In the games current state if the Fireteam is at least a few meters apart, the predator will eventually run out of heals and die. He’s toast because since the objectives and A.I are beyond underwhelming the chopper is usually called in a few brief moments. In those few brief moments Fireteam members have the ability to be brought back into the game if you manage to fully kill them. I say fully kill because just trying to down 1 guy usually costs Predator a lot of health due to the fact that one: Predators melee is weak even with a perk and leaves it leaves you too vulnerable to the other 3 squad members and 2: his camouflage is so useless and obnoxiously loud (as well as other things Predator does) that the stealth edge that hes supposed to have is not there. If all players stick together Predators melee is useless and as long as everyone keeps moving or going from building you will get lucky to kill more than 1 guy especially if they get they manage to revive which isn’t as difficult as it should be. Also the fact that Fireteam can throw on instant heals while moving instead of having to be stagnant and wait like Predator is really annoying having that ability should nullify the ability to get revived given how quickly us beginners can call the chopper especially since other teammates can have first aid you can take as well…too many ways to keep health and ammo…Predator needs a melee buff, the ability to lock on with the plasma caster, and the fireteam needs to lose the ability to revive given all the health and ammo options they have
Fireteam has too many advantages
Exactly this… I feel like the Predator needs to be able to move with more stealth… I didn’t even move, and the FT spotted me
After playing as the Predator like 50+ matches, yes, the Fireteam is the problem here, not the Predator. He is fine, his arsenal is garbage but he doesnt need changing, his weapons does.
The Fireteam however…they have way WAAAAY too many ways to restock on health and ammo almost everywhere on the map and what they carry. The game needs to make sure the Fireteam has to be more cautios, because now its COD, they rush in, nuke the AI’s and stock back up, rinse repeat until the chopper arrives.
Any good Predator will struggle with a decent Fireteam because you absolutely NEEEED them to go down in the few shots you are able to send off, because the Predator is very cooldwon dependant and has to waste alot of his time recharging. If you need to run off and heal it’s a 50/50 gamble, most Fireteams will see you are on SW and they will follow, and they WILL find you because of the blood and sounds you leave behind.
agree with everything except I still think the predators melee should be sped up or buffed if FT is going to keep all these advantages and his camouflage is a joke it needs to be more translucent or transparent…all the light does is bounce off him like a mirror making him look like a shadow in the treeline or roofs
I agree about the fireteam dying…why should Predator have to keep killing the same players over…once your dead it is over…its already 4 against 1.
Yes agree,
Also parrying shouldn’t be possible period.
It is really frustrating given the fact you sometimes need 5 f*cking hits on a FM member and they also get the ability to parry a Combistick that is twice the size of the humans.
Plus the entire FM is rocking minigun because of the pre order so while you are working on getting through those BS parries the miniguns are lighting you up like a Christmas-tree
If we want shorter games, then buff Pred melee damage.
If we want longer games, then nerf Fireteam (For example: Max 1 minigun, max 1 grenade launcher, medkit bag and ammo bag only carried by Support class etc).
Personally I’d like to see longer games, where Fireteam has more objectives with the current amount of weapons/health kits etc. But if missions is gona be as short as they are, then fireteam is needed to be nerfed. Imho
People complaining about the cloak need to learn how to use it. It already has the ability to turn you totally invisible by crouching, so why buff it even more? It makes no sense.
That said, the Predator has way to many things to worry about compared to the Fireteam’s one concern. The ability for the Fireteam to restock can be removed by simply destroying the supply caches around the map. However, this isn’t reasonable since you’d need to ignore the Fireteam completely while focusing on something else. The Predator would have to play so many different objectives simultaneously while the Fireteam only needs to play one, which is why it can be so stressful.
If they insist on having parrying in the game they need to make it so the FT player has to sacrifice a weapon for like a sword or something them being able to parry and stun the predator with a normal knife is very unrealistic considering how big and buff the predator and melee weapon is.
if the fire team is close range beast then the predator should be an absoloute animal from range his plasma cutter should be a one tap as it is in all the move it just shred thorugh people example predator (Blain Death/Ramierz Head shot)
Why are you only using melee? The plasma caster kills in 1-3 hits and once they are down you can shoot them while they are down and get a kill. Taking little damage in return. Letting the fireteam come back is fine because you can kill one them pretty quickly with them even fighting back. Plus they can only use it once I think, so if the fire team uses it on one guy then that was a huge waste. If the chopper is getting called fast in your games that also means your not putting enough pressure on the fireteam. I will be putting a guide to predator soon. This buff predator and nerf fireteam is getting out of control.
