Oh yes uncharged do splash with perk but its like not even noticable
Plasma Cannon is too weak!!!
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hmm i run downrange perk yup
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Honestly though, I wouldnt be against them making downrange perk bring the plasma caster back up to fully charged downs. You are after all using a perk slot to attain that. balance that with making the perk cost 4 rather than 3 points of perk slots. I am all for it.
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Exactly
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I actually like this idea.
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Yeah because as it stands, fearless is significant for melee, but downrange feels like it does nothing BUT add that baby aoe to shots. The perk could use a buff and with pred weapons being as they are now, it makes sense. I would even go so far as to say, headshots with bow (Using downrange) should also be one shots. Especially since they are a bitch to hit unless players are oblivious.
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Not to mention we really do have to talk about the smart disc and the handheld plasma caster. Those right there, those are too weak. Smart disc is effectively useless as it is a bitch to fly and even an AI shooting at you takes you out of it, Handheld plasma just sucks ass.
2 fully charged shots is fair. i don’t think being able to instantly kill someone from range would be healthy for this game. how is the ft supposed to combat being one-shot from outside of their effective range, while also being outclassed in melee combat? as of right now, if the pred does any sort of splash damage to the ft, it can basically run in and slay everyone with zero risk.
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Bull crap its 4v1 and a down that has chance for revive whats not healthy is predator being a joke.
So fireteam is incapable of moving a different direction they can only sit there as that plasma bolt hits them? you heard it here first people! It’s impossible to escape a plasma bolt!
I agree, completely, which is why earlier in this post I did say that I really do like the change. But Having a perk be required to use on it, would be massive, especially if it has a great cost, blocking beefier predators from taking it without sacrificing other really important perks. Earlier I did say that I want the aoe to be more consistent, and that is true for the plasma caster as it is now. But if the downrange perk would be able to make the plasma caster one shot fully charged, that should be only for DIRECT hits.
Also keep in mind, snipers can still pop a ranged predator biomask in just a few well placed shots, which arent difficult to hit at all. And if pred loses that mask, its game over for the plasma caster.
No fireteam member should be able to beat pred in a 1v1, but they should be able to parry 2-3 times to stall for time while their teamates come in and blast predator away. Making a risk/reward for pred.
I will agree with you that I think that they may have made pred a bit too damage resistant, as ive played mainly scout today, and I am not very afraid to get into the knitty gritty of melee, but I can only imagine that both of the other classes are a bitch to kill with just one team member down when he goes melee. So I do think preds need to be toned down slightly. But Not so much that it is as much of a slaughter as it was before.
Another argument you could make, is that assault rifles/smgs need a decent buff. A good reason why pred is so beefy, is because those two classes of weapons are the weakest, and yet most fireteams run them. Just as preds smart disc/handheld plasma need a buff, I think that assault rifles, as well as smgs could use one too. This would probably go a long way.
Also one more thing, Fireteam has far more “Effective Range” than pred. I mean they have scopes, and that levels the playing field quite a bit, that is why being a pred and getting spam spotted was such an issue, the fireteam is MOST effective at range.
But I digress, Most fireteam weapons are not very effective, and because most people use ineffective weapons, they could be potentially causing the fireteams downfall, even with good teamwork. A good buff should fix that, as I believe every weapon should be effective. I dont like filler, no one does. Nothing should be objectively better to the extent like the snipers/revolver are to assault rifles currently.
I think a solution to this is make down range perk affect it more.
At the moment I think it only affects the bow? But even then it should affect the shoulder caster.
I’m not having too much trouble with it. Its a bit of learning curve managing energy but I also threw on cooling syncs so I don’t have to wait long on my Scout class.
Try the lense perk, it might help, I’ve been catching people pretty off guard with it on
I’ve been having fun.
Also edit, Motion detector. Thank me later.
The one Charged shot down was necessary because once you fire it they scramble like roaches. Now you can’t even down someone caught slipping. Gotta get used to it.
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I tested Cooling Syncs and there was absolutely no effect. 8 second recharge time with or without it.
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How can pred compete when his perks dont even work
Thanks for ruining that build for the time being, but that means i can throw down range till then, get some extra bow use.
This is true and I call racism, Humans shit works perfectly fine, its cause we got dreads.
Didn’t cali pass laws on this kinda discrimination?!
Pred lives matter
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Yo they bring you back up to full and quick