is a first person SHOOTER!!! Where you shoot things!!!
Even in the movies god damn preds wouldn’t engage in melee in the middle of fucking everyone!
Melee is stupid… you wanna play like that? Go play chivalry or some other sword slashing game.
In COD you can one hit kill with the knife and nobody complains shit about it. Because if you die to it, you had it coming.
You don’t have to die as Predator to realise that Fireteam DPS & the parry system is broken.
And yes, if someone just bum-rushes into the Fireteam while mashing R2 with a melee weapon & dies, thats their fault for playing like a dumbass. But that’s not what the problem is, nor what I was referring to.
You don’t even have to be using melee. You can be doing the usual quick shots with Plasma Pistol in close/mid ranges & you can still get stabbed by people mashing knife, and if they’ve got enough damage buffs stacked, sometimes all it takes is 1 hit to make the difference between you getting a kill or getting second winded because each stab will feel like a SAWZ-50 shot.
You might also get caught with a parry from a weird angle by just tapping Wristblade once in-between Plasma Pistol shots & the Fireteam member will somehow parry & stun-lock you despite sometimes not even facing your direction & half the time the Wristblade animation has already finished but they still get the parry, and thats not even factoring in when the game doesn’t register your inputs properly & you’re quite literally tapping aim & fire but the game decides you’re only mashing Wristblades & you get parried and/or just melted as a result of it.
All it takes is one dodgy parry either from a misinput, weird angle, or lucky button mashing, to stun a Predator for a split second & get them second winded and/or killed by other Fireteam members lighting them up while they are stuck in a stationary position.
I can argue the same shit for ft
I experience daily locks where I can’t do shit after a predator engages melee nearby me, not even to me
Not to mention watching the Fireteam swipe at thin air just to hear your Pred scream like a little girl. Like am I just smoking dicks here or are there occasionally issues with the knife’s hitbox being massive? Ive watched FT swipe at my farts jumping away and I take a chunk of damage. Its like they swipe at us with those candle lighters and ignite the methane coming straight out my ass all the way back up the rectum
Youre welcome
You’re on crack
I’ve seen one on YT when it was 12. I once tried meleeing you and payed dearly for it, which is how it SHOULD go
Wait is this the FT rights advocate
No. Do not play melee as a predator. Or don’t complain that close combat is broken. I don’t mean you.
No. I just state unbiased facts. I play both sides and I am well aware of the broken unbalanced shit on both and state things as they are without favoring one over the other.
Here’s also an ugly truth people don’t want to admit… in pubs, playing Pred is actually way easier than playing FT solo.
Playing as pred against 4 potatoes (like 90% of the time) is dead ass boring because of how easy it is. If you are lucky, you might actually get a decent player that may make things a bit more challenging an interesting. As for “death squads”… they are long gone and you may go days playing without actually encountering one.
Now, playing FT solo with 3 potatoes is challenging even against a dumbass predator that tries to wristblade you to death.
That’s the ugly truth. People argue broken balance on this game in favor of FT when 80% of the people 90% of the time are playing pred in pubs because it is easier than playing FT solo
The fact that Illfonic implemented a melee “hack and slash” mechanic in a multiplayer PvP game (Predator being the slasher) just shows the depths of how clueless they are about PvP in general and it shows.
Melee Preds can die in seconds.
Conclusion, melee doesn’t work in PvP shooter games.
Sure you can win some, but try melee against 4 decent players and we all know the end of that story.
In my opinion, melee should be there for killing pigs and AI’s, so wrist blades and knives, but that’s about it.
The game’s focus should be on ranged gameplay.
hey hoodie, did you ask whether or not they just ran up to FT and ft knows?
did you forget that FT potatoes…nuff said?
Oh ok. I mean close combat probably needs a rework imo, the fact that playing melee as predator is considered a way to lose is really BS
Oh ok yippee!
is not bullshit
Ever heard the say “don’t bring a knife to a gunfight” ?
That’s exactly what it is. Literally
Predator has melee weapons for a reason. It’s literally badass as fuck to have a sword and cut down guys with it, while melee is one of the Predator’s preferred methods of combat (Like the train sequence in Predator 2). Not only this, but he don’t have a knife. He has a fucking giant ass laser sword, two giant ass swords, another sword, along with a spear but way better. Also, predator weapons are apparently infinitely sharp (not sure about that tbh tho). So like, you can’t take out one of the Pred’s main methods of combat
Also you really can’t just restrict Predator to range. Their culture is built around Honour, and melee is seen more honourable
This game is controlled by humans, and our honour code is disturbingly flawed, bc it revolves around modern conveniences and me-first culture - an apparent contrast to yautja honour code.
That said, I paid for this game, I’ll play however TF I want… respectfully.
I dont respect you if you dont jump down here and expose yourself to ridiculous amounts of damage because I can’t aim worth a shit
That is exactly what you are saying. Bend the way I play for your respect. For a game I paid for, to play the way I want to.
You gotta stop role-playing and using this honor shit when playing this game. It doesnt work like that. It can’t work like that, with how its balanced. You do anything and everything you can to win.
ngl thats fine if thats how you play but im not gonna treat this game as a cod grand final lol that’s just me tho
