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Evolve Big Alpha Impressions/bugs/glitches thread
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Jimmyfenix
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IMACOMPUTA
Member
I think I'd be way happier if this were just a mp mode in a larger game. There's no larger game, right? This is it?
SEGAvangelist
Gold Member
Looks 30 fps on XB1. What about PS4?
we gonna find out once we get in
IMACOMPUTA
Member
This. Its def 30 on xb1.
Jimmyfenix
Member
2K has its own Grace Chen.
mineskiller
Member
sorry is it a system update or game update?
ZeroMaverick
Member
Okay. I'll stop spamming X to try and connect until they get it working. I don't want to further escalate the issue.
Lord of Castamere
Member
Inbf Microsoft's check cleared.
Bayonettasbuddy
Neo Member
had no idea what I was doing as Hunters. Am I just meant to hunt the monster or is there an objective?
Jimmyfenix
Member
Enordash
Member
Just hunt the monster, I'd say. There are other creatures on the map, but I'm not sure what the benefit of those are yet.
Xbox One Quick Impressions;
First off I'm not sure how I got in as I'm not a preview member and don't know what that is, can anybody tell me?
Load times and getting into a match takes a while as others have said. I played as a Medic and Assault so far. I'm liking it but it is something that will take a while to learn. In order to give a thumbs up or thumbs down I'll have to play the whole weekend at least. It really seems like a game that is going to take awhile to learn and become adept at as it is far different from anything else.
- The snow level is pretty amazing. The snow looks like a "real" heavy snow is falling. It can diminish visibility. Best snowstorm I've ever seen in a game.
- The game is more about tension and hide and seek than actual fighting. If you are looking for a 4 vs 1 "monster fighting" game, this is probably not for you. It's a slow burn most times rather than a FPS type game. I like this about it, quiet tense moments interspersed with a few all out engagements.
- Maps are plenty big and seem to be the right size. They are also nicely varied.
- The wildlife seems to pose little threat to the hunters as you can just jet away most of the time. Is there a benefit to hunters killing wildlife? Seems better to just avoid it.
- The hunters seem to hit an invisible ceiling sometimes with the jet pack. This could be me doing something wrong but I believe I still had fuel on multiple occasions but would just hover a few feet below the ledge I wanted to reach. I'm hoping I was doing something wrong because this is a game breaker as it wastes your entire jet pack and a lot of time and you cannot tell what you can climb successfully and what you cannot. Anyone have any answers here?
- Weapons and abilities seem nicely varied and designed to promote cooperation. I noticed it was hard to tell when scoring hits with the Assault class machine gun.
- The game's enjoyability right now is heavily based on the other players, as people get better so will the game.
- The end of game map screen that shows what everyone was doing and where they did it in sped up time is AWESOME! It's a great learning tool and just cool to watch while loading. More games should have this.
- I like the scoring and leveling systems. The tutorials seemed perfectly adequate to me unlike what some have said.
- I love the system in place that easily allows you to rank your preferred character or the monster. Each can be selected and given a value between 1 and 5. The game seems to do well with this and its easily changed between matches. I got my preferred character 3 out of 4 times and never got my 4th or 5th selection.
Final thoughts, I'm going to spend some time with it this weekend but as of right now I plan on picking it up because of the uniqueness. Seems like it will get better as you play and learn and there is nothing quite like it. If you are not expecting balls to the wall monster fighting 90% of the time you probably won't be let down. Realize there is a bit more strategy and thought involved in planning and trying to set up encounters than just happening into them and the game takes on a new aspect. One last thought, the polish seems good to me as does content, especially for an alpha, It doesn't seem like it should be FTP or value priced to me at all. I'm not sure why people are saying this, maybe because there is no single player?
First off I'm not sure how I got in as I'm not a preview member and don't know what that is, can anybody tell me?
Load times and getting into a match takes a while as others have said. I played as a Medic and Assault so far. I'm liking it but it is something that will take a while to learn. In order to give a thumbs up or thumbs down I'll have to play the whole weekend at least. It really seems like a game that is going to take awhile to learn and become adept at as it is far different from anything else.
- The snow level is pretty amazing. The snow looks like a "real" heavy snow is falling. It can diminish visibility. Best snowstorm I've ever seen in a game.
- The game is more about tension and hide and seek than actual fighting. If you are looking for a 4 vs 1 "monster fighting" game, this is probably not for you. It's a slow burn most times rather than a FPS type game. I like this about it, quiet tense moments interspersed with a few all out engagements.
- Maps are plenty big and seem to be the right size. They are also nicely varied.
- The wildlife seems to pose little threat to the hunters as you can just jet away most of the time. Is there a benefit to hunters killing wildlife? Seems better to just avoid it.
- The hunters seem to hit an invisible ceiling sometimes with the jet pack. This could be me doing something wrong but I believe I still had fuel on multiple occasions but would just hover a few feet below the ledge I wanted to reach. I'm hoping I was doing something wrong because this is a game breaker as it wastes your entire jet pack and a lot of time and you cannot tell what you can climb successfully and what you cannot. Anyone have any answers here?
- Weapons and abilities seem nicely varied and designed to promote cooperation. I noticed it was hard to tell when scoring hits with the Assault class machine gun.
- The game's enjoyability right now is heavily based on the other players, as people get better so will the game.
- The end of game map screen that shows what everyone was doing and where they did it in sped up time is AWESOME! It's a great learning tool and just cool to watch while loading. More games should have this.
- I like the scoring and leveling systems. The tutorials seemed perfectly adequate to me unlike what some have said.
- I love the system in place that easily allows you to rank your preferred character or the monster. Each can be selected and given a value between 1 and 5. The game seems to do well with this and its easily changed between matches. I got my preferred character 3 out of 4 times and never got my 4th or 5th selection.
