Pet Evolution

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but I don't remember this being a feature in Enraged Koala. Apparently tamed monsters will now evolve when they level up, playing around with it a bit with this weird little dog monster I found that I thought looked cool. This is what he looked like originally http://i.imgur.com/PmnMAOp.jpg and after I let him kill a few things to gain a level he turned into this http://i.imgur.com/w87iYvW.jpg. The only downside I've seen so far is that when the monster dies it looks like it reverts back to its first stage, so I haven't been able to test whether it will evolve again if it levels up again in the new form.

Edit: Strangely enough, it looks like if you leave the planet and then come back while it's out, it will revert back to the evolved form.

Edit 2: Doesn't look like it evolves more than once, got it to level up while in the evolved stage and it didn't change anymore.

 

I tried pets last night and I have seen the same effect.

I would like to know if this intended, and if it is how it works, or if it is a subject under construction.

 

I would sure like for it to be a feature and not a bug. LoL Could be the start of a whole new "zookeeper/geneticist" progression path.

 

It's intended that they evolve forms as they level up but last I'd heard it wasn't implemented yet. Must have snuck it in last patch.

 

But they come back to the first form when they died.
And we have to kill them to change planet.
So they never really evolve.
That's my problem.

 

Pets aren't all that useful at the moment sadly because of the lack of any method to control them or recapture them without killing them. As far as I have seen evolving does absolutely nothing other than change their appearance, they have the same stats as far as damage and health go. Couldn't tell you exactly how much health they cap at, but damage caps at 1690. I've also noticed a weird bug where you capture a creature and the pet you get is totally different, then involves into what you captured. I believe this is an unintentional bug as you are only supposed to be able to capture creatures in their baby form.

 

I catched a monster from my home planet, and I've only ever kept him in my ship. Suddenly, one day when I logged on, he looked terrifying. I captured him and trashed the pod thinking I could catch a new one, only to see that every single one of them on my planet looked the same; black eyes instead of friendly, spikes on their heads instead of "ball-ish" things, and an eye on their tail instead of not.

 

This isn't a case of pet evolution. This is just a case of the latest update switching around some monster parts, causing existing monsters to be generated with different parts than before.

 

Yeah I understood it wasn't the evolution part, but still. It's really annoying because they were so cute, and now so hideous.