User 479360
Banned
Still on the fence regarding this one. I'm curious, and want to try it, but from what I read I'll bore of it really quickly and don't know if it's even worth the effort of 20+ hours of downloading.
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Evolve |OT| Leaving Monsters 4 Dead
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PC Performance if anyone is curious:
http://gamegpu.ru/action-/-fps-/-tps/evolve-test-gpu.html
Also frame times:
http://www.computerbase.de/2015-02/...n-im-vergleich/#diagramm-frametimes-2560-1600
Not looking good at all for Nvidia even with their day 0 driver. No Crossfire support yet from AMD though.
As for CPUs...
Not even sure what is... what the heck... is this the real life?
http://gamegpu.ru/action-/-fps-/-tps/evolve-test-gpu.html
Also frame times:
http://www.computerbase.de/2015-02/...n-im-vergleich/#diagramm-frametimes-2560-1600
Not looking good at all for Nvidia even with their day 0 driver. No Crossfire support yet from AMD though.
As for CPUs...
Not even sure what is... what the heck... is this the real life?
Wut?
it looks gorgeous and has crazy amount of details.
I agree, on PS4 at least, Cryengine finally shines on consoles.
LapinAgile
Member
Did you get a lot of mileage out of left 4 dead?
Btw, a useful tip that is one of the easier things to overlook is that the monster regains their movement ability at a faster pace in combat, which also means if you're tailing it trying to get a dome up, taking shots it will actually just help it get away.
Robert J. Sullivan
Member
does the reload speed perk also make you set up turret/mines faster ?
I don't think so.
Robert J. Sullivan
Member
FaintColt388301
Member
Had very little interest in this game but all of a sudden I really want to play it. Watched some streams yesterday that looked fun.
GCU and $35 in certificates bring the price to under 20 is going to make me break and jump in. Thanks GAF for always making me want to buy something.
GCU and $35 in certificates bring the price to under 20 is going to make me break and jump in. Thanks GAF for always making me want to buy something.
Lord of Castamere
Member
Bot Monsters fucking hate the Medic. Caria is good but Lazarus's cloak is almost a necessity without Hank.
Bumblebeetuna
Member
Haven't been able to find a match in the last 30 minutes. Just sits at "searching" for me and my friend. Fucking hell.
leap all de time
note where it looks like you're going according to the path you're taking on the ground. leap from cliff to cliff at every opportunity. even if they see you it doesn't matter because drops don't hit fast enough and hitting a flying, lateral moving monster at distance with a tranq or harpoon is damned hard. use rivers to drop your scent and fuck up tracks. leap more. leap again. stealth in high places for maximum fuckery.
honestly, you can fuck with hunters more at stage 2 than stage 3 because hunters almost always hole up on the generator at stage 3 - kinda limits your options
holy shit - i did not know this
fuck, this changes everything lol. i used to pop shots with lazarus all the time because my shots couldn't be tracked. fuuuuuuuu
note that the "in combat" stamina regen for the monster only applies if it is in 70m range of a hunter. Getting sniped from 200m away does nothing
I just had a crazy game as Goliath playing cat and mouse over a dead elite tyrant. I got waaaay too greedy and wanted the health regen, had their medic killed, but they had Parnell and Bucket doing tons of damage. He kept deploying a turret near the corpse so even when I tried to loop around I couldn't just eat for the buff and run away. They got me down to the last blip of HP before I really got away. Got to stage 3 and managed to bait the assault into turning a corner as I pounced him and killed the team from there.
Closest I've come to losing, but my undefeated Goliath streak continues. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
That's the first time I've seen a Parnell too. His DPS with bucket was nuts.
Closest I've come to losing, but my undefeated Goliath streak continues. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
That's the first time I've seen a Parnell too. His DPS with bucket was nuts.
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
You know, I thought your username looked familiar. You used to be a part of my Left 4 Dead steam group! Sorry about the recent influx of announcements~
Feels like wildlife is more aggressive than it was in the Beta, too, so Assault helps keep them off.
User 479360
Banned
I bought and loved the first game, which I played the Hell out of. It's one of the only games that I pushed past my OCD with, and actually took to others' houses.
The second one was something I looked forward to, but it didn't wow me like the first. It was really solid, but I lost interest in it a lot quicker.
Since those days, I've become more of an introverted gamer and less of a multiplayer gamer, though it was never something I became addicted to or played all the time. I prefer solo campaigns.
bucket looks dumb until you see him in action
dude turns every dome encounter into a fucking blender lol
*whew* okay thanks.
