Crate option added onto the main menu where players can unlock two new types of crates. Each crate grants different rewards and will either cost Silver Keys or Gold Keys to unlock.

• 
  Added Basic crates
  
  • Unlocked with Silver Keys
  • Unlock 3 random items ranging from:
    
    • 111 Badges
    • 75 Weapon Skins
    • 16 Hunter Skins
    • 12 Monster Skins
    • 44 Perks
• 
  Added Premium crates
  
  • Unlocked with Gold Keys
  • Unlock 5 random items ranging from:
    
    • Same items from Basic Crate (excluding Perks)
    • Higher chance for better items
    • 34 Characters
    • 22 additional Weapon Skins
    • 23 additional Hunter Skins
    • 6 additional Monster Skins
      Store Drop
• 
  Hunters
  
  • Crow Valkyrie Hunter Skin
  • Crow Man Eater Hunter Skin
  • Crow Blood Eagle Hunter Skin
  • Crow Monarch Hunter Skin
  • Emet Monarch Hunter Skin
  • Maggie Blood Eagle Hunter Skin
  • Maggie Valkyrie Hunter Skin
  • Laz Valkyrie Hunter Skin
  • Quantum Caira Monarch Hunter Skin
  • Quantum Caira Valkyrie Hunter Skin
  • Hank Nighthunter Weapon Skin
  • Bucket Nighthunter Weapon Skin
• Monsters
  
  • Clownfish Wraith Monster Skin
  • Carnivore Goliath Monster Skin
  • Carnivore Wraith Monster Skin
  • Jade Behemoth Monster Skin

2 New Perk Sets

We’ve introduced two perk sets for Hunters and Monsters that will manipulate the healing output when these are selected.

• New Hunter perks
  
  • Vigorous Healing (High)
    
    • Increase incoming healing by 10% | 11% | 12%
  • Improved healing (Medium)
    
    • Increase incoming healing by 6% | 7% | 8%
• New Monster Perks
  
  • Infectious Wounds (High)
    
    • Melee attacks reduce healing received by -10% | -12% | -14% for 1.5 seconds
  • Aggravated Wounds (Medium)
    
    • Melee attacks reduce healing received by -7% | -9% | -11% for 1.5 seconds

We’ve done a pass on some of the popular Hunter perks right now bringing some down and also giving some buffs to perks we don’t feel were working in the current meta.

• Hunter Health Regen
  
  • Regeneration
    
    • Added 0.5% | 0.75% | 1% Damage reduction
  • Enhanced Regeneration
    
    • Added 1% | 1.5% | 2% Damage reduction
  • Nanotech Regeneration
    
    • Added 2% | 2.5% |3% Damage reduction
• Hunter Movement Speed Perks
  
  • Dev Insight: Walk speed is the speed you’ll move at while firing or strafing as a Hunter, if you take all 3 perks you’ll be able to walk (strafe/fire) as fast as you sprint.
  • Enhanced Celerity
    
    • Walk Speed increased by 18% | 20% | 22%
    • Sprint Speed increased by 3% | 4% | 5%
  • Nanotech Celerity
    
    • Walk Speed increased by 26% | 28% | 30%
    • Sprint Speed increased by 5% | 7% | 9%
  • Mutated Celerity
    
    • Walk Speed increased by 34% | 36% | 38%
    • Sprint Speed increased by 9% | 11% | 12%
• Damage Resistance Hunter
  
  • Enhanced Defense
    
    • Damage reduction increased to 3% | 4% | 5% from 2% | 3% | 4%
  • Unbreakable Defense
    
    • Damage reduction increased to 5% | 6% | 7% from 4% | 5% | 6%
• Hunter Jetpack perks
  
  • Agility
    
    • Added -7% | -10% | -12.5% Jetpack Recharge (takes longer to recharge)
  • Maximum Agility
    
    • Added -15% |-17.5% | -20% Jetpack Recharge (takes longer to recharge)
  • Afterburners
    
    • Jetpack Dodge Thrust decreased to 2.5% | 3.5% | 4% from 2.5% | 3.5% | 4.5%
  • Focused Thrusters
    
    • Jetpack Dodge Thrust decreased to 3% |4.5% | 5% from 3% | 4.5% | 6%

Behemoth

• Living Armor
  
  • Increased stack limit to 15 stacks from 10 stacks
• Lava Bomb
  
  • Cast lockout time increased to 0.85 seconds from 0.7 seconds

Hunters

General

• Poison damage from perks no longer reveals cloaked Hunters

Maggie and Wasteland Maggie

• If Daisy is the only one left on the Hunter team, the round will end.
  
