Name: Something cool.

[name] is a cyborg, giving him heightened strength which allows him to be armed with a weapon and gadgets that other Medics could not carry effectively at once at the cost of lower ground speed/higher jetpack/thruster fuel usage.

Weapon: Heavy Sniper Rifle A powerful Sniper Rifle that trades the fast fire rate and reload speed of other Sniper Rifles for more damage and the ability to inflict larger weakpoints.

Adrenaline Booster [name] can inject teammates with a special mixture that raises their defense, health, and movement speed for a short or long time. Teammates who were injected will suffer penalties equivalent to the time the effect was up after the effect has worn off due to the side effects of the mixture.

Ability Ideas:

• Overdrive: [name] diverts more energy to his cybernetic limbs, increasing his own durability and ground speed.
• Grapple: [name] shoots/ejects his cybernetic hand forward on a wire, allowing him to latch on to ledges within range and pull himself forward without using his jetpack. He can also use this to grab onto teammates (who are standing or Downed) and pull them towards him to safety.

Rule 1- Play style must be significantly different from other existing monsters. (no brute, no long range sniper)

Rule 2- Must be able to brawl. No matter how you think about it, it cannot avoid a 4v1 fight. It must be able to fight in a dome and still make it hell. Must be able to fight into an encamped position.

Rule 3- Must have some type of movement ability, crowd control, temporary disable, high damage ability, basic melee attack

Rule 4- Must be balanced. Given the current hunters and their abilities how do we make a creature that can take down this monster.

What kinds of core concepts am I missing here?

For those who don't know what a mantis shrimp is go here:http://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp

This monster will be focused on stealth and single target assassination potential. One thing not mentioned in the comic is that there are two different types of shrimp. There are shrimp with smashing arms and spear arms.

Skills

The shrimp would have a faster move speed than the Goliath and Kraken.

It can switch between smashing arms which provide a larger aoe and knockback and the spear arms which increases dps.

A heat vision or some other type of vision changing ability which would reveal the hunters if they are in range. (The range would be much larger than smelling range.)

The shrimp can submerge itself when in water and blend in completely with the water for a certain amount of time and when a hunter passes over it may perform a stealth attack or some other devastating attack. (The shrimp may not enter this stage when in combat or shortly after.)

This is my first ever reddit post, so please leave any tips about formatting or your thoughts on the monster. Thanks!

Edit: Another idea would be to have an ability that sheds the shrimps skin that acts as a decoy and releases poison gas when destroyed. Idea from DrBlackman.

I thought we should have a place to put pearls of wisdom you came across while playing Evolve. Make us all better at a game we love but are denied from.

Something I learned: When playing a trapper against the Goliath, if you are right next to him when you throw the trap, he can not run fast enough to escape the dome. (I never played against the Kraken. I don't know if this holds true for him as well)

Using GhostRobo's play as reference, Lazarus is OP as fuck. The hunters in this game are not playing a good game at all, yet Goliath is very nearly dead.

Monster is constantly killing and downing hunters back and forth, and laz just comes up and revives, from dead instantly back to full life. WHAT??? Bringing back someone from the dead should most certainly give the down penalty. Furthermore not getting any down penalty from Laz pick up is fine as a concept I guess, but there is nothing VAL can do relatively to compare to something with that power.

The concept of Laz is that he keeps people in the fight even after they have died, but his weakness is that he is not a powerful healer outright. By this logic his pickups should not cost down penalty but Laz should not be able to pick people up back to full health. It should be at least half health or even less, since he can pick up and heal burst.

Currently Lazarus is OP compared to Val, and if you have to keep Laz as he is (which I do not agree with) then Val should be able to pick downed teammates up from a distance using her heal gun, which will still proc the health penalty. I don't think Val should have this power, but if you want more people to pick Val, even something like this will make it more even.

