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Evolve Big Alpha Impressions/bugs/glitches thread

I really want to try this, huge L4D fan.

I'm on PC, how do I take part in the alpha? I don't have the game pre-orderd at the moment (Rarely pre-order nowadays).
 
Kraken is broken op, never won vs it, it can wipe teams at stage one as the aoe thunderbolt moves to fast to dodge.

I also wish people would use engineer correctly, everybody seems to just run around with the lazer cutter.

I am starting to enjoy it the more I play but I am failing to see how this can be a £40 game.
 
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Louis010 said:
Kraken is broken op, never won vs it, it can wipe teams at stage one as the aoe thunderbolt moves to fast to dodge.
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I've wiped teams at level 1 Goliath quite a few times too. I'd like to think it's best to not go off less than even a week's worth of playtime to call shit OP.

Or you know, just have big knee jerk reactions.
 
Comfort Jones said:
I've wiped teams at level 1 Goliath quite a few times too. I'd like to think it's best to not go off less than even a week's worth of playtime to call shit OP.

Or you know, just have big knee jerk reactions.
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So many monsters don't understand the concept of armor and permanent damage making hit and run attacks as the monster super important.
 
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I'm wiping out the hunters with Kraken. He's even better than Goliath because his ranged attacks give him a safe distance and his abilities are insanely powerful.

I was joking before when I said he's OP but you really need a top notch team to take him down.
 
Just got out of an amazing round!

We finally won a round against a Monster that previously beat us the past hour. I was the last one alive and clutch revived our Support. We both continued to shoot him until we finally got him. Lazarus is so good
 
Klyka said:
2 of my friends have a 970 and they haven't said anything about that
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Ha, that's ironic, I have two friends that got 900 series, granted 980's but they complain about the noise all the time. Maybe your friends are just more tolerant, or theirs don't whine. Not sure, I've just heard from friends/sources they whine.
 
This game swings both ways so hard. I've never seen a game that turns to dog shit so quickly than when you have a couple of brain dead team mates. When it works it's great fun, but twice I've had a trapper or a medic who were about as useful as a chocolate fireplace ruining the enjoyment of everyone else.

It's like the FPS equivalent of Dota 2.
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played 2 games as hunters and 2 games as monster.

won easily with the hunters, lost both as a monster easily too.

i think they need to improve the monster controls or something. cant see what im doing.

dont think i be playing this game. hunters seems boring generic. monster has huge learning curve. how i wished fps would return to the old days of good and simple competitive gunplay.

running on a 290x, and at 2560x1600 with tessellation and default fxaa. seems to run at 60fps smoothly. suck it maxwell lur'vers!
 
Turn the quality from High to medium did the trick for my 2GB 670.

Game is fun, though I wished I could play with my friends to see how coordinated play feels like, but I didn't know this alpha phase was so short.
 
The game has some problems and I don't see myself actually spending money on it.

But I am actually sad that the Alpha ends and when I come home I won't be able to play anymore.

I guess that says something?
 
longdi said:
played 2 games as hunters and 2 games as monster.

won easily with the hunters, lost both as a monster easily too.

i think they need to improve the monster controls or something. cant see what im doing.

dont think i be playing this game. hunters seems boring generic. monster has huge learning curve. how i wished fps would return to the old days of good and simple competitive gunplay.

running on a 290x, and at 2560x1600 with tessellation and default fxaa. seems to run at 60fps smoothly. suck it maxwell lur'vers!
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It's true, quite hard to see what I'm doing amid the action as a monster.

Shame it's not first person. Was disappointed when I first heard that and it is a bit lame not to be able to switch.

Having a lot of fun with it myself and will be picking it up though. Gonna play some more now while I can.
 
Just played three matches for my first taste of Evolve.

First one, it crashed on me making a weird sound before sending me back to the dashboard.

Second game went smoothly.

Third one started me out on the ship, maybe, or somewhere, and no textures or anything were loaded. I thought it was just gonna keep me there, but after about 15 seconds, I fell a distance, everything kicked in and the match went okay.
 
Jeeez the kraken is insanely strong.

Start with 3 points in lightning, hit the hunters with it as soon as they reach the ground from the drop ship -> they are all at half health.

After that, just clean them up.

