a couple of questions

[Sakono]

I play on PS4 to start.

I see a lot of people say the predator goes down quick but every game I’ve played as FT he is a damn bullet sponge. even taking multiple mags from more then one FT person. I have not played as a predator yet as 2-10min for a game as FT beats the 30+min wait i get when trying to play as a predator

The other questions is what the hell does ADS stand for? I can’t find anything online other then the perk for faster ADS movement…the fuck is it?

[SafeSpaceSally]

ADS is “Aim down sights” or “aiming down sights”- when you aren’t hip firing basically

You probably feel like you and your team are landing a lot more of your shots than you actually are, it’s really easy to bounce around a team as pred and make them waste ammo- he can take a fair bit of damage but not a ton

[KameofWar]

looks like you need to do some reading friend

@KameofWar

I’ll just leave this here if this post looks familiar that’s because it is if i’m posting it as a reply to you it’s cause i think your ill informed it’s literally all you need to know to be good at fireteam and literally stomp any pred you run into

ok SO first Scar, LMG, AK, the first AR, and Hammerhead, vector the last SMG and the 2XL you should never use shotguns as they do less dps than the 2 smg’s i’ve mentioned use extended mag on all of them each of these weapons can down the zerker predator in one clip or at least in 11seconds if you are a fireteam these are the only weapons you should be using unless your a sniper god all of the snipers are good it’s entirely preference between the 3 of them however the barret 50 (last sniper) and the bolt action are both fine at taking off the preds mask in around 2-4 shots the minigun is overrated but is really good in close range as another option it and the magnum are memey with the assault but not terrible it’s just other primary weapons/secondary weapons do their job better
with these weapons you now have the capability to downs zerker in one clip or in 11 seconds or less assuming your pretty accurate and depending on your range closer ranges get as low as 3-6 seconds farther away get to about 7-11
keep in mind some of these guns such as the LMG/AK/Scar can kill the predator before he can down you in melee this is true for every melee weapon when your support/Dutch with the right perk setup which lets you completely prevent melee play from the predator if your aim is true in CQC unless they decide to throw their weapon in the case of the disc/stick

2nd you have to know how to parry with the autos above it takes 2 parries to kill any predator in the game
If you equip the knife by holding the melee button and pressing L2 or whatever your aim button is you get a heavy stab this stab has more parry frames and at times lets you parry the pred melee attacks with no thought in your brain so use it if your struggling

3rd you should be using either the assault or support or dutch classes in all cases Recon and scout is strictly worse than everyone else you will never need the spotting duration hip fire accuracy and + revive speed could be useful but most of the time if someone is downed unless they crawl behind something it’s not worth trying to revive them besides the interaction perk increases revive speed so just take the perk on an assault or dutch and bang you get to be scout with 150+ hp

4th you should only be using perks that increase your dmg to the predator or increase melee dmg and hp up dmg reduction from currently OLWF scales on max hp so if your hp is 150+ it usually is better than +HP you could for 3 costs take +interaction speed or +move speed or then for any 2 costs you should always be picking reduced recoil reduction or 6 sense or reload speed for your 1 costs you should be picking ADS movement speed or sludge blood albeit hip fire accuracy generally isn’t good but you could take it if you think your going to fight a lot of melee pred’s

figure out which combination of perks here work for your class set up and use them well

5th Gear you should always be taking syringes on every single class or medkits

if you are support you should take both if your in a premade 1 person should have ammo bags and whoever is dutch/assault should be running audio decoys + thermal distractions every other item isn’t usually worth using unless all these items are being used by someone it’ s best to have 2 medkits per fireteam someone should carry frag grenades to get predators who heal on rooftops or other location that are difficult to get too

6th communicate with you team if you have a mic if the predator leaves always have someone go check the local pig spawns generally there is a very close pig spawn near camps always check it if pred leaves if you catch him eating a pig that equals death for him

7th reinforcements 3 people means all in go their 2 people should split up you can be mudded for the entire game if you keep an eye on it rendering isolation worthless for pred if your all running silencers which the only downside is a slight dmg down this would cause some weapons to no longer one clip the predator so it’s your choice on how valuble that is unless the predator gets lucky on which camp he is looking at he will never find you until extraction

an 8th thing i just thought of if your fighting a predator who killed 2 people and he left whether healing or not you should immediately mud up and get out of the obj your in and wait for reinforce mission and head to it cause if he comes back he will probably wipe the 2 of you once reinforce starts he is alerted and you should immediately leave the local area not too far so you can sprint back to help your friends when they spawn but far enough that pred doesn’t kill you before they spawn

