Evil Dead: The game - before you buy

[Lowelheim]

With around 700 hrs of game under the belt, former day one starter player in Epic Games store lemme help ya understand what's right and wrong with this title.

Here are the few good stuff held by Evil Dead The Game. These are also the masquerade that hide the bad things about this title (that are HUGE) and that deceive you in the beginning of the game, while you slowly realize that the game is utterly broken and not worth to be played.

THE GOOD

Official License: well what's good is the license, Evil Dead got a huge fanbase all around the globe, nothing I have to explain or tell you. This come with original themes, movie's famous quotes, Ash Williams in all forms and manners.

Maps: the original map is gorgeus with many places taken from the movie and Ash vs Evil Dead. Castle Kandar map is a meh map, exploit more verticality but apart this, it's not that good at all.

Action: the game is fast pace, you gotta run and run a lot, fights are fast and gore is satisfying.

THE BAD

Here comes the real inferno. The whole game mechanics are broken beyond redemption, this game to be fun needs a completely rework. I could write for hours about what's wrong in the game both for Survivors and Demons. Here is just a brief summary:

Survivors
- Bleeding Out: helping a downed survivor takes too much time and effort
- Resurrection: the procedure to resurrect a dead survivor is ridicolously long. Get the soul, run to the nearest altar and complete the resurrection. Who thought that this would be right in a PVP game, well got some serious problems.
- Class Progression: skills in the class progression are placed without any common sense in branches with other skills generic and the whole progression is a totally mess. Due the fact you got 25 point (prestige apart) to spend, make no sense at all. All is almost a copy paste of the other character in the same class.
- Weapons: every class should start the match with his own weapon, either range or melee. Since the RNG is a ♥♥♥♥♥, I had experience in the game where player needed literally minutes before to even get a melee or ranged weapon. I ain't talking about the best weapon of choice, I talk about "a weapon". This is ridicolous.

.. in realty there are too many things that do not work at all, I just kept those who consitently affect and ruin the game experience ...

Demons
- Gaining exp: the way you usually gain experience and level up in the match, expecially if you are new to the game, is running around collecting infernal points and place traps at random. With the experience this will change, at the point that once you have spawn, you know exactly with pinpoint accuracy where to find the survivors and end the game in 5 minutes, before they ever get the first map. Either way, the overall experience is BOOOOOOOOOORING as hell, infact the first huge chunk of pop that left the game was the one of the players that played mostly demons.
- Strategy: what strategy?!? Is there any strategy? Spawn, seek, destroy, repeat. Sitting still on a chair watching a blank white wall for days got more appeal than the supposed strategy for the demon in this game.

CONCLUSIONS

If you are huge fan of Evil Dead franchise, well you can't win over your heart, you will buy this game as many did before. It will be maybe fun for few hours, before to "join us" the deamned, who live with that bitter taste in the mouth and the idea that this game design is a mess.

For the rest who are looking for a asymmentrical game worth to be played. Go elsewhere, if it's longevity, entertainment and addiction that you are looking for, this is not the place for 'em.

[❀❀ V ❀❀]

90% of the problems listed in this post stop being problems with experience



"- Strategy: what strategy?!? Is there any strategy? Spawn, seek, destroy, repeat. Sitting still on a chair watching a blank white wall for days got more appeal than the supposed strategy for the demon in this game."

Also this is completely wrong. Cursory glance at any post about how to play demons would show this. Each class is different


only thing ill say is maybe the perk stuff, but i actually like having that grind and its really not that bad at all. DBD is way worse imo

[Lowelheim]

Originally posted by var:

90% of the problems listed in this post stop being problems with experience



"- Strategy: what strategy?!? Is there any strategy? Spawn, seek, destroy, repeat. Sitting still on a chair watching a blank white wall for days got more appeal than the supposed strategy for the demon in this game."

Also this is completely wrong. Cursory glance at any post about how to play demons would show this. Each class is different


only thing ill say is maybe the perk stuff, but i actually like having that grind and its really not that bad at all. DBD is way worse imo

I respect your opinion, but for me you what you have written is completely wrong, probably due the lack of hours in the game.

Dead by Daylight compared to Evil Dead The Game is pure perfection (which is not in realty). This game is fun like a heartache.

I summarized just what you will learn fast in the game as "bad", this game, also, in terms of game mechanic is garbage.

Balance is completely broken, there are plenty of exploit mechanic that render every match a pain in the arse for survivor.s No matter your class, level or prestige class level. If you meet a well experienced demon, for example The Schemer, that is totally broken, no matter your effort, you have around 3-5 of games before being annihilated. Tips like stay together, do not stay together, are meaningless. The game mechanics are broken. I know exactly what I am talking about, depending on where I spawn, I know instantly where the survivors are located. I can demolish any group of survs in less than 5 minutes. Is just boring.

Game experience per match just encourage to stand still and leave the game end as faster as you can, if you play survs. For doing nothing you get 4k exp, if you put all yourself around 7k. If you are lucky and you get a noob demon, you got high chances to win the match, but MMR is lifted and since the Demon is so boring, more often you will encounter well experienced demon that end your misery at least fast.

