Evolve Big Alpha Impressions/bugs/glitches thread
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Ya it's kinda a stupid design decision.
A good monster means it's 10-15 minutes of people doing nothing but wandering around. A bad monster is a game that lasts 2-5 minutes. Neither are fun.
Train of Midnight
Banned
Sounds like your monster was just really good, haha. I do agree they need to give some better way for Daisy to track down your prey when they're being super sneaky. The unlocked tracker has radar spikes that works really well, though. And the robot support character has a robot drone you can search the map with, too. So keep playing and you'll get better ways to track 'em down.
uomoartificiale
Member
I was really hyped to play this alpha, but having played some matches, I have say I'm seriously underwhelmed. This game has some great ideas implemented in way that puzzle me, starting from the controller layout. What I particularly dislike though is the impression of continously running in circles without having the means or the necessary awareness to learn the map. When the replay is shown at the end of the match I'm always surprised by the results.
This is the best game.
Don't think there are many better teamplay experiences.
Borderlands...left4dead...have decent elements but none of them require such individual specialization and role focus. Like it's so important that people are doing their jobs.
Goliath can be brutal still - and picking Kraken is cheating.
Don't think there are many better teamplay experiences.
Borderlands...left4dead...have decent elements but none of them require such individual specialization and role focus. Like it's so important that people are doing their jobs.
Goliath can be brutal still - and picking Kraken is cheating.
Same here, been trying for oven an hour. I give up.
Spookyboogy
Neo Member
I was pretty bored tbh.
Unless I was fighting against the Kraken.
Only got to play as the monster once. >X<
Unless I was fighting against the Kraken.
Only got to play as the monster once. >X<
You are not alone there man. I'm pretty much the same way. I average about one game per 2 hours lol.
I have a feeling that at launch it will be yet another anomially where the game will work fine on PC and XOne but will struggle hard on PS4 for some unforsaken reason.
lol. Picking Goliath is a handicap right now.
If picking Kraken is cheating, than picking Goliath is like using a butter knife in a gun fight.
I think you need more coordination for sure to actually handle Kraken at all, but Goliath doesn't feel weak or anything to me.
Daisy is useful when you totally lost track of them. If the trapper stares/runs at Daisy she'll sprint in front and pick up the trail again. She seems to actually get confused if she's ignored for awhile but I don't know if that's intentional.
But if all 4 members of the team are just running after her they'll never do well. At that point people should split up, the trapper could keep going down her path while others try to cut off a route based on the map, then the monster usually attacks or backs off which is where maggie comes in with the dome.
She is MVP as hell when she goes around reviving though, lol
Daisy is useful when you totally lost track of them. If the trapper stares/runs at Daisy she'll sprint in front and pick up the trail again. She seems to actually get confused if she's ignored for awhile but I don't know if that's intentional.
But if all 4 members of the team are just running after her they'll never do well. At that point people should split up, the trapper could keep going down her path while others try to cut off a route based on the map, then the monster usually attacks or backs off which is where maggie comes in with the dome.
She is MVP as hell when she goes around reviving though, lol
darkwing-buck
Member
Played as a trapper yesterday. Holy shit the mobile arena looks so damn cool.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
A really good monster is going to wreck you at level 2 about five minutes into the game. Kraken is easy mode.
You know what this game needs? A Bot match mode.
Just basically one player (You) and the rest Bots. That way, you can practice just some basic stuff so you can get the hang of the controls.
It would be great especially for potential Monster players who want to learn how to climb, run and kill more effectively.
Just basically one player (You) and the rest Bots. That way, you can practice just some basic stuff so you can get the hang of the controls.
It would be great especially for potential Monster players who want to learn how to climb, run and kill more effectively.
Captainbojanglesiii
Banned
Been searching on and off for over 3 hours. A whole zero matches. WTF?
It is, but somehow I am on my third consecutive match! GOD IS REAL LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!
I haven't left my group so I guess that's helped. So for PS4 users out there, if you actually get in a game, DONT EVER LEAVE IT! EVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEERRRRR! XD
This is accurate.
I had a match like that where the medic was constantly tranqing me and I couldn't fly at all. I was already level 3 though so they got wrecked, but they did get all my armor and a small chunk of health.
Jesus christ, that's really sad when you think about it.
The Kraken really is like god mode for monsters.
The Behemoth is pretty powerful but at least since you're on the ground you're pretty vulnerable if the enemy team knows what the fuck it's doing. I've had a bunch of matches come down to the wire with him.
Kraken meanwhile, you just dominate the other team.
Was pretty pissed today when I finally started my PS4 just to see that it didn't finish the alpha download.
Seems like that was the least of my worries though. The game already crashed 7 times on me and I haven't even played it. It always crashes in the matchmaking process and only once I got further than the red circle, but somehow a player always dropped.
I get that this is an alpha but come on.
Seems like that was the least of my worries though. The game already crashed 7 times on me and I haven't even played it. It always crashes in the matchmaking process and only once I got further than the red circle, but somehow a player always dropped.
I get that this is an alpha but come on.
Drac84
Member
Took an hour to find my first game on PS4, and after about 4 minutes (literally JUST as we found the monster) we lost connection with the host. After 20 or so minutes trying for another game I gave up. In the very brief time I played the two things that stood out were:
Pro
Presentation. Really like the visual design of the humans and aliens, the menus are slick, and the sound is great.
Con
The guns really lack that feeling of 'oomf'. I played as assault and neither the rifle nor the lightning gun felt like they had any real substance or impact.
Pro
Presentation. Really like the visual design of the humans and aliens, the menus are slick, and the sound is great.
Con
The guns really lack that feeling of 'oomf'. I played as assault and neither the rifle nor the lightning gun felt like they had any real substance or impact.
