Berserker combistick? Get melted. Scout trying quick and agile hit and runs? Get spotted spammed and melted. Hunter using ranged attacks while cloaked? Good luck hitting shit with that bow on controller. Get spotted and melted. At which point the game will turn into “Fire team hunting grounds” as you leap away over and over but can never heal because all you hear is the constant huffing and puffing of the fire team right behind you. But yeah Combistick needed a nerf. If the fire team sticks together and all chase you there is nothing you can do about it. Predator needs more health and faster speed to actually get away. I’d remove the stamina mechanic from him entirely and the neon Green blood trails. And no I’m not saying this because I’m bad at Prep that’s just how it is. I can’t remember the last time a Predator team wiped a fire team wait in Predator queues for 10 minutes to just get chased down. I’m sorry I thought I was the one doing the hunting?
Predator is still laughably weak.
It’s so strange to see this. I’m not saying you’re wrong, it’s just strange because I’ve had such a different experience. I play the Hunter and win almost all my matches. In fact I usually intentionally leave one alive just so they can reinforce and I can do it again. I’ve also certainly played fireteams that give me a good run, and a few that have really kicked my ass or beaten me, but unless I get destroyed by glitches, I usually wipe. However I never play the Zerker and I never melee rush. Only when the fireteam is alone or down at least 2 players. I’ll jump in with a slam to prevent a revive and grab some melee damage if I think I can get away with it but otherwise I stay back. Only using hit and run.
I also find the Predator wins most of the time when I play fireteam. But only because I usually get randos you for some reason still have absolutely no idea how to play this game.
EDIT: That “you”^ wasn’t supposed to be there. Sorry wasn’t trying to be a dick, I meant the randos don’t know how to play, not you. It was supposed to be a “who”
I don’t know why but some days I get a kill streak as pred, and then the next day I get some really hard FT guys and get smashed, then next day the FT seems easier to fight. Some days are good and bad for me. I would like to know other people’s opinion regarding that, does anyone else have some good and bad days even if you’re a A+ pred player?
Your obviously laughably bad as the Predator. Predator isnt weak and Fireteam isnt weak. Predator is only as weak as his Master. Weak minded in strategy and creativity.
Pc fireteams will melt you. I play pred into them and outplay there game. They have a recon mudded up spotting u while the 2 suppts run heavy hitter and auto shotties. The fireteam wants you to engage the suppts so you get lit by the sniper you ignore or can see. My strat is to find the recons and kill them. If you dont then its a long game of you getting sniped and boar feeding. I usually get 3 kills on g ft then they renforce and there at full stock while only have 5 arrows left by this point im at the helo, net gunning them and using ai to help. This is your golden channce. If you run zerk against them you will get melted cause i play fireteam and its to damn ez to hit them while jumping. Scout or hunter with bow and netgun is my choice. Traps are a waste of time
At this high level of play there is no time for traps or mimics… it a war and with infinite health packs it hard to beat them. You will get parried and take lots of dmg
A good fireteam can easily kill the predator doesn’t matter how good the predator is
Those are good points you have brought up thank you. I did notice one game before 3 main FT at an obj but the 4th was missing, I went around the outside and saw a recon hiding in the bush, so I took him out first. I have to remind myself sometimes to count how many FT I see and not get fixed on 1-3 together at the obj. Cheers
FT skill was grows significantly high. Ped zerkers plays same - rash and spam AA.
I think its well balanced.
Win some Lose some depends who you play against, what platform you and they are on and most importantly their skill and coordination as a team.
all i do is snipe of the pipes in train and just watch them leap all the way across the map tagging there ass
the game is relatively well-balanced right now. i’ve had games go both ways to both extremes since the last patch. it’s based on skill and sometimes a little luck, but it’s not a complete stomping unless one side is a lot more skilled than the other as far as i can tell.
That’s one of my big concerns about balance right now. I’m worried that the only reason the Pred destroys is because the fireteam isn’t playing well. But I’m afraid that the fireteam has a higher capability of being OP, even if most teams aren’t able to meet that.
I may have asked you this before, but do you ever feel that maybe the fireteam might have a higher capability to destroy the Pred? I guess that would make sense since it’s a 4v1 but sometimes I worry that if you took 5 players at the absolute highest level of skill, the fireteam would have the advantage and be able to shut down the Pred no questions.
On the other hand, I feel like where he is now, one mistake or an even slightly uncoordinated fireteam gets creamed. It’s a weird place of extremes I feel…
I think maybe the Pred does need a little better stealth just so he can stay a little closer and pick his moments.
I don’t know, I feel like the motion detector is nice for getting a sense of the battlefield. Especially if you’re hunting that recon. Nice to know where the other three are.
Predator melee combat is weak. Like really weak. 3 fixes increase elder sword/ disc needs to be faster and maybe a skill shot with energy recall/ war club is a berserker weapon and shoul single target a suppt with 180 hp 2 hits should be a knock down. Id say increase predator damage and give them all the med kits they want. Bow is fine plasma is like 4 taps or one charged and 1 tap/ combi is laughable. Ive come to terms that netgun andbow are the best and i use quick swap weapon perk
i just want to say predator is only weak in an on paper “metateam” sense against most players predator provides a reasonable enough challange and has probably a good enough chance as long as the predator is good he will do fine
however
if you run into a team with some of the better weapons of the game it only takes 1 out of 4 has the knowledge of parrying and is capable of recognizing predator sounds/cloak and he/they have mics then
yes the predator is laughably weak cause that guy or guys will kill you in 7 seconds or less with one clip if you ever get near them you will be glad to kill one of them ive had games like this i’m sure others have too
which is a a problem but that’s at a higher skill level
is that ok? i don’t think so but what should be done? as to not alienate the baddies? good question i don’t have that answer yet…
Exactly where i am at now. thinking about this issue.
Im pretty convinced the balance/numbers etc need to be different on console to PC for a start.
it’s where ive been since the last balance patch it’s whenever i talk to the “Fireteam isn’t op predator is op not up”
they don’t get the well on paper if the fireteam starts using their best gear it FAR outvalues the predators best gear then it doesn’t get anywhere
a lot of issues i have playing a top tier team is fighting against the game its self. Stamina bug, leaping and getting stuck on terrain etc etc.
Its hard to fight against a team and the game lol
true lol