  • Daisy can’t stall time to get that last minute dropship

Lennox

• Plasma Lance
  
  • Damage scaling increased to115|165|215|265 from 115|165|200|250

Quantum Caira

• Healing fields (bubbles) increased to 11 meters from 9 meters
• Proton Field radius is now 8 meters from 6 meters

Paladin Parnell

• Generyst Rockets
  
  • Max spread reduced to 3 from 6
  • Radius to decreased 7 meters from 8.8 meters

Rogue Val

• Chain Medgun
  
  • Increased healing to 75|40 from 70|40
  • Increased incap healing to 75|40 from 70|40

Caira

• Now has 5 napalm and 5 healing grenades
  
  • You finally got your wish Moiser.

Battle Cabot

• Solar Blast
  
  • Min explosion radius increased to 6 meters from 5
  • Max explosion radius increased to 8 meters from 7
  • Cast time decreased to 0.3 seconds from 0.5 seconds
• Photon Cannon
  
  • Fire rate decreased to 180 from 200 and set to automatic
• Orbital Concealment
  
  • Cast time decreased to 0.4 seconds from 0.5 seconds
  • Speed boost increased to 40%
  • Duration decreased to 6 from 8

Jack

• Dual Pistol fire rate decreased to 360 from 400
  
  • You can now hold down the mouse button to fire automatically

• Fixed an issue where the AI monster would not pick up enough perks in Overpowered.
• Post round voice chat icon will no longer overlap other options.
• Fixed Sunny’s Shield Drone minimap icon.
• Fixed an issue that was causing Goliath and Behemoth players to get stuck in game during high ping.
• The bottom UI options will no longer disappear when losing connection while making a purchase in the character select screen.
• Replaced old Behemoth ability videos on the character select with new ones.
• Fixed an issue where clicking through the post round screen too quickly will cause the UI to overlap.
• The class ability description will no longer overlap the purchase button when viewing character description in the store.

• The latest Support adaptation has hit Evolve Stage 2. Sporting a kit built around skill shots, Battle Cabot will be a challenge for any Support player to master. Be sure to check him out in game today!
• http://www.evolveupdates.com/battlecabot/

• Now when playing The Deepest Dark, Overpowered or Cataclysm the winning side will have a chance for a crate drop that will unlock one item selected at random.
  
  • Each Map Variant has it’s own specific crate for players to unlock.
  • Be sure to give each map a try at a chance at the new crates!
  • http://www.evolveupdates.com/crates/

• Starting with Update 2.13 all players who sign up with my2K will be awarded both the Savage Goliath skin and the Markov Blood Eagle Hunter skin.
  
  • If Founders previously owned Savage Goliath, the Silver Key exchange rate will be awarded once the update goes live.

• We’ve added a new UI icon when fighting against Behemoth to display the current number of Living Armor stacks as they build up during fights.
  
  • Each stack will be displayed with a number between one and ten. One being the lowest and ten the full stacks.

• Bob will now be available in Co-op vs AI!

Last week we introduced a feature to stall the Dome timer when a Monster attacks the Hunter team. While this accomplished some of our goals talking and watching a lot of our community we have some initial changes based off our players feedback to help this system feel much better to play against as a Hunter while still giving the Monster a tool to use against the Hunter team.

• Damage over time Monster abilities no longer stall the Dome timer
• Combat range reduced to 40 meters from 50 meters
• Combat timer stall reduced to 2 seconds from 5 seconds
  
  • This means that after dealing damage, the timer will be stalled for 2 seconds before counting down again.
  • This will be reset after dealing damage to a Hunter.

Watching a lot of the feedback over the past week with this new perk set we decided to make some initial changes to see where the new perks land for all players. We’ve stepped down their power just a bit and we’ll be watching their power over the next week. Note the Damage increase has not changed but the cooldown %’s have increased on both perks.

• Brute Force (Superior)
  
  • CD increase changed to 17%|20%|24% from 18.75%|22.5%|25%
• Heavy Hitter (Major)
  
  • Cooldown increase changed to 12%|15%|16% from 9%|12.5%|15%

• Before this change a Harpoon would detach a Monster instantly while climbing a wall. Now, Monsters can continue climbing at a slower rate while harpoons are attached during wall climb.
  
