Next Patch Foucs? - Vote!
Bugs and QOL
For the love of god lol.
Everything else will fall in line easier if they do this.
Bug Fixes & Quality of Life changes (QOL)!
Please allow us to change the movement keys on PC! I am left-handed and am struggling by playing with WASD commands. Whenever I have to make a fast decision, I end up failing because I don’t have full control of the key bindings. I am enjoying the game, but feeling limited due to this. Thank you!
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bug fixes and quality of life. damn right. i voted for that. i would of voted balance too. for the sake of preds under powered other weapons. but eh. QOL and bug fixes come FIRST or at least they should be a priority too!
I hope illfonic sees all the feedback we’re giving here- already badass but this game has real potential
Ohhh yeahhh!!!
I definitely think the focus needs to be Bug Fixes and QOL, followed by new content (which we desperately need before player base starts to fall off), then balance. But I think it needs to be all three. The balance changes at this point should be small and pretty easy to implement. I think we’re at a point where we can start to make subtle adjustments and see how it goes. I still want a slight Zerker nerf, and still want parry to cost more stamina. Those should be pretty minor, if I’m lucky enough to get exactly what I want lol, but things like that should be coming along with each new patch.
I just want the predator game to play like a god damn predator game. I think heavy reworks are needed, and it seems like im on the lesser side of that argument. Ofc I want bugs/qol changes, but the game will die if the content we have isnt worth a piss, and then the content they add falls short too because of it.
im not sure i follow you. im playing as a predator and feel its good. the odd team are good at spotting me but most of the time i can stealth, set traps, audio decoy, spook them out, wear them down… sometimes without them ever directly seeing me.
thats just my experience though. what are you finding isnt “predator experience” ?
As I said, in another post. That is purely because the fireteams are absolutely loaded with bad players right now. As soon as you fight a good team, the “Predator” experience falls apart fully.
Im not saying that you shouldn’t enjoy it. I enjoy it too. What I am saying is that the game could play way better than it does right now.
My point is, I shouldnt be getting away with stalking because the fireteam is absolutely braindead.
I should be getting away with stalking because im a damn predator.
I shouldnt be rushing to fight every chance I get and apply constant pressure, even when im badly injured.
I should be taking my time, and have time to take.
I shouldnt be running in and melee spamming the fireteam, because I can.
I should be picking my fights carefully, and intelligently, picking them off one by one.
I could honestly keep going, but you get the idea. When the reason that the game isnt falling apart, is because of the obliviousness of the enemy team, there is a problem.
at the same time if you balance it to the top 0.1% then the 99.9% who are not “MLG 1337 Pro PC gamer” are going to say…
“Its impossible to see where im being shot from.”
I die and i dont know what happened,
Predators are cheating
etc etc…
You cant balance for the top or bottom, you have to ballance for the median average to higher tier. but not absolute top elite.
That way the average can improve and feel it, and the shit are just shit… the elite will always find it easier and thats good. its a challange to mix up your tactics to beat them.
It could do with some tiny tweaks maybe but right now im happy with it. for a while atleast.
Of course, that is true.
Im not saying we should make predator invisible 24/7 and be able to fire from invisibility without giving himself away. There are ways around that. But the stealth needs to be better. The weapons need to be better. The games need to be longer. The game needs to feel like a predator game. Playing fireteam isnt about winning. Thats what people get confused about. You have to earn survival, and even more so earn killing the predator. And yet, you arent supposed to be absolutely slaughtered in the first 5 minutes. I cant imagine playing as FT very fun right now. Nor is playing predator really that satisfying.
Its very awkward. Because you are right, top percent of players shouldnt be the absolute balance. But we arent talking top percent. Im an ass fireteam player, I can barely parry. But I can tell you right now, there isnt a single god damn predator in this world that I wont know exactly where he is. Thats the power of decent headphones, and as I said, ass stealth.
Now I dont want to go all PC master race on people, but im fairly certain that the reason so many players are oblivious, is because they are playstation players and are playing using their tv speakers rather than headphones. Thats not a skill issue per say, thats an equipment issue.
And I think the game is designed around that flaw, hence the over abundance of noise. However, that means anyone with a 20$ pair of headphones (like me) can dominate off sound alone, and then we get to the game bursting at the seams again.
I wont argue this anymore, as I have a whole thread dedicated to it. But for the majority of players, most of my changes have been praised. There are a few controversial things ive spent the past few days defending, and quite honestly we could do without them. They go more into the ideas rather than the much needed reworks.
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This is why when the game first came out, everyone and their mother could wipe predator off the map. The stealth was the problem, not the predators damage resistance and overall squishyness (aside from berz who to this day needs to be toned down. He plays like a tank from l4d). Like I said though, band aid on a severed limb.
I disagree with this now, but pre-patch i agreed with you. why? because the fireteam health and ammo was nerfed so they can not afford to hang around any longer. its really a game of attrition now. most of the games i win are because they hang around too long, and i usually lose not not to death but to the fireteam finishing the mission and geting out… and thats cool im happy with that. they did their job well!
Agree
I dont mind havng a back and forth convo with you, neither of us is being an ass. just saying what we feel and we agree on a lot. so no hard feelings at all mate.
Likewise, no hard feelings from me either. Ive just been regurgitating these points for days now lol.
On the games need to be longer, part. I understand where you are coming from, and I agree, The war of attrition is much more of a thing now. But my point is that for the stalking playstyle to feel better, and work, it would need more time.
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I mean with a stealth rework
i feel a slight tweak to directionality of the predators involontary clicks and weapons and vision sounds making it more of a vague direction insted of exact. but the footsteps i feel should be exact.
Personally I think you shouldnt be able to hear the vision sound. But otherwise yes I agree with everything else.
I want the matches to be longer and more rewarding. I’d like to see the option of being able to skin and hang a Ft body.
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Well i would say all of them if they manage to do so