Tabasco
Member
You just have to know what your role's priorities are and put them to action at the right times.
Make sure you communicate with your team as well.
Toejam2501
Member
Solo is fun too. Could get you familiar with mechanics of game and help figure out what role you like to play best.
Even post nerf I still think the Wraith decoy is just a stupid move. It is rarely even used as an actual fake out, just mashed out because it does damage and knockback.
I still don't find wraith to be that huge of a threat but I might not have faced good ones, it's mostly just annoying. The match seems to always go down to the clock because the wraith keeps running away and can't attack the power relay without getting wrecked and backing off some more. This just happened again until the wraith player quit with a minute left, lol. But even then there was shit like the Wraith decoy smacking me(as lazarus) twice, knocking me around right into the actual Wraith, and the decoy did so much damage that I died right away.
I'm really curious to see how the win percents pan out this time.
I still don't find wraith to be that huge of a threat but I might not have faced good ones, it's mostly just annoying. The match seems to always go down to the clock because the wraith keeps running away and can't attack the power relay without getting wrecked and backing off some more. This just happened again until the wraith player quit with a minute left, lol. But even then there was shit like the Wraith decoy smacking me(as lazarus) twice, knocking me around right into the actual Wraith, and the decoy did so much damage that I died right away.
I'm really curious to see how the win percents pan out this time.
Last Uchiha
Banned
The worst part is each time you die you need to watch that stupid jump off the plane thing
It is a LOT easier now to see where the actual Wraith goes to though and he can't just warp away. I have made it a pretty routine maneuver now to shout "decoy" and just waltz right past it towards where the actual Wraith is.
It's not nearly the "i win" button it used to be. And if you constantly remind your team to stay away from each other the entire AOE aspect of the Wraith goes out of the window. Full DPS on the thing and they just plummet.
Now the friggin Kraken? I barely met players of it yet so I can't formulate proper approaches. I think it's basically "don't bunch up, shoot the red mines and stay on the ground so you ALWAYS have jetpack dodge to get out of the lightning"
Kraken speed is by far the hardest thing to deal with.
samus4ever
Banned
Got this for PS4 if anyone is looking for people to play between 9pm-12am EST. PSN = DrakesMistake
Just experienced the most frustrating bug encountered in my life, on Xbox One: as some might know i am a journalist from IGN Italy, so i started to play the game on the 9th (evening time in Europe) with no problem whatsoever.
I even streamed the game via Twitch yesterday, using my account from the console of a colleague and getting to level 7.
Now i just turned my One on, and BAM! ALL progression vanished, i'm back to square one.
All that was kept is my customized avatar, just to mock me even more.
This is just SO frustrating, i am fucking mad about this.
Simply ridiculous.
I even streamed the game via Twitch yesterday, using my account from the console of a colleague and getting to level 7.
Now i just turned my One on, and BAM! ALL progression vanished, i'm back to square one.
All that was kept is my customized avatar, just to mock me even more.
This is just SO frustrating, i am fucking mad about this.
Simply ridiculous.
Yep that's an xbone thing. lots of people have it apparently.
Sorry man
It's just a bug related to the One version of the game?
Krappadizzle
Member
PC Performance if anyone is curious:
As for CPUs...
Not even sure what is... what the heck... is this the real life?
Blech, I need to just throw my i7-4770k in the trash. Kidding of course, but wtf?
ugh_the_boot
Banned
This game is fucking rad!! Jumped online last night with my level 1 profile and levelled up to 6, wanted to keep playing but real life was calling *sigh*. Had some awesome intense matches and I was sooo baked everything was just heightened haha. 3 of the matches were so awesome I had to save them, might upload them to youtube tonight. This is honestly the most fun i've had playing a game in a looooooooooooong time! The best way to describe it would be Monster Hunter combined with Left 4 Dead (2 of my absolute favourite games). At first I only wanted to stick to one class (assault) but after a few matches of being dumped in the medic and support class I started to get the hang of them and provided some awesome backup for my team. What a rush!! The gameplay variety and depth is real guys! This game is truley unique and very very solid.
