All of these things need to be explained. It’s pretty disgusting that there is no FT tutorial, and that even in the “Extra” files there is absolutely no mention of being able to Parry the Predator with melee, which is a huge reason so many braindead preds get free wins, they simply spam melee on FT and FT players by and large have no clue there is even a way to defend it - leading to them complaining that melee is op.
Secondly, being able to disarm the bomb. This is never explained or even hinted at, much less mentioned in the Extra files. So, through trial and error, I found out various things that are both stupid but unexplained. One, you cannot knife off the mask when the predator is downed. This is stupid, because you can knife him in his face to down him, but you can’t knife him in his face to get his mask off. If anything, you should have a special animation where you pry it off by stabbing it behind his jaw, not have it be magically immune to what you just downed the Pred with. Learning that made us all die, which was a free win for the pred they didn’t deserve. Now, after you actually get the mask off and kill the predator - interacting with the wrist tablet is a channeled interaction, like muddying yourself. This is dumb as hell, because why do you need to “channel” grabbing the wrist of a dead and inert body? People tap the interact button because of the sense of urgency, then keep tapping when the display doesn’t come up, only to notice after a few presses that it’s a channeled interaction - and by the time you realize, boom, everyone is dead. Another free win for Pred they didn’t deserve.
Then, once you finally get your hands on the wrist tablet, the game never explains the minigame or controls to you anywhere, so you don’t even know what to press. You click anything wrong - boom, you’re all dead. What a great learning experience and another free win for Pred they didn’t deserve. Once you realize you have to use specific buttons to match the symbols, because you don’t want to press anything wrong now, the game doesn’t explain you have to manually press the button to “lock in” a matched symbol. Because last time you pressed that button, it blew up and you died. So, by the time you realize the game won’t automatically lock in matching symbols for you and move on to the next one, you click the button that killed you last time, but guess what - you took too long figuring that out, so boom, everyone died, another free win for Pred they didn’t deserve.
So, through trial and error you finally figure out that - you can kill the Pred with a knife to the face, but you cannot remove his mask with a knife to the face, so you have to shoot his mask off and kill him, you have to channel the interaction to pick up the wrist tablet on a dead body, you have to manually lock in the matched symbols with the same button that kills you immediately. Okay. Thanks for never explaining this or mentioning it anywhere. So you kill a predator who died on your teammate because he was doing the classic melee spam since no one knows about Knife Parry.
You immediately swap to a gun, blow the mask off, then kill him, and run up to his wrist.
THE GAME PRIORITIZES YOUR INPUT TO REVIVING YOUR DEAD TEAMMATE NEXT TO THE PRED BODY, WHEN THE BOMB WILL KILL HIM AND YOU BOTH ANYWAYS EVEN IF YOU DID REVIVE HIM.
That’s when you realize the game still has some real dogshit mechanics to smooth out.
Anyways, provide a comprehensive FT tutorial, and actually put something in the extra notes explaining Knife Parry and Bomb Disarm in detail. Knives should obviously be able to pry off the mask on a helpless downed Pred.
Also, improve the slide speed and distance for both sides so it’s a legitimate mobility option.