Let me just say that first this game is awesome. It’s these niche games I always fall in love with. I think this game is crazy underrated, and I am boggled by how some games have a giant player base compared to this one. I think a free weekend would be a great idea.
Anyway, let me explain something that just happened and then talk about the recinforcements mechanic:
Early in the game, I killed one fireteam member. I had actually started to develop this strategy of killing one member, letting them get reinforcements, and then killing them all after that so they can’t just respawn. This particular game I didn’t do that though and paid for it. So there are 3 fireteam members left, and I see two of them together alone, and I jump them, killing them both. However, as I’m fighting them, I see that the 3rd member has started the reinforcements. Knowing there’s like 0 chance I can ever get there in time to stop it, I still try, and as I arrive, I attack the person calling the reinforcements. As I’m killing them, 3 other people spawn on top of me, including the 2 people I just killed 3 seconds ago. Like I said, this is causing me to just kill 1 person, wait for them to call him back with reinforcements, and THEN go after the whole team. Is that how you want this mechanic to work? It seems like it’s not really going to lend itself to good gameplay long term as more predators learn how to circumvent the whole team respawning. Just kill that one person, let them get reinforcements, and then kill them all. No point in engaging until reinforcements arrive.
My solution to this is to force the fireteam to call reinforcements for each member individually and/or there’s a 60 second respawn time. Also, give the fireteam some more tools. Maybe add some mines or mortars. Or call in chopper support during reinforcements and the predator has to run from an AI chopper with a minigun? Or maybe the dead teammates can man the minigun on the chopper bringing them back to the battiefield? Make the reinforcements mission longer and more intense. It’s too easy and kind of makes it pointless to kill more than one person on the team early game as predator.