Turtle Rock Studios’ Evolve has been delayed until February 2015 according to Take Two Interactive’s recent financial earnings report. The multiplayer shooter was originally slated to release on October 21st.
As usual, the reason for the delay was to allow for more polish. President Karl Slatoff stated that, “We are encouraged by the overwhelmingly positive response from press and fans, and believe by extending development by a few months, it will allow the team enough time to fully realize their creative vision for Evolve.
It has been recently revealed by an artist that a sequel to the 2015 title Evolve was in the works. However, this project wouldn't last long.
Was this game ahead of its time? A few years later games like Dead By Daylight, Friday the 13th and other asymmetrical games exploded onto the scene.
if lm not mistaken it started the asymmetrical pvp matches. Evolves logo was a nod to their concept.
Back in 2016, Turtle Rock announced that support for its 4v1 monster-hunting shooter Evolve would end but fans wouldn't let it die.
From NME: "Evolve: Stage 2 had its multiplayer servers shut down back in 2018, but today players are once again able to matchmake and join peer-to-peer multiplayer games.
Several months ago, peer-to-peer functionality was lost for Evolve Legacy, which was the only way fans of the series could play with friends. Upon a multitude of players reaching out to publisher 2K, the issue was eventually fixed earlier in July. It seems 2K have gone a step further now, and reinstated peer-to-peer and matchmaking functionality for Evolve: Stage 2 after four years."
Yes so far because it's just the servers alone coming on and the console version never had the free-to-play update.
I imagine if they find people playing the PC version and enough players are enjoying it then they'd probably reconsider opening console as well but I wouldn't count on it.
The game was epic as a monster. Hunters were really boring to play as to me.
It's not crowded in the sense of other major multiplayer titles, but releasing with The Witcher....I'm not sure about that.
and to avoid competition with Destiny, COD, and GTA.
What BS; they delayed it because of the stiff competition from the other FPS games, and while putting it next to heavy hitters such as Batman, Witcher, and The Order may seem like a crappy move as well; they are in better position there because only Battlefield Hardline is in the 1st Quarter to compete against it. So in other words more "accurate" assesment about Evolves delay, is they had no confidence in their New Independent Property to face the big FPS guns and ran away with the tail between their legs.
I seriously doubt this was about competition. Evolve is one of the most talked about new IPs and won more awards at E3 than any other game. It has the attention of most gamers.
This is Turtle Rock. They know what they're doing. I seriously think this delay has more to do with the game, itself than anything.
I played the alpha and the game certainly needed work. However the idea of the game is solid I think if they tweak a few things. One big one for me is that they dont force you to play a certain role. I understand the party dynamic but if I want to try and take down a monster with 4 assaults I think there should be a game mode that allows me and my friends to try.