We know already that Evolve is…close to dead. There’s a small, core group of players that keeps at it, but interest in the 4v1 shooter has dropped to embarrassingly low levels. Could some new DLC help bring players back? Probably not, but it’s happening anyway.
Starting at the end of this month – for Xbox players – Evolve will get a wealth of new content including two maps, a new monster and four brand new hunters
The fourth playable monster, The Behemoth, will be coming free to those who foolishly pre-ordered the game to get the Monster Expansion pack. If not, it’ll set you back $15 for the monster content. Hopefully, Behemoth won;t be overpowered like that goddamned sonofableeping Wraith.
The four new hunters are:
- Torvald – A Cyborg Assault character with a mortar cannon for an arm
Torvald has a Goliath-sized beef with Monsters. Survivor of a Monster attack, Torvald was nearly torn to pieces. Rebuilt into a half-human walking tank, Torvald is heading to Shear with a head full of revenge. Besides cybernetic implants, he’s sporting back-mounted Mortar Cannons. As deadly as those mortar rounds are at a distance, Torvald is straight-up vicious, up close. Toss a Shrapnel Grenade and he peppers a target with weak spots. That’s when you unload rounds from his Autofire Shotgun and rack up some serious bonus damage.
- Crow – A Trapper with a pet Batray for tracking Monsters
Crow is a bit of a recluse. He actually retired to the unsettled parts of Shear to be left alone – until the Monsters came and screwed everything up. He understands the planet better than most, which makes him perfectly suited as a Trapper. Now, Crow and his trained pet Batray, Gobi, are going to get rid of the Monsters one dome at a time. On command, Gobi flies ahead to scout an area and lets Crow “see” nearby creatures. Gobi flies out a couple hundred meters at most in line-of-sight, eventually finding its way back to its master. Crow’s Stasis Gun has two firing modes: A rapid-fire mode briefly slows down the Monster, but a charged shot will drop a Monster to a crawl for a longer period of time. Then there is his Kinetic Long Rifle. The rapid-fire mode deals lots of damage-per-second, but charge the shot and he is able to punch straight through a Monster’s armor and damage its health. It’s sneaky and vicious. Just like Crow.
- Slim – A genetically modified combat Medic
A forgotten solider from a forgotten war, Slim is not human – not anymore. His DNA was genetically modified so much that this combat medic resembles some insectoid hybrid. All of Slim’s abilities not only mess with the Monster, he has some unique ways to keep his fellow Hunters in the fight. His primary weapon, the Leech Gun, saps strength from the Monster and that fuels how quickly his Healing Burst reloads. His Healing Burst also happens to have the largest radius compared to all the other Medics. Slim’s Healing drone buzzes around the battlefield, targeting teammates and helping them regenerate health over time. As soon as the Hunter getting healed is attacked, the drone returns to Slim. Of course, the Monster can’t hurt what it can’t find and Slim’s Spore Cloud Launcher masks the scent of the Hunters, giving you the perfect opportunity to get in close.
- Sunny – A Support character equipped with a mini-nuke grenade launcher
Sunny goes a long ways back with Abe and Parnell before coming to Shear. (In fact, Sunny was one of the original four Hunters, back when Evolve was first created.) Now the ace pilot, engineer and eternal optimist is coming to help her old squadmates. As support, she’s protecting the team with Shield Drones that will cover nearby teammates and take the hits for the Hunters. In order to help them with a quick escape, Sunny’s Jetpack Booster lets teammates fly further, faster and not run out of juice while in range. All that said, Sunny is perfectly capable of dishing it out. Her Mininuke Grenade Launcher packs more punch in a single projectile than any other hand-wielded weapon in the game.
If you’ve bought the Hunting Pass, they’ll be yours, or you can buy them for $7.50 a piece.
While 2K and Turtle Rock are happy to nickle-and-dime you for characters, as promised maps will be free. The Broken Hill Mine and Broken Hill Foundry, will be coming to all players for free, along with a new Observer game mode.
The maps will be released first on Xbox One at the end of this month, and will come to PC and PS4 on April 30. I don;t imagine any of this will genuinely increase the game’s dwindling user-counts for too long.
Last Updated: March 20, 2015
Jaded_Reprobate
March 20, 2015 at 09:34
I’m glad i managed to show some small bit of patience with this and wait for the reviews before deciding to piss my money down the drain… i Saved a good R800 to spend on a game that would actually be worth my time
WitWolfy
March 20, 2015 at 09:37
Thats how I felt about The Order. Will get it when it drops in price or Second hand.
Dutch Matrix
March 20, 2015 at 09:39
So, what remake are you going to get, seeing as this is the only thing we seem to be getting this gen.
Hammersteyn
March 20, 2015 at 09:41
Gears of God of War?
Dutch Matrix
March 20, 2015 at 09:42
Super Mario Mass Effect
Hammersteyn
March 20, 2015 at 09:49
XD
Jaded_Reprobate
March 20, 2015 at 09:49
Call of battlefield
RinceThis
March 20, 2015 at 09:50
Final Silent Nukem?
Admiral Chief
March 20, 2015 at 10:12
I won’t play a Silent Nukem, since the jokes make that game
Hammersteyn
March 20, 2015 at 09:41
Reignite interest by charging you for additional content for a game you stopped playing but paid full price for. Not a very compelling strategy…
Vogiir
March 20, 2015 at 09:53
Lol yeah.
Sageville
March 20, 2015 at 09:43
Their matchmaking was broken, that’s the reason this game failed…. also probably was missing a game mode or two or Single Player campaign….
