Basically most of this is stuff I’ve been bringing up in comments on facebook and discussions elsewhere, so I figured I’d try and wrap it all up and bring it here in the hopes changes are made so that I’d be willing to play this again because at present I’m just not having fun at all.
First off I just have big issues with the Fireteam. Like the whole point of the Movie is that Man is outgunned at his own game and Arnie team gets wiped out, he has to really start thinking strategically. But in this since everyone playing has seen the movie and knows the game. They immediately roll in the mud to block thermal and you can ping where Preds is and literally keep a marker on him while he’s CLOAKED defeating the goddamn purpose of the cloak at all. They’ve essentially pulled a Spaceballs and seen the movie before it was finished playing, they know all the tricks so every match feels boring and you are just tempted to call them all cheaters for essentially meta-gaming a scenario where they “shouldn’t” know to do any of this. Maybe it it was like locked off as either late-mission abilities after enough visible Preds exposure with some kind of meter, your team would figure out how to deny him the advantage of thermal and be able to boobytrap the trees.
Preds has no way to toy with the Team, no psych-outs or traps he can lay. Wheres my Net Traps (Not the net gun since like everything else its treated as just another weapon) or Snares or fuck even like Pred style bear traps? Wheres my voice manipulation? I want placable holograms that shimmer in the tree like the Preds does in cloak to mislead the Fireteam. I want his visibility drastically toned down, and you can only see him if he stays in place for like 15+ seconds cloaked. I want some kind of firebomb to force engagement out of buildings when the team has decided to camp it out. Preds shouldn’t be indoors like… ever, he’s a hunter, he’s not gonna shove his hand into the rabbit hole to pull them out, but he will flood them out into the open. And giving the team the ability to CONSTANTLY respawn each-other at a Radio is absolute horseshit, that needs to either go or you need to implement all of these suggestions to counter-balance the possibility that 7 minutes of hunting didn’t go to waste because that guy you killed earlier is back at full health and ammo and got you in the back because you ran out of health kits.
Feel free to pick this apart, I’m not a game dev but I am a consumer and I like to think spending… more time on games than I have with extended family should put me in an armchair games critic status by now.