell me you sat around and said "I really fucking hate this game, let me sink 600+ hours into it"
>>344152251
the hate for the game comes after a majority of those hours. usually from lost hope, faith in developers, or some major change that said player doesnt like.
Does Evolve have bots? How hard is it to be a monster?
>>344152678
yes, you can take the position of the bots. meaning you can swap from medic, to trapper, etc.
the monster difficulty comes down to how good the hunters are. it can range from laughably easy to almost impossible.
>>344142145
>game flops immediately
no it didnt
They sold crapton of copies, but people left very quickly
From what I heard Wraith is OP. The fuck is the point of 2 other monsters then?
>>344153143
wraith was OP on launch. wraith is underpowered if anything now.
>>344153179
Well no kidding Wratih right now is dead like the rest of the game.
>>344151087
Then where the F U C K IS ENFO'S YOU STUPID PIECE OF SHIT IT'S THE ONLY CUSTOM GAME I ACTUALLY WANTED TO BE STANDALONE
>>344152251
Firstly you're a casual shit.
Secondly, I hate the game but I didn't always.
I'm a solo player, I don't like having to depend on other people, because 90% of people are fucking idiots and you'll have to carry them, or they'll tumble and bring you down with them.
As such this looked like the perfect game for me, a game where if you're smart enough and put in the effort you can be on a level playing field against a team of people, and have the opportunity to punish those people if they exhibit the very behavior that I hate the most in all of gaming.
And at the start it was that very thing. I learned to play monster, and I learned to play it well, and I'd dominate. I played Wraith, and for a long time she was my bae. I wasn't one of those faggy flee-til-3 shitters, I fought and won the bulk of my games at stage 2. I didn't take decoy at all, I was one of the early "Sky Wraiths", and it was good.
Then they decided to pander to the legion of whining shitters and broke the game beyond repair.
You see, these devs are fucking incompetent as shit. They base pretty much every change they make on telemetry data, which is indicative of jack shit.
"hmmm, everyones crying about Laz being shit, but our telemetry data says he has a 51% win rate, he must be fine!" That's because 51% of monsters are too stupid to work out how his revivification mechanics works and how to counter it.
"hank is getting picked way more than the other 2 supports, is he OP? Nah, the other two are probably shit" Meanwhile Hank had a 90% pick rate in all the prize tournaments they were having back then.
They've been buffing the hunters and changing huge aspects of the game in their favor, for no reason other than people being shit at one of the core mechanics of the game, tracking the fucking monster.
The main game mode is called "hunt". Your characters are called "hunters", and yet the devs have decided to pander to the mouth breathing invalids that don't even like that part of the game.
>>344155636
The balancing was doomed from the start, either you pander to the 4 and hunters have an advantage, or you actually try to balance the game and drive off the majority of those 4 who play hunter. It's lose/lose. People actually fucking believe that monster had an advantage, ever, that's the world we live in. The entire game is essentially L4D on steroids where the goal as the monster isn't to win, it's to make the hunters have a tough time. If you win as the monster, it means the hunters fucked up, period, so with that in mind, they've just embraced it and buffed the shit out of hunters continuously. Bads will still die to the monster, but they might have a better time doing it, so they might stick around longer, is the logic.
>>344154549
My nigga, my mates and I played Enfos at LAN parties all the time.
Such a fun game
>>344156342
>People actually fucking believe that monster had an advantage, ever, that's the world we live in.
lol >>344151318
I regularly wiped teams at level 1 with goliath
>>344156342
problem is that with 1v4 you either make them balanced in a situation where both monster and 4 players play well together. However in pubs this means that hunters have 4 dicerolls on whether there is someone retarded in their team, while monster is either retarded or not. Of course a semi-retard monster could make up for having 1 retard on your team but still the matchmaking was in the monster his favor.
Alternative is making hunters so good that 3 players could carry the game if one of their buddies was a bumbling retard. However as soon as there are 4 competent players ingame the hunter is just boned.
