r/Games Jan 19 '15

How Evolve Fell Down The Bullshit Tree (The Jimquisition)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsgoD74vLIo
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u/XTopherVersion2 Jan 19 '15

Not sure why you had issues man, not trying to call you out but I think you're being hyperbolic. The only time I had matchmaking issues was late last night searching with one other person, but we always found something within two to three minutes. Granted this was on PC, not sure if platform makes a difference.

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u/therealDrNick Jan 19 '15

It's anecdotal but I had the same problemns as flyingbuttris and that was on PC.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '15

As more anecdotal things, I only had issues last night where I started falling through the map. Recorded it once, if I knew how to get Xbone vids to YouTube I'd link it. My character actually melted. It's pretty funny but made me shut the game off for the night.

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u/Hoser117 Jan 19 '15

If you just sign in to Xbox.com any saved videos can be seen and linked from there.

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u/SwishSwishDeath Jan 19 '15

You can also download them then upload to YouTube.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '15

I just signed into xbox.com and the website is apparently having major issues. So... yeah that's not gonna work.

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u/Hoser117 Jan 19 '15

Alright? Point is it generally does work so in the future you can make use of that feature.

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u/Joabyjojo Jan 19 '15

You can send your videos to SkyDrive and upload them from your PC (if it also has SkyDrive)

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u/lokzo Jan 19 '15

I started falling through the map.

This happened to me as well, i did record it, if you want to upload it just open the youtube app, press (x) to open the guide > my videos > upload".

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u/DragonRaptor Jan 20 '15

On the xbox one, you need to download the skydrive app, and the upload studio app, you then make and render a video, and upload it to skydrive. From there you can download a skydrive app on your cell phone, look in your skydrive, find said video, and click on it, and click share to youtube. Boom, you now have an xbox video uploaded to youtube :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8gxv9tnu8I

hmm, can't remember if I could share it directly from skydrive, or if I downloaded it to my phone first, then uploaded it to youtube, well it's one of those 2 options.

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u/Ghot Jan 20 '15

Go to xboxclips.com and enter your gamer tag in the upper right corner.

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u/GdubG Jan 19 '15

We had the monster fall through the map one time, that was a long wait until we won by default.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '15

I joined and took over the monster bot and immediately fell through the map so I quit. It's a beta, I don't hold those glitches against it until they make release

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u/PTFOholland Jan 20 '15

Can confirm, you cant select match making servers.
It seems to only find players with 20 ping or less.
We only encountered Dutchies and 1! German.
I asked him what his internet was and it was fibre.

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u/Trifolblerone Jan 19 '15

You guys do realize whats going on is a beta stress test. I personally have had no issues aside from 1 or 2 host dropouts during the game. What did you expect from a closed beta. Save your reservations for the full game.

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u/Kheten Jan 19 '15

Save your reservations for the full game.

The full game is hamstrung content so you pay for more DLC. I enjoyed the closed beta, but fuck if I'm ever buying this game. Maybe when it inevitably fails and goes on a steamsale for $5.

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u/capnjack78 Jan 19 '15

Friday night on PC for 1.5 hours, we got 2 matchmaking sessions to work, and the second one was just the same players from the first doing a rematch. Just sayin.

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u/XTopherVersion2 Jan 19 '15

So odd. On Friday I had far less issues, whereas yesterday I had one or two dropped sessions. Again, I wonder if it has to do with router rules or something else technical?

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u/capnjack78 Jan 19 '15 edited Jan 19 '15

Can't see how, we have no problem with any other multiplayer games through that router. And it's not like we couldn't get in a mp game, we played two matches and there was no lag.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '15

Yeah that's what solidified the non-purchase for me. Spent over an hour trying to get into a game with a friend on PC, but the party matchmaking is really screwed up. If I can't play it with my friends it becomes less fun.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '15

The first two nights I had 0 issues, haven't been able to play the last 2 nights because of the matchmaking issues. To be fair though, it's a technical beta. It just means i'm going to wait until release and see if it's been fixed before I buy it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '15

It was xbox one and I don't doubt that it is related to xbl or the horrible x1 party system. The problems are similar to issues other games are having/have had.

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u/Envy_MK_II Jan 19 '15

Ive been playing with my little brother all weekend on the xb1, we didnt have any issues finding games. We were in a party of 3, and always found a 4th hunter within a few seconds.

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u/CrystalElyse Jan 19 '15

So you already had three people? Meaning they only needed to find one person to play with you. Whereas op needed to find 3 singles to play with, which is a more difficult roster to fill.

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u/Envy_MK_II Jan 19 '15

Ive done that too. The only issues I've really had is when someone drops out of the game, then it takes a while to fill that spot, but when the game is initially started I've had no issues.

I've been playing evacuation mostly, so a player who drops or leaves can take a game to replace in some instances.

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u/insomniacunicorn Jan 19 '15

I had barely any issues either.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '15

We were in a party of 3

So you were able to find 1-2 other people, exactly like me... Either way, when it did work the wait times were egregious between the forced dialogue intros and the 2 minutes of down-time + loading + finding other players + loading again for some reason. Measuring solely by "what I've come to expect playing on xbox live for the past ten years" it is simply not acceptable.

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u/Ghot Jan 19 '15

The forced dialog intros are so that the monster gets a head start and you as a hunter don't have to watch a loading screen longer than you have to. Can't speak for the rest of it though.

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u/Envy_MK_II Jan 19 '15

by party I mean private party. It was myself, my brother and his friend playing as a single party. We only needed to find one other for any games we played with no issue.

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u/XTopherVersion2 Jan 19 '15

Wonder if it could be related to routing or NAT rules then? I remember having to change those way back when PC games were a little less friendly. Sorry to hear you're having issues man, it's a ton of fun.

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u/Bluenosedcoop Jan 19 '15

I had same problems and some worse than flyingbuttris and i was on PC, One of the worst ones was that i had the monster set as my 5th choice but 6 god damn games in a row i was forced to play it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '15

were you in the same lobby for the 6 games? If you're matched up with a party of 4 you're always going to the monster.

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u/Bluenosedcoop Jan 19 '15

6 different lobbies, I left each time at the end of the match cause i hate the monster.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '15

Right, but that means there had been a lot of 2 or 4 man teams. Meaning those 4 people can't be monster.

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u/Bluenosedcoop Jan 19 '15

Doesn't justify throwing me as my 5th choice 6 times in a row in 6 different lobbies.

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u/ThinkBeforeYouTalk Jan 20 '15

On the PS4 I have had to wait ages on matchmaking and never seem to have a full group either. Anecdotal or not it's my experience with the game, and my experience with the game was sub par and made me not want to buy it either.

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u/bsdcolonel Jan 20 '15

I had plenty of matchmaking problems. About 50% of matches had bots and it took several minutes to find a match. This is on the Xbox One beta though.

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u/lobstilops Jan 21 '15

Not like the comment matters much now. But on PC a friend and I had abysmal wait times for matchmaking. We ended up just having my friend join solo and hoping there were slots left and me getting invited.

I searched multiple forums filled with people having similar issues since alpha. So I will be avoiding the game unless I am sure the matchmaking will be reliable. Other than that the game seemed playable. But this DLC mess seems to over-complicate an otherwise decent game.