Earlier this morning Turtle Rock Studios announced the Evolve Open Beta for Xbox Live Gold members will start January 15th. You will receive early access to Evacuation, Evolve’s dynamic campaign. Fans will be able to play Hunt game mode with access to the first two monsters (Goliath and Kraken) and first eight hunters (Markov, Maggie, Val, Hank, Hyde, Griffin, Lazarus, and Bucket).
Back in 2016, Turtle Rock announced that support for its 4v1 monster-hunting shooter Evolve would end but fans wouldn't let it die.
From NME: "Evolve: Stage 2 had its multiplayer servers shut down back in 2018, but today players are once again able to matchmake and join peer-to-peer multiplayer games.
Several months ago, peer-to-peer functionality was lost for Evolve Legacy, which was the only way fans of the series could play with friends. Upon a multitude of players reaching out to publisher 2K, the issue was eventually fixed earlier in July. It seems 2K have gone a step further now, and reinstated peer-to-peer and matchmaking functionality for Evolve: Stage 2 after four years."
Yes so far because it's just the servers alone coming on and the console version never had the free-to-play update.
I imagine if they find people playing the PC version and enough players are enjoying it then they'd probably reconsider opening console as well but I wouldn't count on it.
The game was epic as a monster. Hunters were really boring to play as to me.
Evolve is an asymmetrical multiplayer experience born at the tail-end of the wrong era, in the multiplayer world.
Great idea but poorly executed and destined to fail from the begging. Only thing I’m grateful towards this game is that it’s the one that convinced me to never buy a game blind again.
Shadowrun for the Xbox 360/PC would of been a better example of a great online game that launched At the wrong time.
May be I should try it, because it has not grabbed my interest so far.
I played the beta the first time around and I didn't really like it too much, but I'm willing to try it again, I want to like this game it's a good concept. I probably need to just give it a fair chance.
Wont lie but kinda sad that ps4 users only get 1day after the problems with thier severs last time. Really did not have time to even touch the beta. This is just turning me away from the game.
If you haven't tried this game yet you should. I absolutely loved the alpha and had a ton of fun playing it. Once you get the hang of each hunter and monsters abilities it becomes alot more fun, especially when working together with a team that knows what they are doing.
The game is a mess. Not only do they have terrible servers but the gameplay itself is dull and unless you're fighting the monsters then you're just running around the rest of the time. There is nothing in between the running to find the monster & actually fighting the monster to keep the game interesting. Sure, you can fight the other creatures on the map but it's pointless as they're easily avoided and once dead the monster can just circle back and use them for upgrades.
L4D worked because you fought hordes of zombies coming after you while also having to reach a the safe house and watching out for the special zombies that were player controlled. You felt like you were always doing something in that game.
I've even seen streams of one of the monsters that flys around just spamming skills and easily killing everyone at the start without even upgrading the abilities.