Evolve Patch Notes: 8/11/2105 – 2K Support

Hello, Hunters!

We're back with a brand new batch of content, complete with new maps and a new character.

Check out all the details below:

All Platforms:

Features

New Hunter, "Jack"
New Arena Mode Map Murder Pits
Improved skill based matchmaking based on ranking
New medals and badges
Support for simplified Chinese text

Multiplayer

General

Fixed an issue where a party of four will connect to another player but then quickly get disconnected from that player and enter the hosting state when searching with a party
Fix for when a player loses functionality after accepting an invite from the host who is exiting the lobby
Fixed an issue where the player fell out of the world when joining a game late
Fix for players being stuck in a dead lobby indefinitely if a player hot joins into a party of 4 that is in matchmaking

XBox One

Improvements to XBox One matchmaking search times by ensuring that sessions with five players are not including in the matchmaking pool
Fixed an issue where the player would be placed in a non functional lobby when attempting to enter Multiplayer after exiting Multiplayer during the "Enabling Multiplayer Parties" event on the main menu.
Fixed an issue where one user was pulled from the party and connected to a lone player after the party quit out of a previous game when searching with a party of 4

Two players with strict NATs should now be able to matchmake

General

Audio/VO

Fixed an issue where drop ship conversations would play their lines out of order for some players
Fix for an issue where guns in third person would play the distance version of their sound even when at close range
Fix for monsters sometimes hearing the hunter’s dropship conversation

Crashes

Fix for rare crash relating to monster animations
PC: Fix for rare crash relating to multithreading on specific hardware set ups
Fixed a rare crash when a player cancelled their search
Fixed a crash relating to when Sunny bot used her jetpack booster
Fixed a rare crash for the client after leaving the match during gameplay and matchmaking back into the same game as Sunny
Fix for a rare crash for clients who join and in progress match as Slim
Fix for rare crash for when a 6th player attempts to join a lobby after the role for Observer has been selected by another player
Fix for players encountering an indefinite black screen or crash after signing out on the custom arena loading screen then attempting to start a solo match
Improvements to pre-round asset loading and memory usage, which address several graphic corrupts and rare crashes
Fixed a rare crash when exiting multiplayer
XBox One: fix for crash when suspending partway through the loading screen after selecting either Hunter or Monster role in Solo modes
XBox One: Fix to address memory leaks that caused crashes/kicking the player back to the dashboard (which happened frequently in playing multiple matches, particularly in Broken Hill Foundry)

Fixed an issue where the perk selection menu and all HUD elements will disappear when the user attempts to evolve to Stage 2 as the Monster if the player first played an Arena mode match and then went into a different mode
Solo Mode - fix for Markov’s Arc Mines and Assault Rifle text/graphics are mismatched in the Player Progression screen Post Round.
Items in the main menu newsfeed should now appear faster

Graphical

PC: The game no longer minimizes when alt-tabbing while running in Windowed (Fullscreen) mode
Monsters have their glow back on character selection screen
Fix for certain in game decals not showing up correctly (like puddles)
Improvements to some plants’ LOD

Gameplay

Disabled hot swapping when round ends
Potential fix for bodies falling through the ground and out of the world
XBox One: fixed an issue where the game failed to pause when pressing the Xbox Home button
Jetpack improvements

New code ensures consistent dodge distances and maximum dodge speeds.
Jetpacks can now initiate a slow climb when completely out of fuel.
Out of fuel slow climbs are more responsive when hitting the side of an obstacle while airborne.
Fixed a bug that was causing the jetpack to turn off after dodging sometimes which allowed the jetpack dodge velocity to carry on long after it should have

Mobile Arena

Fully deploys in 1 second (was 5)

Evacuation

XBox One: Fixed an issue where intro and outro videos fail to play for all but one user when progressing through a Multiplayer Evacuation campaign.

Arena Mode

Added a round time limit option in the extras menu for Arena mode
Fix an issue where the title would hitch when transitioning to the post round screen of an Arena match where the battle has finished via a draw.

Observer Mode

Fixed an issue where players were unable to view idle player's gamercards when being an observer and opening the Player Options
Resized, moved and made the mini-map more transparent to make it less obtrusive
Now displays UI for critical gameplay moments such as

When the monster is trapped in a mobile arena
When the monster escapes a mobile arena
Icons next to hunters when they’re pounced or grappled
A message indicating when the hunters have spotted the monster for the first time
Louder SFX for when the monster’s armor is destroyed
Monster abilities and Pre-Round Perks can now be toggled on/off using LT/RT on controller or "A"/"S" keys on keyboard
A Minimal HUD UI has been added, can be toggled through the options
Improved the Survival Odds algorithm to be more accurate. Also now takes other in game factors into account, such as perks and the health of the relay if in Hunt
Fixed issue where the cursor highlighting the different players will only move down the list, even when the left thumbstick is tapped up
Fix for the Observer's camera changing to a different character when the Host hotswaps to another Hunter during gameplay globally
Timer for current round time added, displays every 20 seconds where the survival odds are shown

Maps

Fixes for exploitable areas that hunters could access and/or drop deployable objects that hunters could not reach.