Using plasma caster would be fine and all if the team isn’t constantly spamming spot and dropping everything to chase the predator down, literally leveled up to level 44 just to unlock the combistick and berserker predator and the melee strat is more effective than the plasma caster strat which is kinda dumb. Personally I try to use the plasma caster as much as I can but all my predator wins have been from slamming in on targets and rushing them with melee, any non noob team can dodge the plasma caster shots and if you do manage to land a hit and down one the rest of the team is sticking together spraying shots into you so you can’t finish without losing a lot of health so the only really effective loadout is to spec into tank perks and use melee weapons.
Also wanna edit on top of this but if the plasma bolt didn’t get blocked by a few leaves and paper thin branches that would also help the plasma caster, can’t tell ya how many times my shots were blocked by leaves wasting my energy and giving me away.
If I’m going to be completely honest if you can’t down anyone with plasma your aim probably isn’t the best and there nothing wrong with that but saying it’s dumb is throwing out bad information for anyone trying to get better at predator. Plus if your taking alot of damage from the FT you are most likely too close.
Not saying you can’t down people but if they are hopping around and constantly moving and are capable of noticing that red laser, even if you were hiding it, they can easily dodge it. I’m saying it’s dumb the melee strat is more effective than the plasma caster strat which is dumb because to have an effective melee class you need to level up to level 44, I love the plasma caster because it’s so cool to use but once you are up against a decent team it becomes less effective and to top it off the tree’s large hit boxes (not even aiming at the tree and I’m to the left of it aiming nowhere near it and it still manages to block my shots) and tiny branches and leaves having hit boxes make it less effective than just rushing in with a properly built tank class.
Except melee strat is not more effective and everyone thinking it is is what’s driving me crazy.
From my personal experience it is more effective I have only ever won off running in with melee, and yes I am capable of landing plasma caster shots, melee has been the easier and more effective strat for me even more so with berserker with tank perks and combistick lol
The Fireteam needs more objectives (off trail objectives) to complete before calling the chopper. They can just follow the trail camp to camp very quickly without ever venturing out to the forest.
It would be interesting to see how the game would change if the trails were removed. Forcing the Fireteam to navigate the jungle terrain to find the camps and objectives.
you’ve been playing the game for 3 days like everyone else dude nobody wants to see your tutorial try again in a month minimum…first off I never said all I did was melee I’m stating it needs a buff in terms of power or speed (one orb the other) …and I made references to his stealth aspect being useless which includes shots from the trees because that’s how he took a lot of people out in the movie figured it went without saying…yes that’s around how many shots it takes to down with a plasma caster but the shots are slower than they should be and are easy to maneuver around…has nothing to do with the aim line you mentioned to @NaviLlicious…has to do with the fact that it functions like an over glorified slingshot with an eye sore of a laser that can be seen for miles…and not a high powered cannon…also once someone is shot once or almost shot once you’re getting sprayed by the other three by assault rifles and at least 1-2 miniguns…because like aforementioned the camouflage is useless (in response to @Starscream no it doesn’t make you completely invisible I’ve sat completely still in a treeline or in long grass trying to stalk and I get shot at)…i think like previously stated it needs to be harder for the fireteam to call the chopper and or navigate the jungle that’s a good idea…I think the A.Is need to have a higher I.Q as well lol
chopper was called in 2 minutes and 16 seconds in the match I was just in … most of my plasma caster shots were successful but everyone always had heals…and charging the caster for a one shot kill isn’t the easiest thing in the world to do and land… sadly that seems like its the only way to go with that thing given how fast the chopper can be called…but its too easy to see coming because of how loud it is when it starts charging, because of how useless the camouflage is (yes even crouching anywhere it doesn’t matter), and because of how noticeable the laser is even with the perk…once everyone hears the gun charging they’re next to cover waiting to see where the slow shot or the eyesore of a laser is at…and once you shoot…someone either saw where the shot or laser came from and now you’re getting spotted and sprayed…or someone looked in the direction of the caster sound outside and saw your useless camouflage figure lurking trying to be sneaky or taking more shots and now you’re spotted and getting sprayed
Exactly it has only been 3 days. So can we stop fucking crying about nerfs and buffs, this sucks that sucks. I thought I would just share some things I learned since I’m not having nearly as much trouble playing predator as most of the playerbase.