We found it pretty difficult to find friends while playing Evolve, so this is the first of many features to help players find friends and recent players between rounds. Steam now displays the most recent players from matchmaking

The goal here is to make sure games are started without bots and ensuring the best user experience for a Hunt match is attained through our matchmaking system. We often saw and ran into players who would leave on the Character Select screen, so instead of having to leave to find a new lobby the matchmaking system now does this automatically. Games will not start unless 5 players are present at the end of Character Select Now the system will use a hidden skill rating (this has been active since launch) to help ensure better matches for all players. Previously in Hunt matchmaking it would be based around the account level and match make players around that level. General Matchmaking now searches by skill, not by profile rank. These are not our final solutions for any leaver or matchmaking issues but just our first steps towards improving matchmaking.It’ll be a continued process as we move through future updates but we appreciate any and all feedback we’re getting on the current Matchmaking system. We have added text under training to make this clear to players on first launch of the new update.

With Update 2.04, all content is unlocked in Solo mode so anyone can give anything a test run before unlocking it. We’ve heard from all over our Community that players wanted some way to try out content before investing the time and Silver Keys towards an unlock, so we introduced the “Try before you buy” feature. Give it a try and let us know what you think!Īll Content is now unlocked in Solo mode – “Try before you buy” This experience was built to give players that first look into how Hunt mode works and to help ease new players into what it means to Hunt. Each class will have unique Voice lines from Abe and Caira to assist players in learning Evolve. This is a guided solo Hunt experience designed to help players understand more than just the basic mechanics of being a Hunter. All Founders will have Quantum Caira unlocked on release and non-founders can unlock her now in the Store with Silver Keys.

Evolve stage 2 player count