  • Currently will slow Monster climb rates by 50% on walls.
  • Dev Insight: Harpoons felt way too punishing against Monsters while climbing walls. This is our first move to bring down Harpoons overall impact against Monster and remove some of those frustrating experiences falling from the top of a wall with a Harpoon in your back.

It’s been no secret that the Community didn’t think Wasteland brought much to the table compared to the other trappers. We made some AI changes to Daisy before committing her buffs but now we’ll be bringing out our first pass on Wasteland Maggie. Wasteland Daisy will no longer revive Hunters, but she’ll solely focus on dealing damage to the Monster which should help her overall DPS compared to other trappers. Let us know what you think!

• Burst Pistol
  
  • Secondary burn DPS increased to 21 from 14
• Flame Harpoon
  
  • Harpoon launch range increased to 18 meters from 15 meters
• Wasteland Daisy
  
  • No longer revives Hunters
  • Will now focus on positioning herself to deal damage in combat
  • Range increased to 25 meters from 15 meters
  • Health increased to 1600 units from 1100
  • Damage increased to 50 from 28

Quantum Caira

• Neutron Barrier
  
  • Cooldown decreased to 28 seconds from 30 seconds
• Generyst™ II Field
  
  • Cooldown decreased to 15 seconds from 16 seconds
• Dev Insight
  
  • We want to start bringing up Quantum Caira slowly and we felt these were two small buffs to help her overall performance over the course of a Dome fight.

Rogue Val

• Healing Field
  
  • Heal other increased to 40 health per second from 38 health per second

Kala

• Armor Reducer
  
  • Capacity increased to 110 units from 100 units

Bucket

• Sentry Guns
  
  • Damage per bullet increased to 9 from 7

• Fixed the inability to use class abilities while tumbling.
• Deepest Dark minions will no longer stack on top of each other. - AI bots will not be more efficient when using their beam weapons.
• Fixed wildlife not spawning near the monster drop area on Wraith Trap and Weather Control.
• Gorgon’s Mimic deaths will no longer count as a Death in the Player’s profile for Gorgon.
• Players will no longer lose their bottom UI when joining a match from another match.
• Fixed an issue that was causing some players to get stuck in a ‘Draw’ loop when starting tutorial.
• Removed overlapping and incorrect text that was appearing in menu and game options.
• Fixed an issue that was causing the player to 0 as their currency amount.
• Fixed co-op Meteor Goliath using 3 of regular Goliath’s abilities.
• Fixed an issue where the UI would not properly display the user’s level progress bar when going from level 39 to 40.
• Fixed players not receiving Silver Keys when completing the Goliath Hunt Tutorial for the first time.
• Late joiners into the Overpowered map will no longer see fog in the world.

We’ve done numerous changes to the Silver Key prices due to the increased ways players can unlock Silver Keys from the addition of accolades and other Silver Key gains. Part of this change was making sure it was clear what the value of specific items were and creating consistent prices across the store. We have also increased the end of round Silver Key earnings to help compensate for some of the price increases.

• Val Phoenix Weapon Skin
• Kraken Carnivore Skin
• Silver Key Goliath Badge
  
  • 100,000 Keys - Includes foreground and background

• Various improvements to current Monster AI
• New AI Monsters:
  
  • Gorgon has been added into the Coop vs AI queue
  • Meteor Goliath has been added into the Coop vs AI queue

• We've added a new Badge editor to the profile system. This will make it much easier to view all the badges you currently have and what is left to unlock. Let us know what you think!

Damage Over Time will no longer cancel armor channeling

• Passive damage (Poison, Burns) will no longer cancel Monsters channeling armor inside the Dome

Slim Refactor

• Healing burst
  
  • His healing burst is now a toggle on/off ability. While on, anyone who is damaged in the area around Slim will trigger the healing burst.
• Spore Cloud is replaced with Mutated Adrenal Gland
  
  • Mutated Adrenal Gland is an active ability that will grant Slim self healing, movement speed and jump height.
  • You can see the full stats breakdown of Slim’s changes in the balance changelist below

General Hunt Changes

• Mobile Arena changes (Dome)
  
  • Stage 2 health loss in dome 7.5% from 6.5%
  • Stage 3 Health loss in dome 9.5% from 8.5%
  • Time dome stays up without a hunter present 5 from 10
  • Successful dome prompt linger 3 from 5
• Drop Ship
  
  • Time per incap increased to 15 seconds from 13 seconds
  • Max dropship timer increased to 145 seconds from 130 seconds.

