I like the Viking with adrenal boost, medic, and large pouch. Yeah, the axe is slow, but damn, that heavy does like 70 base damage per hit. Personally, the elder sword on the Viking might destroy most teams.
Lol yea viking is ass
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Get Gud LOL
I got hit by the Axe, player was running Fearless. Normal strike does 44, heavy did 88😳 So that’s a potential 132 damage if you can land both. Goodbye Recon and Scouts 😈
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By Odin’s beard, I just played and lost as Viking. Got a pure are kill though. Was neat. Def has a learning curve. Then, ran a hunter with the axe. Smoked em.
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If you can land both with that slow ass bitch on a scout or recon right now you earned 110% of that kill. I literally ran circles around one today. Literally, circles, like Scout and Elder preds do with the whole fireteam? That was me, with my scout and my double time and my rushdown.
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Same loadout I switched too. Initially ran it with the second wind perk but dropped it after…2, 2 swings with the axe
Recon with the Spotter perk and Sniper specialist has me worried. The spot lasts for like 12 seconds, and during that whole time Recon class gets a damage buff.
It’s great that FT can now be super flexible with their loadouts, but when’s Predator going to get the same courtesy? When’s Predator going to get actually useful perks except for the 3 or 4 we all currently use (Adrenal, Large Pouch, Medic)? If we had 4 or 5 perk slots, we too could be flexible and offer variety…
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IF you can land both! I just played my first Viking match and for the life of me I could not hit them with the light attack cold, I was almost 100% more successful with the heavy than the light. FT just walks away from you as you hit nothing and shoot you in the face, thankfully Long Jump allowed me to get some stamina back in between engagement but I feel the light attack needs a faster start up especially when the Heavy swing is the more viable option mind you it was only one match but still Big Boi needs a little tweaking overall tho not bad, also @Robo_2696 uncloaking and roaring before engaging while hilarious and fun basically told them " COME ON! DO IT NOW! KILL ME!!" and boy did they try and almost succeed 😂😂😂 I’ll run a few more tonight and see if I can come up with something that will make it viable 😁
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I imagine perk or specializations gotta be next for our hunters. Still in testing maybe?
A proper coordinated, perked, and specializations set FT has got to be unbeatable
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I didn’t get to record it but my first match as Viking I roared in a tree above them before attacking
Using the battle axe is tricky but I found out using the heavy attack after sprinting almost always lands a hit on FT. The light attack is useless if they’re running away from you
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You’re not wrong the light attack wiffs too easily, it’s slow and has pretty shitty range but the heavy has weird hit boxes in that there are some hits that should not hit them but do.
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I can say with all certainty that the axe is awful, the attacks are beyond slow, the animations are janky, and the hit boxes are all over the place.
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Oh yea I noticed that for sure, I wonder how the axe will work on the other classes more or less viable? Is the swing speed the same? I would assume so, and without Big Boi’s health pool it might be a hinderment…I hate that I’m at work til midnight…😒
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Honestly the war club is a better weapon at the moment, Vikings energy is annoying due to it almost being nonexistent but to be expected. I find it weird that female preds can’t use his mask but they can use his predlocks.
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Well that’s strange? Well at least I can refashion out my Female Scout with a new do, and I assumed his energy would be atrocious as they want him to be a big bad melee Pred nvm that its been a barely viable option most of the time any way, but I think they will buff him and his Axe at some point just like Samurai after they collect enough player data on him as opposed to dev data either way new pred new toy new learning curve new challenge PHG Tradition here we go 😎😂
Honestly he’s not all that bad, his stamina ain’t bad and his health is really good, he has 12 perk points overall. If he’s fitted with the right set up he’s a fucking monster
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Just has a Samurai class try using the Axe, just as slow and cumbersome.
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Fair enough I only got to do the one match with him so far and I was running Adrenal, Long Jump, and Pouch because I assumed he’d be a big ole clomper and that I would eat a lot of bullets(which I did 😒) but what perks would you recommend? A while back I removed all defense and damage perks from my preds in favor of quality of life perks plus I didn’t want to rely on that little bit of damage as opposed to mobility or energy.
Figured as much I was faintly hoping that its swing speed would vary between classes maybe even at the cost of a little damage here or there but guess not scout predator puts axe back on the rack sadly
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To my dismay I have adrenal, large pouch and medic. As for weapons I use war club and pistol, I tried using bow but that’s glitched at the moment and the axe is well ass.
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That elder sword is sick lol
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