It’s not the fact it does less damage that bothers me it’s that it stretches plausibility too far so now I’m gonna play total war shogun 2
Plasma caster nerf is terrible.
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i dont think it is that bad. just played a few matches, predator fucking wrecks now. like toying with them its so much easier plasma caster or not. plasma plus net plus spear throw there is a reason to use more of his weapons now. i respect your opinion though.
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They balanced it. They brought the damage of an uncharged shot up and the damage of a fully charged shot down. And honestly, why should the stealthy alien be able to just insta-gib you without any notice.
If you don’t like enemies seeing the laser, you can take dithered lens.
Use the arrows early game then the cannon mid to late game
Lol they still see the laser. If you can’t deal with being hit with plasma from stealth and dying that’s your mistake. This never bothered me at all as the fireteam if i got hit and killed by this. He only gets one shot off. They might as well just remove the charge cause there’s no point to use it at all, you’re better off spamming single shots. This isn’t balanced, it completely removes the effectiveness of that weapons alternate fire from the game.
By that logic when in a game if I poke someone with a knife it should kill an npc but if a character full force stabs him it should do less damage and not kill him. XD
Quoting movies, “it went through Blaine chest in one blow”! Is a piss poor argument, in a VIDEOGAME.
Arnie kill the Predator with a big rock, if I throw a big rock at you should you die?
The Predator had to run off and heal after getting hit by a SINGLE bullet, should you die then if we hit you with two?
TLDR: MOVIES ARE A BAD SOURCE OF GAME BALANCE DDUUURRRRR
Edit: Arnie had an 8 man squad, if you want to go make a game where its 8v1 and most of that 8 dies every time (following movie logic) and those players keep coming back to get killed by that 1 Predator every game… go make that game, see how popular it is.
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i wouldnt say completely because there is still the element of splash damage. i agree destroying someone with the plasma then destroying his friend who tries to revive him etc was sweet man its just not going to be his only viable weapon anymore. it feels maybe they could have just reduced splash i dunno. i’m going to have to play with it more. Where it doesnt feel completely lethal, the predator overall has much more survivability.
right we should say that Arnold beating the pred was an anomaly and probably never really happened before. that would certainly be bad balance for the game.
Maybe you can see the 3 dots but you cannot see the obvious as hell beam when dithered lens is equipped. And I can easily flip that around: “If you can’t learn to pick at them with the laser and move in to finish then that’s your mistake.”
If you really can’t see how a predator sitting completely still so he’s 100% invisible and then charging a shot and one-shotting even a support player is OP then I don’t know what to tell you. Running around and jumping like an idiot kinda counters it but using dithered lens, down range and a fully charged shot while a pred sits completely still isn’t counterable because the AOE was killing people if it landed near them.
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Do you even know what you’re saying? Clearly not cause he didn’t kill him with a “big rock” it was half of a giant tree log suspended 20 feet in the air that landed on his face… yea I’d say that would kill just about anything. Do you have anything constructive to add? Explain how this nerf makes the charged plasma viable in any way.
The splash dmg is really poor, unless there a bug that don’t show exp points if splash dmg hits
Maybe if you’re blind you can’t see it but I can see it. Also he’s not completely invisible you can hear him in stealth it’s extremely loud so everyone is looking in the direction of his noise so it’s very obvious where he is. You just seem like you have no idea what you’re doing so of course you will think it’s op, I’ve never had a complaint playing as the fireteam or any issue with the caster it was completely fine. You say it’s not counter able welll for bad players yea you’re right but any decent player won’t have an issue.
The moral of the story is whining about authenticity in a balancing discussion is unwise if not flat-out stupid.
The plasma caster is now where it seems the devs intended it to be: a tool to pick away at the fireteam before moving in to clean up with the arsenal of melee and other close-ranged tools such as the net or bear traps.
What? I literally pretty much only use caster. Haven’t lost yet. You just upset that you can’t like 1shot them? You can do the charge and then shoot them 1 or two more times. Requires skill now for FT and for pred to dominate.
No ones whining about authenticity, it’s about the predators main most deadly weapon to be that deadly weapon, clearly something you can’t comprehend. Explain how the charged plasma is viable currently. There’s no “moving in” to take them out with melee as that’s heavily nerfed and parry is still the compete counter. You obviously have no idea what you’re talking about if you think thats a viable way to kill a FT. By your logic, you’re gonna hit a FT member once with the pc, run in and take them out with a bear trap? Genius
What’s better? Just being able to net you and melee you to death or atleast with the plasma you have such a huge chance? if you are paying attention you can easily dodge a direct hit, the laser even with dithered can still be seen just not AS easy, and it does take actual wit and practice to get leading a moving target down and even if you get downed the ft that pays attention can get their teammate up before the pred can get another shot off and even so that nerf of a charged shot and buffing a normal blast stretches plausibility way too far.
they absolutely can not get their friend up before you get another shot off. you can finish them with the caster while they’re knocked and come back for the skull later. you can shoot several times before the fire team even starts picking their team mate up. the only time i can imagine this happening is if you play a perk build built towards melee and not energy. in which case why are you not melee’ing and relying so much on your caster?
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for preds like myself that use full blasts yes because we hope to take down another player trying to res as uncharted does reduced damage compared to full blasts even with a hopeful AOE rezzing for some doesn’t seem to
Take that long even so think what you think.
Wont happen getting more then one clear shot out of the 2 charged you get with current energy pool fuck off the deck is stack for enough.