A new Wednesday, a new reason to artificially get upset and of course a new game that has drawn my ire. Well, Evolve is not entirely new anymore. However, that is certainly no reason not to have it make another appearance in my Whining Wednesday.
Balance succeeded, patch bungled
Since the last balance patch, Evolve is once again a lot of fun on PC. The fights feel more balanced in most modes than before. I have a blast with the new Monster Behemoth when I roll through the opponents, and the new hunters are quite fun, especially the new healer Slim has caught my attention. Currently, the two new maps cannot be played with the PC version, even though they were already included in the patch.
And that’s where the whole mess begins: The “random generator” that selects the played map can already spit out the new maps. And then all sorts of funny things can happen if one finds diabolical soul torment amusing.
Observers in their own game and other goodies
So far, my loyal group of good friends and I have noticed three nice occurrences that can ruin the game if one of the new locked maps is selected.
- The game just closes. Free according to the motto “Nope, I’m not loading this map, goodbye!” Of course, this brings a lot of joy when you’ve spent the last hour on a really exciting “Evacuation” campaign and after the 3rd round you end up empty-handed.
- The game changes the map and turns me into an observer. Right, some random player (forgive me, player 6!) is simply loaded into the game and takes the position of one of the previous hunters or the monster.
- The game changes the map and assigns new roles to all players. If you previously signed up with some friends as a hunter team, then suddenly you are the monster and have to beat up your own friends. This is of course only half as funny when that was not planned and you wanted to improve the team play of the group.
So, dear Mr. TurtleRocks, I wanted to inform you that your employees are absolutely… oh no. It’s not that bad. Just fix it, please. There is nothing more frustrating than being kicked out of a hours-long match without reason because the system is overwhelmed with the “withholding” of the new maps. Don’t wait until the end of the month for this, okay?
