Hi there, a Japanese player dropping a review here. Forgive my English improficiency.

This game certainly has great potential, but it's operated by the worst company whose management sucks.
-very slow to add new units (added Nu in season 2, then added Hyperion in season 3. 2 shield units in a row why?)
-very slow to improve fps game experience (lagging, unstable and low frame rate, DCs, weird penalty policies)
-very greedy monetizing (non attractive unit/weapon skins for crazy price)

As you go through their update notes, especially their reasoning behind unit balancing, you will immediately realize they have completely different point of view from the players. It even comes to my mind that like none of the dev team are playing this game.

This game is dying, for sure, and the company does not care about it. It's funny the beta was the pinnacle of this game.


#UPDATE: Feb 20
The game keeps crashing at the lobby and never lets me (re)join any single match. I got 30 minute penalty twice. I, finally, uninstalled this game. I don't think this happens to all the players, but best of luck to any new players, and salute to patience of the remaining pilots. I'm out.

Overwatch with hotter characters

RIP GunEvo
You deserved better.

game is good but DONT EVER SPEND MONEY IN THIS GAME

instead buy gunpla

if game closed all your spending gone into thin air

but if you buy gunpla atleast you stil have.

You don't know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

They're shutting the game down in a couple months so I figured I'd give my two cents.

On the gameplay side of things this was great. Evo came out slightly before Overwatch 2 and had the numbers to be a real competitor and mainstay in the over saturated hero shooter genre. Those numbers didn't last long.

Unfortunately this was a free to play game and had all the pitfalls they usually do. Over-monetization drove off most of the playerbase and even more damning was the grind to unlock other heroes. FTP could only earn a set amount of in game currency and many of my friends with who played near daily S1 only ever earned enough to unlock one extra character. Probably the worst thing a dev could do to a player in this genre.

This one is a real shame. A huge "what could have been".

This game has a great foundation. Gameplay is really fun even though there is some balancing issues with some certain gundams being way better than others. You might run into crashes/connection issues as they're still ironing the kinks at this early stage.

The reason why I'm downvoting mainly is the currency system. You don't get any if you win/lose a match. You don't get any currency (capital) for challenges except for the beginner challenges. The battle exp is only tied to challenges but if you don't have the premium pass, 1/3 of daily and 1/2 of weekly challenges are locked unless you buy the pass. Also, the challenges are tied to certain gundams so you can't just play any gundam to finish the challenge. I bet you would have a hard time trying to finish the entire season pass for free. No real way of getting currency is really my biggest gripe and I hope they change this system.

EDIT: After playing some more, it seems the unlockable characters behind the paywall are overpowered. The monetization puts some salt in the wound as F2P players can't access these gundams easily.

The game is pretty fun, but things are way too expensive and they're gating the way to obtain in game currency behind time walls which is very frustrating and honestly insulting. Apparently I don't love gundams unless I wanna spend 10 bucks on a character or at least a couple of weeks worth of grinding/logging-in.

Here's what I mean by that: As it currently stands, the way to get in game currency is mostly locked behind a time scaling gate. A new gundam costs ~2000 in game currency. As of right now (as per my understanding), you're only able to earn 400 worth of in game currency per beginner challenge page, each page is separated by a few challenges to be completed. Sounds fun right? Well, so far, each new page requires a certain amount of daily log ins.
Day 1 gave you like a ticket and a stamp, and I think 50 of the currency. Day 2 required 2 daily log-ins and gave 400, Day 3 requires 3 daily logins and gave 400, and seeing as there are quite a few of these left, we're all left to speculate that this will follow suit with the rest of the challenge pages.
So when I want to get to 1200 from 800 I will have to wait for 4 more days, and to get 1600 will be 5 days after that, and to finally get to 2000 I will have to wait 6 days after that. So we're talking 20 days (again for emphasis: 2+3+4+5+6, 20 daily log-ins) before I can unlock a character. It has nothing to do with skill or grinding, just logging in like a (gun)damned gacha game.
And because of the time sink, I don't want to spend any of the in game currency on things like lootboxes, or the fun things like sprays, animated icons, or even suit/weapon skins, I only want to save because having a new character is more fun than having a tricked out starter character (imo).
And also, with like, nothing as the reward for matches, I don't even wanna play, my loop is finished. I don't get to play a new character for almost an entire month, so my experience for the next few weeks will essentially be the same and I don't even get any currency for it, and when I'm playing with randos and things aren't fun, I don't have a "Well at least I'm working towards an exciting character that'll give me some more options and possibly let me have way more fun!" I just have to grit my teeth or just not play and wait for my log-ins.
And also, you can't even test the characters in the practice range! So I've got to wait 20 days to buy a character, do a ton of research for a character with like 4 or 5 abilities, and then even after all of that, I may find it lackluster or not fun and then I'm just out of luck! I don't think you can refund characters, and if that happened, and I waited all that time and I don't absolutely love the next character, I'd probably quit playing honestly, which is what I fear will actually happen.

