It is without a doubt the most useless piece of gear.
Blocks YOUR vision and your team’s
Does not affect AI. AI has X-Ray vision that can see through walls, ceilings, fences, smoke and can even see a fully cloaked Predator
Unless you blow up the pred’s mask, he can see you using thermal vision
Drops the frame rate
I honestly just wish it was removed from the game. Only time I find it sort of useful is on Clash
Jesus never smokes. It pollutes the body!
Yeah it was a pretty dumb piece of equipment to add considering AIs tracking… and the fact that Predator has thermal vision… or that it legitimately only affects your teammates… negatively.
Flashbangs aren’t so useful either, but at least they only fuck up the guy who tosses it lol
Yeah well the thing is not so much the smokes, but the changing of vision will give Pred away no doubt. SO there is a useful mechanism there. So much of detecting where the pred is requires guess work and even if you can’t see him, you can at least run the hell away.
Every equipment in the FT arsenal can be used for at most a desperate attempt to get away. If someone can find a better use other than that than cool. It still adds to the drama.
how the fuck you gonna see the eyes flashing if you are blinded by smoke? LMAO
at least flashbangs actually stutter AI, even if is for a split second
You can hear eyes flashing too.
I use thermals and decoys to send the pred away. Smokes not gonna be seen from too far away but those noise indicators, and the giant thermal glare definitely bait then. I’ve had predators walk right past me chasing the heat signature of the flare lol, it’s a good time
I don’t mind smoke, it is annoying, but when it’s used just focus on the mini map for AI and use sound to locate the AI’s and obviously Pred.
so here’s the deal, everybody uses the smokes at exfil. You can hear the pred’s stomping far more clear and its easier to pinpoint than the flashing eyes sound of a split second. You know the pred’s coming on exfil, if you are blinded by smoke, flashing eyes, stomping, doesn’t matter. You can’t hit what you can’t see unless by pure luck
What if smoke blocked the preds thermal vision?
if only. but that’s basically why is useless. The only way is useful is throwing a thermal, smoke and sound decoy at the same place and hope the pred is dumb enough to fall for it (some are, and is quite hilarious, lol)
They also destroy some obj stuff
Sometimes I just use the smokes as a decoy and he might not be on the ground in that area. When he’s up in the trees he has no alternative but to change his vision to see what the hell is in the smokes.
Do flashbangs stun the pred? I’ve never really used them
I just throw then like a rock at the pred
Smokes are great!
I use it to screw with random teammates and set their fps down to 10.
I use it at the end if matches combined with a teammates flairs where we set up a smoke thermal screen 20 meters off the chopper site. It works pretty well
Yeah. That’s about the only way those are useful. But if you have multiple people at exfil, then you can usually just fight the predator directly.
I fu¢king hate when people use that. And there’s a loooot of people using it.
