Who came up with the idea to put in knife blocking i mean are you kidding me block a spear with a knife first off the predator is maybe 3 times as strong then a human and a human can block him with a butter knife come on remove that shit
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It definitely needs to be changed in some way, especially when you get multiple people converging to parry spam once you engage. On the bright side, a large part of the population don’t know what parry means so you usually only find 1, maybe 2, that can counter you per game. Try to take them out first with ranged attacks when you ID them.
While I won’t claim to know what the developers had in mind, I can sort of guess.
The idea is that the Predator is supposed to be tactical, very hit-and-run/ambushy, every attack should be carefully planned out and executed in a way that they didn’t see it coming. Ergo, what the devs don’t want you to do is attack in a way that they can predict/see coming, like running up to them and just going ham on M1.
How do they discourage that? With the parry. While it looks ridiculous it’s actually a very valid way to shut down this type of Rambo Predator play.
The pred stands zero chance, outside of massive incompetence, of ramboing into a FT group. The issue people are unhappy about, is with the correct build a single FT member can outmelee a melee pred. With a non-dedicated build, a single FT member can stalemate a pred for 10-15 seconds.
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But that’s just it. You shouldn’t melee pred, at least not longer than a couple seconds maybe unless you’re extremely confident you can down them or you’re able to execute them.
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So your thought is the devs never wanted the predator to melee.
That’s certainly a thought.
They don’t want you to melee in a way that becomes extremely predictable, like just jumping or running at them and trying to down a couple of them, that doesn’t work out very well against people who know what they’re doing.
They obviously want you to melee, just not like a dum dum.
Edit: Just to clarify, they want you to be sneaky even when meleeing, when you engage in melee it should be from like behind or from the side, they can’t parry an attack they didn’t see coming. If you didn’t down them in 3 seconds, disengage. It’s not bad if you don’t down them right away, you’ll get your chance later.
Counter point. Predator finds myself and one other squad mate. Thinks he’s got us by the balls cause its just two. Nets me and starts fighting teammate. Teammate parries, stabs, parries, stabs I break out and get my stabs in too. Boom second when time, predator tries to run but blew all his stamina on combos and he cant jump. Now I’m jump sprinting after the poor guy until he finally has to stop and I’m putting him down old yeller style.
Sounds like the Predator got cocky and abandoned strategy over rushing in blindly to end the game quickly, which didn’t work out.
That’s just bad play.
And just to be clear this is how most of my matches have been going. Either the predator tries to step up and gets put down via my superior melee weapon or he’s trying to be stealthy and i’m poppin off his mask with my sniper a mile away because the guns in this game are way stronger than the preds.
Its 1v2 man. Thats as sweet a deal as you get playing pred. That should be my back the wall panting frantically as my teammate has his spine ripped out. Instead its us rushing him with knives and stabbing.
Fireteam is supposed to be lethal, you’re not playing Jason Voorhees you’re playing a living thing with some neat gadgets to help out. You need tactics, ambushes, playing as dirty as you freaking can.
You seen the movies? Even 1v1 against a Pred can be won, that was proven in the movies. It might be hard, but it can be done. Even against just TWO people a Predator should never engage for longer than 5 seconds, each down/kill has to be carefully planned out and if the plan doesn’t work, bail and restrategize.
I get the feeling you must not be very good with parry/knife to have formed these opinions. We are not talking about blindly running into 2+ FT members and swinging away. The pred needs to connect 6 swings to down you. This will not happen in your 3 second window unless the rambo-ing FT member stands still, refuses to parry, and refuses to heal.
As a 600lb space alien with ancient yet vastly superior technology I expect more of a challenge. The pred is too easy to kill. 1v1 goes in my favor more times than not and any other match up just turns into a hog chase through the woods with teabagging and a failed self destruct
If you need 6 swings to down them you’re doing something wrong. You need to dwindle their life over time and when you do finally commit it should only take 1-2 swings at best.
So, only melee the people that unbound their heal key and don’t take any medpacks.
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He goes down too fast. Plain and simple. He is not a threat. This makes the game boring as fireteam. You can only bully and humiliate the predator so many times before you put the game down and move on.
You melee the people who have exhausted those. You can’t just keep healing they run out.
Right?? I’ve been near death, being targetted, HEALED, all while jumping around and running backwards, then come back with my knife and won. Thats stupid.