Armory
Aviary
Broken Hill Foundry
Broken Hill Mines
Distillery
Refueling Tower
Weather Control
Wraith Trap

Adjustments to Distillery to stop the Kraken from becoming stuck in the mountain geo when in combat with the Crowbill Sloth.

Hunters (all)

Fixes to prevent hunters cancelling tumbles and knockbacks by jumping
Fixes for hunters playing the get up animation twice when being revived through Caira’s healing grenades
Bots

Improvements to hunters bots in Defend mode.

Markov

Lightning Gun
Delay before recharge when fully running out of ammo decreased to 1 second (was 3)
Beam acquire lock angle increased to 18 degrees (was 15)
Beam maintain lock angle increased to 28 degrees (was 25)

Torvald

Bots

Fixes to Torvald bot not using his mortar cannon without hotswapping first

Shrapnel Grenades

Weak Spot duration increased to 15 seconds (was 10)

Mortar Cannon

Increased projectile gravity to 13 (was 10)

Lennox

Fixed issue where Plasma Lance combo did not reset when taking damage after hotswaping to Lennox
Corrected post round performance recap text
Fix for the icon shown in the event log for the "Lennox landed 4x combo," it was previously showing a red circle instead of the plasma lance
Fix for Lennox’s autocannon sounding differently between first and third person
Fix for reverb effect seeming excessive on Lennox's cannon when it is fired in an interior location with echo effects
Autocannon now displays the correct mastery
Bots

Fixed an issue where Thunder Strike leap would stop halfway through prematurely hit the ground during smash

Thunder Strike

Recharge time increased to 18 seconds (was 15)

Autocannon

Reload time increased to 4 seconds (was 3)

Fix for an issue where players would have the gameplay area turn black when searching into a match in progress as Val in the Fusion Plant
Medgun

Delay before recharge when fully running out of ammo decreased to 1 second (was 3)

Slim

Fix for Slim's heal burst reticle animation staying on screen the player switches while it's up
Fix for Slim's Spore Cloud Expert mastery being gained for other players who are not using Slim
Fix for exploit that caused his heal burst cooldown to be much shorter than intended
Bots

Updates to how bot hunters revive downed hunters when Slim has his healing drone out. AI hunters now stop pathing to revive an incapped hunter if the incapped has a healing drone. If the AI hunter is already reviving the incapped when the incapped gets a healing drone on them they will continue reviving the incapped because it will get them up sooner than the drone would be able to.
Slim bot will no longer send out his healing drone when everyone has full health and the drone isn’t useful

Spore Cloud Launcher

Spore duration reduced to 5 seconds (was 10)

Griffin

Bots

Bot Griffin will now use his harpoon gun in Arena mode

Harpoon Gun

Reload time increased to 3.5 seconds (was 2.75)

Maggie

Harpoon Traps

Reload time increased to 3.25 seconds (was 2.5)

Crow

Bots

Improvements to Crow’s stasis gun uses so he will use it in more situations

Hank

Bots

Hank will no longer use his Orbital Barrage unless he can see his target

Shield Projector

Delay before recharge when not running fully out of ammo increased to 1.5 seconds (was 1)
Delay before recharge when fully running out of ammo decreased to 1.5 seconds (was 2)
Damage absorbed per ammo reduced to 6.75 (was 8)

Bucket

Guided Missile Launcher

Clip size increased to 5 missiles (was 4)
Fire rate increased to 80 rounds per minute (was 60)
Missile turn speed increased to 8 (was 5)
Missile speed increased to 35 meters per second (was 30)
Reload duration reduced to 2.8 seconds (was 4.18)

Sentry Guns

Toss distance increased to 10 meters (was 8)
Engage range increased to 25 meters (was 20)
Disengage range increased to 30 meters (was 25)
Horizontal bullet spread decreased to 15 (was 20)
Vertical bullet spread decreased to 16 (was 20)
Bullet damage reduced to 18 (was 20)

UAV launch time reduced to 1 second (was 1.5)
UAV is easier to control

Cabot

Damage Amplifier

Capacity reduced to amp 700 damage (was 1000)
Delay before recharge when not running fully out of ammo increased to 1.5 seconds (was 1)
Delay before recharge when fully running out of ammo decreased to 1.5 seconds (was 3)

Sunny

Bots

Sunny bot will no longer shoot other Hunters with Grenade Launcher after engaging the Wraith's Decoy in combat
Improvements to Sunny bot’s prioritization using her jetpack booster during Arena mode to make it more useful
Adjustments to Sunny bot’s use jet back booster so that she will not target invisible hunters
Fix for Sunny bot using her jetpack too frequently and rarely attacking the monster

● Jetpack Booster

Range increased to 45 meters (was 40)

● Shield Drone

Range increased to 45 meters (was 40)

● Mininuke Grenade Launcher

Projectile speed increased to 80 meters per second (was 40)
Removed explosion delay (was 0.1 seconds)
Reduced damage to 190 (was 200)
Reduced fire offset angle to 1 degree (was 3)

Monsters (all)

General

Fixed a bug where monsters could move very quickly after melee combat

Carrion Birds adjustments

The first 2 meals are always free (was 1)
After spawning birds, there is a 20 second cooldown before spawn chance starts to increase (was 2)
Spawn chance will hit 100% in 7 meals (was 8)

Damage pass

Damage values have been adjusted across all Abilities. Level 1’s are more powerful and level 3’s have been reduced in power.

