please nerf the predator

#15

I think players want a balance. The hunter is a really good challenge right now, and takes serious teamwork and effort to down him if played correctly. Zerker is kinda rough. Not like ridiculously bad. Just slightly OP is a bad way.

It’s about getting him OP in a good way to keep you on your toes and working together, but not so OP that losing a single member of the team means it’s game over.

Obviously it’s not as bad as all that, I’m being hyperbolic, but the Zerker just needs to come down to make it a little more balanced.

The Preds should all be dangerous and OP, one shouldn’t be more so than the others. The variations in class should have more to do with the playstyle than power. The zerker is just a touch to powerful.

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#16

It can be both.

#17

IMO zerker is fine now but only because of the melee nerf. i just think that scout and hunter are op because of the health buff. good scouts and hunters can get up close and take out the ft with the bow and netgun combo which is completely unfair because of how mobile they are since you can rarely pinpoint a location.

#18

FTs are constantly telling Preds to get creative, play smarter, & “Git gud”… now that preds are coming ip with new tactics to win, TFs want them to stop? Lol

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#19

yes we do but not in a way thats impossible to win? right now good preds are impossible to kill. im asking for a nerf not for them to stop

#20

from the pred’s standpoint, it’s easier to play smarter and utilize gadgets and mobility to gain the upperhand, even before the latest patch. the pred was always able to kill the ft if they played smart; it’s just most people relied on combi rush and either weren’t very smart or were still learning the game.

balance isn’t as simple as just, “the ft was strong last patch, so we’ll nerf them and buff the pred this time patch”, and it seems a lot of people don’t understand that lol

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#21

So basically you just want it to be easy for you, with that thinking you must be be good ft player and pred has been 1v1 (yes even berserkers with a combistick) and lost so that means you can do it too. Learn to adapt just like you are demanding of your predators when they lose.

Here is the honest truth and it has been stated before: people that claim something or other is op, yes this includes you too, more times than not have not even tried to overcome their obstacle and won’t be satisfied until they can overpower the other side, you can’t win every game even preds that claim op need to learn that.

Just because you lose doesn’t mean there needs to be nerf because guess what? You are going to come across preds that know what they are doing and use what they are given just like the other way around and whining about it (I’m sorry if I sound douchey) isn’t going to change that fact, the combi stick is on its third nerf for crying out loud.

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#22

You’re ignoring that most people in this community just spam Predator in matchmaking despite being terrible at the Predator. The point is the Predator should take skill and even before he didn’t take much. Pick off a straggler and you have plenty of health especially with some of the perks in this game to get out again.

Even now that they buffed it I see loads of people playing completely foolishly as Predator. My friends and I have basically two types we run into: a) the ones that just jump in like fools and die pretty quickly to an entire fireteam hammering them (note, we are never a full 4) and b) the ones that just hide and pick at us a bit here and there throughout the match and maybe say fuck it as we’re at exfil calling in the chopper and rambo in and die but most likely just keep hiding.

The fact is people pushing balance changes this early are being foolish. The major changes to Pred could have been waited on for another couple weeks when more people caught on to how you need to play Pred. I like both FT and Pred and I could maybe see room for some balance but the get out of fuck-ups free stuff like calling in your entire team after the Predator manages to take 2-3 people out was lame and still doesn’t work in a way that makes sense. Now the Predator basically has a get out of jail free card as well with the blind on second-wind. Spreading out is dumb as a fireteam and the only way to keep everyone from being blinded by second-wind is spreading out.

Basically, the complaints that resulted in Illfonic buffing Predator was probably from players employing one of the two, aforementioned playstyles because they couldn’t get a hold on how you need to play Pred.

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#23

i agree. The fact that they buffed the pred for people that dont know how to play means that later on when preds start to get good, like now they get a very unfair advantage. i just want it to get changed back to what it was. i can see that the ft could use some also but not as many

#24

Yeah they totally didn’t do the same thing nerfing the combistick over and over for fireteams that didn’t know about or wouldn’t wrap their minds around the parry system.

And before you claim net: teammate net slash with knife.

#27

If you want nerf the Predators, then only the stupid yolo Berserkers who are not afraid to jump 1x4 with a spear, because health and armor allow them. Berserks need nerf.

And so in general, I think it is necessary to make the classes of Predators more unique, and not stupidly rest on a different ratio of characteristics.

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#28

didnt they nerf parying also? and the net gun is all fine except the ammo count. which i dont know what it even is i just keep using it as pred and never runs out.

#29

if your having a problem with zerkers like those just try to have you or a friend go support with thick skin and a minigun. if he doesnt get it its atleast at 10 percent health if he hits his shots. and yeah classes need to be unique i agree haha

#30

From what I hear the parrying is still the same due to stamina regeneration. Either way people only claim op 8/10 because they lose and this is a pvp game, ya can’t win em all the sooner people accept that the more the devs can work on more important issues like the matchmaking, bugs, glitches and the more content people will be. Just like when I first discovered the parry system, did I think it was crazy? Sure but I worked around it and adapted.

#31

It’s stupid. Berserk is not Superman. He is still Predator, stealth hunter, etc.
He is don’t must soak over9000 damage

#32

We obviously cant win them all, but since more good predators are starting to become a challenge these pasts buffs start to become unfair.

#33

Over exaggerating and he’s a BERSERKER he’s gonna be stronger than the other two classes that’s normal.

#34

Good fireteams are still a challenge for predator and? This goes both ways XD

#35

And again both sides, gonna be some that are better than others, now ask yourself why were there nerfs to begin with?

#36

Also, and this is my two cents, not everyone wants to employ the same tactic over and over again to have a chance of success as the Pred. Then things get boring. And then no one wants to be Pred. Has that been considered before? Sometimes, you want to netgun whoever goes the furthest out. Sometimes you wanna sit back and caster people. And sometimes you want to do both.

Point is, your argument’s a bit…weird, FT players can still easily melt and defeat a Pred if they coordinate and work together, not split up and chase when the Predator’s wounded. Or blow themselves up like one player did…