Does the FT have too few objectives? Too fast to complete?

#1

The patch is here, fine, its done, not very impressive but atleast its something.

Problem i have now is, the FT finishes too fast. Since i can no longer down them as easily, it becomes a tedious chase while taking damage. OK so they made pigs easier to find, thats great. Problem is, all healing takes ages for the Pred, and even if you play carefully to avoid damage, eventually you will need to heal up. Normal heal is 10+ seconds, eating a pig is more because you have to run there and start the animationā€¦10 seconds ATLEAST, maybe more for the traveltime.

I really feel like the amount of downtime the pred has just lets the FT rush through the 3 objectives they have, plus they even lowered the amount of AI, so now its even easier.

I think this game would benefit greatly from having that objective count be set to 5 instead of 3, or even higher, because right now the pred has very little time to successfully wear down the FT, as he now is designed to do. I really feel like the Predator, unless he gets lucky and meets a very uncoordinated team, has little to no chance of stopping either reinforcements or the chopper.

Im mainly a ranged user, and i land my hits, over and over, on PC that isnt hard with some practice, but it doesnt wear them down and i see them dropping healthkits even towards the end of the chopper, i literally do nothing while hitting shot after shot, maybe im lucky downing one or two but its moot because even if they die, one guy muds up and runs for reinformcements, and i have NO way to stop that because mud renders heatvision useless.

Its just tedious as the Pred now and i feel the game forces me to play reckless, reslulting me in having to heal and give the FT alot of free time to rush objectives.

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#2

Yeah double the match time would be awesome

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#3

I dont think the timer needs to change, they just need to give the FT more objectives tbh. 3 takes 3-5 minutes to do.

#4

Double the objective FT needs to complete

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#5

Disagree

#6

FT has too much time to spare. 15m game and Iā€™m averagely done with 8-9 minutes remaining. I need more objectives to do in a single match

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#7

I think matches are too short in generalā€¦
Put more time on the board and give fireteam one or two more objectivesā€¦

The wait for a match is longer than actually. Playing oneā€¦ šŸ˜‚šŸ¤£šŸ˜‚

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#8

Last match I did as predator chopper was called in under 5 minutes. I was laying into them and downing and got 2 kills which I didnā€™t get credit for. Wtf is this? Wait 20 minutes for 5 minutes of game. Doesnā€™t give predator the chance to do anything

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#9

I agree missions should take majority of the match honestly. That way if you spend to mich time trying to hunt predator instead of objectives then you lose. Missions are boring and easy and doesnā€™t give me much to worry about as FT if missions took longer more AI just with AI not tanking dmg like they do. Especially since decrease in ammo drops. If they did that it would definitely make it more interesting.

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#10

TOO TRUE

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#11

Making the missions longer and tougher would be a way more interesting experience. Now its just rush rush and be done in 5-6 minutes.

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#12

THIS! šŸ‘†šŸ»

With all the buffs and nerfs Illfonic has been handing out they never addressed the REAL Issue with the game. The problem that me and a bunch of other people pointed out in the forums during and after the Beta. The problem many youtubers/influencers pointed outā€¦

Theres more motivation to just hunt down and wax the pred, than there is to finish the missionā€¦
THIS is why i think they shouldnt be able to defuse the bomb,
THIS is why i think killing the Predator needs to be significantly more difficult,
THIS is why the game is fundamentally broken at the core. Because FT has no interest in completing the mission, so they make ā€œPred killerā€ Builds and play hunting partyā€¦ and frankly, i donā€™t blame them. Why they hell should they do the mission?
Killing the pred is easy and pays out betterā€¦ šŸ˜‚

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#13

Yeah i also believe that when it comes to exfillif you are left behind then the game should continue for any FT left to fight the predator to the death. It should allow the predator to punish players for not making exfil. Imagine being by yourself or with just one other player knowing you missed exfil and no cance of winning unless the predator really sucks. That would be a fun experience.

#14

What would stop me an my friends from all staying behind to gank us an Alien?

#15

Well if you did that and stayed together then i have more time to hunt from afar and wittle down your supplies. Especially since they reduced health and ammo on map. I am a decent predator i play hunter with bow and combi. Also shoulder canon makes for good harrassment tool. So in all honesty nothing would please me more if every FT member stayed behind even if they stayed in one spot only it would make it easier for me. If they moved then i have a chace to separate them since they have no clear objective. So all in all i think that would end up favoring the predator.

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#16

i cant understand the sentence. Since i can no longer down them as easily ? could you earlier ?
The predator actually got more survivability and not only the pigs.
The scout still sucks in my opinion but that could be me. i just like the hunter.

But overall yes i have to agree. the gametimes should be longer for a overall more interesting gameplay. i would say between 20-30 min.

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#17

I still think all health should be removed from the map(including pigs).
You have what you bering in, Periodā€¦
that would make getting hurt/downed more serious. And let the two(FT & Pred) ware eachother down.

There has been times when as the Pred, i had to pull back and just let the FT go at Exfiltration point. Because i unlike them, i can actually run out of healthā€¦ lol

#18

Rather than add missions I think you can do a few things to make them more challenging.

  1. Add the original number of AI back
  2. Increase the damage AI deals
  3. Only show AI on minimap if they are shooting
  4. Have AI appear in areas that are not just bases
  5. Perhaps reduce the game time to 13 minutes instead of 15
#19

I had the idea of just removing the timer all together and combining 2 missions into one game.

#20

I agree with OP