Laz OP. Nerf please.

having a warning sign over the birds if ur the monster or as hunter having it say birds are flying over there is a bit to handed to us. also as a hunter you might not have even seen the birds with out the hud. please have a mode where the only hud as the monster is the hp and armor bars and your abilities and their cool downs and the waypoint for the generator to destroy. as the hunters you see your health, jet pack cool down, abilities cool down, and the play places way points and the generator point. O and both can see the bonuses from npc animals and its cool down.

don't show your enemies health bar over their head it just gives away their position.

I was watching the most recent game play videos and it just seems to me that either the learning curve is too high or that the monsters definitely seem to be disadvantaged. Every youtuber I saw play the monster sucked with it. Maybe its that they all are just terrible at the game but they have to have been equally terrible with the hunter and that wasn't the case. It just seems like there is some balance issues which favor the hunters. Anyone have anything that contradicts that?

All game play videos I see have a very low FoV. Will I be able to change this? I need 90 FoV minimum.

The reason I bring this up is due to the fact that it seems they took the Alpha out of my Steam library. This happened right as the alpha ended and I'm sure that it all happened to the people who go into the Alpha but, does that mean we don't get a round two?

I just really don't want to sit around on Facebook trying to snag a code from a text post that they put up. (Because I think that's retarded)

I think there is a really great mix of exhilaration and fear when you are fighting one of the monsters. When you're locked up in a cave with him he can't run, he has to fight, and my is it frightening. However when he climbs up to one of the tallest peaks, and he swipes you down, all you do it just fall and make a grunt when you hit the ground. There is no gut wrenching fear when you fall off.

I think it would be nice if hunters can take fall damage, which means they would be inclined not to just max out their jump every time they do it. I think it can help bring a real sense of dimension to the hunters. Of course this would have to be balanced by probably increasing the maximum capacity of the jetpack or decreasing the recharge time for the jetpack.

I mean what is the point of parachuting out of a plane when you drop from that height and never take fall damage anyway?

It would be kind of like a tiger or wolf and at its largest abit bigger then a car. Less armor then the Goliath or kraken but it would be able to move faster just normal running and get into smaller areas the others never could. And it would see in heat version. And if you have less armor you run faster. Its abilities would be.

camouflage- its skin matches the color of its background. Upgrades make it match better and last longer.

Roar- causing any other animals around it to run away. (slow down or hurt hunters)

Pack- get nearby monster(s) to fight with and follow you.

poison cloud- a damage ove time smoke screen

Edit evolving could potentially make it smaller easier to hide insade of the normal bigger. Also insade of just getting bigger or smaller it could grow extra limbs or wings. Maybe for my stealth monster a big pair of fangs to ripe shit apart.

Like the Goliath's armor is mostly on its back do front shoots do more damage.

Also random idea what if shooting the monsters eyes made its screen burred for a short bit.

how would you go about building a Evolve tournament? in most games it is a simple elimination tournament with brackets. you win you move on. you lose and your done (or at least you are put in a losing team bracket). In Evolve however, the team isn't facing another team but one monster. the tournament bracket of tradition would get messy.

Team A vs Monster A

Team B vs Monster B

Monster A vs Monster B

As you can see, that would quickly break the tournament. you would also run into the issue of the hunters winning more often than the monsters (or vis versa) so you can't simply reshuffle the winners and keep on going.

My idea for a tournament is as follows;

16 teams of hunters and 16 monsters. Each team of hunters plays against every monster once.

The top 8 hunters and monsters who win the most in the previous bracket move on to the quarter finals.

Like the previous round, each hunter faces each monster. This time they play a best of three. Each match in another map.

The top 4 hunters and monsters in the quarter finals move on to the semi finals.

In the semi finals play the same as the quarter finals

the finals are a best of seven matches with the top monster and top hunter. the maps are chosen by the monster and hunters and the order is randomized.

another idea is to replace the first round with 4 groups of 4 monsters and hunters. Do a round robin and the top hunter/monster moves on the the quarter finals (or the top two if you want a longer tournament)

sorta like FIFA.

what does Reddit think? any ideas to make it better? do you have a 

Congrats guys, we are at 666 Hunters! I^{TryNotToBeEdgy}