Evolve Big Alpha Impressions/bugs/glitches thread

orthodoxy1095 said:
If you accept their reason as true that FW 2.0 broke their alpha, that's Turtle Rock's incompetency. Nothing on the "Playstation Infrastructure." If it was an infrastructure problem, other games would have broken with the new FW. I haven't had any other broken games. Have you? No? Then it's not Sony's fault, as much as I'm sure you'd love to pin it on them.
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Well the firmware 2.0 did cause issues with people's PS4's, which is even worse than games but fine you win, the service is irreproachable!

duckroll said:
Played a few games with friends. We got a group of 4 going, and finally managed to connect with solo players who were monsters. It's.... not very fun. :(

For game which demands so much coordination and teamwork on the human team, it also doesn't give the humans much to do at all. It's really dull for a long time until the monster actually triggers something which allows it to be tracked. Even then, it feels like so much of the gameplay loop is dependent on the player being the monster to keep it engaging. If you're playing with a scrub, it's a non-game. If you're playing with someone very experienced, it's frustrating. At least in team vs team games, there's usually an ability curve, here, out of a game of 5 players, one player alone determines the tempo of the match. Not a fan of that at all.

The UI is also really crappy on PC. It feels like it was designed as a console game from ground up and there are stupid things which keeps reminding everyone that it's a console interface meant for buttons. Ugh.
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Totally agreed.
It's a shame cause the game is well done, I wanted to try different characters too but at it's core, the decision to make this monster vs hunters makes it boring in the end.

Here's a bunch of pc codes :

RJN93-RTET0-RFBDA
RJN9Q-7Z3WV-V2TPK
RJNAL-W3GDQ-7523K
RJNAQ-05RXX-PP2JV
 
I like to run from the start, turn a corner, then stealth and go the other direction and go off in that general area. Leaping is definitely really important to gain ground off of people, and obviously avoid the HELL out of birds.
 
Just did a benchmark and got 58 FPS average over an entire match (hunters won so it was a full game).

GTX 770 2GB
I7 920 @ 3.8
6GB RAM
High settings, tesselation off, SMAA on
Time - 9.42 minutes.
 
the shield does not work on my support.. anyone else got the problem? I can't absorb damage off my mates.
 
Well, tried to play yesterday with a friend and it failed to enter a match everytime. Will try later today.

Here's 4 codes for PC:

5BJCY-ZJVAT-7X9KG
5BJCZ-LG2N6-TAE8P
5BJEK-HB4BG-TF7R6
5BJFY-F3TF9-WIYKV
 
I think the key part of the game is the "hunting" part. Do you enjoy stealthing around with the monster? Do you enjoy searching it as a hunter, trying to guess where he is headed, being aware of trees falling or sounds, maybe coordinating with the teammates in two groups to find it faster? If the answer is no, then you aren't going to like this game a lot.
 
Received an email with 4 more PC codes, so here they are for who ever wants them:

CODE for PC:
KCHVY-JVWN2-8IR9T
KCHZ9-D204Z-YME6D
KCHZZ-VVTBP-KQLPH
KCI3V-K48GE-FEZL2
 
Those of you with Xcom on Steam get the Evolve alpha automatically now btw. (now I see someone has mentioned it)

CODE for PC:
ZHJZ7-T4R4W-EQT5E
ZHK0H-R92XR-2A4IH
ZHK2C-INFT0-BRF46
ZHK52-4T4AH-Q9D68
 
Another 4 PC codes:

M3NCM-7YX8X-PGRLG
M3NEK-55HG4-K8MHT
M3X5M-DJ5F8-Z0L32
M3XZQ-BYR8I-2PJLB

I might have actually downloaded it by tomorrow!
 
Leveled up the heavy to get the other heavy (had to spam the shit out of mines to get the star needed)

Got bored

Better than Titanfall
 
Kyouko la Kill said:
This game needs more factors other than wildlife and Hunters hunt monster. Hunters need an objective and I've been saying this since before E3
on a different gaming forum
.

Hunters need motivation to drive the Monster out of hiding, the monster is on the run and being stealthy until Stage 3 at which point he can come and devour the Hunters.

That or something needs to change with the Monster hints, chasing him leads to usually the Hunters being on his tail until the end or until he breaks away and evolves. I've tried to flank his footsteps and flank him but I never can cut him off just right.