Solo Matchmaking Benefits

• Rank buff 2 (2 solo players)
  
  • Health bonus increased to 15% from 12%
  • Movespeed bonus to 9% from 6%
  • Jetpack Regen Speed bonus to 9% from 6%
• Rank buff 1 (1 solo player)
  
  • Health bonus increased to 12% from 9%
  • Movespeed bonus to 7% from 4%
  • Jetpack Regen Speed bonus to 7% from 4%

General

• Energy gained per Hunter incap reduced to 2 Evolve energy from 3
• Decreased sneak pounce grab radius of all Monsters
• Sneak pounce cooldown increased to 4 seconds from 2 seconds

Behemoth

• Rolling reduces damage taken by 25% (Does not stack with anything)
• Jack Repulsor drain per second increased to 50% from 40%
• Tongue Grab
  
  • Max grab radius increased to 4 meters from 3 meters
• Living Armor
  
  • Stack duration increased to 6 seconds from 4
  • Damage threshold to activate a Living Armor stack reduced to 65 damage from 75

Major Perks

• Mutated Claws
  
  • Damage per second reduced to 13|14|15 from 14|15|17
• Fly swatter
  
  • Damage per second reduced to 5|6|7 from 7.5|8.5|9

Superior Perks

• Evolved Claw
  
  • Damage per second reduced to 21|23|25 from 24|25|28
• Grounder
  
  • Damage per second decreased to 8|10|12.5 from 19|20|21

Slim

• Leech Gun
  
  • Cooldown reduction per leech increased to 2 seconds from 1
  • Max cooldown per shot set to 6 seconds
• Heal burst
  
  • Heal other reduced to 165 from 200
  • Self heal reduced to 155 from 175
  • Now toggles on and off
  • Automatically cast if a hunter is missing health and in range when toggled on.
• Spore Cloud has been replaced with Mutated Adrenal Gland
  
  • 6 seconds active time, 25 seconds cooldown
  • While active Slim heals 80 health per second, moves 25% faster, and has 300% increased jump height

Electro Griffin

• The Final Lockdown
  
  • Reload speed increased to 4 seconds from 3.25 seconds

Quantum Caira

• Damage reduction increased to 55% from 50
• Heal burst cooldown reduced to 16 seconds from 18
• Heal burst healing per second increased to 88 from 80

Val

• Medgun
  
  • Healing per second increased to 115 from 110

Rogue Val

• Healing field
  
  • Healing per second increased to 38 from 35
  • Incap healing per second increased to 60 from 56

Tech Sgt Hank

• Orbital Laser
  
  • Cast time reduced to .75 seconds from 1

E.M.E.T.

• Dropship Beacon cooldown increased to 60 seconds from 50

Paladin Parnell

• Mutagen Shotgun
  
  • Damage per pellet reduced to 7 from 8
  • Cooldown reduction per pellet increased to .9 seconds from .45 seconds
  • Max cooldown per shot set to 3.6 seconds
• Gneryst Rockets
  
  • Heal other reduced to 120 from 125
• Healing burst
  
  • Reduced to 475 from 500
• Righteous Fury
  
  • Damage reduction reduced to 25% from 30%

• Removed various geometry on Weather Control that would cause toxic fighting locations
• Removed various geometry on Distillery that would cause toxic fighting locations
• Fixed an area in Orbital Drill where the player could get stuck between a light and a rock wall.
• Fixed a cliff in Orbital Drill that the monster would have trouble climbing.
• Fixed a pillar in Orbital Drill where Hunters could hover at the top infinitely.
• Fixed an issue that was causing the previous level’s max value to be shown instead of the progress number in accolades.
• Bucket is no longer malfunctioning and will no longer say random, unfitting lines in the dropship.
• Fixed an issue where new users would wait for long periods of time for a coop match.
• Fixed a typo in the accolades relating to Kraken.
• Fixed Meteor Goliath’s and Elder Kraken’s Elite and Prime skin unlock animations displaying incorrect or missing images on the post round screen.
• Fixed an issue causing Elder Kraken challenges to not appear.

