How could you down the whole FT with one shot? If they’re moving all together? You had to keep the balance between being all together (and have a risk of getting good plasma shot) and separate (risk to be attacked in melee). Right now there is no need to separate for FT and the Pred can do NOTHING with it. He can’t even separate them using his PC.
Illfonic, why did you nerf the Plasma Caster charged shot?
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You can just make AI a worthy adversary. Now I was treated in the second wind under the fire of 5 people. This is not even funny.
Play some matches as the Scout and try to use the Cannon as your main weapon, and come back here.
You wont have a good time. The other weapons for me absolutely SUCK, i hate the bow and the pistol is laughable. My opinion, i enjoyed beeing a squishy powerhouse, that was MY preffered way, and i never felt OP because the Scout is hilariously easy to kill, so you kinda have to rely on movement and chaning your angles. I downed players left and right when they werent cooperating, but now i cant even do that to a fairly “noobish” team, the damage just isnt there.
Hunter and BErserker is probabnly better but ehm…i dont wanna use them, there is a Scout class in this game, i wanna play that Scout class. Now its a mosquito trying to kill a Buffalo.
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OH is the AI more dangerous? I noticed they chased me longer, i actually had to deal with them.
Really hope they prove to be harder for the FT too, because damn they were annoying now…had 5 pricks following me way out of their base.
Played 2 games as a stupid melee Zerker with Combi. Wiped all the FT twice. Seems it’s the only option for Pred right now. Of course, if the FT isn’t really good. But still the only reliable class.
It seems you don’t play as Predator, but as FT only. Or don’t play at all. If you believe in what your wrote here, mate.
Fair enough I do have to to test it myself however I’m looking at it from paper and on paper the changes seem fine to me. From my point of view so long as I’m not blasting my self in the face due to an invisible wall then that’s a win for me.
I mean, they won’t catch you in the second wind if they have problems like the NPC machine gunner who pressed them
Thanks for this info. I’m working at getting better at Scout and I always try to stay cloaked, great tip. I’m a PC player but i like to use the controller. I wasn’t good with aiming the plasma cannon anyways.
The big thing to me is being able to charge and aim the bow for 10 seconds, thats awesome, it was pretty crappy before the patch. Also, I can already tell I’m not as squishy compared to before the patch on my Scout pred.
That is also still a thing, shooting FT through foliage…99% chance of it hitting something tiny along the way.
Even those “roots” hanging down from trees has colliders mate…WHY?
Haven’t noticed that AI became more dangerous for FT. Maybe they became like 10% stronger, but their amout decreased, so… Playing FT I just haven’t payed any attention to them.
I pretty much play predators exclusively with a couple FT matches here and there to change things up, as I said I haven’t I tried the changes myself yet but from what it looks like on paper it makes sense to reduce your damage output if you’re now harder to kill and your prey is now weaker and have reduced healing items.
OOOOH FFS…yeah thats right…they removed AI also…
SO…this is COD game then, its not a Predator game. The Predator is an afterthought, its pretty clear now…
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Guess I was a mosquito with a virus or something cause I just won a game with scout and bowed them as harass and them plasmad them all to death as they hid in an objective building as I shot charged shots through doors and windows. I don’t claim until I kill them off
WEll, those werent even decent FT players then. If they hide in places the splash damage can get them, they are playing poorly.
Mine was moving all the time, never stopped, and was always looking for me. I landed some great shots with fully charged plasmas, couldnt even stop them. Land a shot, they have 2 syringes. Heal back up.
Plus they all have 2 medkits each, thats 8 medkits they all can use pretty fast.
I have 2 syringes, they require 10 seconds to use and then im off running for pigs,while the chopper is already on its way.
Then its GG.
1 the plasma caster is not a joke weapon it is a futuristic technology that is obviously powerful and should be so and required skill to operate
2 by rights it should’ve been a one hit KILL if it was true to the predator franchise but I wasn’t gonna ask for that
3 it was the predators main defense against parry spamming and knife rushing players
4 the ft already had enough stacked in their favor to begin with and that has been acknowledged many times
There was no real reason to mess with the plasma caster
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Again. When it comes to Predator it’s always the same: “skill, skill, skill”. Don’t you think that using a medkit also requires skill? That reviving fallen teammates needs at least a perk like “doctor”? Don’t you think that it’s a bit hard to use shotguns and automatic rifles like m-16 in a long distances? Don’t you think that it’s f*king impossible to deactivate an alien bomb? Don’t you think playing a FT also needs “skill”?
Folks. Remember this is a game. Most of real world laws would have been cutted off for the balance sake. Nothing can withstand plasma caster in real life. So how on earth would you balanced this?
Not in a game where literally you are just pushing a button, with the caster you have to be sneaky, don’t let the fireteam see the laser and get the lead correct so yeah it is more based on skill than pushing a button to use a medkit or a syringe
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I mean If we were to use real world logic I’m pretty sure getting hit by any of the predators weapons would be a death sentence to the FT just saying.