Parry needs to go, full stop. They have guns, they have flashbangs. They dont need more stuns.
Reinforcement needs to go, full stop. As it is they get 3 retries a piece. There is no reason a predator should get them down to last man standing, have him mud up and run away only for the predator to then have to get them all down again. That’s effectively 22 player drops to win and that’s rediculous.
Having fully charged shots on plasma caster no longer drop with a single shot is rediculous. The laser is super easy to spot. If they are not acting as a team the penalty should be a player down. When Fire Team is moving together downing a player is far from certain death. Likewise being able to charge by a wall and step into a doorway or window to blast someone at full charge is often the only way to get Fire Team out of turtle mode.
It sounds like hyperbole but it isnt. Making these three changes would shift the combat advantage away from fire team without making them walking victims.
The most frustrating thing about this game is having to wait 10+ minutes to play predator only to have no solid win condition outside of A) their team being terrible or B) waiting for the chopper to ambush them. As it stands the predator is the hunted not the hunter.
Side note: Its pretty crazy that there are cheaters in this game after only a week of playing. I’ve had to turn off crossplay to keep from being shot through roof and trees as well as being spotted 100% of the time across the width of the radar relay or logging depot. But at least there is a work around for that.
I really really wanted to love this game, it was a game my friends and I have been wanting since AvP2 and the old Counter-Strike Predator mods, but so far it has been a very dissapointing experience. F13 had a good turn around but it took forever and honestly it feels like the lessons learned from that project didnt translate to this one which is perplexing.
I know you guys can make this as great as it deserves to be, I just hope it happens before the player base dries up.