Evolve (Games Client)

[Dizzard]

Has anyone tried this out yet? It just launched open beta.

https://www.evolvehq.com/welcome

I'm installing it at the moment, supposedly it detects when you launch a game (that it supports) and adds it to your account with play times, achievements and the like. It makes me think of a broader steam (just without the digital distribution part) I think the in-game overlay allows for chat, video capture, picture capture too.

It supports Ai War, Tidalis and AVWW too.

I'll edit this post when I get a better feel for it.

[x4000]

Interesting, I've never heard of it -- so cool to see that it supports our stuff.

[Dizzard]

Interesting, I've never heard of it -- so cool to see that it supports our stuff.

Yeah, I just added a link to the site in the main post. How could I forget that.

It seems you can form parties and then chat with the people in your parties in-game using the overlay. (text & voice)

Going to try launching AVWW when I have everything installed and see what happens.

Edit: It includes an in-game browser too. Seems much smoother than steams overlay...it's always giving me issues. Especially for Skyrim.

Edit2: If you want to join through this link:

https://www.evolvehq.com/recruit/friend?token=player:VvxiDzCc2BI443wu,friend:3UswWXsYO7XwkwRJ

You'll be automatically friended with me when you sign up. Not sure if there's any other benefits.

[Cyborg]

"Note that you may only link one Steam account at this time and that once you've linked it, you cannot unlink it. These restrictions may change in the future. "

Bad.

[Echo35]

I got in the closed beta a while back. The chat client at that time wasn't very mature and it was still way too early in development for me to comfortably use, but when I did use it, it seemed to work pretty well. The ability to be able to VPN a "party" is a great idea.