Sigh, its actually a really good game, for what it offers I think it was built well.
Hammersteyn
March 20, 2015 at 09:51
But does it’s offering really warrant a full price?
Pariah
March 20, 2015 at 10:06
*its
Hammersteyn
March 20, 2015 at 10:09
tits
Pariah
March 20, 2015 at 10:11
XD
Sageville
March 20, 2015 at 10:07
I don’t think it was worth full AAA price, maybe R100 over priced.
justlikemo
March 20, 2015 at 09:45
probably existing users will log on play a couple of hours, get bored and logoff.
I will wait, easter is coming, so is christmas, the price has to drop.
the game is brilliant, but the online pairing thing, yeh, again unless you like the awesomenauts genre you wont really enjoy this game.
Admiral Chief
March 20, 2015 at 09:49
Pity, the broke it with all this DLC, greed won them over
Jaded_Reprobate
March 20, 2015 at 09:51
they**
I SAVED THE CHIEF!!!!
Hammersteyn
March 20, 2015 at 09:52
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Inb4me!!!
Jaded_Reprobate
March 20, 2015 at 09:52
does that happen often? 0_O
Hammersteyn
March 20, 2015 at 09:55
Not that often no, well done, I give you all the upvotes.
http://i.imgur.com/ye5nOg8.gif
Jaded_Reprobate
March 20, 2015 at 09:57
seems like Christmas and my love life have something in common this year…….
It came early
Hammersteyn
March 20, 2015 at 09:57
O_o lol
Pariah
March 20, 2015 at 10:05
I’d be careful about admitting that around here.
Jaded_Reprobate
March 20, 2015 at 10:09
you need to be able to rag yourself before you can rag others
Admiral Chief
March 20, 2015 at 10:13
Did you or your love life come early?
Either way, you have a love life, congrats!
Jaded_Reprobate
March 20, 2015 at 10:18
thanx… it’s a hands on approach
Jaded_Reprobate
March 20, 2015 at 10:20
and yes, i do intend on digging this hole as deep as i can…
Admiral Chief
March 20, 2015 at 10:21
*hands JR a huge shovel
RinceThis
March 20, 2015 at 10:00
BWAHHAHA!
Admiral Chief
March 20, 2015 at 10:12
[NODDY BADGE]
BurnZ
March 20, 2015 at 09:58
Nope, not interested at all. With all that has been going on about Evolve, i put the game in last night and gave it another go. Mildly interesting and entertaining is what i would call it at best. To top it off the first game i played online, the medic was intent on running off and not assisting at all, he/she was lvl 13 so i know they have played a bit, it was infuriating sabotage! At least it did not last too long, the Monster just destroyed us in about 7min. Id rather have put up little kids writing my mother off while playing BF or COD over Evolve any day. R800 down the drain….
Guild
March 20, 2015 at 10:27
What platform you playing on? There is a group of PS4 players who play every night together so no random team mates who mess up the game. Personally, I do enjoy the game when I do play with the guys but I’m enjoying Dying Light and Helldiver’s more.
BurnZ
March 20, 2015 at 11:23
Ah man im keen for Dying light, just saying! I am jamming on PS4! i just don’t have many friends playing, the first week i had the game i must have had about 12 friends actively playing regularly, and it was pretty cool, new and interesting. really enjoyed it then, but since most people have stopped playing (myself included) its been a nightmare to join random lobbies. Some work out fine, just a lack of communication every now and again. And others are just tedious to play with a random group.
hairyknees
March 20, 2015 at 10:23
Only $7.50 a hunter? OMG BARGAIN!
Ryanza
March 20, 2015 at 11:10
If they want to reignite interest in Evolve, then they have to create a campaign. Tell an amazing story. A story that is not short to complete. Then people will show interest. Not for 7$50 per stupid DLC character.
Every DLC just digs the hole deeper for Evolve. Evolve players are already jumping out of that hole. Potential new players don’t want to buy Evolve to get into that hole.
Sir Faulty
March 20, 2015 at 11:14
Played this for a single weekend and got terribly bored with it. I am not the least bit surprised its shedding players faster than the monster skins appearing as DLC. It’s too repetitive, there is not much to do to be honest and it gets old and boring fast. It’s entire premise is built from the ground up by a single gimmick and that gimmick ain’t lasting enough to keep people invested. Thankfully I got a copy as a gift so I was not too put out but had I dropped $60 dollars on this on the PC I would have been mighty miffed with myself.
Allykhat
March 20, 2015 at 11:33
Because nothing says “Come back and play our game” like paid DLC 😀
B4d R0b0t
March 20, 2015 at 11:46
Really sad about how this all turned out, they would have made so much more money if the game was a $20 in a 5 pack no extra costs. So many people would have bought it & shared the keys out to mates. It actually is a really fun game to play with friends and really awful to play alone.
Skyblue
March 20, 2015 at 16:07
No but LAN support for PC may…
DarkHole
March 22, 2015 at 06:21
anyone who played Evolve in beta knew it was doomed before it even launched. Fact is that the developers where showing Evolve to a select few people before going to open beta, and this has led them to getting false feedback. Of course when they invite media websites and gaming magazines to come and play the game in a closed beta review event it’s going to get rave reviews, because these people got exclusive access and played in an organised event. But today gaming isn’t really organised outside of ‘pro-esports’. gamers just want to jump into a public server and have instant gratification and adrenaline, they don’t want games where you have to rely on your teammate to be skilled.
Evolve took the wrong path very early on. And by the time it opened up to the public for beta right before launch, it was too late to correct themselves.