• Lightning Strike and Death Spiral had a clarity pass to remove some of the visual clutter they would create during combat.

• This shows all possible accolades for the selected character on the profile card.

• Hunter Skins
  
  • Val Monarch
  • Abe Maneater
• Weapon Skin
  
  • Hyde Sword set
  • Tech Sgt. Hank Predator set
  • Rogue Val Valkyrie set
• Monster Skins
  
  • Gold Kraken
  • Gold Wraith
  • Gold Gorgon

Dev Insight: This balance patch had a pretty big focus on Monster perk balance and making sure the perk scaling on perks was not so drastic between the Monster perk upgrades. We also made some adjustments to the solo player matchmaking bonus and took another look at Paladin Parnell after his first week out on Shear.

Monsters

Minor Perks

• Brawler
  
  • Climb Speed to 13%| 15% | 18% from 10% | 14% | 18%
  • Stamina Recharge to 4.5% | 5% | 6% from 3% | 4.5% | 6%
  • Damage Resistance to 3.5 | 4.5% | 5% from 3%| 4%| 5%
• Fast Climber
  
  • Climb 22.5% | 27% | 30% from 15% | 22.5% | 30%
  • Traversal 6% | 7% | 8% from 4% | 6% | 8%
• Heavy Armor
  
  • Damage Resistance decreased to 5.5% | 6.5% | 7.5% from 4% | 6% | 8%
• Haste
  
  • Movement Speed to 10% | 11% | 12% from 7.5% | 10% | 12.5%
• Unstoppable
  
  • Armor regen to 25% | 30% | 35% from 15% | 25% | 35%
  • Damage Resistance 3.5% | 4% | 5% from 3% | 4% | 5%
• Savage Nature
  
  • Climb Speed to 10% | 11% | 12% from 6% | 9% | 12%
  • Feed Speed increased to 18% | 19% | 20% from 13% | 17% | 20%
  • Smell Range increased to 18% | 19% | 20% from 13% | 17% | 20%
  • Sense bonus increased to 18% | 19% | 20% from 13% | 17% | 20%
• 
  Hunger
  
  • Feed Speed to 32.5% | 35% | 37% from 27.5% | 32.5% | 37.5%
  • Movement Speed to 5.5% | 6.5% | 7% from 5%| 6% | 7%
• 
  Enhanced Senses
  
  • Pounce Damage to 28% | 29% | 30% from 15% | 25% | 30%
• Leg breaker
  
  • Damage over time to 6 | 7.5 | 8 from 5 | 7 | 8

Major Perks

• Speed Climber
  
  • Climb Speed to 40% | 42.5% | 45% from 35% | 40% | 45%
  • Traversal Speed to 7.5% | 8.5% | 10% from 6% | 8% | 10%
• Scale Armor
  
  • Damage Resistance decreased to 8.5% | 9% | 10% from 8% | 10% | 12%
• Insatiable Hunger
  
  • Feeding Speed decreased to 50% | 65% | 72.5% from 40% | 60% | 80%
  • Movement Speed decreased to 8.5% | 9.5% |10.5% from 8% | 9.5% | 11%
• Mutated Haste
  
  • Movement Speed to 14% | 15% | 17% from 13% | 15% | 17%
• Crippling Attack
  
  • Slow Debuff to 25% | 28% | 30% from 20% | 25% | 30%
• Feral Instincts
  
  • Climb Speed to 18% | 19% | 20% from 10% | 15% | 20%
  • Feed Speed to 30% | 35% | 40% from 25% | 32.5% | 40%
  • Smell Range to 28% | 29% | 30% from 20% | 25% | 30%
  • Sense bonus to 28% | 29% | 30% from 20% | 25% | 30%
• Mutated Senses
  
  • Smell Range to 55% | 60% | 70% from 50% | 60% | 70%
  • Sense bonus to 55% | 60% | 70% from 50%| 60% | 70%
  • Pounce 58% | 60% | 65% from 55% | 60% | 65%
• Endurance
  
  • Stamina recharge to 15% | 16% | 17% from 13% | 15% | 17%
• Mutated Claws
  
  • Damage over time decreased to 14 | 15 | 17 from 13.5 | 15 |19
• Fly Swatter
  
  • Damage over time decreased to 7.5 | 8.5 | 9 from 8 | 9 | 10
• Mutated Recovery
  
  • Cooldown reduction decreased to 12% | 13% | 14% from 10% | 12.5% | 15%

Superior Perks

• Deadly Brawler
  
  • Climb Speed decreased to 17% | 19% | 23% from 15% | 20% | 25%
  • Damage Resistance to 6% | 7% | 8.5% from 5% | 7% | 9%
• Plated Armor
  
