is this game any good

Knew nothing about this game until I played it today. Holy shit it is awesome.

Did they change much from the alpha? The alpha was pretty fun for a while but it started to get kind of repetitive.

It's also a 23 gig beta

I love this game so much

Aw man, I got so excited but then I realized I only have Left 4 Dead 2 :C FUCK

Still downloading, 2 hours remain. 23 gigs :{

Left 4 Dead 2 counts. I don't have the first one or Infinite in my library and I can play.

I don't see it :C

If the final game is as slow paced and plain as the alpha was, I'm gonna have to pass. Here's to hoping enough has changed/been implemented.

games awesome, turtle rock makes good games, and 2k might not have the best pricing plans but theyre def less sketchy than EA or Sony when it comes to publishing

I don't see it either :(

perhaps you have to have L4D2 or other games mentioned, installed to get evolve. I have L4D2 and it's not there so idk what's up. :(

l4d2 doesnt count, its like l4d1 or one of the bioshocks

You might also get invited if you played in the alpha too. That's how I got my invite.

Yeah that's how I actually ended up getting mine. Never mind about my Left 4 Dead 2 comment.

At first I wasn't that impressed. I started with Tracker and felt underwhelmed by the first one you can play. I did not like being the monster in the tutorial either. However then I played the first Support class (Hank), and that was a lot of fun. After I stopped playing I thought it was just okay, but I found myself wanting to load back up and play some more. I didn't, and found I wanted to play even more. Now I'm playing it. I think that is sign of a good game. If you have the urge to get back and play it, seems to me it is doing something right.

just played it, its p good but idk bout putting is as a legit comp game

Good game. I'm not sure how competitively viable it is, especially with pay walls for characters and monsters, but it's a fun game nonetheless.

My only complaint right now is matchmaking needs to be slimmed down. You go through 3 different loading screens when one would suffice, and you end up waiting a ridiculous amount of time because of it. Also, if someone leaves during the whole matchmaking process, they are replaced by a bot, and the matchmaking process will happily continue even if no player fills the space, up until the game starts and you're forced to play with bots that have no idea what they're doing.

If you decide to leave to avoid playing with a bot, you have to wait 1 minute before you can begin matchmaking again...

Yeah that is a good point. I also think there should be a loadout list when you choose your character. You don't get to see what weapons they have. That isn't so bad after you remember them all, but as a new player it makes you try and remember what each person had. They have a million screens already, might as well make one more useful.

How could a game with an uneven number of people be competitive? Is a team 4 hunters and one monster player?

For what it's worth, ShootMania had a tournament mode that was 3v1. You'd have a team of 3 and rotated who would be the one to go against the 3. Was interesting, but then again ShootMania didn't end up going anywhere competitively.

A similar thing could be done in Evolve, but it is definitely awkward cause its an even number of players in this game, so you can't have a "best of" with even number of players without leaving someone out of player monster, or having someone place twice. You could also have a dedicated monster player, so 5 player teams.

just like how attack/defend maps can be competitive

You still have 9 people on each side of attack and defend and every one can switch sides. You can't combine all 4 people into one player to switch teams.

I imagine rould 1 will be 1 team of hunters vs. other team's best Monster. Round 2 is the other team's hunters vs. team 1's best Monster. Like PL, the team with the better time for Hunters wins (whether it be time they killed Monster in, or time before losing). Obviously if team 1 kills the Monster, it's up to team 2 to kill the monster quicker. In that way team 1 has an advantage, almost like starting CT.

To be comp viable it will need some smart rules, but I think it can be done, and be interesting. If there was a L4D comp community then there is no way there wont be one for Evolve.

Alpha was fun, but it did get repetitive.. how much more was introduced in beta? New monsters?

Didnt play alpha, but beta has been a blast and not felt repetitive at all.

Here is a short vid of me playing that was on twitch. I am the monster, using the starting monster. Airshots are possible. Also at like 2:35, turn down ur speakers, I was screaming being retarded. You have been warned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXLQnOTDgCw

After playing this for a bit you really need to have a solid team to take on a Wraith- I think wraith is too OP.

I only won against one once- and it was with three other friends all coordinated. Killed him at stage 3 about to take out our power relay.

The dev team has admitted it needs to work on Wraith a bit. It has something along the lines of a 70% win rate, where as the other monsters are around 50%.

Only way you can take him out is when he comes to you... You have to be pretty new to die as Wraith before level 3. He's too mobile and his illusion does too much work for so little effort.