I think they should make hunter have permadeath and make the monster be weaker to compensate. Then the retard can be taken out of the picture quickly leaving the good players behind who can then fight 3v1 against a weaker monster.
>>344143373
>special status
More like they get a badge of shame that tells everyone else "I actually paid for this shit".
>>344157204
people love to prance their shitty gun skins around in other games that cost them a fortune to buy. People love showing off their wastefull manners.;
>>344155636
>I'm a solo player
Why the fuck would you buy an online multiplayer game then, you fucking autistic Mongoloid? Also, cute blog post. Maybe you can quit your job and work full time on killing yourself.
>>344157765
not him but its a 4v1. its a team versus a solo player. he has an option.
>>344157765
Because MP games also have 1v1 so you arent tied to another player you mongoloid. Its like youve never actually played any decent shooter or RTS game. And this game is 1v4 so it completely fits.
also inb4 >I was only pretending to be retarded
>>344157978
too bad they nerfed the hell out of monsters and buffed hunters because the average hunters were massive retards
>>344158072
the monsters arent NEARLY as nerfed as people think. they've been buffed to compensate. i agree with you though, before you sperg out on me
>>344141735
>Evolve Stage 1: rob people by selling them f2p game for 100$
>Evolve Stage 2: make game free for everyone
Conclusion about situation: FUCK YOU!
>>344158145
WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST DISAGREE WITH ME YOU LITTLE SHIT?
>>344142931
What the fuck is this from? What is meant to be happening?
>>344158680
I think it's from the Flash tv series, at least the guy that falls over has the same hat as Flash.
>>344158910
>not mentioning the time flash outran death by timetraveling to a time before the universe, and thus the concept of death, existed.
>>344147224
Not even Diablo 3 went F2P.
>People saying LOLITSFUNWITHFRIENDS
So was L4D1 and somewhat L4D2 doesn't change the fact the core game of Evolve is boring as shit.
Stage 1-2 90% of the time is just try to find the monster and stomp its shit well its too weak to do anything. Stage 3 the monster comes to fuck you up and its a semi engaging fight.
Its like hide and seek if after 20 minutes the person hiding came out with a full suit of body armor and shotgun. Its somewhat fun for those last 5 minutes but the 20 minutes before hand are boring as fuck.
The biggest issue is this is the core game especially when put to a extreme with the Wraith. Almost every game you play against a competent monster with competent hunters will be like this. Almost nothing will feel different.
I mean this when i say this. Evolve has amazing movement mechanics and interesting hunter abilities. This game would've been way better as a traditional shooter or even a class based symmetrical one. Its wasted on this glorified hide and seek juggernaut hybrid.
>>344158910
Why does he randomly collapse? Did he trip on his spaghetti?
>>344159396
I don't know, i don't watch that gay shit.
Obligatory
>>344159351
RoS and additional content made D3 actually worth buying at half price so it didn't need to go FP like this trash that can't muster up even a small punch of talent like D3 devs pulled out of the trash.
>>344159391
>doesn't change the fact the core game of Evolve is boring as shit.
you dont like the hunt. thats fine. those who liked hunting something down had fun with the game.
>retail game goes into beta AFTER it goes gold
>>344159528
Reminder that this post was made over a year ago.
>>344159603
The problem is its almost always the same at its core. It feels like a side mode in other shooters glossed up. Evolve lacks a variety of game modes. It really doesn't feel like it could've succeed no matter what it did with the 1 game mode it had at first.
Defender was shit and the level 2 monster small map fight one was also kinda shit.
how are the pugs in this game? is it passable as long as you try or can a single BR jacking off ruin the whole team?
>>344159807
Reminder that the kraken is still broken
>>344159916
wouldnt be surprised if it was "a feature" after being completely wank for over a year.
>game now has perks that you buy with currency
Not even worth a download
>>344160018
Is this true?