  • Damage Resistance decreased to 12% | 13.5% | 15% from 12% | 14% | 16%
• Evolved Haste
  
  • Movement Speed to 19% | 21% | 23% From 17% | 22% | 23%
• Unkillable
  
  • Armor Regen to 40% | 50%| 60% from 35% | 50% | 60%
  • Damage resistance decreased to 8% | 9.5% | 11% from 8% | 10% | 12%
• Unending Endurance
  
  • Stamina Recharge increased to 18% | 19% | 21% from 16% | 18% | 20%
• Evolved Claws
  
  • Damage over time decreased to 24 | 25 | 28 from 23 | 26 | 30
• Ferocious Bloodlust
  
  • Climb Speed increased to 28% | 29% | 32% from 20% | 25% | 30%
  • Feed Speed increased to 56% | 58% | 62% from 50% | 55% | 60%
  • Smell Range increased to 38% | 39% | 42% from 30%| 35% | 40%
  • Sense Bonus increased to 38% | 39% | 42% from 30% | 35% | 40%
• Grounder
  
  • Damage over time decreased to 19 | 20 | 21 from 19 | 21 | 23
  • Thrust reduction decreased to 12% | 15% | 18% from 10% | 15% | 20%
• Paralyzing Attack
  
  • Slow Debuff to 36% | 38% | 40% from 30% | 35% | 40%
• Evolved Recovery
  
  • Cooldown Reduction reduced to 16% | 17% | 19% from 16% | 18% | 20%

Hunters

Jack

• Repulsor
  
  • Reload delay increased to 1.5 seconds from 0.5 seconds
• Dev Insight: We like how strong the Repulsor feels right now but felt it needed to recharge just a bit slower to give Monsters some wiggle room during those close fights where Jack shines.

Slim

• Heal burst
  
  • Incap healing reduced to 250 from 300
• Dev Insight: Simply put his incap healing was allowing Slim excel in almost every situation in combat. We wanted to give Monsters a longer chance to punish Slim once they break through his healing.

Paladin Parnell (Parnelladin)

• Mutagen Shotgun
  
  • Damage per pellet reduced to 8 from 11
  • Spread reduced to 3 min 5 max from 5 min 10 max
• Heal Burst
  
  • Cooldown reduced to 15 seconds from 20 seconds
• Righteous Fury
  
  • Duration reduced to 13 seconds from 15.5
  • Removed self damage when activating Righteous Fury
• Generyst Rocket
  
  • Launcher spread reduced to 1 min 6 max from 0.1 min 10 max
  • Incap healing reduced to 140 from 190
• Dev Insight: We wanted to move Paladin Parnell a bit away from the strong team healing and really focus on his strength of being one of the best medics at self sustain. The Mutagen Shotgun also received a damage nerf but we felt it needed to feel much more consistent in order to help Paladin recharge his heal burst cooldown faster.

Hank

• Shield Projector
  
  • Reload delay increased to 1.5 seconds from 1.2 seconds
• Shield Burst
  
  • Self shield value reduced to 500 units from 545 units
  • Team shield value reduced to 450 units from 500 units
• Dev Insight: Hank has been performing exceptionally well at all levels. Sporting a +60% win rate at high and low level, we felt he needed to be brought back a notch with 2.09. We are focusing mainly on the Shield Burst to bring down his overall power a bit.

Renegade Abe

• Penitence
  
  • Damage over time reduced to 17 from 19
• Corrosive Grenade
  
  • Damage over time reduced to 10 from 11
• Nerve Toxin Dart
  
  • Damage over time reduced to 28 from 30
• Dev Insight: Renegade Abe has quite a lot of hidden strength. With all the utility and post-Dome damage he brings we felt he needed one more pass to see where he lands after 2.09.

Parnell

• Super Soldier
  
  • Duration to 13 seconds from 15 seconds
• Dev Insight: We like that Parnell is a strong pick right now but felt he was just getting too much value out of the duration of Super Soldier.

