This situation persisted up until June of this year, when a relay server responsible for Legacy Evolve’s matching crashed, preventing the small but devoted group on the Evolve Reunited 2.0 Discord from playing together. After server support ended, gamers were left with nothing except training mode battles against bots.
After releasing the free-to-play version, 2K continued to call the original game Legacy Evolve, but Evolve Stage 2, which depended on dedicated servers, was fully shut down. Although we also liked that version, it didn’t fare much better, and in June 2018, 2K stopped development. We had fun creating it, but players didn’t seem to be interested, so a little over a year later it became available for free as Evolve Stage 2. Turtle Rock Studios, the company behind Left 4 Dead and Back 4 Blood, initially published Evolve in early 2015, but it did not perform well. The servers appear to have returned-sort of-four years after they were shut down, effectively ending the game. The long-gone free-to-play 4v1 FPS Evolve Stage 2 from 2K Games is behaving strangely.
