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Evolve Big Alpha Weekend

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Ill be honest, I was completely disappointed by this beta weekend. Honestly, the game isn't anything special. Playing as the monster is just as boring as shooting it. Ill pass on this one.
 
hey OP: would you mind starting a poll, I would really like to see how people who's tried the alpha are split on this. To me it sounds like there is some negativity about potential repetitiveness of the game and concern about the enemy being a player and not an AI.
 
SharpHawk said:
There are tons of excellent boss fights out there. I can't recall a single one that involved emptying magazine after magazine of my machine gun into it from a FPS perspective. IE: a bullet sponge.
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The dragons in Demon's Souls were fun. The fights in Monster hunter are great. God of War 3 had some great boss battles.

The difference there is melee weapons, not guns.
 
To those saying the game has no depth, maybe they are not playing it long enough. As my skill rose in the game, especially as the monster, my tactics kept changing. The game is definitely deeper than all the reviewers are suggesting. You need at least 10 hours into this game before you have a really good grasp of the mechanics and maps.

The two big issues I have had in this Big Alpha are the buggy, lag-prone, and unoptimized matchmaking system and the Kraken balance issues. The matchmaking in the Alpha is horrible. The average match for me was about 10-13 minutes but I would routinely waste 30 minutes trying to get into a session. Once you actually manage to get into a session, the wait times before and after a match and the loading times all add up to close to 10 minutes per match. 50% of the game is wait times. That is unacceptable.

The 2nd issue is the unlockable flying monster, the Kraken. Right now, it is really OP, very hard to track as it flies, very hard to damage (mines and gas grenades and harpoon spikes are useless), and it has a infinite hover ability. The assault's tesla gun and flamethrower are also useless if it is high enough and the SMGs have a very wide spread which doesn't help. Damage from the Kraken attacks is too high, higher than the Goliath (jumping Godzilla clone) yet the Goliath is less survivable because it is on the ground. And the Kraken melee attacks are on par with the Goliath's which is just silly. The developers need to either nerf the Kraken damage or nerf its health. I am sure the balance issues will disappear with future patches.
 
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The hunters themselves are pretty well-balanced and I do find them interesting with the exception of the Assault. He is the only one that just shoots and shoots, no support or teamwork role which is boring.

I would not pre-order this game unless you really like it a lot and want that 4th monster. There are too many matchmaking issues and too much time wasted outside of matches. At $60, it is overpriced for the problems the game has and the content it provides (though the developers do mention extra modes). At $40 or lower, I would definitely recommend it.

If you liked L4D games, you will love this game if they manage to fix the matchmaking and time issues.
 
The characters are about as basicbitch as you can get. Of course there's the girl who has to be showing her ass to the camera because she's a girl and girls are only good for sex. (To make it even worse she has a flat ass.)
The monster has a vagina for a mouth and is a generic looking spiked beast. And there's the hillbilly prospector and big armored guy. And naturally the only black person in the game is a voodoo witch doctor or something

It's like they scraped the bottom of the barrel of 80's comic book archetypes.

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So I haven't played the alpha or seen any gameplay videos, but I was under the impression that the monster would be more stealth based, and sorta act as an in-game Director (AI from Left 4 Dead). Meaning the player controlling the monster could decide to spawn a horde of smaller creatures when he decides and similar stuff. Seems like the monster is really just a big tank with new flashy moves?
 
Honestly not liking it. I mean it's fine and all but there are performance issues for me, and when I picked medic it gave it to some other guy who was AFK the whole game.
 
If anyone has any codes Id love one.. been looking forward to this game since it was announced cause I love L4D.
 
I'm pretty sure all codes expired 2 days ago. If it makes you feel any better, I barely played 3-4 matches and honestly you didn't miss much. If they don't make dramatic changes this will flop hard.
 
Rick James Astley said:
I'm pretty sure all codes expired 2 days ago. If it makes you feel any better, I barely played 3-4 matches and honestly you didn't miss much. If they don't make dramatic changes this will flop hard.
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Damn,.. still want to try it myself though. There are so many differences in opinion on what people like I take it all with a grain of salt until I play it myself.
 
Anyone still playing this? Any good? I just got an invite to the technical test or whatever starting tomorrow.

KT
 
KeithTalent said:
Anyone still playing this? Any good? I just got an invite to the technical test or whatever starting tomorrow.
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I didn't know anyone could play it now. How'd you get the invite?

I've been watching a lot of game play videos on YouTube and I am really excited to play it next month (release).
 
Red Storm said:
I didn't know anyone could play it now. How'd you get the invite?

I've been watching a lot of game play videos on YouTube and I am really excited to play it next month (release).
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Just got an email in my in box today. Guess I must have signed up a while back. Looks cool ; I'm going to check it out tomorrow.

KT
 
Red Storm said:
I didn't know anyone could play it now. How'd you get the invite?

I've been watching a lot of game play videos on YouTube and I am really excited to play it next month (release).
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If you own Left 4 Dead or Bioshock Infinite apparently you get to access the beta. If you don't own either and you need a key let me know I think I may have one extra.
 
You also get a invite to the beta (?) this weekend if you participated in the Fall alpha.

If they have not improved the matchmaking times this close to release, this is a instant no-buy.
 
They need to do more than just improve matchmaking times for me to consider it. There are a number of things that definitely need improvement:


  • The monster needs to start out stronger, not a lot but a bit, than it currently does.
  • They need to give more objectives that matter to the hunters other than just "capture the monster" that provide potential opportunities for the monster to take one or more of them out. Not easily mind you but as it stands now all the hunters have to do is stick together and be co-ordinated and they'll win 99% of the time
  • They need to tweak the thunderdome timer. As it stands if you get caught early in the game as the monster it's pretty much over as long as you're stuck in the dome, especially if you get caught in an area where you have no place to hide.
There's a lot of other things that need to be addressed for me to consider this game. I like the idea but there are a lot of balance changes that need to be done because as it stands right now it's tilted heavily in favor of the hunters. Looking at my steam library it's there to pre-load so I'll probably do that and see what, if anything, has been changed this weekend.
 
The Evolve push knocked out the Planetside 2 login servers last night. Hopefully SOE deals with that instead of it being an issue all weekend.
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nevermind, I was confused between this and H1Z1.
 
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