Playing as the Predator is super difficult if you’re playing against people who even have the slightest clue of what their doing. 150 hp for a human? It takes forever to kill a single person with any weapon. The way the game operates right now, it’s super difficult to hit a moving target with a ranged weapon, and super risky to melee a player because fireteams typically stay together, so they can just rinse the Predator if they come out of the trees. Either the Predator’s weapons need to deal WAY more damage, or the humans’ health properties need to be tweaked. Plus the AI do next to nothing to distract the fireteams from the Predator because they do so little damage, and the players have an absurd amount of health. It doesn’t help that there are health items all over the maps, and in the players’ loadouts.
Humans are OP
Well, they’d better call this game state an Early Access right now. Because yes, humans are OP. All the game right now is designed around humans. Predarots have just some candy wrappers - “pseudo-cloak”, “thermal vision like in movies!”, “a real predator’s weapons”, “predcour” and so on, but the real fact is that this game is for humans. Predator’s game is so easy to break and you can do nothing with it. Like if you play a range-based Scout, but the MM adds 1-2 skilled snipers against you - it’s gg. You can’t win ranged duels (though 2vs1 is not a duel actually), they easily detect you, ping you and… well, if not kill immediatly, just destroy your mask. And… it’s over. Because you can’t use your Plasma without a mask and you don’t have perks/classial bonuses for melee. Same for Melee-based Berserker. If they know how to parry - you don’t have options, you can’t fight from a distance. You’re dead. Even if you were lucky and was able to kill 1 or 2 of them - REINFORCEMENT and they are all alive.
I really love the franchise, I like this game (in terms of potential), but I almost have no more patience. You’re waiting for 5-8 mins for a game just to realise that it’s you are the prey. They’ll kill you, they’ll deactivate your self-destruction and THEY will be alive. Pfff.
As a Predator, you can leap on top of buildings, climb trees in the blink of an eye, etc., but apparently you can’t outrun a human. It’s absolutely absurd. The spotting capability of PC players is ridiculous. You might as well just go next if you get a lobby of PC players, and I play on PC myself. I actually think the Predator is in an ok spot strength-wise aside from weapon tweaks, it’s just that they made Fireteams superheroes straight out of Marvel for some reason. And the only difference between winning and losing is usually Fireteam coordination and mistakes.
I agree with everything you’re saying. I was trying to kill this one person who split off from his group, and I tried meleeing him with the War Club or whatever it is, I would hit him once, and he’d back up and be out of range of my next swing, so I’d have to chase after him for a few seconds before hitting him again. I had to hit him about 7 or 8 times before I downed him, and all the while, he’s shooting me in the face. Super frustrating.