Karma’s a B*tch; Evolve’s Wraith Glitches Out

Jermain of RGN writes:

"Ask anyone who has encountered the wraith in Evolve and they’ll confirm; she is overpowered as hell. Despite having the least armor and health out of the three monsters, her unique abilities and speed make her a formidable foe. Too formidable in fact. When the monster that is supposed to be the toughest to play as, ends up with a high win rate, you have a problem. When more and more players start using her to get easier wins, you have a bigger problem. It starts to hurt the overall experience and results in frustration.

Which is what this wraith player must have felt towards the end of our match. Despite giving my teammates and I a hard time, we eventually prevailed. Not because we outsmarted our opponent, or fought to the bitter end like true warriors. No, no, we won because the bastard got stuck."

[Hitman0769]

Hopefully this isn't too OP of a monster and if it is hopefully Turtle Rock can do something about it gently without totally changing the feel of the game. I hate when patches change stuff like damage values and the like...

[Elit3Nick]

The whole point of balance patches is to change game values. And yes, the wraith is broken OP, nearly every aspect of it is unbalanced and makes me wonder how it passed through testing. It's so small that it makes it hard to hit, mixed with its insane speed that allows it to outrun a dome before it fully deploys, then there's supernova, which is supposed to be a panic ability but is used as an insta-kill button, and last but not least decoy, which makes you completely invisible, makes a clone that not only distracts the hunters, but actually damages them, forcing them to fight it while the cloaked wraith just slithers off.

[Cstahler92RNG]

Wraith was OP to begin with, if you are even mildly decent you can wreck shit with it.

[ajeezy09]

huh well aye yall did it

[RjK311jR]

Anyone else think Evolve was a Free-to-play game or think 2K games realizes that some people wait till games are almost dirt cheap and figured the way around that is to offer a lot of things behind a paywall (customizations). PC games sell for like $5-$20 if you buy right. idk i had this idea, started writing it, but just dont know how to get it out with it making sense... it just seems like the original intentions for Evolve are not being met or were changed... just like Destiny. But who am I to know, its just my own thoughts on it... It just seems like eventually they will give Evolve away and they have other ways to make money with it.. thats what i think i meant... but instead of giving it away like other f2p, micro trans games, they say no its a full game (so are f2p, AAA games) you still have to pay msrp... well $60 gives you what other f2p games w/ similar transactions in them have...Evolve is the 1st game this gen I have not bought nor will I.. I love turtle rock and all the left 4 dead games. I just cant support that type of gouging at my pockets.. cause of course who doesnt want to make themselves different looking to others online... its human nature to want to stand out and be different, or stand up for yourself.. its just crazy that these things are happening before our eyes and the kids younger than us, have no idea that gaming was never like this... and because they dont they assume its always been like this. And it hasnt!! Whats worse is/are the devs that speak against crap like this and then go right and do it themselves. I think this is why we are seeing a big indie rush and devs going solo b/c they dont want corporate down there throats saying DLC this and that...

[Stopher92]

I completely agree. Bubble for you

[kratoz1209]

I heard they are going to charge for patches aswell?

[Patricko]

Well, in Borderlands they were charging for patch that was allowing to level up to 72 lvl. Not exactly patch, but You know what I mean.
2K... Another Ubi or EA?

[MasterCornholio]

Wraith matches tend to last a long time because the dang thing keeps getting away. Its so fast.

[ENSABAHNUR]

I can't say I'd pick this game up for $65... I actually snaked my copy on PS4 for $23 due to my friend picking it up on his X1 as well. (He had more friends playing it on X1... Look, the game can be pretty fun... If you got friends playing it... Playing with randoms can sour this game up pretty badly... The devs made a great teamwork game but devs these days seem to forget there's soooo many douchebags playing online now a days. Just imagine your medic is a guy who joins then sits still the whole game, or doesn't give a damn about healing, he just tries to play sniper as if he thinks he gonna drop the damn monster with a headshot...BTW the game randomly picks who'll be what based on a preference system.

The DLC thing is pretty over blown ( to an extent ) atm because aside from the hunting pass, it's all cosmetic DLC that doesn't affect gameplay at all. Yeah it should be free but in the end that stuff doesn't matter... The only DLC issue I think that's BS is the fact hunters and monsters have their own season pass ( the monster pack isn't available yet )... If you don't get the monster pack as a whole, then you'll be paying a steep ass $15 per monster. That's garbage as I feel if you're gonna make a damn season pass you should get everything that affects/changes the gameplay... That's terrible/greedy decision making...

So it looks good, plays pretty smooth ( some climbing issues as hunters ), but isn't quite a $65 game... F2P is grossly exaggerated as it's not that bad, this game is realistically worth 30-40 dollars at most... Turtle Rock is still great a team play gameplay still but the overall package is a little underwhelming... Hope this helps some people still on the fence.... Back to playing games.

[SynestheticRoar]

Devolve is F-ing joke.