My fastest win was 1 minute 26 seconds.
 
i think the monster should be able to destroy the mobile arena. mobile arena makes battle so grindy with no shooting skills involved TRS should make the game more cat and mouse and the monster should be big and strong and the hunters should fall easier (now they are meat shield) but with ability to respawn more and sooner.

this game is at times too fast and in other areas too draggy and restricting.

execution is so poor but the concept is interesting which i think another studio will catch on this and make a better version.
i think Splinter cell MP used to have such a design and it was better done.
 
After spending a few hours on it I'll pass too. It's not that the game isn't fun sometimes, it just does not have the rythm and joyfull aspect L4D had. I find the characters too heavy and the jetpack slacky even if the weapons have a good feeling. I don't know if it's because of pad players slowing all this but I was thinking we would be able to move faster like we did in L4D.
Also I hate levelling systems too as I wish to be able to access the game without unlocking ton of things and I didn't know Evolve had one, that was a cold shower on me. Just give me a game I can go into without thinking about levelling or anything like that. L4D was nearly an arcade experience and I loved it for this reason.

Finally what I wish for the game is a kind of AI director that would shake a bit the things on us when we play hunters. Like launching big monsters on us instead of letting them graze, having visibility reduced with fog or bid swarms more often... I don't know, just make something happen.
 
This game is not terribly well-optimized so far. My rig should easily be able to handle it at max settings but it literally chugs every few seconds and sometimes freezes for 30 seconds.

No matter how bad my hardware misses the mark (it doesn't), that is not normal "You can't support this game" behavior.
 
I dunno..

apparently if you bought Xcom on steam you qualify for a free key or something

So I don't know if I like this game. Looks cool. Controls weird. Not entirely sure what the fuck I'm doing, besides killing the giant damage sponge. Or trying to. Haven't managed that part yet.
 
Jagxyz said:
Jeeez the kraken is insanely strong.

Start with 3 points in lightning, hit the hunters with it as soon as they reach the ground from the drop ship -> they are all at half health.

After that, just clean them up.

My fastest win was 1 minute 26 seconds.
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The Kraken is insane. I can see why they hid it behind an unlock.
 
longdi said:
i think the monster should be able to destroy the mobile arena. mobile arena makes battle so grindy with no shooting skills involved TRS should make the game more cat and mouse and the monster should be big and strong and the hunters should fall easier (now they are meat shield) but with ability to respawn more and sooner.

this game is at times too fast and in other areas too draggy and restricting.

execution is so poor but the concept is interesting which i think another studio will catch on this and make a better version.
i think Splinter cell MP used to have such a design and it was better done.
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Nooo way. The monster can target the trapper and take the dome down with him.
 
Honestly and not knowing why, I forgot to try again and play this alpha. I ended up concentrated on another crazy game that released past tuesday on X1. I was really Looking forward to see Evolve, but the constant matchmaking issues were too much for me.
It has a lot of potential and CryEngine looks really good even in this (early?) stage of development. One important factor to consider is: will its gameplay be enough against the somewhat lack of variety?
 
Man, I'm getting some whacky, immediate CTDs when I try to launch this.

Verified through Steam and it passed, but redownloading it now to be sure.

Anyone know/hear of any sort of driver/version/hardware conflicts that the Alpha might be having? Couldn't figure it out last night.
 
Experience on PC so far.

specs

i5 3570
AMD 5970 2GB
8GB RAM

Artifacts and frame rate issues up the ass. Turned everything to low because I figured hey. it's an alpha, might as well just go for smooth gameplay rather than pretty graphics.

Every game I have played so far. EVERY GAME. Has ended in less than 20 seconds. The monster spawns right underneath the drop ship and everyone just kills the thing super fast. This isn't right. It can't be right. Either the spawn is broken for the monster or I don't know.
I'm gonna keep trying though, because I want to have one actual good game from this alpha.
 
Keby said:
Experience on PC so far.

specs

i5 3570
AMD 5970 2GB
8GB RAM

Artifacts and frame rate issues up the ass. Turned everything to low because I figured hey. it's an alpha, might as well just go for smooth gameplay rather than pretty graphics.

Every game I have played so far. EVERY GAME. Has ended in less than 20 seconds. The monster spawns right underneath the drop ship and everyone just kills the thing super fast. This isn't right. It can't be right. Either the spawn is broken for the monster or I don't know.
I'm gonna keep trying though, because I want to have one actual good game from this alpha.
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The monster is suppose to run
 
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