Changing my positive review to a negative now that the beta period's ended and the game is a month since launch.

There's bugs in the release build that weren't in beta or alpha that have made it nearly impossible to enjoy the game, from cursor flickering and loss-of-input problems on my multi-monitor setup to being instakilled from dropship spawns when the intro sequence goes awry. Load times are abysmal, Wraith is a hot mess for any group of hunters to fight, and a good chunk of the game's maps are hidden behind a fairly half-baked marathon mode called Evacuation.

And not a single patch has hit since release day.

Honestly, the beta was better than this: the first two monsters are the most fun to fight, the map selection wasn't much different than in the release game's hunt mode, and somehow the whole experience was more stable than it is now. I can no longer recommend Evolve to anyone in good faith.

Changing my positive review to a negative now that the beta period's ended and the game is a month since launch. There's bugs in the release build that weren't in beta or alpha that have made it nearly impossible to enjoy the game, from cursor flickering and loss-of-input problems on my multi-monitor setup to being instakilled from dropship spawns when the intro sequence goes awry. Load times are abysmal, Wraith is a hot mess for any group of hunters to fight, and a good chunk of the game's maps are hidden behind a fairly half-baked marathon mode called Evacuation. And not a single patch has hit since release day. Honestly, the beta was better than this: the first two monsters are the most fun to fight, the map selection wasn't much different than in the release game's hunt mode, and somehow the whole experience was more stable than it is now. I can no longer recommend Evolve to anyone in good faith.