Despite all this garbage, survivors are more enjoyable even if they are hopeless.

Anyway, I'm not here to convince anyone of the obvious, I learned all of this in the hard way, free to believe or not I leave to you all to experiment what this game is. You have been warned.

In the end, even the worst game in the world could have some players that like it.

[Efrox]

How to waste 700 hours to learn nothing :D ... idk if this is a joke or OP played mostly solo survivor with new players without comms .... but you shouldnt make a reviews if you cant learn basics in 700 hours .... go check some YT videos and you will see how solo survivors easily avoiding demon players while doing (after map) objective.... again - solo etc .....

[Lowelheim]

Originally posted by Efrox:

How to waste 700 hours to learn nothing :D ... idk if this is a joke or OP played mostly solo survivor with new players without comms .... but you shouldnt make a reviews if you cant learn basics in 700 hours .... go check some YT videos and you will see how solo survivors easily avoiding demon players while doing (after map) objective.... again - solo etc .....

Nonsense.

I played as demon. I know that internet is the land of the saviours and messiah, I'm not here to convince someone, just play and learn what I know by yourself little one.

[Tormented]

I was overjoyed at first 20 hours but now I kinda frustrated getting stun locked by demon player, getting downed then spectating teammates, some doing nothing effective or some coming to save me and suffering the same fate.

Worst part is that's the only way to win, demon should stun lock alone survivors to win, survivors should stay together to stun lock demon player to win, feels like it's all about stun locking your opponent

[Lowelheim]

Originally posted by Soulless One:

I was overjoyed at first 20 hours but now I kinda frustrated getting stun locked by demon player, getting downed then spectating teammates, some doing nothing effective or some coming to save me and suffering the same fate.

Worst part is that's the only way to win, demon should stun lock alone survivors to win, survivors should stay together to stun lock demon player to win, feels like it's all about stun locking your opponent

The best part is also, as a demon,,,

Place a trap
Possess player
Trigger the trap
Leave possession
Possess player
Leave possession
Reset the trap
Possess the player
Tirgger the trap
....

Until you got evil points or at least until you get the desired level of your demon.

[Tormented]

Originally posted by Soulless One:

I was overjoyed at first 20 hours but now I kinda frustrated getting stun locked by demon player, getting downed then spectating teammates, some doing nothing effective or some coming to save me and suffering the same fate.

Worst part is that's the only way to win, demon should stun lock alone survivors to win, survivors should stay together to stun lock demon player to win, feels like it's all about stun locking your opponent

Originally posted by Lowelheim:

Originally posted by Soulless One:

I was overjoyed at first 20 hours but now I kinda frustrated getting stun locked by demon player, getting downed then spectating teammates, some doing nothing effective or some coming to save me and suffering the same fate.

Worst part is that's the only way to win, demon should stun lock alone survivors to win, survivors should stay together to stun lock demon player to win, feels like it's all about stun locking your opponent

The best part is also, as a demon,,,

Place a trap
Possess player
Trigger the trap
Leave possession
Possess player
Leave possession
Reset the trap
Possess the player
Tirgger the trap
....

Until you got evil points or at least until you get the desired level of your demon.

I forgot some goodies and some bad stuffs that are not ground breaking nor game breaking
Graphic is so beautiful along with finishing moves
Music is just kickass
Voice acting: Average at best, some characters voiced right like Mia and David, some of the voices and deliveries doesn't sound right to the characters, Lord Arthur's voice is a complete joke, Annie and Scotty don't look right(in terms of both character model and voice actors) Ash sound like he completely bored to death

[Lowelheim]

Originally posted by Soulless One:

Originally posted by Soulless One:

I was overjoyed at first 20 hours but now I kinda frustrated getting stun locked by demon player, getting downed then spectating teammates, some doing nothing effective or some coming to save me and suffering the same fate.

Worst part is that's the only way to win, demon should stun lock alone survivors to win, survivors should stay together to stun lock demon player to win, feels like it's all about stun locking your opponent

Originally posted by Lowelheim:

The best part is also, as a demon,,,

Place a trap
Possess player
Trigger the trap
Leave possession
Possess player
Leave possession
Reset the trap
Possess the player
Tirgger the trap
....

Until you got evil points or at least until you get the desired level of your demon.

I forgot some goodies and some bad stuffs that are not ground breaking nor game breaking
Graphic is so beautiful along with finishing moves
Music is just kickass
Voice acting: Average at best, some characters voiced right like Mia and David, some of the voices and deliveries doesn't sound right to the characters, Lord Arthur's voice is a complete joke, Annie and Scotty don't look right(in terms of both character model and voice actors) Ash sound like he completely bored to death

Yes,

[Caspian]

agree 100%. Good and fun evil dead game, nice visuals and the blood and gore are really satisfying. But as asymmetry game? it is not even asymmetry because it is not balanced at all.

[$$Billionaire Trash$$]

One thing I've learned from this game is that experience doesn't not equal skill in this game, at all.

