Hand to hand combat predator gets beat.

#101

That doesn’tt prove anything. In japanese swordfighting theres a famous theory of sword fighting that to paraphrase the relevent bit. “In a duel the only time one person will clearly win is if they are extremely superior to there opponent, many times a less skilled opponent is able to achive victory through sacrifice wherein a less skilled person will be able to hit a person and kill or maim them by sacrificeing there own life…”

Thats what I got out of It. Thats paraphrasing from the book of five rings. There was alot going on there besides " oh,cool look how hes fighting a predator toe to toe"

I think it was ment to express his desperation but also his resolve. he was skilled but no where near as skilled as the predator yet he was also well learned so he knew it was possible to stop fighting like a person who expected to live through the fight he would be able to kill the presator at the same time but there was no fucking way for him to win that. That scene showcase alot of detail and thought it showed that the writers were educated, in Asian dueling culture and philosophy.i mean its not that weord of a call up the book of 5 rings is a very popular asiam dueling philosophy book

Btw, I’m not submit ing this twords any side of some arguement I just thought I’m just pointing out what I saw in that scene. I’m not tryinf to say a person wpuld never ever be able to kill a predator idgaf in the sense of how it applies to this arguement.

#102

I agree, with you completely.

#103

I don’t get all this hate on Predators, ok minus the super preds. But if you can over look that part the movie was fucking awesome

#104

The net gun should be a permanent weapon like the Plasma Caster and blades.

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#105

Yes to
This

#106

Or a perk, and not a weapon.

#107

I would use it more except I prefer my bow combistick, I play a ranged hunter.

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#108

So I fought individuals that could parry insanely well pre patch where they could do it infinitely and I ain’t exactly no sweater but… it still didn’t necessarily save them. Hell I got rushed by two of them once with a guy with a mini gun in the back. Guess how that panned our for them? They all died because Net Gun op. And skill and wit are a little different, kind of the same but different categories. Tactics in that scenario becomes almost everything. Bait them out into the jungle, bait them into chasing a couple extra feet while you pre line up your spear chuck/net gun, leap smash or whatever, strafe and jump and shit so they lose sight of you up close and smack them (they are in 1st Person after all. They can’t run one way and look another, you can.) there are plenty of options.

And that’s not even true what you said. They can’t just be good at parrying. They have to learn the footwork because after that second parry they are sitting ducks. Can’t parry if you are exhausted and that’s basically guaranteed one to two free hits right there. Stagger your attacks rather than just spamming, make him to have to throw off his predetermined timings because you are attacking with inconsistent timings, take two steps back then and use the melee lunge very hard to parry and relies on pure intuition which no human is capable of in order to perfectly parry that 100% of the time but he might get lucky occasionally, two tap and Plasma Cast/bow shot/Speark chuck and one tap, there are plenty of options. Your incompetence or ignorance is not evidence to the contrary. Evidence that Predator can be a real bitch to play at times, I’ll concede that. But that a good FT can potentially parry and 1v1 a Predator makes the game broken where there is a feat possible which requires exceptional skill and relies on the opponent to be of significantly lesser skill? Not seeing it.

#109

You can parry if you’re exhausted. So chop that theory down right quick haha

#110

Actually ya can’t, I have personally tested it. Swing and a miss.

#111

I don’t even think you can melee exhausted.

#112

I’ve done it exhausted. If I get the timing down, I can keep parrying.

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#113

You confirmed can haha not gonna argue with you. You can, and you can swing your knife too. Knifing doesn’t cost any melee and parry drains stamina but doesn’t cost stamina to use. So yeah it’ll drain the pool but it won’t leave you unable to do it when the pool is empty

#114

Yeah I mean you’re supposed to need it to parry but you don’t need it lol kinda funny

#115

Parry drains stamina but doesn’t cost stamina. What a fucking retard lol. And yeah, that is why not a single person can infinite parry anymore and there is no corroboration of that claim lol

#116

Draining stamina means you lose stamina when you use it but if you don’t have that much stamina, you still use it, it just drains the rest. Costing stamina means you can’t use it if you don’t have the stamina to do so, allowing you to keep the left over stamina because you didn’t do the move because you couldn’t.

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#117

yea it’s sad… this game feels like 90% game mechanics and less than 10% lore. Butter knife stops 700+lb pred in its tracks

#118

Ah yes you are upset clearly lol. It drains your stamina to empty. But you don’t need it to use your parry. Now I won’t throw the R word around but if that concept is above your head then perhaps it’s you that’s a bit slow friend.

#119

Also me and I don’t know anyone else who has tried it can still infinite parry. Not sure why you are taking this personally as if you created the broken mechanic and are upset it doesn’t work.

#120

The same way that draining health doesn’t cost health? Lol. Ok bud. Totally not a grossly retarded statement.

And yeah. That was the very first thing I tried when the Patch hit and I spent about ten minutes with two controllers, one on lover’s account as Predator and on mine as Fireteam and when I had stamina I partied every single strike but after two parries it would not parry and I don’t recall it even knifing but that bit may be a lapse of memory. I wouldn’t have kept playing if it allowed you to infinite parry and I haven’t seen anyone do so since on either side and I have played both Fireteam
and Predator quite a bit since.

And if you don’t know anyone who had done this what are you basing this off of?