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All New Promo Cards now available as a bundle in Promo Pack 1

Three more new traits have arrived at the Watering Hole, to complete Promo Pack 1. We've heard your concerns about buying Cards individually, so we've put all of the Promo Cards together in a discounted pack. You will get the discount and the bundle for the remaining cards even if you've already purchased Venom or Gigantism.

These traits are completely optional, but will help make the game experience fresh for our longtime players, in both singleplayer and multiplayer.

  • Timid: Sometimes being careful pays off! This shy Trait is invulnerable to attack as it stays hidden until everyone else has eaten.
  • Insectivore: Insectivores find bugs among the plants, giving them the ability to eat massive amounts of food.
  • Trampling: Controlling the Food supply can be more powerful than any Carnivore. Squash excess food when it suits you with Trampling!



Promo Cards and Balance
You don't need to have any of these cards to play Evolution, these are simply to enhance the experience and provide new ways to play. We wanted to make sure they don't give any advantage in multiplayer, so all players in a multiplayer game get to use them when they are added to the deck. We hope you enjoy this new content.

New Traits are here and enabled for multiplayer

Our biggest addition since launch: New Promo Traits are now available for purchase in the game. In a balanced ecosystem, each new Trait impacts all other Traits as well. You'll need new strategies to survive against creatures using these mighty traits. Buy them on Steam, use them on any platform. Use them:
• Against the AI in single-player games
• In your own custom private games
• In public match-made multiplayer games



Public Multiplayer "Find A Match"
You can also use your promo cards in match-made multiplayer. Here's how it works: each player is allowed to add one promo card to the deck for everyone to use (the others do not need to own the promo card).



No Bots in Multiplayer

By popular request, match-made multiplayer will no longer use computer opponents by default. You've told us they take the human element out of multiplayer games. Public games will have a three person minimum before they kick off.

As always, join us in Discord to let us know what you think, discuss strategies, and beta test future cards.

https://discord.com/invite/JencA3p?mc_cid=cb6caa7fbd&mc_eid=%5BUNIQID%5D



User Organized Tournaments, new Traits enter beta

Some of our amazing Discord users have started organizing real time, bracket style Quaren-tourneys. This is a great way to spend lockdown! More info is on our Discord in the User Tourney category. Some new trait cards have also entered beta. Come check it out in our Discord:
https://discord.gg/XWBq5K4

Singleplayer Challenge Mode is here!



This is the biggest update to Evolution since launch.

Can you beat the Evolution Board Game using each trait only once? Can you win without eating from the Watering Hole? See how adaptable you really are in these challenges that require you to play a different way.



Test yourself by attempting to earn Bronze, Silver, or the ludicrous Gold Medal Achievements. Think you're the best at this week's challenge? Prove it on the new leaderboards. Mastered this week's challenge? There's a new challenge next week. Make sure you're updated to build 1.16.03, and find them in the local games menu.

Elo Rankings Get Real

Big changes are going into effect for the start of the October Tournament today. Yes, we've got a gorgeous new Hackbill avatar for you Nobel Laureates to covet, but we're also making two changes to Elo's:

1. Elo penalties for quitting games- Players intentionally leaving a game will be treated as a forfeit in elo scores. This should help stop the bad behavior of folks abandoning games early to avoid a loss.

2. Elo's adjusted at the start of each Tournament- By popular demand, we're adjusting Elo's at the start of each tournament. All player's will start the new tourney each month with their elo adjusted halfway back to 1500. If you finished the September tourney with an elo of 1900, you'll start the October tourney with an elo of 1700. If you didn't play in September, you'll start at 1500. This should allow new players to climb to the top of the elo leaderboard, and ensure only active players can win a tournament.

Note- Elo Leaderboards are not visible in the live game just yet. Those of you in the beta can see them, and you're still welcome to join! (see instructions at the top of #betaannouncements in Discord). You can also still see your elo on our old website.