Kala

• Shield Burst
  
  • Other Support shield increased to 600 from 550
  • Self Support shield increased to 600 from 500
• Dev Insight: Kala is an interesting character that we’ve had our eyes on for the last few weeks. We’re starting slow here with some Shield Burst changes to help her survive through Dome fights for longer.

Solo Matchmaking Bonus

• Rank 2 Solo Player bonus (2 party / 2 Solo)
  
  • Max Health bonus to 12% from 15%
  • Strafing Speed bonus decreased to 6% from 8%
  • Movement Speed bonus 6% from 8%
  • Jetpack Recharge 6% from 8%
• Rank 3 Solo Bonus ( All Solo Players)
  
  • Health bonus decreased to 20% from 25%
  • Strafing Speed bonus decreased to 10% from 12%
  • Movement Speed bonus decreased to 10% from 12%
  • Jetpack Recharge 10% from 12%

• Removed extra subtitles that were not spoken on Deepest Dark.
• Fixed an issue where the dropship timer would disappear for the monster after Emet uses his dropship beacon.
• The UI will properly update to show available characters and skins after purchase in the character select screen.
• Invite button for a fifth player in co-op has been removed.
• Fixed an issue where the monster player will be unable to select their abilities after evolving.
• Fixed Gorgon Spider Trap fast run speed.
• Fixed an issue where the hunters will face the wrong way after being revived.
• Fixed non-Deepest Dark reavers having red trials despite running at regular speeds.
• Fixed an issue where the deploy screen will not show the correct monster after customizing the slot in solo.
• Fixed Wraith’s Decoy video in the character select screen showing old functionality.
• Fixed an issue where the hunter team can see what the monster player selected when swapping roles in character select.
• Fixed an issue where Elder Kraken’s Chain Lightning sound is extremely loud.
• Fixed an inconsistency with Quantum Caira’s tutorial VO and text.
• Lennox Plasma Lance multiplier now displays the correct values.
• Fixed various text issues across the game.
• Fixed stuck bots teleporting.
• Fixed a roach spot in Distillery near the orange chemical vat.

• Our first exclusive Co Op experience, The Deepest Dark is the latest Map Variant that is going live today!
• Taking place on a modified version of Wraith Trap, fight through the night with your friends to take on the Queen of Gorgons!
  
  • This map can only be found in the Co Op vs AI matchmaking queue.
  • Be sure to checkout the weekend challenge over on http://www.evolveupdates.com/deepestdark/

• Alongside our new UI explaining character abilities every character now has a quick run down of the abilities from our in-game Announcer!
  
  • This will only play if you’re between character levels 1-7 on a specific Hunter or Monster.

• Hunter Skins (Thursday)
  
  • Parnell Man Eater
  • Maggie Monarch
• Weapon Skin (Wednesday)
  
  • Lazarus Victory
  • Bucket Victory
  • Hyde Victory
• Monster Skins (Thursday)
  
  • Savage Kraken

• Adjusted the flight Ceiling Kraken can reach to make it a more enjoyable experience fighting against Kraken during combat.
• This change should keep Kraken from hovering too high in common fighting areas
  
  • Dev Insight: This is more of a general bugfix but we wanted to highlight this change. Our goal with this was to remove some of those fights where Kraken simply would just hover higher than intended during combat.

• All Buffs spawn at 20 seconds now
• Monster Perks
  
  • Added minor general enhancements to monster buffs, because of how easily Hunters can out diversify the Monster.
    
    • Dev Insight: The goal here is to give the Monster a few more options when it comes to the mode and what buffs they’re going to prioritize against a Hunter team.
  • Damage - Red
    
    • Damage Increased from 3% to 4%
    • +5% Faster Cooldown Rate
    • +1.5% Damage Increase
    • +5% Movement Speed
    • +2% Damage Reduction
  • Utility - Yellow
    
    • Added:
    • +5% Faster Cooldown Rate
    • +1.5% Damage Increase
    • +5% Movement Speed
    • +2% Damage Reduction
  • Defense - Blue
    
    • +5% Faster Cooldown Rate
    • +1.5% Damage Increase
    • +20% Smell Range +20%
    • Smell +15% Climb +10% Feeding Speed +10% Traversal Regen

In this update we had a focus on a few Hunters alongside giving Monsters a bit more space to feed on the Hunt and attack the generator. So let’s dive into what’s changed for 2.07

• Distance Damage Scale
  
  • Min distance scale decreased from 30 to 20 meters
  • Max distance scale increased from 100 to 110 meters
• Damage Threshold
  