Just some two copper.
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Overall I think the game is pretty entertaining with the "hunting" aspect, but yeah if the Monster just walks around the edges of the map for 10 minutes evading the Hunters it becomes very boring
 
Game is better then i thought, pretty impressed, but as some other people state there should be more for hunters to do (maybe map based objectives, that change the terrain or something like that).
 
CODE for PC:
J7QM5-VGTN9-LXJ55
J7TM0-MY78P-R3BN9
J7TXD-M4JZZ-7M5H2
J7Y0A-YMD33-03XQT
CX02B-TKYFP-GMRDM
7DZJD-VPJ88-R7K45
 
is smaa 1tx the newer version used in ryse? is the smaa 2tx the old crysis 3 version? wonder what smaa 2x is. im so sick of these framerate caps ffs
 
played a few games, it's not great, seems to be the monster just runs away and levels up for 5mins then when levelled enough just turns around and annihilates you, must of spent 30mins just running after it :/

the loads times are laughable, it makes natural selection 2 load times look fast, it's actually worse on pc also, you can stick the game on an ssd sure and it loads much faster but it doesn't matter, if another person in the game has it on a 5400rpm drive you've still gotta wait for them
 
Played a bit. Seems okay, maybe a bit too much flying around all the time, hard to keep track of where people are I felt.

Also runs like crap on my 7702GB / i7 4470, dropped to Medium and there's still massive frame rate drops in combat. Tesselation and vsync off, default AA.
 
Even more codes for PC/Steam:

X57F7-Y9TMB-53LDB
X57FT-D5PGA-0XKK3
DMHJB-KRRFE-D90QE
DMHW0-9CD4T-RRVRH
DMI54-LZDTD-3L6V8
DMICM-A8T3C-4QQWQ
 
Haven't been able to get into a match in forever. Nothing but "lost connection to host" messages when the game finds 5 players. I k kw its an alpha but damn, at least make it playable. Game is amazing when it works. Not instilling much confidence in the online play running smoothly at launch though.
 
Don't think I'm a fan. It seems fun enough, but just can't see this gaming having legs to carry it for long. Not sure if there's a campaign planned (guessing there isn't), so I don't think I'd be interested with it for long. Here's hoping Turtle Rock adds some magic before they release the game, but it's getting pretty late in the development cycle for any big changes, I think. I was really hoping this would be the next Left4Dead, just with a twist. Haven't played the monster yet, so my opinion may change.

Performance is also hurting the experience, running on a single 780 Ti since there's no SLI support, even on the lowest settings the game seems to eat up all my VRAM and I'm stuck with short pauses every 5 seconds or so while it swaps. Frame rates all also massively inconsistent and changing settings doesn't really help anything. I know it's still in alpha and not much optimization has been done, but they should have done a bit of work on the performance before going with such a widespread test. Would like to try it on PS4 before the weekend is up just to see how it looks/performs.

Also, way too many load screens/waiting to get into a match. Have to wait to find a group, then have to wait for that group to choose what they want to play, then have to wait for a load screen which drops into another lobby where you wait for everyone to select their loadout, after which the map finally loads where you have to wait for an unskippable cutscene to play out before you're finally allowed to play (super run-on sentence). Really starts to get tiring after the first few matches.
 
i played the game before at E3 and Gamescom and i've always LOVED it...
Yet i don't know, i'm a little less convinced now.
I feel that Goliath should be way stronger, i've never seen him win one out of like 12 matches i've completed.
And it's weird, because at Gamescom i won kinda easily as the Kraken.
 
Um....


I went to try out a code, and it said I already had access to it. Then clicking on the Evolve thing on Steam, it sounds like any Steam account that has Xcom on it has access to this already... @_@
 
And... i just won as Goliath, 2 minutes after writing that post above, LOL.
But one of the hunters -the Support - died due to wildlife, so it was 1 (at level 2) against 3 people.
This makes me think even more Goliath should be stronger.
 
Really, really wish I went for a PS4 code. Getting unplayable lag on PC.
 
Tried to launch a game on PC and was unplayable. Game was constantly freezing and almost hard-crashed my PC. Will try again later I guess :(.
 
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