I’ve noticed a distinct split idea in the community and I believe I’ve found the solution to the imbalance of the game.
Half the community argues the berserker combistick combo is overpowered. The other half argues the fireteam is overpowered. I’ve noticed what I believe both of these theories are correct for a specific reason.
The fireteam is never stronger than when they stick together in a group and work as a team. If they work together they can and will mess a predator up.
The berserker predator specializes in close quarters combat and the combistick excelled at clustered groups of enemies with its area of effect damage it hits multiple targets per swing and can pin an enemy to a wall with a mid range throw.
These two things being called overpowered are actually just being properly utilized. You see I’ve noticed theres rarely ever a reason for the fireteam to split up, this is forcing predators to rush in for close quarters combat using berserker combistick to get in close and work some damage allowing 2 possibilities, either the predator wins or loses. The result is this argument.
The solution isn’t increasing the health or damage of either predator or fireteam, the answer is providing opportunity for both.
The fireteam should be concentrating on fighting to stay alive and escaping. The predator should be hunting them down one by one these are the rolls that make sense in this game, it’s how the game wants to be played.
By simply forcing the fireteam to separate and traverse the map, keep them moving, they mud up and hide moving between objective to objective this gives the predator a chance to ambush and utilize traps and gear, new strategies will be forced for the predator because the fireteam is no longer camping 1 spot together instead they are spread out and hard to find.
As an end result you have a proper asymmetrical game, the predator is feared once more, and the fire team still has just as much chance to win with the right strategy and proper teamwork with none of the combistick rushes or the predator hunting we see now.