Better 1V1

#1

Love playing FT, but a few games have had me frustrated recently. A lot of the time for whatever reason you do your best and end up in a 1v1 situation with the Pred, no respawns FT down. 10 mins on the clock, you know exfil is going to take 30seconds and you gotta clock 40 AI as well as take the ugly mother f’er down. At that point it’s zero sum game.

So, avoiding exfil I’ve been working on strats to 1v1 the Pred in this situation with 7EN instead of going exfil, popping it at LR and getting close to finish, staying perpetually mudded and getting the big XP for the defuse. BUT, you nerfed the 7EN at CR, now there’s no opportunity to win without getting in a CR head to head fight with knife, or SG which even if pred is second wind is virtually impossible to do 1v1 anyway, so what ends up happening is even if they’re terrible Preds they end up leaping around, eating boars and because of your lack of mobility you either time out, or have to choose to die at exfil.

Surely there’s some way to even things up in a 1v1 situation at end game. Dutch defeated the Pred 1v1 in 87’, so did Harrigan, so where’s the opportunity? Perhaps there needs to be another end mission option for 1v1 situations? A way to escape without having to take on AI and wait for the chopper and the animation to finish to rope up.

#2

but you died, thats why dutch came. and dutch got lucky twice, once with the mud and once with the log trap.
Harrigan had the biggest power on his side in Predator 2 the samething Batman poses… plot armor.

#3

If the game was balanced in a way where one Fireteam member could defeat the Predator it would be in a pretty bad state.

A new feature where the Predator can ‘offer’ a Duel to the last remaining Fireteam member, or visa versa, (with adjustments to melee combat, fuck your Fireteam Knife) would be really cool and fit the mold of Predator.

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#5

I can’t log trap a pred though? Where did Harrigan get lucky? Dude smart disced the pred in a true 1v1 after being slashed CR.

#6

Add to this, dutch didn’t have to shoot 40 AI when he was having his showdown with the pred.

#7

Yeah 100% I by no means am talking about buffing the FT so that you can clock 1v1 in a rush situation, I’m talking about when you get to 1 player and then it becomes die, or choose stalemate. There has to be SOME sort of competition left in that situation. To be able to Knife V Wristblade duel would be awesome, and is just ONE possible way of solving that issue.

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#8

the pred was toying with Harrigan, he took out his crew first. he also had him at the cemetery and didnt kill him. and he piggy backed off of Peter Keys and Peter Keys distracted the predator enough for Harrigan to make his move.

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#9

Dear Jim,

First, you are not supposed to 1vs1 a Predator, but if you do - and win. That should be the biggest adrenaline rush in this game.

I ~roughly~ solo’d 6 Predators, all with the same loadout:

LMG + Revolver and Yautja’s Bane (Support class).

I’ve gotten 3 scouts, 2 hunters and (only) 1 beserker. They were all beginners- to mediocre at skill. But solo is solo in my book haha. Which is lore friendly, to a certain degree.

You open with your revolver. Minimum of 4 hits. Then empty your LMG until he drops. No need to parry, that will actually hurt you more.

But honest argument, after seeing Predators using spear-throw more: What I want as the FT are mines. Or claymore traps. If the Predator wants to throw his spear, fine. But I want to trap the hell out of that spear, so if he comes to pick it up. He’s in for a surprise.

Because right now, humans can’t ambush. I kinda want to be able to dig in while being killed from a distance. Like the movies <3

#10

Just maybe we get this when dutch dlc is here, he wears predator bio mask as a trophy lol so he may come with perks and more gear because he’d be his own class! :)

#11

The game not fitted for FT at many aspects. This is one of them. If there is only one FT member left he hasn’t really chance to finish objective and escape.

solution* F.E. reinforcement by cooldown instead once per match.

#12

reinforcements is pretty op.
Against a good FT the predator has the disadvantage.
I play both FT and Pred, and 9 times out of 10 playing as FT we down the pred. You get a bad group you’re fcked.

Playing as pred I win about 6 in 10, that may speak to my skill not being good as pred but if you refer back to the other statistic I don’t thinks so.

Pred can not resupply, so if he manages to drop a well organised FT to 1 person he’s running low on resources and will probably loose after they reinforce.
At the same time I’ve played against bad FTs as pred and let the last guy standing call reinforcements specifically so I could kill them all again for the glory.

#13

As most of the fire team play like hot patatos, I finish a lot of game 1v1 against the pred. But here a tips, when you call the chopper dont stay there and shoot the AI, mud up and run far away, 80% of the time the pred will start to kill the AI hoping to find you. And when the chopper is there run as fast as you can to it and escape. Its not easy, but its a simple « hard » way to do it

#14

Are you plays on lvl 10 or lower? Tip for you. Leap in + net gun = guaranteed kill or two.

#16

Seems like an Aussie guy was able to do it, even though he didn’t get the Defuse so it doesn’t truly count. But goes to show just how hard it is, and how much luck you need in gettting a dolt as a pred.

#17

Anytime I’m last man standing I stay mudded and go to exfil but run a bit back so the AI aren’t attacking me and throw some smoke grenades and thermal decoys into the exfil area in the hopes the predator thinks I’m there- once chopper arrives make a dash for it and hope for the best