Variable armor pass

Armor values now vary per Monster stage.

Stage 1 Armor values typically reduced by 1000.
Stage 2 Armor values typically remain the same.
Stage 3 Armor values typically increased by 1000.

Unified Melee Damage Pass

All monsters get previous Stage 2 melee damage values for all Stages.

Bots

Improvements to monster bots behavior in Defend mode.
Fix for rare pathing issue where monsters and minions would stand in place

Minions

Bots

Improvements to minion bots interactions with wildlife

Goliath

Fixed issue where Goliath is able to jump farther than normal and will sometimes hang in the air for a long time
Fixed an issue where Stage 2 Goliath appeared in the full damage state when undamaged when the Carnivore skin was equipped
Fix an issue where Goliath's leap smash would get stuck in terrain causing it to not deal any damage
Traversal Stamina recharge outside of combat takes three seconds longer
Traversal Stamina recharge time in combat takes two seconds longer

Kraken

Fix for Kraken being able to traverse greater distances by colliding into geometry when attempting to jump while falling
Fix for Kraken sometimes using two traversal energy when using a single traversal
Reduced the angle at which Kraken could break harpoons in the air from 120 degree to 90 degrees
Traversal Stamina recharge time outside of combat now recharges while in the air
Traversal Stamina recharge time in combat takes two seconds longer
Kraken gravity outside of combat reduced to 2 seconds (was 4)

Wraith

Fix for abduct dealing two instances of damage at certain angles
Fix an issue where Wraith could use a traversal while targeting a hunter and have it double the teleport distance

Behemoth

Fix for Lvl1 and Lvl 2 Lava bomb fire pools dealing Lvl 3 damage
Fix for Behemoth using Rockwall to push himself out of a Mobile Arena during gameplay
Fix for players sometimes influencing the direction of a Rocky Tongue grab with their own velocity
Roll adjustments

Increased damage caused by the Roll to 190 (was 25, 50, 75)
Increased knockdown magnitude to 18 (was 12)

Wildlife

Fixed rare issue where Megamouth would remain in idle state after being shot
Fix for wildlife failing to spawn correctly, creating a situation in which there is not enough food for the monster to fully armor up or reach stage 3
Perks
Increased Capacity adjustments (Hunter)

Two Star reduced to 32% (was 35%)
Three Star reduced to 40% (was 50%)

Stamina Perk (Monster)

One star decreased to 10% (was 20)
Two star decreased to 20% (was 30)
Three star decreased to 30% (was 40)

Buffs

Armadon Bull

(M&H) Damage Reduction bonus decreased to 15% (was 25)

Basking Cephaladon

(M) Feed Speed bonus reduced to 80% (was 100)

Canyon Strider

(M&H) Movement Speed bonus reduced to 30% (was 35)

Crowbill Sloth

(M&H) Damage Increase bonus reduced to 15% (was 25)

Mammoth Bird

(M) Cooldown bonus decreased to 30% (was 35)
(H) Reload and Equip bonus decreased to 40% (was 50)

Marsh Strider

(M&H) Movement Speed bonus reduced to 30% (was 35)

Megamouth

(H) Class Special recharge bonus reduced to 30% (was 35)

Nomad

(M) Traversal Recharge bonus reduced to 40% (was 50)
(H) Jetpack Recharge bonus reduced to 100% (was 150)

Obsidian Grub

(H) Capacity Increase boost reduced to 60% (was 75)

Steamadon

(M&H) Slow duration reduced to 3 seconds (was 4)

Venomhound

(M&H) Poison damage per second reduced to 20 (was 30)

Security

mprovements to anti-cheating measures

Console Only updates (now matches previous PC hotfix/micropatches)

Hunters (all)

Resurrecting a hunter is no longer interrupted by healing (such as Caira’s healing grenades or the health regen perk)

Tracking dart duration is now 38 seconds (was 45)

Parnell

Super Soldier - Fixed compounding damage multipliers affecting life loss

Monsters (all)

General

Monster stage up delay time now 9 seconds (was 11)

Wraith

Increased Max Armor to 3000 at stage 1(was 2500)
Health Increased

Stage 1 Health now 6500 (was 6000)
Stage 2 Health now 10,000 (was 9500)
Stage 3 Health to 13,500 (was 13,000)

Out of combat traversal recharge time now 23 seconds (was 27)

Behemoth

Reduced minimum energy to start to 20% (was 30)
Reduced harpoon drag power on the roll to 20% (was 25)

Perks

Fixed Quick Reload perks to work correctly with Mobile Aren

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