9th buildings under any circumstance you should never have more than 1 person in a building ever cause slam dmg is very high so make sure your not too huddled also in some cases if someone is downed it’s better to not revive them due to the ranged aoe/dmg of the predator killing those who interact this is also true with obj’s make sure you scare the predator off before doing such things or make sure his focus isn’t on you when your doing it people are bait remember that

10 the best predators use leap to confuse people so you need to be effective at tracking jumping or it’s movement in general predator move speed is the MOST POWERFUL tool they have as it lets them avoid dmg once you get this down predators will start to get wild and of course keep an eye on blood and use your ears to find them don’t want em standing still while invisible so they can ambush you or your team or heal for that matter

generally speaking the best comp for a team is probably 2 supports one assault one dutch you could mix and match this as long as you have one support on your team and all of you are using this here post you have a predator hunting death squad at your fingertips

this is all you need to know to be successful as a fireteam even against other pred varients not just zerker combi do to raw dmg output you have access too

keep in mind you FT’s have more effective hp than the predator because in theory you could have 48 heals and can dps him down faster than he can you so generally speaking if your losing you probably lost at loadout select unless that predator was just a apex monster which in my experiance has only happend to my squad 2 times out of what like 75+ games

All weapon dmg stats
All weapon dmg stats 2 electric boogalooo now with attachments

[MassImpact124]

Geeze, thats a lot to read.

Close range- use shotguns always (XGR is by far the most powerfulwhen maxed)
Far range use SNiper guns always (ZEN is by far the most powerful when maxed)
When you want to tickle the pred use SMGs.
Best middle ground are assault rifles (GOSL is probably your best bet most of the time when maxed).
Remember that different types of scopes can be placed on snipers,automatics and SMgs but they still resort to their own damage based on their weapon range.

ADS - Aim Down sites, Always Always Always adjust the ADS in the settings menu to about 1.0 or more.And make sure your mouse feels right by adjusting the horizonal and verticles adjustment settings. I think there are adjustments for ADS horiontal and verticle as well.

[SafeSpaceSally]

I would argue that the vektor (second SMG unlocked) is better than any of the shotgun- can drop pred health extremely quick close range

[KameofWar]

your wrong please check the links for TTK’s of all the guns in the game in the links i provided

the last 2 smg’s kill predators far faster than any shotguns in the game rendering them useless and the AK has a TTK of 3.3seconds at close range which is faster than any gun in the game

the snipers don’t actually kill faster than GOSLR at range or the Hammerhead however they do have far less bullet drop making them better for poking the predator whjen you want him to move or waste a heal

[Finessology]

@MassImpact124

ADS - Aim Down sites, Always Always Always

Hipfire at midrange + >
ADSing does jack for accuracy in this game

[MassImpact124]

Don’t care. SMGs suck in terms of accuracy per shot because it shoots too fast. So what a grenade can do more damage…but can anyone use a grenade with accuracy? hell no. We are talking about practicality. Nobody has the aim and perfect gun play to deal with SMG. its not practical unless they increase the ammo. SMGs are those guns that that one particular person uses on that rare occasion when the predator is already been blasted one too many times, then all it takes is that half second spurt of SMG to wind him down…but that is rare.

[KameofWar]

that just means you don’t know how to control the recoil i have no problems shooting straight in close range making it far suprior and i don’t use the recoil perk
and yes people can throw grenades with accuracy
and the spurt of smg is not rare at least not for my squad who all run 2ndary smg’s and we kill nearly every pred we run into in fact when certain dailies/weeklies are up we get mad at how easy it is to kill preds rather than complete the mission

i perfer to encourage players to be better rather than not
but fair enough i can’t make you commit to “getting good” but just know whenever you die to a melee predator you coulda just killed him first by not using a shotgun and using a AR or an SMG

[Sakono]

ahh thanks for the info. though unless it’s lag i still feel predators take bullets. point black fire and it’s bloody yeah but still takes out the team with melee? just my own exp though.