  • Increased from 50 to 60 units
• Dev Insight
  
  • TL;DR of these changes are Hunters have to be closer and damage Monsters a bit more in order to interrupt them from feeding. The same applies for the generator to help gives Monsters a bit more

• Hank
  • Shield Burst
    
    • Self shield value reduced from 575 to 545 units
    • Self shield decay rate increased from 35 to 39
  • Shield Projector
    
    • Total shield energy reduced from 600 to 570
    • Energy regeneration reduced from 100 to 90
  • Dev Insight
    
    • With these changes we wanted to hit the self sustain of Hank a bit and also how much he can shield with the projector during combat. We wanted to edge this back slowly to see how it changes things up, but we’ll be watching Hank closely after these two changes.
• Kala
  
  • Shield Burst
    
    • Team shield value increased from 500 to 550 units
  • Dev Insight:
    
    • We’ve heard a lot of feedback from players about Kala, she has a lot of great tools but her lack of defense was hurting the whole team whenever she was picked. We’re bumping this up 10% for now to see what she may need after this change.
• Cabot
  
  • Rail Cannon
    
    • Reload time increased from 1.4 to 1.6 seconds
  • Dev Insight
    
    • This reload nerf was mainly done to hit Cabot’s ability to chip at range. Also with the frequency we saw reload perks taken on Cabot we wanted to bring back his reload for 2.07.
• Blitz Markov
  
  • Lightning Gun
    
    • Detect angle increased from 28 to 32 degrees
  • Dev Insight
    
    • Simply put it just felt the beam would break too easily at times after the range nerf a few patches ago. We’re hoping to see Blitz make it into the gold beam a bit more with this change.
• Hyde
  
  • Toxic Grenade
    
    • Cooldown increased from 12 to 13 seconds
• Renegade Abe
  
  • Lesser Defense Matrix
    
    • Damage resistance reduced from 55% to 45%
  • Dev Insight:
    
    • We wanted to push Abe a little further away from other Assaults. The lower damage resistance will help Monsters fight back against Renegade if he isn’t careful inside a dome fight where he is supposed to be weaker compared to others.
• Quantum Caira
  
  • Neutron Barrier
    
    • Decreased cooldown from 33 to 30 seconds
  • Dev Insight:
    
    • Decided to go a bit further with Quantum buffs. This is a small timing change but we’ve got our eye on her after each week.
• Slim
  
  • Leech Gun
    
    • Reload time increased from 1.6 to 1.8 seconds
  • Dev Insight
    
    • Slim has been enjoying some new found strength after his recent buffs. This small reload change will help give a larger window over engagements to try and break through Slims healing.
• Electro Griffin
  
  • The Final Lockdown
    
    • Reload time increased from 3.0 to 3.25 seconds
  • Dev Insight
    
    • Playing ourselves and hearing feedback from players Electro was performing really well inside domes with his constant harpoon spam. We intended for him to be good with close quarters, but we wanted to bring back his harpoon reload just a bit for this update.
• Perks
  
  • Slot 1 (Minor) Perks
    
    • Extra Fuel Tank jetpack efficiency reduced from 5%|10%|15% 5%|7.5%|10%
  • Slot 2 (Major) Perks
    
    • High Energy Fuel jetpack efficiency reduced from 20%|25%|30% to 15%|20%|25%
  • Dev Insight
    
    • One of the hot ticket items to talk about across the whole community, was the ‘tinkerbell’ perk setup that many Hunters were running. We’re bringing this back slightly for Jetpack Fuel Efficiency to see how it changes things up with the playstyle.

• We are aware that when a Monster attempts to swap roles in multiplayer matches it can break lobbies. We are working towards a fix for Update 2.08

• Fixed an issue where Co Op matchmaking would count towards Hunter win streaks
• Fixed an issue where Monarch Maggie and Blood Eagle Bucket Hunter skins were missing from the punchcard.
  
  • These will be awarded to all players who have already unlocked these rewards.
• Fixed an issue where Blood Eagle Hyde was not appearing for players who played in the Cataclysm weekend event.
• Profile grid now correctly and immediately shows purchased characters after buying them on the profile
• Perk menu in the character select now immediately allows perks purchased on profile to be used.
• Slim’s Healing Drone icon will now correctly display on incapacitated hunters.