With the servers restored, Evolve's player count on Steam has jumped from 18 on July 20 to 713 players at time of writing. Players of Stage 2 have also reported functioning drop crates, which contain character skins. Not only did 2K restore that functionality, it also brought back the online functions for Evolve: Stage 2 in its entirety. That functionality was lost months ago, and players made that known to 2K. We had a team to build a worldNeither Heroes nor Monsters used any of the same mechanics! Made it very very hard to balance new heroes and monsters."įollowing the server shut down in 2018, the game remained functional via Evolve Legacy's peer-to-peer connection.
"We didn't really have a team to make a competitive shooter. "We never really solved 4v1, it causes more problems than we ever imagined," admitted Colville. Shortly before Evolve's shut down, designer Matt Colville expressed his thoughts about the game's struggles. Following its aforementioned transition to free-to-play, 2K shut down the game's dedicated servers in 2018. It received positive reviews when it launched back in 2015 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC, but its player count gradually dwindled. In this case, Evolve's semi-revival is made even more curious by the fact that the game remains delisted on Steam, even after the servers came back online.Įvolve is an asymmetrical multiplayer game where four players play as hunters fighting against a player-controlled monster on the planet Shear. While it's common to hear about publishers and developers taking multiplayer games offline, it's certainly rare to hear of one coming back online years after it originally went dark.
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