It's amazing seeing a game like Destiny come out with ZERO innovations and barely any excitement (defend me while I open this door ad nauseam) and then you have something like Evolve which is different to almost evey other game out there with unique aspects and thrilling moments left and right. When shit is on it is ON!! I'm in awe at how balanced everything feels at the game's launch. Most multiplayer games need so much fine tuning nowdays but this game just works out of the box. At no point did I feel like any of the classes weren't useful or that the monster was over/under powered and I haven't exeperienced a single glitch or any slowdown at all (PS4). Awesome work Turtle Rock, I had faith in this game all along but WOW this delivered beyong my wildest expectations. I don't care what DLC is going to be offered up in future but I AM IN!! I thought I would only be interested in the monster DLC but after playing with a couple of different classes the Hunters are incredible! The game is hella fast paced and sure there is quite a bit of running around chasing after the monster (really good/experienced players will give you a good chase) but it really does feel like a hunt and when you catch up to it, dome it and the monster has no choice but to fight...man shit hits the fan!
One of the standout moments was playing as Assault against a Goliath, get dropped in and off the bat I do a 180 and just start running in that direction, turn around to see all 3 other members of my team heading the opposite way but it doesn't bother me cuz i'm assault and I can handle the monster 1 on 1 for a little bit thanks to the personal shield. Almost immediately I see a flock of birds disturbed only 60 meters in front of me so I take a guess and decide to cut through on the left side of a rock face and there he is, smashing away at some wildlife in a shallow pool of water. I start zapping him with Markov's lightning gun and he turns on me, I back dash increasing the gap while still wailing with the lightning gun, he does the jump smash at me but I have another back dash ready for him barely dodging it with the skin of my teeth...still wailing of course. At this point I see a dome go up...."Great my team is here!" All of a sudden the mofos harpooned, still struggling to come at me I decide to lay down some mines and gtfo. He runs through all 3 and that is when I see he knows he's made a mistake, agresssion turns to fear as he turns to run away but realises he's incased in a dome so he has no choice but to fight. Decides to turn on one of the other hunters and our medic who had his back to a wall gets pummelled and pinned down, I jump up to a small ledge just above where they were and start throwing down mines on his head. Again he turns his attention to me but I had 3 more mines deployed on the ledge right next to me and as he jumps up loses like 3 bars of armour instantly and he's down to his health bar. Panic sets in and he starts to leg it. The dome comes down and he's off running for his life but we're hot on his heels.
I'm pepperring him in the back with my assault rifle and after a couple of minutes of chasing he increases the gap by climbing real high. He must've killed a couple of critters up there because I see his Evolve bar go up. I decide to anticipate him again and go around the cliff face...then wtf "Monster has evolved to stage 2!" Damn that was quick, he must've realised he got no armour so might as well evolve right there. I catch him just as he comes out of the cocoon and it is on again but this time I am being harassed by some armoured rhino thing. It and the monster smash me for 6 into a deep lake but I sink pretty deep before activating my jetpack to fly straight back out lightning gun at the ready. As I break the waters surface and hover out I see my team killing the rhino thing and again with the goliath's back to me I come up right behind him and throw down some landmines. The monster is swapping targets willy nilly and I can tell he is in panic mode. With no armour and just over half a health bar left I can tell he has realised it's all or nothing now and stands his ground and turns to face me. I pop my shield and just lightning gun & lightning gun!! Chunks of health are flying off this mofo and he is on his last legs....in a last ditch attempt to escape (there was no dome) he tries to jump across the deep lake we were near but I had my assault rifle out by then and was hammering him from the shore, I see his body go limp and ragdoll into the lake and that is where he lay. Hunters win at 4:15!! Hellz yea!
Currently stuck at work....fuck my life! Lol!
It's amazing seeing a game like Destiny come out with ZERO innovations and barely any excitement (defend me while I open this door ad nauseam) and then you have something like Evolve which is different to almost evey other game out there with unique aspects and thrilling moments left and right. When shit is on it is ON!! I'm in awe at how balanced everything feels at the game's launch. Most multiplayer games need so much fine tuning nowdays but this game just works out of the box. At no point did I feel like any of the classes weren't useful or that the monster was over/under powered and I haven't exeperienced a single glitch or any slowdown at all (PS4). Awesome work Turtle Rock, I had faith in this game all along but WOW this delivered beyong my wildest expectations. I don't care what DLC is going to be offered up in future but I AM IN!! I thought I would only be interested in the monster DLC but after playing with a couple of different classes the Hunters are incredible! The game is hella fast paced and sure there is quite a bit of running around chasing after the monster (really good/experienced players will give you a good chase) but it really does feel like a hunt and when you catch up to it, dome it and the monster has no choice but to fight...man shit hits the fan!