[$$Billionaire Trash$$]

Originally posted by Lowelheim:

Originally posted by Soulless One:

I forgot some goodies and some bad stuffs that are not ground breaking nor game breaking
Graphic is so beautiful along with finishing moves
Music is just kickass
Voice acting: Average at best, some characters voiced right like Mia and David, some of the voices and deliveries doesn't sound right to the characters, Lord Arthur's voice is a complete joke, Annie and Scotty don't look right(in terms of both character model and voice actors) Ash sound like he completely bored to death

Yes,

Ash sounds bored to death from the voicelines they took from the movies? Eh, okay.

[Stevey The Ex-Eevee]

Originally posted by A P O 1 1 0ⁿ:

Originally posted by Lowelheim:

Yes,

Ash sounds bored to death from the voicelines they took from the movies? Eh, okay.

they werent taken from the movies, bruce campbell just re-recorded them. He doesn't sound bored, but it's misinformation to say they were directly ripped from the film.

[$$Billionaire Trash$$]

Originally posted by Stevey The Ex-Eevee:

Originally posted by A P O 1 1 0ⁿ:

Ash sounds bored to death from the voicelines they took from the movies? Eh, okay.

they werent taken from the movies, bruce campbell just re-recorded them. He doesn't sound bored, but it's misinformation to say they were directly ripped from the film.

Who cares, the point is the person only says he sounds bored because of his own bias against the game.

[Konachibi]

Some voice lines are easily identifiable as being taken directly from the t.v show, specifically Kelly's voice lines.

Lucy Lawless definitely recorded lines for the game, since there's things she never said in the t.v show or, as someone seems to think, were ever said in Xena, lines like, "Ooo Ash's toy, groovy, is that right?", and she did a great job with them I think.

As for Ash's lines, many of them are fresh recordings from Bruce, though some may have been taken from the movies and/or t.v show, probably ones for the younger versions of Ash. Bruce has had, and still has, a running career as a voice actor for video games as well as being in movies and t.v shows, games like Pitfall 3D, and the 3 previous Evil Dead games where he obviously voiced Ash, as well as voicing Ash again in some Dead By Daylight DLC. In fact, Evil Dead: Regeneration features a number of videos where they interviewed Bruce Campbell and asked him what he felt about voice acting for video games and a lot of other things, it's quite interesting.

For other characters, there has to be a little give-or-take, given that many of the characters from the movies are 30+ years older now and likely don't sound like they did back then so they obviously had to get other voice actors to try and mimic those voices.

Anyways, topic at hand, I agree about the bleeding out mechanic. All too often when I see someone go down, I make an attempt to pick them up, but normally it's impossible since every deadite in the vicinity seems to make a b-line to me to prevent it, and their bleed out timer runs down so fast there's no way to clear the area and then pick them up. All 3 of the other members of the team have to work in unison to accomplish a revive, with one picking the player up and the other 2 preventing anything from getting close, and that's nearly impossible in random matchmaking, especially when playing on European servers because a lot of the time nobody speaks the same languages in order to communicate.

Class progression does feel a little underwhelming. When I began playing I expected each character to have a skill tree unique to their playstyle and personality, but every skill tree for every class generally seems to all have the same skills, with only minor differences such as leader characters having a few skills for their aura.
I don't really feel like the hunter skill trees really make them specialise in ranged weapons, and Kelly having a speciality for the meat hammer when, as a hunter, she's meant to be a ranged specialist simply makes no sense whatsoever.

If I were to pick at faults that bother me specifically, it's that I seem to constantly get grouped with survivors who just don't seem to have any grasp on how to play the game. I see them run around like headless chickens, clueless as to the fact that there's objectives to accomplish, and that it's meant to be a co-operative experience. Usually the first person in a building will pick up anything and everything that isn't nailed down, leaving me, the one running around with some epic level shotgun or something, completely unable to find any ammunition for it because the guy running around with the revolver has grabbed all of the long-gun ammo that he can't use like an idiot.

As one that plays primarily as Ruby though, I feel character balancing is as off as other kinds of balancing though. I can't decide if Ruby is well balanced and some other characters are underpowered, or if Ruby is overpowered and others are where the status quo should be. I can go an entire match as Ruby without ever having to chug a sheps, never having to deal with my fear gauge, and generally just blazing through the objectives, while when I play as Kelly or Amanda, there's often times I have to run from a fight, or I get downed unexpectedly because my health gauge just seemed to melt without me noticing. (Note: This is all in vs. AI)

The game has a great foundation to be built upon, all it needs is a bit of TLC and some polish to really make it shine, and then a small team at Saber that works on pumping out fresh DLC every couple of months, maybe make cosmetic items people can equip to characters like weapons skins or decorations that they can earn just by playing the game (not a battle pass, more like the way seasons work in Deep Rock Galactic), and it could be a long running online game.

[Stevey The Ex-Eevee]

Originally posted by A P O 1 1 0ⁿ:

Originally posted by Stevey The Ex-Eevee:

Right, so you got no idea what you're talking about. Thanks for making that clear for everyone.

Seems like it's only not clear to you

nope, you're simply wrong. they're not ripped from the movies OR game, they maybe requoted, but they're defiently not ripped. you're 100% wrong on that, and you're unclear on it cause you got a fragile ego. simple as.