Combistick/Berseker - not fun

#1

Since hitting around level 40 around 80% of the Predators i go up against are just using Berserker and Combistick and zerging.

I know you can parry using the knife (which many seem to want removed) but it’s not the insta-win that people seem to think. More than anything else, it’s just not fun.

Either way, if they remove the parry the Preds will just be able to zerg with no counter to it. I do actually want the parry removed though, and a different answer put in place to the combistick zerg.

I play this game for the thrill of the hunt or being hunted, I prefer playing as fireteam and hardly ever use the predator, but over the last couple of days I havent played much as so many predators just go Zerker/combi and charge in. I dont want to play a game that devolves into melee spamming in some kind of weird gladiator combat, I want to use a gun, I want to feel like I’m being hunted and fight back with bullets.

I had loads of fun upto level 40ish, but now it just feels like a chore to play.

#2

parry needs to stay but have a limit, nerf knife melee.

make the parry indicator work properly against combi stick.

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#3

If no changes are made to stop the Zerker/Combi rush, I’m just gonna stop playing, as it’s no fun. Remove the parry completely for all I care, but I want the Zerker/Combi changed/fixed, as when most matches end up being this weird clunky melee bout, that’s not the Predator game I want to play.

#4

Because the ease of predator detection and underwhelming predator range attacks, it’s near the only viable strategy if you care about winning consistantly, personally I consider it a victory if I can snag 3 claims and not get killed before they exfiltrate, but then again by default pred is scout with bow and disc, downrange, modified reserves, and dithered lenses

#5

i dont get it , if you dont like the stick spam why would you like the counter to it removed? parry needs to be there to stop what you and all of us hate…

parry is essential to counter melee.

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#6

Because then they would have to put something else in to stop the stick spam.

Maybe add a ballistic shield as gear, which costs 6-8 points and you can only use a pistol with it. 6-8 points would mainly limit support classes to use it who have 15 gear slots (which I dont get either as the most any gear can come to is 10 slots). Other classes would have to give up other gear to use it.

Just one idea I came up with on the fly.

At the moment so many just stick mash, and the only real counter is to get your knife out to parry and have some kind of slap contest in a gun game.

If they remove the parry they would have to put something else in.

#7

while thats a good idea and have no problem with it, i think just numbers and things need ballancing with what we have rather than needing to add other assets that dont exist, that requires art time, 3d modelling, texturing, animations etc etc… .

Where as just changing some numbers for damage or parry time or whatever could be a really quick fix that we can all enjoy now.

But i have no problem with a shield or ssomething like that. good idea