Knife parry is still ridiculously good, even with its “nerd”. I’ve gotten to the point now where Incan win 65/35% of my games as a Predator, usually losing to good FTs who work together. But using traps and range is the only way to win and it gets boring winning the same way all the time. Combat is basically a no go, especially against even half decent FTs. Half decent FTs won’t split up, and just knife parry like fuck the second you get near one of them. 8ft killing machine gets blocked by wee Joe the sniper and his kbar, right. Then you just get blown away as Pred health doesn’t last long in any class bar maybe the Berserker.
So, Predators have to use range and traps to get regular wins. Which is fine if you want to play the same style every game, plus it is very charatcerful. I’d love to use cool combat weapons they’ve given us, but there’s no point. Oooh, sickle, I’ll try tha…knife parry
Oh, what about this cool Kata…knife parry
Now I’m not saying a Predator should be able to walk into a full health FT without weakening them and kill them all - that would be equally as silly. But right now you can’t say Predators are OP.
I still prefer playing as FT cause it’s so damn easy to win games. And I absolutely love playing FT when you come up against a really good Predator who poses a challenge and wipes you out one by one, picking you off and working their way through you. But that rarely happens cause all I need to need is just mob up with the other 3 and the Predator will never stand a chance.
Also the “git guid” argument needs to die. Not everyone has the time to plug into a game to become an expert. Some folks have lives and families and jobs. Some people just aren’t as naturally skillful as others no matter how much they practise. Some folk are just casual gamers wanting to enjoy themselves.