Spacejaws
Member
A good monster and hunters is a 15 - 25 minute match with 2 'in the field' engagements and a penultimate uber battle at the power relay.
I have been wrecks easily by hunters at stage 3 full armour for not engaging them elsewhere and knocking some health off. The key is for the monster to be sneaky or fast then when built up to meet the hunters. Before running off to evolve. Hunters job is to keep up the pressure, scour the map and try to spook the monster into making mistakes (birds, tracks, trapped.) Even though you dont think ur getting a head on the monster everytime they react to your nearby presence(unbeknownst to you) is a chance you can get the upper hand.
I recomend fanning out a little, head in the same directions but take alternative routes, high/low outdoor and indoor (not too far) and youll usually at least get a glimpse of the monster.
Those constant suspense matches are the best!
Yep. Just happened to me now. So close. ;(
Well...God hates me again. Another two and half hours of match searching and disconnecting we go!
I'm playing on PS4 and I think that explains a lot.
This medic was right on me at the start which actually made it surprisingly hard to get anything going. No other way to really pull from the pack, I only managed to get to level 2 and had to fight with no armor. Still shook them up a lot but even in combat being hit by that was messing with me, so I got killed off there. I was thinking Laz was the way to go against the kraken but didn't realize how much work that could do. Val + Griffin would be brutal.
Still, holy shit is lightning strike crazy. Someone went around a corner and I was basically able to just drag it around pretty blind and snipe them, lol.
ShemhazaiX
Member
Is there an NDA for the Alpha? Guessing not since they didn't disable Share functionality.
After about 3 hours managed to get into some games. Had a game as a medic and then the support with the beard, managed to win before the monster evolved to stage 2. Then played as Goliath, managed to get a win. Dunno whether I was better than other monsters or whether the hunters were just not great as the teams I was on. Had a sticky engagement where I got trapped at level 2. Managed to survive it fairly easily before moving off to evolve to stage three. Finished with an epic battle at the generator. Made sure to record the Goliath game. Will be uploading it shortly for anyone interested. Just waiting on a super slow data transfer from PS4 to memory stick. :[
Initial impression of game: Fix matchmaking, needs more monster variety, can see just three getting stale pretty quickly. Also AoE templates are a pain to use with a controller. Needs to be arc based targeting like grenades in Uncharted / TLOU rather than how they've handled it currently. It's pretty impossible to tell where you're aiming those rock throws as Goliath.
HOWEVER: The actual game itself is fantastic and I love both the concept and implementation. It's immersive and competitive and is full of pretty awesome details.
After about 3 hours managed to get into some games. Had a game as a medic and then the support with the beard, managed to win before the monster evolved to stage 2. Then played as Goliath, managed to get a win. Dunno whether I was better than other monsters or whether the hunters were just not great as the teams I was on. Had a sticky engagement where I got trapped at level 2. Managed to survive it fairly easily before moving off to evolve to stage three. Finished with an epic battle at the generator. Made sure to record the Goliath game. Will be uploading it shortly for anyone interested. Just waiting on a super slow data transfer from PS4 to memory stick. :[
Initial impression of game: Fix matchmaking, needs more monster variety, can see just three getting stale pretty quickly. Also AoE templates are a pain to use with a controller. Needs to be arc based targeting like grenades in Uncharted / TLOU rather than how they've handled it currently. It's pretty impossible to tell where you're aiming those rock throws as Goliath.
HOWEVER: The actual game itself is fantastic and I love both the concept and implementation. It's immersive and competitive and is full of pretty awesome details.
Lightning strike + Vortex = Hell for the hunters. Add Banshee Mines on top of that and I actually start to feel bad for them.
Lord of Castamere
Member
Game is a blast when it works... sadly more time has been spent in menus... *sigh*
ViewtifulJC
Banned
papercuts is this game any good
I'm really liking it, this game will be amazing with a group.
Definitely takes time to adjust though. Wasn't feeling it at all the first few games, load times are currently worse than Destiny-tier.
BananasWithGuns
Member
So just had something a bit interesting happen.
Start of the match we drop out of the ship like normal, except the Support, for whatever reason, glitched out and just straight up falls from the drop ship and then dies on impact with the ground. So we were down a hunter two seconds in to the match. Guy had his mic on and didn't seem too happy about the outcome lol.
Start of the match we drop out of the ship like normal, except the Support, for whatever reason, glitched out and just straight up falls from the drop ship and then dies on impact with the ground. So we were down a hunter two seconds in to the match. Guy had his mic on and didn't seem too happy about the outcome lol.
Similar thing happened in one of my matches. While the dropship doors were opening, the medic player disconnected and Val clipped through the floor a second before we jumped out. She was doing the regular fall animation instead of the sky diving one and landed without dying.
You can try looking up their names on Steam.Is there a missed connections for this game?
I keep running into a group of players (I know they'er a group because they mention mumble.) I wanted to add them but I see that Steam hasn't been saving players I've played with
Cancel and try again?
I think this game is really neat, and I enjoy playing it throughly when I do get to play. But as others have said, the load times are back breaking in this case. I found myself specifically holding back from killing a monster who was shitty simply because I didn't want to only play for five minutes and endure another 15 minute load time.
I love the levels, I think the character are neat and the gameplay is fun. But I'm not going to sit through these load times if the final version is like this. I also think that asking $60 is a bit much for what's being offered.
I love the levels, I think the character are neat and the gameplay is fun. But I'm not going to sit through these load times if the final version is like this. I also think that asking $60 is a bit much for what's being offered.
Tried again several times. Still got stuck in the loading after select "Find Game". Hey, at least it gave me time to make me something to eat