Unfortunately, with how it's progressed so far, it really seems like I won't be able to get the character I want for a long time, which is very disappointing to say the least and why I feel hesitant to recommend it.
It reminds me of Evolve's and SW Battlefront II's dlc plan, and we all know how well that went for them.
If I'm wrong about farming in game currency, or if they update it to be less rigid, like giving people a minuscule amount of points for playing matches (which I think we all thought the system was going to be going in), I will gladly change this review, but until then, I've stopped recommending it to people because you're not rewarded for effort, just for how many times you log-in. Which really sucks, because this is celebration of Gundam throughout the years, has a lot of neat and fun ideas and, has plenty of potential to be super fun.
Edited because of bad math

Hello mobile suits pilots / operators / gundam miesters / riders!

Here some info on the release and a small reviews ''at the bottom''.

Just a reminder to everybody going into panic ATM. A lot of people start to post about an ERROR 503. You're not having issues with your PC or the game itself. The developpers simply allowed us to pre-download a part of the game prior to the official release of the game.

Here is the explanation about it:
- https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1816670/view/3410936493378230142
- https://gundamevolution.com/en/news/74

Developers Bandai Namco has confirmed that the Gundam Evolution release date and start time has been set for Wednesday, September 21, 2022, at 7pm PDT / 10pm EDT / 2am BST.


Now for the reviews!

After over 100 hours between PS5 and PC, I can tell you that i'll most likely spent a few hundreds on it. Obviously being a fan of the IP have a strong influence on my perception, but stay with me. For starter, there is ATM only 3 modes.

Point Capture: You and your teams will push toward points to capture once in attack and once in defense. There is nothing that will change gaming history, but plenty of fun. The one who managed to push further win!

Domination: This might be my favorite mode! Objectives points will be made available on the maps while changing from time to time to spice thing up and avoiding total domination ''hehe see the bad pun?'' allowing teams a chance to counter attack. The first team who win two rounds win.

Destruction: I think this might be considered a regular terrorist planting bomb from CS. You'll have team who defend and team who plant the bomb. Like i said there is nothing major to it, but you'll get use to it very fast. I saw lot of people trying to simply frag the opposite team leading to defeat so don't be greedy and play objectives.

Now talking a bit about the mobile suits. While this might be a problem, there is a lot of of ''unbalanced'' mobile suits. For me it's not about not being good or else, but some units obviously pack a bigger punch and learning the controls will be crucial. Give yourself a chance and don't be scared trying them. While the tutorial is made to be played with the mascot RX 78-2, you'll end up doing just like any heroes based FPS. You're not locked under a specifics unit. Switching will be the key to victory. Some maps aren't optimized for some mech since they're pretty wide and other will be more focused on close fight. Be aware of my bud Barbatos from Blood Orphans, If your let him get too close of you he'll manage to smash you pretty hard and used ''don't know if he was nerfed'' to be able to smash most mobile suits using his G-Maneuvers and skill to kill you with no mercy. Tho he's NOT the most OP and can be easily counter if a team is well cordinated. See him like a dangerous wild dog if you roam alone and don't let him get too close. Pale Rider or GM will most likely one of the best models to start with to learn the basics, but they're far from being the one you'll want to use in the end.

I sure hope you guys will enjoy this game just like i did in the CB, right now let's be patient and brace ourself for the official release! I'll be there huinting you with my best boy Sazabi and Asshimar! Big love y'all!

I used to play Overwatch, then I played this. Now I don't play either of them and am much happier for it.