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Evolve is finally nerfing its most overpowered monster

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Evolve is all about balance when you boil it down. Maintaining a sense of equilibrium between hunters and monsters, a delicate balancing act that can tip in the favour of good teamwork or sneaky stalking. It is of course, prone to some gameplay that is a tad bit in favour of one specific style of play. And by that, I mean that the f***ing Wraith is about as overbalanced as a drunk fat man being forced to take a roadside sobriety test. Fortunately, the Wraith is getting re-tuned along with the rest of the game.

According to Turtle Rock, the Wraith will have “less bursty” gameplay, which should make taking down the bastard behemoth not easier, but fairer at least. Here’s a list of how the Wraith is being tweaked:

WARP

  • Speed reduced 25%

SUPERNOVA

  • Duration decreased by 50%

DECOY

  • Wraith becomes visible for half a second when shot while cloaked.
  • Increased cooldown time by 2 seconds.

WARP BLAST

  • Speed reduced by 40%
  • Range no longer levels up.
  • Radius levels up now.
  • Max travel distance set to 30 meters for all levels.
  • Damage increased by 10%

Sounds fair, with warp being a damage dealer instead of an unfair escape advantage. There’s more than just Wraith-tuning in the patch, which you can read about here. Val’s med-gun will heal at a 20% faster rate, Cabot’s railgun has decreased damage, and Hyde gets a better minigun. PC players will get the update this week, while console owners will have to ready their bandwidth from next week. Man, f*** that Wraith, right in the spinning death-blades when a savvy player corners me.

I don’t suck at the game, everyone else is just wrong.

Last Updated: March 25, 2015

42 Comments

  1. James Anderton

    March 25, 2015 at 09:36

    But it wasn’t overpowered. They promised!

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    • Hammersteyn

      March 25, 2015 at 09:51

      They hired ex MS employees.
      #180

      Reply

  2. Ryanza

    March 25, 2015 at 09:38

    They can turn the PC server off. It won’t make a difference.

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    • Majik

      March 26, 2015 at 09:58

      Come now, you don’t wanna upset the 10 people still playing it on PC.

      Reply

  3. Pariah

    March 25, 2015 at 09:39

    The 12 people in SA still playing this thank you for your valuable update, Evolve.

    Reply

    • Greylingad

      March 25, 2015 at 09:46

      12 people?!! amazing! That there, is the most played onli…nevermind, I really couldn’t care for this game…and funny enough I don’t think anyone else does either, which is sad really…very sad indeed…

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      • Guild

        March 25, 2015 at 10:16

        There’s a few people I know playing it every night on the PS4. I join them every now and then but still preferring to play Dying light and Helldivers at the moment.

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        • Greylingad

          March 25, 2015 at 10:27

          That’s the thing though….there is always something better than this after you’ve played it once…

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          • Guild

            March 25, 2015 at 10:53

            I really enjoy the game when I play with a team of friends. And I do often think after a game I need to play it more but currently I’m just enjoying some chilled gaming at my own pace. If I commit to a full session of Evolve with a team it’s on average an hour per evacuation game.

  4. Hammersteyn

    March 25, 2015 at 09:41

    Yay, now everyone will go back to playing Evolve.

    Reply

    • James Anderton

      March 25, 2015 at 09:42

      ahahaha. aha. *sob*

      Reply

    • 40 Insane Frogs

      March 25, 2015 at 09:51

      Hahahaha! Right in the gonads.

      Reply

  5. Ryanza

    March 25, 2015 at 09:43

    If the nerfing of a monster a patch or DLC?

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    • Ryanza

      March 25, 2015 at 09:47

      Did I just say if when asking a question. Damn. My comments are really useless. But that’s how I like it.

      Reply

    • James Anderton

      March 25, 2015 at 09:48

      you’ll probably pay $15 for the patch, going by 2k logic.

      Reply

  6. Blood Emperor Trevor

    March 25, 2015 at 09:50

    You’re space hunters tracking down the most dangerous monsters in the galaxy, but they’re not allowed to be powerful or fight back because it’s unfair.

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    • Hammersteyn

      March 25, 2015 at 09:51

      BEE for space hunters?

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      • Admiral Chief

        March 25, 2015 at 09:54

        XD

        Reply

      • Ryanza

        March 25, 2015 at 09:55

        Black Economic Empower… oh space. Black people don’t do space or swimming.

        Reply

        • Ryanza

          March 25, 2015 at 09:57

          That’s racist.

          Reply

  7. 40 Insane Frogs

    March 25, 2015 at 09:53

    But guys, this is the game that got all those rewards. Surely it would have been balanced like a finger-balancing Shaolin monk?

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  8. RinceThis

    March 25, 2015 at 09:54

    I feel as a community we should find out who issues this instruction, find out where they live, and threaten their family. Isn’t that normal behaviour for gamers?

    Reply

    • Admiral Chief

      March 25, 2015 at 09:54

      You forgot to add “insult their mother and or sexual preference”

      Reply

      • Pariah

        March 25, 2015 at 10:00

        And if they reply, insult their father’s sexual preference.

        Which of course contradicts itself because prior to that they insulted your mother.

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      • Hammersteyn

        March 25, 2015 at 10:17

        My sexual prefernce has been called into question so many times it’s hard to remember who I bat for. Also thanks to them I’m convinced the women claming to be my mother must be a kidnapper as she doesn’t fit their description.

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        • Blood Emperor Trevor

          March 25, 2015 at 10:43

          Bat for NZ, you probably won’t get run or caught out.

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          • Hammersteyn

            March 25, 2015 at 11:30

            True, but I’d get dropped a lot and that’s no fun on the adting scene

    • 40 Insane Frogs

      March 25, 2015 at 09:55

      Nope, that’s normal behaviour for the criminally insane. Real gamers, just shrug their shoulders, sip a bit of Tab, eat a bit more sliced biltong, and keep on gaming.

      Reply

  9. Dawid Eduard Roestorf

    March 25, 2015 at 09:59

    Look, more comments has been made on this post than people playing the game. LOL

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    • Admiral Chief

      March 25, 2015 at 10:04

      LOOOL

      Reply

    • Hammersteyn

      March 25, 2015 at 10:18

      Booom, actually the state of Evolve is almost as sad as the cricket

      Reply

      • Pariah

        March 25, 2015 at 10:21

        At least the cricket was worth watching.

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        • Hammersteyn

          March 25, 2015 at 10:25

          Yeah, right till the end. Nice diving be Duminy. He should look into rugby. he could play scrumhalve

          Reply

    • James Anderton

      March 25, 2015 at 10:42

      More people are playing Source SDK Base 2007 than Evolve.

      Game of the Year 2015!

      Reply

  10. Futureman

    March 25, 2015 at 10:37

    pffff either way need something new to the game, boring as F, changing a few attributes wont make a difference.

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  11. Geoffrey Tim

    March 25, 2015 at 10:39

    Fuck the wraith.

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    • Admiral Chief

      March 25, 2015 at 10:56

      Just use protection

      Reply

    • Pariah

      March 25, 2015 at 10:57

      Is that some kind of asian fetish you have going on?

      Reply

  12. J_Joestar

    March 25, 2015 at 17:39

    So the Female monster gets the nerf?
    Patriarchy…

    Reply

  13. Cabbit

    March 26, 2015 at 16:46

    There is a steam group for those interested, EvolveZA. We organize games almost every night.

    Reply

  14. Lukas De Kock

    July 11, 2016 at 21:30

    so the update was good then considering there are lots of evolve players again 😀
    only got it now that its free. was googling this effing wraith being so OP

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