>>344159904
The latter
If one player is bad, no one's having fun. This includes the monster too
>>344159873
the game was about hunting something down and killing it before it got too strong and killed you. its fine that you dont like the aspect of hunting something down, especially when you fail to trap it. but its core gameplay isnt shit just because you dont like hunting. i fucking LOVE the idea of hunting down another player. i also fucking loved evolve. the complaint that a game is 'too repetitive' usually comes down to said person not enjoy whats there enough. people said, and still say that dead by daylight (another asymmetrical multiplayer game) is too repetitive. they simply dont like the hide and seek core enough to enjoy the game past how many ever hours they've played.
thats my only problem with what you're saying. the core gameplay is fine. its the balance that was the issue. most people didnt want to learn how to properly track the monster. or that they were only fighting wraith, thats valid.
>>344160192
how is it unlocked for you?
I thought we can't download the update for another hour
>>344160271
I'm watching this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA3T-XJQk24
People actually bought this game after playing the beta??
you deserve this.
>>344142145
Not only that. Evolve had TOYS. I saw figures at my local walgreens. High quality and unsold. No one gives a fuck.
test
>>344160198
Id also like to add anon that i played the game at the start where a few weeks in 90% of my matches were against the post nerf Wraith. It was the most anti fun shit in the world. Sometimes when it hit stage 2 my team and i would just go find the life regen monster or damage boost monster kill it , camp its body until its gone and then go sit at the core until it finally came at level 3.
A competent Wraith can run away well trapped well taking minimal damage. It was the most boring shit to fight in the world. Mobility without execution is the worst balance in the world. If something is fast is should always have a super high skill ceiling to be decent with.
>>344160009
IIRC the devs decided not to fix it because "lol pub stats are at ~50%"
They constantly justified shit balance with pub stats
so should I start downloading it now or wait till noon?
>friends on steam: Hey anon, look at evolve holy shit I love it we gonna have so much fun
>try beta.
>have fun
>decide it's worth it
>pre-purchase on retail
>week later
>they call me
>"Price went up a bit, you can refund or pay some more and it's yours, your choice?"
>Where the path branched, I choose unwise.
>I paid more
>today
>Evolve goes free to play
> I am beyond mad, I want to shank that friend who talked me into this, the only thing that saves him is that he lives 1780 KM away from me
Might as well call suicide hotline.
>>344160368
they also made this huge ass mockup of one of the monsters. It is now at the entrance of their office and I can only imagine the workers looking at it every morning as they come in and wince knowing that they made a failure
>>344160681
>I want to shank that friend who talked me into this
You should ask for repairs. Paid out by his boipussi
>>344160496
your complaints about the game being just running around with your thumb up your ass is valid when you refer to the wraith. even after her initial nerf she was still kind of broken. i can completely get the frustraition there. im just tried of people screaming "LA MAO SHIT GAYM IZ CHASE SIM WHO CARES LA MAO!". they just dont enjoy hunting a player down.
hell, on my steam profile if you look at past aliases. you can still see i used the name "WILL NOT FIGHT WRAITH" because it was a guarantee that it would come down to a stage 3 relay fight.i also used travis the moonstar
i actually encourage you to give evolve another shot. they've geared this update towards people like you so you might enjoy the game again.
>>344160801
He wants his 2000 of roubles back, too.
>everyone gets a dome
>trapper now gets wallhax, speedboost, and tells everyone what direction the monster is in
>monster smell range nerfed so that you can buy it as a perk
This seems highly imbalanced
I'm not very good at aiming so what character should i pick to help the team the most? i do want to try this when it goes f2p but i just cant move my wrist like i used to.
>>344160980
>putting the guy who fucked himself and you over the mercy of death
Which hunters are easiest to play? Which monster is?
>>344160818
No i don't enjoy the core game or shit like micro transaction perks. I was just stating the Wraith was very common and made a game i already disliked worse.
>>344161076
He deserves is desu. Buys shitty games. He has, like, dungeon of endless, hurtworld, evolve, all that shit
>>344161148
ah. yeah. yer pretty much right then.
>>344159528
TRS is too ambitious and they don't have enough nay-sayers in their organization.
