Evolve by L4D creators Turtle Rock Studios

Been hearing a lot about this. I'll probably be skipping it since it's a game to play with friends and I don't see to many of my friends playing it. Might be worth a rent at least.

Count me in.   I hope when playing solo, it will allow me to choose to play the monster.  The Co-op play looks like it will require a lot of coordination that may make it difficult in playing with randoms.   

Really looking forward to this game!

After seeing the E3 coverage and listening to a friend of mine that attended the show, I went out and plucked down the cash and purchased the game for the XB1, just have to wait till October, probably will have to start a forum for getting players together for a good time of mayhem and chaos, because lets face it, this game will only be fun if your playing with good friends.
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XURXpCv0xV4

The medic in this game concerns me greatly in terms of balance. The monster really has to put concentrated effort into taking down one of the hunters, even at level 3. So when he finally gets one of them down the medic can just easily stroll over, while cloaked, and revive them instantly to full health. No using a medpack for long seconds like L4D or any of that. Even the tracker's dog can revive people. There's a couple points in that video where the instant revive turns what should have been a balanced fight into a stupidly easy faceroll for the hunters. There's no need for strategy and it kills any sort of tension when you know you can get picked up right away.

I canceled my sunset overdrive pre-order since there is no co-op compaign .  Pre-ordered evolve.

I was surprised Sunset Overdrive didn't have a co-op campaign, especially after their initial teaser video.

As for Evolve, the medic seems a bit vital (ahem), but I wonder if there's viable strategy in downing a hunter, and camping his body waiting for the medic in order to lure it in and murder.

I'm going to trust that the developers are making the monster powerful when played well against more than just new players.  :)

Is anyone in on the Preview/Beta this weekend? I just got my announcement and code in my inbox this morning. I would like to team up with fellow 202p'ers if at all possible.

I'm in the Alpha.

Might just be the matches I've been in but it's boring so far.

Tonight might be it for me with Evolve, just not a convient weekend to try out the preview.  Hopefully a better experience than you've had so far pyro.  Have you just found it to be too one sided depending who is who?  Playing with friends or randoms?

You just run around most of the game,  20 minute rounds, looking for the monster.    When found and trapped in the arena it's usually a brief encounter.  Waste of time in my opinion.  I'm deleting the game.  Friends or randoms didn't matter in the matches I played.  I think the game is terrible in it's current state.  Neat concept but there is little action.

I was thinking they need  stages in  the game that force hunter monster engagement.  1. monster has to fight the hunters when they land and get away to start feeding towards the first evolve.   Hunters picked drop location because they located the monster from the air with technology. which fits nicely considering the weapon and trap technology 2.  After evolve number one the monster must complete an objective that forces him to encounter hunters. Upon completeing the objective he may feed towards the next stage.  3. end game as we know it now where the power relay becomes vulnerable when the monster is at max stage.  Same cat and mouse we have now in betweeen the stages.  I'm not sure how many stages there were, 2 or 3 but adding an objective the monster has to complete to be able to feed towards the next  stage would certainly help liven up the boring romp through the woods.

Heck, they could keep the boring hunt mode and add my mode .  I'd give the game a chance if they did.