I am finding several things wrong with changing "miss" to "evade" for any kind of high velocity projectile or energy weapon.
To "Evade" one such you need to be aware of exactly when, or have enough perception and fully intent on the culprit aiming at you, to be able to move before the shot is even fired. THEN it is "Evaded".
If there's is any other reason for a shot to not hit it's target, like lacking in skills, tripping while fireing (all kinds of tripping), target tripping while being fired upon (only the one kind of trippin), moving around too much to keep a steady aim, avatar being under a lot of pressure and not concentrating fully, unforseen circumstances had a tree pop up in front of the target, then it is a "Miss" and not an "Evade".
I can see highly evolved Robots evading shots. I can not see animals doing so under any circumstances. I might buy Calyptians doing so once in a blazing moon.
If MA plan to refine the combat messages there is still no reason to simply exchange "Miss" with "Evade". If doing so for melee weapons I could understand it, but not for high velocity projectile or energy weapons.
As for the
"These messages will be further refined in a later release to more accurately indicate the actual outcome of each attack attempt and provide better information to participants."
they did not actually do any refining so "further refining" is not possible,
they made the current "evade" high velocity shots less accurate than what was before already so making it more accurate again should be easy,
what actual outcome? I thought we got that already with ranged weapons. Miss or hit with x damage done. If planning to add where the hit occured, or how close a miss was, sure, alright, I can dig that, if it has some effect other than just a nice text message. "Opponent was hit for 4.7 Burn Damage in it's left right hindleg" should in all fainess also give the poor animal a reduced speed as well then, or I'd rather not know where it was hit.
Done ranting with a final comment: I am more peeved and upset with seeing any animal "evading" my shot than I ever was seeing me "miss" them.
Cheers