Evolve evolving from P2P to F2P

[confused rock]

Bottom post of the previous page:

I made a kraken salty as fuck by respawning everyone 5 times while mildly far from the relay
your only weakness is if they actually focus you in which case gg (unless you don't have 2 strikes yet and they forgot to destroy the buoy I always feel cool getting myself up)
seriously though I fucking suck at firebreath how the fuck do I use it right

[killerx09]

The wraith got nerfed!

Then it got unnerfed.

lmao.

[DrPillzRedux]

Kraken got a very slight nerf but a big mine buff, when his mines were half the problem. These devs haven't changed. Also they fucked up their shaders and other stuff for a while.

Founders edition players are getting 24k keys though.

[IcePacks]

also FUCK OFF emet is the best medic
also FUCK OFF sunny is a pain in the ass unless you are constantly destroying the shield drones

1. play as kala
2. wait for your assault to engage
3. press 2
4. ???????
5. monster flees its impending doom
6. hop through your teleshenanigans and lean up against a tree on the other side of the map
7. wait for monster to run right into you
8. ehhhhh, what's up doc
9. get stealth-pounced because your teammates presumably don't even know what your teleporters do
10. shield burst

naturally an ineffective strategy on wraith

[confused rock]

kala is also good ok the only downside is 9 is my experience with kala also still I suck at fire breath

[DrPillzRedux]

Kala sucks actually. Having Sunny is a much better option since jetpack boost and amazing shield drone. Even Hank is better if they can juggle their shields.

[confused rock]

>some guys think I am retarded because they think the dome timer is reduced when the monster runs out of armor
>I say its only when it loses health
>match ends before I can prove them wrong
>it is in fact that if the monster loses 4% health at stage 1 a minute is taken off the timer
For some reason this is literally the saltiest I have been in a really fucking long time

Also fuck off when I am emet I don't want shit shields because I am about to die I want to teleport outside the dome and heal my ass

[DrPillzRedux]

Any decent monster is going to break your teleporter, only takes 1 hit. Sunny's bot is far more reliable and actually good.

[Xhuis]

My friends and I play fives together and the Sunny on our team is invaluable. It's pretty great charging in as Lennox and fucking shit up while being unkillable from constant shields, then when we stomp the monster he complains over Discord about the combo being overpowered. (I've only tried this against a Goliath, not sure how well it'd do against, say, a Kraken).

[DrPillzRedux]

Tuesday comes with a pretty good sized balance patch. A lot of hunters are getting nerfed, a few getting buffed, wraith getting assfucked, and gorgon getting slapped. Meanwhile, I've formed a good premade group and we're on a 19 win streak as hunters. High-end play is hunter sided for sure.

If you want to play Assault, get Blitz Markov. Lennox is getting a good nerf, while B. Markov is getting a slight one. He's still in the highest meta tier for Assault right now. Nothing feels better than going balls deep with his tesla gun and his damage is insane.

[killerx09]

I see your lightening gun and present to you One Punch Gran.

[DrPillzRedux]

I got EMET to level 40. Sucks he's bad outside of premade teams because his dialogue is great.

>HERE MONSTER, IT'S MY DICK, AND I'M GONNA SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASSHOLE
>ABDUCT THIS YOU CUNT

And my favorite with Kala on the ship

>WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU? YOU GOT SNAKES UNDER THERE?

[oranges]

It's a shame it can't evolve a playerbase

[Xhuis]

It's a shame it can't evolve a playerbase

vOv

[Akkryls]

It's a shame it can't evolve a playerbase

vOv

Wasn't it down to like a few hundred the days before it went F2P?

I should probably give the game a go at some point now it is free, but eh, so many games, so little time.

[Zilenan91]

Do they still not have dedicated servers

[Steelpoint]

As of my posting Evolve is the 15th most played game on steam.

Time will tell if the developers can maintain a high player base, but they have made good effort to utterly redo the gameplay to make it less of a hide n seek game and more of a action oriented game with quicker rounds with more intense combat where as a Monster you can viably stand up to the Hunters at Lvl1 or Lvl2 instead of being screwed if caught before Lvl3.

[DrPillzRedux]

UPDATE IS OUT NEW TRAPPER

Electro Griffin. His SMG shocks the monster and slows it for as long as the bullets hit it, the harpoon gun does damage while hooked, and the suit he wears can be activated so that he can do anything (aim down sight and fire) while keeping his normal movement speed.

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[Xhuis]

mfw lennox gets nerfed

[EndgamerAzari]

ELECTRO GRIFFIN

Jesus Christ that guy is so retrowave I think I'm aesthetically obligated to play this now.

[DrPillzRedux]

Aaaaand he's mediocre.

His sound spikes detect monsters sneaking but the range is half and barely anyone sneaks.

His SMG can't be aimed with sights and half the shots miss at midrange, plus tiny damage.

The harpoon has a very short range, but stop monsters a lot easier than the other version, and can do a good amount of damage if it isn't severed quickly.

[DrPillzRedux]

Another patch in 3 days that nerfs hunters even more and buffs monsters. This game is dead.

[Xhuis]

Another patch in 3 days that nerfs hunters even more and buffs monsters. This game is dead.

yeah, let's all complain about the game dying instead of giving feedback to the devs

[dezzmont]

I think it is justified to at least buff a monster's ability to escape, even if the current round of balance changes is stupid and focuses on making the monster just stronger rather than more able to avoid losing minute 1.

[DrPillzRedux]

Another patch in 3 days that nerfs hunters even more and buffs monsters. This game is dead.

yeah, let's all complain about the game dying instead of giving feedback to the devs

Clearly you haven't tried to do that yet.

>make post on forum about the changes
>forum defense force shows up and says lel git gud
>point out that the majority of average players who will buy shit and keep the game alive should be the target audience, not high end players like my group
>lel git gud weed out the weak pubbies
>devs show up and lock the thread as they want to balance around high end play and not the average Joe who already has trouble beating a monster

Monster relies on one person to do good. If they fuck up that's on them. A single hunter relies on 3 other people. If ANYONE in the hunter group fucks up against a competent monster, it's over. People quit playing as it's frustrating to deal with dumb as hell people ruining their fun time.

I think it is justified to at least buff a monster's ability to escape, even if the current round of balance changes is stupid and focuses on making the monster just stronger rather than more able to avoid losing minute 1.

It is incredibly easy to escape as a monster, you have very fast traversal regen before perks. If you take all feeding speed perks you can get across the map and get stage 2 before they can even find you.

Not to mention health damage by hunters in the first dome is usually pitiful in pubs as the dome ends when the monster loses a bar or 2, and they get most of that back when they evolve. If the hunters don't get any health damage before stage 2 it's pretty much game unless it's a premade group, or it's against wraith.

[killerx09]

That laser harpoon does damage equal to Markov's primary. That shit really hurts mang.

Wraith free week wouldn't be so bad if Lazarus wasn't on the free week as him.

As a high-level monster, I agree with the balance patch though.