I’ve played two games so far and this may be premature but I think that the changes actually worked. I main the scout predator (which is supposedly the weakest one) and thanks to the gear buff I can bring in audio decoys to help avoid getting located and with the increase of boar it makes healing way more convenient. I was able to win both games and only have one person escape to the chopper and they even called for reinforcements in both games. I barely went in for melee only when I knew someone was absolutely alone to get the kill. The plasma caster nerf was a big hit against my range strategy but I was still able to destroy with it and the bow thanks to the slight buff. If the one shot thing was still in the game it would’ve been over a lot quicker. So far I think the changes were great for FT and made things more balanced. They need to just fix parry more and add the one shot mechanic back and this will be an even better game. I will make updates if my options change the more games I play.
Predator is FINE to me so far
Audio decoys work? Like people actually fall for that?
Well I mean it’s better than them hearing the noise in a singular direction to find you quicker if you’re stalking.
I see many that fall for the audio decoy. specially when the predator know how the cloak works, with full invisibility when standing still etc…
Yeah exactly I use it to just make my location more unknown to the FT it really throws them off.
I’ve been getting the spot arrow over my head a lot more lately. Really makes it so I can’t do much unless I’m willing to melee dive them. Spotting the pred should be gone from game.
Agreed it should just be a general spot icon or the character yells what direction they spot
Yeah I’m definitely having a lot of fun not losing as Predator now
Okay so I just finished a game where these FT members just camped inside a building and I tried everything I could do ranged wise and it didn’t work that well and so I went in to try and flush them out with plasma shots and I got body blocked by all three of them and got knifed to death so yeah kinda tilted but oh well. Btw I was a scout so I’m sure this had some influence on them trying to do melee battle. I was beating them then they decided to camp.
Just keep full charge spamming into the building. If it is a small building with one door, you will flush them out injured and ready for attack(bear trap is a good idea here too).
If it is a garage, same thing but work all the openings.
Above all else, don’t go in because melee is still heavily tilted in the direction of good FT members. Worse comes to worse, they sit in there letting you rack up ae damage score and they lose at the end.
Yeah I tried getting an angle on them but they were in a weird L shaped building and they were in the corner of it so I couldn’t hit them unless I walked it. Or if I could blow them up through walls? I didn’t attempt to. These dudes went for reinforcements and then ran back to the same building to camp so I’m sure they’ve done this strat before.
I’ll probably upload footage
AE doesn’t go through walls.
In that situation just wait them out, or leave if you truly don’t think they will move.