Am I happy with this game? Well, yes. I’d have to be considering I’m closing in on 1400+ hours of play time and the fact I actually bothered to go out of my way & get the Platinum for it.
Is there problems? Absolutely, I have several and I’ll come to list them but overall for the Price I paid for this game and knowing the history of the Devs going in & the scale I expected from it: yeah I’m happy and I don’t regret my time or purchase and I’ll continue to support the game for as long as it is around.
I can’t really complain too much for a game that launched at a reasonably cheap price in a niche genre from Jank AA Devs. The product is what I expected and in a few small areas exceeded my expectations of the Developers. It is not the game I wanted. Its not the game I’ve waited since AVP 2010 for, nor is it especially the game I’ve wanted since Concrete Jungle: but it is a game I have no problem being a fan of and for all of its faults & struggles the situation could be a million times more dire if a bastard evil entity like say Ubisoft or Activision got their hands on the license.
As for what makes me unhappy with the game? Well the Balance is 100% fucked at the moment and Fireteam have had it too fucking good for too fucking long and its very clear no one on the Dev team ACTUALLY puts time & effort into maining Predator & checking both sides even out. The team has a VERY clear Fireteam bias and they balance around the worst players and this has been to the detriment of the game’s gameplay since early 2021. I mean FT had Specialisations for nearly 4 months before Preds got a taste of that, that’s insane. And I think the fact one of the Lead Devs is for lack of a better term a CSGO Fanboy is also massively fucking up the gameplay on FT’s side because the shooting is widely unfun & all too easy due to being Hitscan with SOME minor exceptions like the Prototype & NRV-E, both of which FEEL way better to play with due to being projectile & having gunplay that leans more towards Skill based use.
Reworks are needed. Fireteam weapons as a whole need to be swapped from Hitscan to Projectile. The SAWZ-50; Hammerhead, Grimtech & 1011-12 need MASSIVE nerfs, grenades too now that I think about it. Predator needs more Gear options like Nooses to pull FT into Trees, more ranged weapons like the Speargun & more Perks that give them answers to FT’s Thick Skin & Double Time Perks as well as things that reward more Stealth based play like Perks that would cut how move movement noise a Pred makes & so on.
I can’t really complain as to the content we’ve gotten, whilst slow at times I’ve generally always been very positive on the original creations the team has come up with, Cleo I feel is one of the best new additions to the series in over a Decade for example & as a creator myself I love seeing these new designs & all the new lore. I’ve been a big fan of that stuff so far. But yeah I do feel like MAYBE it is time to get a 2v6 or 3v12 mode. I don’t want any single player content though because I think it is VERY clear the Dev Team is not equipped to make such content good & fun, it’d be a waste of valuable resources ATM IMO.
So overall yeah, I’m happy. I’ll remain mostly positive I think. I just REALLY want them to pull their finger out their arse when it comes to balancing. Balance is the major issue this game has ATM.