One of the standout moments was playing as Assault against a Goliath, get dropped in and off the bat I do a 180 and just start running in that direction, turn around to see all 3 other members of my team heading the opposite way but it doesn't bother me cuz i'm assault and I can handle the monster 1 on 1 for a little bit thanks to the personal shield. Almost immediately I see a flock of birds disturbed only 60 meters in front of me so I take a guess and decide to cut through on the left side of a rock face and there he is, smashing away at some wildlife in a shallow pool of water. I start zapping him with Markov's lightning gun and he turns on me, I back dash increasing the gap while still wailing with the lightning gun, he does the jump smash at me but I have another back dash ready for him barely dodging it with the skin of my teeth...still wailing of course. At this point I see a dome go up...."Great my team is here!" All of a sudden the mofos harpooned, still struggling to come at me I decide to lay down some mines and gtfo. He runs through all 3 and that is when I see he knows he's made a mistake, agresssion turns to fear as he turns to run away but realises he's incased in a dome so he has no choice but to fight. Decides to turn on one of the other hunters and our medic who had his back to a wall gets pummelled and pinned down, I jump up to a small ledge just above where they were and start throwing down mines on his head. Again he turns his attention to me but I had 3 more mines deployed on the ledge right next to me and as he jumps up loses like 3 bars of armour instantly and he's down to his health bar. Panic sets in and he starts to leg it. The dome comes down and he's off running for his life but we're hot on his heels.
I'm pepperring him in the back with my assault rifle and after a couple of minutes of chasing he increases the gap by climbing real high. He must've killed a couple of critters up there because I see his Evolve bar go up. I decide to anticipate him again and go around the cliff face...then wtf "Monster has evolved to stage 2!" Damn that was quick, he must've realised he got no armour so might as well evolve right there. I catch him just as he comes out of the cocoon and it is on again but this time I am being harassed by some armoured rhino thing. It and the monster smash me for 6 into a deep lake but I sink pretty deep before activating my jetpack to fly straight back out lightning gun at the ready. As I break the waters surface and hover out I see my team killing the rhino thing and again with the goliath's back to me I come up right behind him and throw down some landmines. The monster is swapping targets willy nilly and I can tell he is in panic mode. With no armour and just over half a health bar left I can tell he has realised it's all or nothing now and stands his ground and turns to face me. I pop my shield and just lightning gun & lightning gun!! Chunks of health are flying off this mofo and he is on his last legs....in a last ditch attempt to escape (there was no dome) he tries to jump across the deep lake we were near but I had my assault rifle out by then and was hammering him from the shore, I see his body go limp and ragdoll into the lake and that is where he lay. Hunters win at 4:15!! Hellz yea!
Currently stuck at work....fuck my life! Lol!
I can't state it as fact but I have so far ONLY heard Xbone users talk about this.
DirtyLarry
Member
Thanks for the reply. Based on the character descriptions in the OT that was the class I was leaning towards already, so appreciate the confirmation.
Unfortunately it was not here today even though I thought it might be.
Yeah, I haven't really had issues dealing with Wraith players themselves, and the nerf was definitely needed so they can't get half way across the map while doing it. I guess I just figured it was something to be used with more tact, like getting behind cover and splitting to slow down the hunters a bit if they think it's the real wraith. But instead I always see players taking direct fire from the whole team and just splitting in front of them because the decoy just swings out and lashes at someone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHv0ZVJLagI
There's a short example of something. Look how much Daisy got fucked up by it, lol. I haven't really found it ignorable even knowing shooting it won't make it go away faster.
But I do need to fight it more. Kraken was a bastard in the Alpha but become a lot more manage in the Beta once I got the general gameplan down.
ShemhazaiX
Member
So what's it like working at Turtle Rock?
Just kidding. I agree with your overall sentiment. Game is awesome. Just wish unlocking new characters wasn't such a ball ache. Haven't even tried online yet purely because I want to unlock all the monsters so I know how each of them play. >.<
It's almost impossible to describe how much more fun playing the game with people with mics is. Like, if everyone is actually communicating and also really trying their best to win it? It's fucking fantastic.
As fun as playing the monster is, it is a lonely experience. I actually believe the feeling of taking down a strong monster as a team, talking to each other, is better than taking down a strong hunter team as a lone monster.
opinions though,yo
As fun as playing the monster is, it is a lonely experience. I actually believe the feeling of taking down a strong monster as a team, talking to each other, is better than taking down a strong hunter team as a lone monster.
opinions though,yo
It's really fun getting into a custom game of 5 and rotating the monster around.
The alarms are when you hit a milestone in character progression.
Nappuccino
Member
Holy shit. Hey Klyka.