History YMMV / Evolve

* ShipSinking: The voice actors of Abe and Caira recorded [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWC3hlMomhA this]] in their spare time.

** With crazy high damage, escaping ability, and a long range grab, Wraith is easily the most overpowered of the original three monsters.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[https://talk.turtlerockstudios.com/t/the-development-of-evolve/23975 A forum post]] by the developers reveals several items cut from the game for various reasons. Among those is the Host, a worm-like monster, numerous kinds of wildlife, unused hunter equipment, and volcanic maps.
** As of October 27th, 2016, this has happened again. The Evolve IP was withdrawn from its creators and now belongs to 2K. They announced that they consider the game complete and have no plans to continue development. Items in development or planning before this shutdown include adaptations for Wraith, Gorgon, Kala, Hyde, Bucket, an unknown trapper, and an unknown medic, reworks for all the Legacy Evolve maps, passive abilities for Kraken and Meteor Goliath, new perks, and entirely new hunters and monsters.

* ItsShortSoItSucks: A frequent complaint about this game is that the matches, among players of differing skill levels, can devolve quickly into very short bouts. [[UnstableEquilibrium If all four members do not work well together to find the Monster it can become an invincible rampaging beast.]] Likewise if the Monster can't get away from a well coordinated team of hunters, it can have difficulty staging up and be quickly beaten into paste. But the real problem is that there's no chance factor or nothing really different happens. ''Every'' match goes into the same routine and formula. Which wears out its welcome quickly.

* HypeBacklash: Despite being hyped at E3 2014 and winning 4 awards, the high price of the game, comparatively low amount of content, and the large number of paid [=DLCs=] has garnered '''''lots''''' of criticism from the usual suspects as they feel that 2k Studios was ripping them off by having content being deliberately withheld to be sold separately as a market strategy to make more money from the game.

* PanderingToTheBase: The Stage 2 relaunch, along with the shift into a Free-2-Play model, brought with it a ton of balance changes, some changes to streamline the game to make it quicker, more action focused, and more accessible, and a reasonable progression system that lets you unlock what you want when you're able. It seems to have worked too, as the game's player numbers have spiked by the thousands after it updated, going from only 100-200 players at any given time to around 30 thousand.

* WinBackTheCrowd: The Stage 2 update was massively well received, and brought the game back in a big way, with player numbers reaching over 30 thousand concurrent players, higher than even the original launch. Whether or not it'll be able to keep those players is yet to be seen, but the future looks promising.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: The Wraith has become considerably more popular than the other characters of the game, for [[AdmiringTheAbomination some]] [[FreakinessShame unfortunate]] [[FreakyIsCool particular]] [[NightmareFetishist reasons]].

* FunnyMoments: Several appear within the Hunters' dialogue, before they drop to the planet surface. Among them are the characters commenting on Hank's cooking with live Canyon Eels, or Hyde owing Bucket 50 Keys due to losing a card game against the robot.

* WinBackTheCrowd: The Stage 2 update was massively well received, and brought the game back in a big way, with player numbers reaching over 30 thousand concurrent players, higher than even the original launch. Whether or not it'll be able to keep those players is yet to be seen, but the future looks promising.

* StillbornFranchise: Prior to launch, Evolve was preemptively hyped up as one of the "Defining Games of UsefulNotes/TheEighthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames" and Publisher 2K-Games deemed it as one of their cornerstone franchises. Critical reception to the game ended up middling due to the game [[ObviousBeta being a DLC vehicle]], and commercial sells, while having a large opening, proved to be underwhelming over time. The playerbase for the game quickly dwindled and Turtle Rock's latter attempts to [[AuthorsSavingThrow salvage it]], by re-brandishing the game as a Free-to-Play on the PC, ultimately also fell short due to 2K pulling back support it.

* OhCrap: Any Hunter player's default reaction to hearing the Monster has become Level 3.

* SpiritualLicensee: It's basically been advertised as a sci-fi successor to ''Left4Dead'' for the past years, a title also made by Turtle Rock Studios under Creator/{{Valve|Software}}, which they had recently left a while back to pursue their own career.

* HilariousInHindsight: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVdmzjbpDH0 Maggie was reserved against Hyde suggesting putting a flamethrower on Daisy....]] then the Wasteland Maggie adaptation basically did ''exactly'' that.

* PanderingToTheBase: The Stage 2 relaunch, along with the shift into a Free-2-Play model, brought with it a ton of balance changes, some changes to streamline the game to make it quicker, more action focused, and more accessible, and a reasonable progression system that lets you unlock what you want when you're able. It seems to have worked too, as the game's player numbers have spiked by the thousands after it updated, going from only 100-200 players at any given time to around 15-25 thousand.

* SpiritualLicensee: It's basically been advertised as a sci-fi successor to ''Left4Dead'' for the past years, a title also made by Turtle Rock Studios under Creator/{{Valve|Software}}, which they had recently left a while back to pursue their own career.

* PanderingToTheBase: The Stage 2 relaunch, along with the shift into a Free-2-Play model, brought with it a ton of balance changes, some changes to streamline the game to make it quicker, more action focused, and more acceptable, and a reasonable progression system that lets you unlock what you want when you're able. It seems to have worked too, as the game's player numbers have spiked by the thousands after it updated, going from only 100-200 players at any given time to around 15-25 thousand.

* CriticalDissonance: [[http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/evolve On Metacritic]], the game scored well by most critics, but players utterly trashed it due to the high price, lack of content, and the expensive paid [=DLCs=].

* HypeBacklash: Despite being hyped at E3 2014 and winning 4 awards, the high price of the game, comparatively low amount of content, and the large number of paid [=DLCs=] has garnered ''lots'' of criticism from the usual suspects as they feel that 2k Studios was ripping them off by having content being deliberately withheld to be sold separately as a market strategy to make more money from the game.

** Lazarus makes killing Hunters next to impossible. Not only can he revive dead hunters, his ability to turn invisible and hide makes trying to take him out difficult. The ability to die free of consequence allowing the hunters to attack with near suicidal determination.
** Knock back is easily one of the hardest things to deal with as a hunter. Its easy for a hunter to be endlessly thrown around by monsters, unable to do anything as they keep taking damage.
** A competent Wraith can easily demolish a less coordinated team. Doing crazy high damage with insane escaping ability thanks to Decoy. Top it off with the ability to grab a Hunter and pull them back to where she is at extreme range. Make mines, and give herself a huge attack speed and damage buff and you can see why shes so hated.