mothra on 1/11/2014 at 12:35
Hi,
I got extra keys for the Evolve Alpha currently on steam.
Getting into a game was hard, many disconnects and freezes in the lobby but it seems to work better now.
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https://www.2kgames.com/evolve/bigalpha/form.php)
CODE for PC:
QXN88-2VBBE-2FAK2
QXN8R-QNA0R-IQQTL
QXN8X-6XXRF-CTQA4
QXNAI-7KH4Q-DV6T4
First come, first serve.
Sofar from what I played it is L4D with classes and a battlefield/COD unlock progression system.
You get 2 guns and 2 abilities on the hunter side because, you know, not enough buttons.
For the alien you have to start out with the Tank, or Goliath as it is called in Evolve.
The Alien has to eat wildlife to evovle, goal is to kill the hunters/alien or destroy/defend a structure on the map once the alien evolved to level 3.
Engine is the Cryengine so it looks pretty but sofar I am not really captured by it.
I like L4D's flat progression sprinkled by resource drops and chokepoints for little skirmishes more.
It doesn't help that tools like a shieldgun or medigun have built-in autoaim taking away from skill and unlocks
even exacerbate that by giving you e.g. more targets healed, bigger AOE, quicker auto-refill etc
That said, the classes play good with each other and random pubs tend to stick together bc of that.
The Alien gets counters for most of your abilities but it being groundbased and the hunters having pretty insane jetpack mobility
I never had any trouble killing it even if the player knew what he was doing.
There are other monster types with different abilities but the disadvantages of the Goliath were pretty clear from the start.
WingedKagouti on 1/11/2014 at 14:01
Seems like Steam just decided to give me access without a code, so I tried it out for a couple of games and...
I know I won't be getting this before they get rid of the stupid "You must grind 5 billion games to have any kind of customization, but we'll taunt you with the ability to do so until you get there"-thing. Which unfortunately seems to be heavily integrated into the game at this point.
Playing the monster makes you feel like you're slower than a walking human while hitting for less damage than a newborn baby, even when you're not attacking someone being healed/shielded. If a single hunter catches up with you, you might as well give up on trying to escape if (s)he knows what (s)he is doing and killing him/her becomes almost impossible once the others show up. Unless you manage to stay hidden for long enough to evolve at least once, which is fairly unlikely if the hunters know the map and have decent tactics.
sNeaksieGarrett on 5/11/2014 at 05:30
I got extra codes too, but wasn't able to give them all out in time.
I played it a little bit over the weekend and it ran like shit on my computer, which dampened things a bit. Then again my computer is pretty crappy anyway, but I did a check on the specs and I meet the minimum requirements, although when using system requirements lab it recommended I upgrade my graphics card.
Evolve seems pretty cool from what I could manage to play and it's definitely focused on team work like left 4 dead.
EvaUnit02 on 9/11/2014 at 05:58
I dunno if this will have the longevity that people are hoping for. It may end up as the next Titanfall - largely dead after ~2-3 months in the pub scene.
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http://youtu.be/GvEUm-770NU?t=6m17s)
Judith on 17/2/2015 at 11:21
This guy gets worked up over it like he's some kind of a preacher, calm down chump. You could explain that better in shorter time, and actually make more sense:
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http://youtu.be/nDxPo5uLkpU)