When someone thought up the idea of Lazarus, a healer with no real heal but the ability to revive downed/dead teammates without strikes, there should've been someone in the room saying "That's literally impossible to balance, he'll either be incredibly overpowered or utterly useless in high level play, and against bad monsters he'll always be OP"
When someone thought up Sunny's toolkit, there should've been someone in the room saying "But increased mobility is a game-breaking advantage for the hunters, it exponentially improves their ability to both engage the monster at low levels and survive combat at high levels. AND she gets a high-damage weapon AND a bot that can Hank-shield automatically?
Most of all, someone needed to tell them that PUB STATS ARE FUCKING MEANINGLESS WHEN IT COMES TO BALANCE.
No, you fucking idiots, Lazarus having ~50% win rate in pub games doesn't mean he's balanced, it means 50% of monsters are shit, which should be expected because lol bell curve. The fact that NO ONE did ANYTHING with Lazarus in comp play should've clued them in.
They were just lazy to the fucking core when it came to balancing, clearly more focused on rushing out content.
So is it worth playing now it's free?
>>344161412
>removing all game modes other than hunt
Probably not
>>344161412
>free to play
>full of BR shitters, polish and russians
>paying for skills with real cash
GEE I FUCKING WONDER IF IT'S WORTH IT.
I WOULDN'T PLAY IT EVEN IF A GOT PAID NOW.
>hunters get a shit ton of buffs
>the only thing that monsters get is faster armor regen
I don't know about this
>>344161572
there were other modes?
>>344161572
Weren't the other modes kind of trash though?
I'll give it a try. Might be fun. Maybe not.
>>344161696
Well previously the only way to beat a solid monster was to have a premade team with the viable hunters and flawless team play
Maybe now pubbers might stand a chance
>>344161771
Break the monsters eggs, rescue civillians, that's about it
They weren't that different but it helped break up the monotony
>>344141735
In all honesty I can see this move work.
It already has the digestible nature of a F2P game down pact so this was just the next logical step.
>>344142145
>evolve
>this year
>>344161572
No one played anything else.
>>344142385
>1:05
>that dolphin noise
was that music used in the game trailer?
>>344160681
Friends, not even once.
Evolve is not a bad game. The idea of 4 hunters vs 1 monster is great. The problem was that the game had too little content at launch, and the price was high. All those DLC monsters, skins, and hunters did not make things better. If the game had had more content, or come with a lower price, it could have succeeded much better.
Stop comparing it to DBD you fucking mongoloids , its nothing like it.
15 mins left until the stream starts.
will there be excuses or just " we're going to evolve the game to a new level with f2p"?
Boy judging by the videos and shit this game looks fun, too bad i never bothered with it given the abnormal amount of fucking dlcs and shit.
Given that they're now all free and can be earned with an in-game currency that you earn through playing, will this fucking game be great again?
>>344163087
no excuses just "this is evolve stage 2" bullshit
>>344163087
They will go for the
>DUDE YOU GET TO PLAY WITH NEW PEOPLE AGAIN WHILE HAVING ALL THE COOL SHIT BRO
>>344163039
Except that's wrong. The game sold great, it simply failed to keep its player base. The failure was not one of marketing or DLC structure (though that likely did impact initial sales to a certain degree), it was one of balancing.
Evolve, as an asymmetrical multiplayer-only game, was always going to have a niche fanbase that they planned to monetize with expansions. Thing is, they fucked up the balance SUPER hard from day 1 and it only got worse from there, scaring off anyone who actually liked the game.
See >>344159528 >>344161371
>>344163087
they've been pretty up front about how much they've fucked up. their post announcing f2p literally calls their DLC situation a shitstorm. straight from the CEO. pretty sure they're just going to say 'yep, we fucked up really hard but we would like you to give a second chance. heres what we changed...'
>>344160681
Don't blame your friend for your own poor decision.
even their twitch chat is fucking dead
>>344141735
Haha! When I think i's still on the shelves priced 39,99€ at the local Saturn store.
