Evole 4v1 shooter

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Bullett

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10,882 posts

184 months

Thursday 30th October 2014
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Anyone on the PC Alpha? I'd not heard of it but saw a link for Alpha testers so applied and got in.

Looks interesting a 4v1 hunters vs monster game. I will report back.

laam999

538 posts

169 months

Thursday 30th October 2014
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Alpha testers? I've seen a fair bit if footage online and think it looks good but I thought it was out in march? Seems very late to only just be in alpha.

Bullett

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10,882 posts

184 months

Thursday 30th October 2014
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They are calling it the big alpha.
Open beta in January.

They seem confident and as you say those timescales are optimistic but I think this is balance testing rather than basic mechanics.

3sixty

2,963 posts

199 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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Looks good. Reminds me of the HL mod I used to play called Vampire Slayer

ConcreteBuffalo

1,053 posts

189 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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I'm in on the Alpha for Xbone, anyone else up for a few games?

GT Kodiak

2,907 posts

179 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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I signed up.

No idea if I got in. How did you find out? A message from XBL or an email?

really looking forward to this. Have avoided other shooters as I was waiting for this since before Christmas last year

Bullett

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10,882 posts

184 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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I had an email

ConcreteBuffalo

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189 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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GT Kodiak said:
I signed up.

No idea if I got in. How did you find out? A message from XBL or an email?

really looking forward to this. Have avoided other shooters as I was waiting for this since before Christmas last year
I had a message on XBL.

Bullett

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10,882 posts

184 months

Saturday 1st November 2014
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I have an extra 4 as well for PC. Toxic, you have PM.

Played a couple of games. Crashed out on one and the moster won the other two.
I played assault and trapper. Not tried as moster yet.

It's not really clear on what we are supposed to be doing, the first 10 minutes seem to be the hunters running round trying to find the monster the monster hiding until he reaches level 3. Then he comes and kicks the hunters arses. The big issue may be that the hunters are all new and the monster has experience plus the hunters have to work together and that's not really happening at the moment.

It's not very optimised for PC. Press A on start screen, can't scroll the menus unless the cursor is over the scroll bar, basic stuff that should just work.

I feel it's going to gouge you for DLC as well. Exiting I noticed the pre-order and get more characters/monsters. mmmmm.

tenohfive

6,276 posts

182 months

Saturday 1st November 2014
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How does it feel compared to something like Left 4 Dead? I use that example as I can't think of anything similar as a point of reference.

Mastodon2

13,826 posts

165 months

Saturday 1st November 2014
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I watched the gameplay video for this that was on the Xbox One dash a while back (complete with cheesy American football style commentary) and I was bored by the end of it. The concept is interesting, and I understand there are a multitudes of creature types, but the team were shooting the monster for upwards of 5 minutes at one point and it wasn't dead, it just kept evolving to a new state. It looked rather unsatisfying as despite all the flying projectiles, it didn't seem like anyone was hurting it.

I'll probably get it when it comes out, but I think it will be short-lived excitement, like the Left 4 Dead games, which we were told would be "different every time you play", but were in effect not different at all, and became boring very quickly.

JustinF

6,795 posts

203 months

Saturday 1st November 2014
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Available for d/l on steam so it's not really an Alpha, they are just calling it that to get people involved and to buy in to the concept.

Mastodon2

13,826 posts

165 months

Saturday 1st November 2014
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anonymous said:
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I get that the monster needs to be strong, but when it's a fight in an arena the size of a tennis court lasting over 5 minutes of continually chipping the monster's health, while constantly reviving downed friendlies it gets boring fast. It was less of a skirmish and more of a campaign! There are definitely some balance issues to be addressed.

Snails

915 posts

166 months

Sunday 2nd November 2014
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I've enjoyed it this afternoon. It took a few rounds to get use to being the monster, but overall enjoyable. The 'big alpha' is quite limit, restricted to a single game mode. I hope with the full game there is more to it.

As the monster, you don't want to get bogged down early on in a 4v1 fight, you're just not strong enough until you have evolved. So the early game as the monster is spent, running, eating and trying to hide, but once you have evolved twice, 4 v 1 becomes much more manageable, especially if you can kill the medic.