What changed in Evolve Stage 2 in 2015

The Shield Charger provides temporary shields to teammates, increasing in strength with duration.

Healing Buoys can be deployed to regenerate health for nearby allies and enhance Emet's Heal Burst.

The Flame Snare halts a monster's movement and ignites it.

The Replay Cannon fires an explosive dart that tags a target and rapidly fires several homing missiles.

The Orbital Drill fires a tracking death beam from space to damage nearby enemies.

Emet is a new medic character with unique abilities including the Replay Cannon and Healing Buoys.

The Combat Trapjaw's flamethrower roasts Monsters that get too close.

The Laser Cutter projects a continuous laser beam that deals damage over time.

Wasteland Maggie features fire damage on her gear, including a flamethrower for Daisy.

Tech Sgt. Hank can charge personal shields onto teammates and features the Orbital Drill.

The Burst Pistol fires molten bullets that ignite enemies and deal damage over time.

The Respawn Beacon teleports Hunters from the dropship, reducing respawn times to 30 seconds.

Players gain access to Hunting Season 2 characters for 24 hours starting September 5, 2015.

Players gain access to Hunting Season 1 characters for 24 hours starting September 4, 2015.

All Evolve players can access DLC characters for free during the weekend.

Evolve will be playable for free from September 3 to September 7, 2015.

New features include playing exclusively as Monster or Hunter, no joining matches in progress, improved matchmaking, and revamped leaderboards.

Major changes to characters like Bucket and Torvald, along with improvements to Behemoth.

One of the biggest balance patches with changes to Monster abilities and Hunter jetpacks.

Improvements to the speed of deploying domes.

A new free map designed exclusively for Arena Mode matches.

Major improvements including information display when Trapper domes the Monster and a minimal viewing mode.

Jack joins the team with new abilities and weapons, including dual pistols and a hacked Survey Satellite.

Significant improvements to matchmaking, user experience, and leaderboards in Hunt mode.

Earn the Hank Predator skin by winning 25,000 games with Hank during the event.

Earn the Cabot Predator skin by winning 25,000 games with Cabot during the event.

Win games with Hank or Cabot to earn exclusive Predator skins.

Lennox, the fourth Assault character, is now available with a melee attack and unique abilities.

A new free update featuring Arena Mode, a life-or-death cage match.

Val won 47,722 games. Everyone who participated gets the Medic Predator skin set. Skins rewarded by 5/21.

Participate in the challenge to earn exclusive skins based on win percentages.

Earn the Hyde Predator skin or the Wraith Voodoo skin based on community performance during the challenge.

Community event to deal damage with Bucket's sentry guns to earn exclusive skins.

If the community goal is reached, the Goliath Voodoo skin will be rewarded to players by April 16.

Earn the Goliath Voodoo skin by landing 1,000,000 successful rock throws on Hunters with Goliath.

Added a whole new chapter full of missions with challenges for the community.

Global and friend leaderboards introduced to enhance competition.

Implemented general bug fixes and improvements.

Chance to earn new and exclusive rewards for your Hunters through the Arctic Hunt update.

A new monster, Behemoth, has been added to the game, featuring unique abilities like smashing foes and using Lava Bomb.

Fixed rare crash when AIs would grapple the player.

Further improvements made to saving player progression.

Increased frequency of dropship conversations.

Fixed the tracking dart sound playing for monster when Abe darts wildlife.

Added new Tier 4 Hunters: Torvald, Sunny, Slim, and Crow.

A brand new Observer Mode will be introduced alongside the new characters.

New Monster Behemoth and four new Hunters: Torvald (Assault), Crow (Trapper), Slim (Medic), and Sunny (Support) will be available.

Four new Hunter characters have been introduced: Torvald the Assault, Crow the Trapper, Slim the Medic, and Sunny the Support.

Fixed rare crash when late-joining a game while another player was using personal shield or cloak.

Fixed a crash that sometimes occurred if a player disconnected after using Plasma Blast.

Two new maps will be available for Xbox One on April 30th, with PC and PS4 to follow.

Fixed rare server crash when a player disconnects while teleporting or gliding.

Made improvements to alleviate DCGI_DEVICE_ERROR_HUNG issues.

Fixed situations where AI sometimes fell through the world after using Teleport Gates.

Implemented measures to protect against known cheats.

Added new monster Behemoth.

Kraken’s flight speed is no longer slowed by Tranqs.

Arc Mine damage reduced by 20%, health reduced by 75%, arm time increased by one second.

Multifire Rocket Launcher has better accuracy while jumping and jetpacking.

Sound Spike now detects stealthing monsters within a 15 meter radius, radius increased from 50 to 60 meters.

Pull Kraken down at a consistent rate regardless of combat status.

All monsters can see recent damage on their health bar to help make burst damage visible.

Wraith becomes visible for half a second when shot while cloaked.

Minigun accuracy increased by 25%, damage increased by 20%.

Fixed a bug that was causing Aftershock to not break harpoon traps or Arc Mines.

Supernova duration decreased by 50%.

Acceleration Field cooldown increased by 15 seconds.

Warp Blast speed reduced by 40%, range no longer levels up, radius levels up now, max travel distance set to 30 meters, damage increased by 10%.

Reduced knockback magnitude.

Fixing some flight edge cases that were causing inconsistencies making him too powerful or too weak.

Tranq duration increased to 10 seconds.

Harpoon Traps arm time increased by one second.

Making her movement speed less bursty for easier tracking.

Guided Missile Launcher damage increased by 11%.

Rail Cannon damage reduced by 30%, reload time increased by 25%.

Medgun heals 20% faster but consumes ammo 2.5x faster.

Vortex cooldown increased by one second.

Toxic Grenade DPS increased by 50%, added proximity detonation, reduced fire rate and lifetime.

Introducing two unique environments: Mining caves and an industrial setting, playable in various game modes.

Play Evolve between March 5th and March 8th to earn TRS Gold Skins for Goliath, Kraken, and Wraith.

Observer Mode is a community feature allowing players to observe and commentate on matches.

Players can now experience Evolve offline in single player mode, controlling both the monster and hunters.

Behemoth is the largest monster in Evolve, designed to change the gameplay dynamics.