Evolve died in less than a year with absolutely zero reason to fail by your logic so lets do the math. Tried to go F2P and shorten the learning curve and died TWICE. That game was always screwed short of reworking core game mechanics from the ground up. The vast majority did not find playing monster fun & it was repetitive as shit = dead game
Can we get an option that allows to get full randoms?
and ofcourse you could still role a fking stage 3 monsterā¦ it literally was not op on that scale it stomps as people sayā¦ neither it was unbalancedā¦ usually i always played eith people that knew what they were pickingā¦ i always picked support cause i loved helping everyone with a shield if monster mains themā¦ Each class had its own reason to play and important roleā¦ as an assault u needed to tank the dmg with your shield and just provokate the monster and deal dmg, while medic was there to ofc heal and usually they would main medic lolā¦ i loved to just help medic live and stuffā¦ while trapper usually got mained first if they domed the monster but oh wellā¦
Dude ofcourse it died people saw the devs were at its lowest and rilled up and started a riot and then they made it F2P with less content and ruined the gameā¦ literallyā¦ and the core was fine, usually the types of people wereā¦ meh i dont like the game or THE GAME is awesomeā¦ no in betweenā¦ people who said meh they dont like it were the people that didnt have patience and will to play an asymmetrical game
Lol it was ruined before phase two queues were huge post launch you found the same monster players over and over. Phase two was a hail mary because ha whens the last time a triple A f2p game died? If the game was actually AWESOME people wouldāve played back to back matches except they didnt & nothing could make people pick that game back up beyond novelty. It had no method of maintaining a consistent playerbase. Glorified tech demo trying to be pushed as a competitive game of course the average person didnāt have the patience to learn how to run away over and over and over in matches that pretty much amounted to the same thing every game.
By ruined you mean ONLY the que times, yeah i remember but it had actual nice voice overs, cut scenes, reinforcement cutscenes with actual immersion, the game for its time looked amazing the graphics and it was fairly optimizedā¦ and all of that including the ābadā que timesā¦ i see this game with one flaw lol, i literally had no issue in waiting for playing the support lmaoā¦ sure u had to wait a bit of timeā¦ but it was worth itā¦ the games usually lasted well above 15 min upto 30 minā¦ if i recallā¦ then u had like 15 min extra timer if i recall until its actually gg game overā¦
The game it self had no actual content flawā¦ gameplay was smooth and it delievered what it was marketed forā¦ literally an immersive hunting and monster experienceā¦
Iām pretty sure the game lasted a lot longer than a year. Apparently thereās also a steady playerbase thatās still playing the game on discord or something. Look at Youtube for videos of people enjoying the game.
Overall, itās about preference. If you didnāt like the game thatās fine, but Iām positive that there were lots of people that did enjoy the game. If Evolve made a comeback right now, Iād be going back to slaying teams as the Wraith.
I would pay for 60ā¬ a Evolve remaster lol, and go back playing As hank
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Picture evolve in these currents timeā¦ development and improvement of engine wiseā¦ dude the game would look so good lolā¦ realistically made with alien flora and shitā¦ it would actually look dope lolā¦
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Yep the gunplay was great, the classes were great etc
And it goes to show how LITERALLY NONE OF THAT saves a game and a high stress high skill ceiling solo role in an asymmetrical doesnāt work because no one wanted to play the damn monster at the end of the day unless the monster was either busted or you were a masochistic die hard.
If you got chased down by knives and scouts in every match and had to complete FT objectives as predator while FT did nothing but look for you to chase you would you still play it? Does that rlyyy sound appealing to you? āoh but you can blow up stargazer base at the end if you get there and the 4 man finally has to get off of your ass to defend it.ā Because thatās basically what Evolve was and you can figure out exactly why it died with that reasoning. It was far from perfect & deeply flawed on a mechanical level and only people with their nostalgia goggles on can say otherwise.
Still dead because very little gameplay variation and 0 people playing monster lol
I mean this is literally what predator is at right now xDā¦
Evolve is still 2 steps ahead of predator still lmfaoā¦
No offense but it isā¦ even evolve had bugs but never game breaking ones xDā¦
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Itās really not for the vast majority of games because teams run objectives still. Yes you get the occasional game where you run into russian streamers and they chase you and snipe you & its misery for 15 mins. Itās still not enough to kill the game for people because it rarely happens. Most are still casuals who break line of sight and im positive you still have a 50%+ winrate because of it so the games still in a decent spot unless youāre trying to melee people with a low stamina class in which case I will chase you across the map.
People that run objectives now are people who speedrun them and expect to kill predator at exfil or just extract lmaoā¦
Gameplay variation? It had Coop vs AI which was great, it had offline it had private matches, it had hunt, it had Hatching mode where u would have to destroy eggs, it had a mode specific for halloween i remember gorgon queen where the scary narrator is talking and u have to kill the eggs and hatchlingsā¦ It had sht ton of gameplay variation
Exactly and thats enough to keep them from chasing you all over the map. Even though in theory they could chase you for 10 mins and then do objectives at the end. I get not liking premades but NEVER wanting to play against them ever because its unfun for you when people are coordinated is silly.
It is unfun, depressing, sad, annoying and anxiousā¦ But not cause they are cordinated, its cause if you try any playstyle approach, it wont work unless u wait for their mistake which probably never happens cause they stick together but never too closeā¦ and u always have one or two guys watching which would just melt u from range , this not discussable anymore cause i will keep repeating the same shit xD cause its just silly the current balanceā¦
AND to mention about evolve gameplay alsoā¦ it had like variations of current maps and had night and day and also weather variationsā¦
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Oh it also had events like additional perk pick up for both monster and hunters, it was fun with having op perks cause if monster built extra perks it would be damn hard and challenging but fun af xD
In anycase the pred still loses cause its far behind due to actually lacking maps, content, smooth gameplay, and feels repetitive at some points due to pred feeling limited and same goes by fireteamā¦
The only way i can see them get out of this one is just add like upto 8 maps but those maps have variations like night, day, snow, blizzard, storm, rainā¦ while also adding ability for customization of our actual vision cause as much as i am a fan of OG pred, i prefer AVP vision animation and looksā¦ and predators 2010 HUD looksā¦ it looks much more advance and upgradable than 87 hunter, not only that the predator should be able to latch onto branches, wall, climb walls that are somewhat tall but not to tall, it would be nice touch to game, pred should also be able to move freerly on tree and go on any side of it and leap from it not from branches onlyā¦ the predator also should be able to have more visions ^^ā¦
And not to talk about his plasmaā¦ jeez man like its my fav weapon due to sound and actually how it works but usually the laser pointer has an ability to locate where the shots are coming from or if someone is shooting you it shows the target and location, same goes if it predator tries to locate its prey due to noise and heart beatā¦ the laser shows on his vision and analyzes
As we discussed on Discord, I think this would probably only serve to split the player base and negatively affect queue times for everyone.
Predators need to learn that they will not win every match, and when to recognize an experienced team and then play more conservatively. BY this I mean settle for a claim or two and surviving the match.
Anyone playing this game āseriously or competitivelyā is fooling themselves in my opinion. The game is not nearly enough balanced or at the least not anywhere near ready for any kind of serious eSport.
Iāve said this many times, and I think the folks who want to have a ācompā mode should set up their own leagues and matches with house rules and handle that themselves. Then to help this, petition Illphonic for more options for private matches, to help with the logistics and integrity of said matches.
I am not a ācompā player, but the points @YUPPERS made above seem like a great place to start.
I feel pretty confident in saying that the community would be much happier with whatever they come up with for ācomp rulesā than anything Illphonic could realistically provide.