Predator Balance Ideas Part 1

#1

I’ve played since launch and I love the game. Both sides are great and I love playing them both fairly equally. But getting down to the meat of this topic is an idea I have for helping out pred.

Fireteam is most of the time going to have the upper hand on pred, getting that first kill on ft is vital for pred to have any chance going from early to mid game. If fireteam sticks together like they should and move as a unit which is what’s been happening more and more then it’s near impossible for pred to get their foot in the door.

So my idea follows that if Predator is in a 15 meter range of any fireteam member they undergo a status effect. 1-2 members they gain no buff, 3 a 15% protection increase, and finally 4 fireteam members a solid 20% protection increase from all sources.

This makes predator more likely to survive fights that they’re not prepared for, gives pred more survivability in 1v4s should the pred find themselves in that situation, and overall would make things more fair for pred going into the game.

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#2

Sorry but I think this won’t work. It will teach Pred’s to push super hard to get that first kill.

It’s like giving them a regenerating shield, a 50 hit point buffer before damage starts. Doesn’t work because pushing them off is necessary. Good Pred’s will just figure out how to make the most of it. Mostly by thirsting kills that before you could have prevented.

#3

Nah. I’d rather see the Predators weapons actually become effective

#4

garbage ideas

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#5

50hit dmg shield is one shot

#6

It was an example, I wasn’t going to actually work out how much it would be because it would be a variable depending on weapon (or it would work off time). Either way players would quickly figure out how to abuse it or use it most effectively. It won’t work.

#7

Im still gonna to by saying the only way to balance it out from now is to actually make the matches last actual 15 min and not like 5 min or below that…

And ofcourse mainly have that RNG aka random objectives so people cant know where to actually land at what location so they cant actually speedrun it by abusing game mechanics lmao…

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#8

The faster people get to see this is the only way… the better it will be for us all.

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#9

I agree with you, yet disagree, I don’t think that’s plausible(yes plausible) there are weapons for pred that should be buffed, and pred DLCs don’t seem to make a difference I pred play most preds just use hunter class, I have seen myself do this( I’ve been more successful as hunter class than city hunter and samurai, and jungle hunter is just well a glorified hunter class even elder and alpha don’t seem viable in realistic FT engagement, and now with Dutch 87 (and we know hardcores are gonna use him, went against a FT, all Dutch, more than once and got lit up when engaging, maybe playing in the trees might be more of an option if down range really gave more damage, just play smart I guess,(easier said than done)

#10

well the same FTs are getting wiped while the elite ones are having instead of zero problem… now the possibilities are infinite on what a really good team can do