Combistick Damage / Nerf

#1

Berserker + Combistick + Fearless + Impenetrable = OP.

I know this is Day 1, but come on here. Either the Fireteam is OP and crushes the Predator or Predator runs the load out mentioned above and obliterates Fireteam with ease. Fireteam has no counter for this combistick weapon. There has to be an answer for this cause all the Predator has to do is jump down, swing 2 or 3 teams and we’re dead, game over.

Simple solution:

After Predator downs a fireteam member give the combistick a 10 sec cool down, problem solved. Something has to be done about every game being a Predator just jumping down, swinging like a maniac and often times killing most or all the team in a few seconds.

That is all, that you for your time.

#2

youre playing against people who dont know how to parry and melee while youre stunned. it’s just an OP counter melee tactic for the fireteam. knives are OP, lol.

#3

Lol if you read the rest of the forum people would tell you that’s the Predators only chance to survive against a decent fire team. I’ll read a thread full of ppl swearing the Predator is incredibly weak, then turn around and see a thread calling for him to be nerfed. I almost think any discussion of “nerf this, buff that” should be banned until at least a week after launch.

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#4

I can parry, done it plenty of times, its only slowing down a death. It doesn’t stun a Predator at all really, he’s back to swinging immediately.

And if you expect someone to cater to a split second window of a parry that’ll need to be done about 10 times in a row to kill him then you’re catering to about 1% of the gaming population to pull that off. Not good enough, not practical.

#5

i dont think you realize you can keep parrying the predator then he runs out of stamina to attack with. each time you parry you slash him one or twice and thats 20-30% of his HP gone. ive had to switch to ranged weapons mid combat to get around people who parry all the time. disc works great for it.

#6

I didn’t ask for the Predator to be nerfed, read again. I called for a weapon the Predator uses to have a cool down. Every game is becoming extremely 1 dimensional.

#7

And I’m telling you other players are saying that’s literally his only option at this point. So yea you’re calling for a nerf to the only viable weapon he has. I haven’t unlocked it yet so I can neither confirm or deny, but I do know Iv spent the last 3 hours getting molly whomped by fire teams that felt like they’ve been playing this game for years.

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#8

I concur with the point of Predator being overpowering, all one would need to do is select the berseker class, add the fearless perk + impenetrable and run a combi stick on top of that, u will not need any skill or class and cut right through the fireteam. Just level up, load the right load out, and enter the game by simply pressing R2 and voila, instantly you would feel on top of the world. Some form of balance needs to be placed to stop this game from being one sided. If any of you people play the game long enough you would know and relate with the above. Fireteam needs some form of trap perhaps(thinking out loud) to counter Predators charging like a bull towards the fireteam and swing that combi stick like a mad person. Just my humble 2 cents here.

#9

So why are you here if you literally said you can’t deny or confirm? And thats a HUGE issue if on day 1 the ONLY OPTION is to play 1 way, that’s trash. Don’t you realize how 1 dimensional they made this game already?

All you need to do is level up your Predator and get the combistick and swing, swing, swing. There has to be a better way than this.

#10

I hope there’s different gamemodes in the future

#11

Man a predator tried that on us got two of us down me and the other guy lit him up and killed him if you guys didn light him up then thats the problem, ive noticed good predator fire from range to wear you down and then when the opportunity comes then he might come melee the stick does not need a nerf

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#12

I think the fact it’s day one means these calls for buffing and nerfing things are ridiculous. Ppl made the same complaints during the trial and the backend data didn’t reflect what so many where screaming over. It’s entirely possible there isn’t a counter to the combistick but it’s more likely you just haven’t figured the counter out yet.

#13

I don’t think the point of parry is necessarily that you get to 1v1 the predator with good parry. Its that you buy time for your team to load pred up while you are parrying him.

#14

Yh the predator gets stunned for 1 second but he does have the net gun, anyway many classes and no predator plays the same