My friends and I have been having a blast playing the game, we’re all around lvl 30 right now but theres certainly some issues with the game.
At first we figured like most ppl that the Predator was just to strong, being able to run in and quick claim someone while under fire before taking off again was massively off putting or how quickly you’d be downed at times watching the Predator bum rush 3 players and kill them all lead to many complaints of Pred OP. but with more experience and levels its becoming more and more clear the Predator needs some help.Our tactics have changed, we stay close but we dont bunch up like we used to so he can’t just easily mulch us all in melee, we dont just run backwards but strafe to try and shake off the preds forward dashing melee attacks, and we’d probably do even better if we melee’d to parry the pred more.
First off the Predator just makes to much noise, you don’t really even need to be mindful of the Predator and can just run around to your objectives and only start to look for him when you start hearing the clicky-clacky noises, camo and vision mode swapping. I think the vision mode noise needs to go away entirely and the camo and clicking needs to be dropped down a lot in volume so that its there if your paying attention but isnt just a dead give away to his presence.
Second the Predator needs to heal faster, OR the fire team needs to heal slower or maybe even both. I do like that the fireteam isnt an instant heal but it should tick up slower than it does currently and the Pred just takes way to long to heal up.
On the subject of healing Medkits need to be dropped to 2, carrying 3 of them with 3 charges is way to much healing. It’s been to easy for us to stay topped off between engagements either using the syrettes mid combat or med packs when there is more time. I’d even go as far to say they should be single use medkits and maybe leave them at 3 carried.
Third the Predator marking should be removed entirely or moved to the recon class. The normal marking ability is powerful enough to get peoples attention to where they should be looking, dropping the green theres the predator mark is to much for everyone to have access to, moving it to the recon class would at least sideline that ability with some down falls.
Final thought too is the Predator just needs to be faster in general, at least the Hunter does. Haven’t run into many berserkers but with their enhanced melee dmg their speed might be fine as is.
Also… please fix the FPS drop issues thats been the one consistent problem with gameplay.
Anyway… still really enjoy the game, hope to see more stuff come out in terms of weapons maps and predator options but I can see this fading out fast with how easy the Predator becomes to kill once your experienced and in a functional group.