They should make a porn game where all hunters are women and the monsters have a huge dick.
uhhh
https://twitter.com/gameinformer/status/750891208977870852
>L4D had players as special zombies and trash mobs
>Evolve has 1 monster and no trash mobs
How did they not fucking see how big of a problem this was going to be.
>>344163391
Anon that's pure PR. They fucked up way worse in terms of balance and patches.
Kraken is still bugged over a year after their retarded oversight, the tier 4 hunters and monster launched with gamebreaking issues and they're still unreasonably stronger than the base heroes (excepting Caira/Abe/Maggie)
Every time the comp community complained about game breaking issues at high level the TRS devs would come back with "but pub stats are around 50% kek"
For some reason it never occurred to them that pub stats would bell curve regardless of balance issues
can we download yet?
I want to put it on while I sleep
>>344163881
That's good for the consumer but I sense a problem, how will the devs actually make money down the road?
>>344163881
>trusting gameinformer
>>344163997
founders will get 1 month premium free and you can buy premium which increases currency per match
>>344163542
he was the one who linked me to game. The one who told me all the sweet lies about how great it is.
>>344163997
By selling Silver Keys, that you can use to buy stuff instead of earning it.
It's the classic f2p model, either you grind your ass off or you buy shit right away.
>>344163881
jesus christ.
>>344163956
pr or not, give them a chance to redeem themselves. they seem genuine about their shift in mindset.i really hope you arent the anon trying to persuade everyone who asks about the game that the game is completely worthless in every single way. if you are then you need to calm your atusim the fuck down.
>>344163881
I bet the next new hunters are going to be dlc and founders/premium players will have a gigantic currency earning boost
>>344163881
Everything is earnable. You just have to grind your ass out or pay us to skip that. :^)
>>344164134
but it says theres nothing to buy??
>>344164134
>Everything is earnable. You just have to grind your ass out or pay us to skip that. :^)
Yeah, we never saw that already and in what it turns in the end, right.
>>344164134
Can i not pay to not play evolve? I think thats the win-win choice.
countdown just reset 30mins wtf
>>344164073
You yourself said that you tried out the beta and liked it. You're the one who pre-ordered it. You're the one who had a chance to back out before it was released and said no.
>>344164128
Nigger I love(d) the game, I'd like nothing more than for them to fix it. I love asymm multiplayer, I loved working together as hunters, it just devolved into a totally unbalanced fuckfest extremely quickly.
After the Kraken glitch comp literally came down to coin tosses because a good monster would win every game and then whoever got monster on the tiebreaker would win.
>database error
>>344164274
their servers died duo to the huge amount of people who wanna play the game
>>344164284
I'd never know about it in the first place if it wasn't for him.
But you have a point, I'll give you that.
>>344164108
How do you even earn keys in the game? I know there is a lump amount when you level up but do you get some during matches?
>>344164351
oh i know, that glitch was the reason i quit. watch the stream when it happens, try out the kraken for yourself when the update goes live. if it isnt fixed or things arent balanced around it then you are free to shit on emlike i could stop you anyway
im just asking you to let them attempt their redemption. their video announcement for the update was pretty much completely "we fucked up so fucking hard and we're really trying to redeem ourselves. give us one more chance"
>>344164531
By completing matches, of course.
EVOLVE STAGE 2 DIED BEFORE IT WAS EVEN OUT
>>344160681
>>344164446
>store calls you and says they want to charge you more for something you already paid for
are you serious right now?
>>344164550
But everything seems to be "we fucked up with our DLC scheme" not "we had the most retarded balance philosophy in the history of video games"
I want someone to say in a dev post or blog that they made a mistake trying to balance with pub stats
>>344145728
wut hapnd in septm?
>>344150205
This. They just ruined the unique aspects of classes and made it just bullshit friendly
>>344164740
free weekend I think?
>>344164732
if thats what it takes for you to give them another chance then talk to brandon (gentlemensquirrel) when he streams solo. hes pretty much all about community interactivity. fuck, if you want i can get my friend who still has him added to ask about that.