Final thoughts, I'm going to spend some time with it this weekend but as of right now I plan on picking it up because of the uniqueness. Seems like it will get better as you play and learn and there is nothing quite like it. If you are not expecting balls to the wall monster fighting 90% of the time you probably won't be let down. Realize there is a bit more strategy and thought involved in planning and trying to set up encounters than just happening into them and the game takes on a new aspect. One last thought, the polish seems good to me as does content, especially for an alpha, It doesn't seem like it should be FTP or value priced to me at all. I'm not sure why people are saying this, maybe because there is no single player?
Anton Sugar
Member
snow level
wat
I've only had the boring green levels so far.
Great impressions, Patroclos.
wat
I've only had the boring green levels so far.
Great impressions, Patroclos.
I agree with all this having played.
Anton Sugar
Member
Pro-tip: press Select to bring up the map.
Makes route prediction muuuch easier.
Makes route prediction muuuch easier.
Brian_FETO
Banned
If I'm not mistaken, killing them means the monster cannot feed (or gets way less for doing so)
Still waiting for PS4 servers to be up.......
TimeEffect
Member
Seems like unlike a MP game where you run around a map and shoot things, you need to really learn the maps and abilities in this game, so a tutorial would have really helped here.
I am curious as to how this game plays with a full team of skilled and knowledgeable players. Hopefully we get to see some of that in the beta
I am curious as to how this game plays with a full team of skilled and knowledgeable players. Hopefully we get to see some of that in the beta
Anton Sugar
Member
I've actually had half my team wiped from a wild animal.
Monster would be smart to plan its encounters with hunters around the big aggressive wildlife.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmvX7YVJNOU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I04DPp1j02E
Seems all right, from the tiny bit of play I've had with it. Once I was in a session, it was stable. Some really clever mechanics set deeper into the PvP Left 4 Dead structure. I'm shit as the monster. Jumping into it with no experience is really rough, when the game is set up to basically *need* every player to be on their game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I04DPp1j02E
Seems all right, from the tiny bit of play I've had with it. Once I was in a session, it was stable. Some really clever mechanics set deeper into the PvP Left 4 Dead structure. I'm shit as the monster. Jumping into it with no experience is really rough, when the game is set up to basically *need* every player to be on their game.
Yeah, this was my problem with the previous alpha, I was hoping they would tighten it up a bit, add something to break up the monotony. Sounds like that didn't happen.
I'm sure this game is for someone, but it doesn't come across as the kind of game I would enjoy like L4D was.
I agree, if you are looking for L4D you will be disappointed. Although not because it's bad in comparison, just very different.
Turin Turambar
Member
1st try "server is full"
2nd "server is full"
3rd "disconnected, game session lost" (or something like that)
4th "server is full"
6th try, nothing. I suppose the central servers are collapsed with ps4 and pc players joining to the party?
2nd "server is full"
3rd "disconnected, game session lost" (or something like that)
4th "server is full"
6th try, nothing. I suppose the central servers are collapsed with ps4 and pc players joining to the party?
makes me wonder what the whole game is gonna have then? will people be willing to pay full price for this?
perhaps its to early to tell, but we an always wonder....
Brian_FETO
Banned
I'm sure it's just my entitlement talking but really.....what is the issue with the PS4 servers? You set a delayed specific time for the alpha to go live and let people download it in advance. It doesn't seem like the servers are being overloaded and having problems during games (which would be excusable), they just straight up haven't let anyone in for 40 minutes now.......... Was really hoping to play before work and it's looking like that won't happen today
I think it's going to be tough to win against the monster without a cohesive team where everyone is playing their roles. If you just throw in 4 randoms and a couple of them just kind of do their own thing, I don't see that team ever winning against a skilled monster player.
If an animal has a symbol above its head, definitely kill it. It will give you a buff if you go to the corpse and hit X, they're the same animals that give the monster a buff if he eats them.
Brian_FETO
Banned
Ah, alright. That's pretty cool, I didn't know hunters got in-game upgrades too
Ahhhh. Makes sense. Haven't noticed them yet. I was just avoiding regular ones.
My impressions echo previous users... there is an excellent experience to be had with this game but it will be very dependent upon learning the tricks and having good teamates
... your user experience is greatly impacted by your team's abilities
Very excited to get some more time over ththe weekend.. the huge loading times allow me to do some cleaning around the house before the game loads haha
... your user experience is greatly impacted by your team's abilities
Very excited to get some more time over ththe weekend.. the huge loading times allow me to do some cleaning around the house before the game loads haha
machemachete
Banned
Are the servers on PS4 online?
doniewhalberg
Member
Alpha seems to be on fire on the pc. Got one full game played and was incredibly laggy, any other game has been disconnect or servers are full. I'll try tomorrow haha.
Yeah, I have no idea if there's a benefit for that. I would imagine so, but I'm not sure what.
mcz117chief
Member
As dozens of people said already, this has almost nothing in common with l4d, so you saying that you like l4d has as much relevance as saying "I don't like Gears of War. I am a big Unreal fan."
Guess what would have happened if they hadn't done this and had issues that delayed the servers being up during the alpha test? Driveclub would have happened.
People being able to play these alpha/beta runs are very much secondary to seeing how the servers handle loads and what issues arise when you throw a bunch of people in at once. That's kind of the point. This happening now is a good thing if it means it won't happen later.
Turin Turambar
Member
In my 8th or 9th try it worked! I won my first game easily as a trapper, but that's because I trapped the monster on tier 1.
Performance is good, graphics are nice. Load times are much less nice.
Performance is good, graphics are nice. Load times are much less nice.