Predator Single Player Mode!
Okay say what you will about this survival like mode of different waves and objectives, but it actually looks and seems challenging. Especially for new players who don’t fully understand or know how to play Predator, this could be a bigger and better expansion to the tutorial. Along with practically free XP and VT granted they aren’t much but practice will definitely make Predators more deadly in this game. Though it still seems to be a work in progress I’m so interested to see where this goes.
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Is it me or does the muzzle flash look better?
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Here I thought this was something new 😭
Kinda is 🤷🏻
How so?
This was shown months ago
Definitely gonna help with Pred time
This actually came out 5 days ago but there was one a month or so ago.
Totally agree this will help with Predator time and can’t wait to see them numbers crunch down
Looks ok but I’d rather have that larger hunt mode over this tbh
Lol this looks terrible. Same stupid AI. Hilarious.
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This brings up something interesting at least
Predator interacting with objectives during hunt
Agreed. The terrible AI is part of what makes Hunt so bad as well. They don’t act even remotely like they care about self preservation or understand that they are part of a bigger unit. Occasionally, extremely occasionally, some AI will take cover and blind fire over the top. They need more of that. AI that uses cover and doesn’t just run right out in the open, and AI should retreat if they have others nearby to cover them.
And maybe not magically spawn out of nowhere. That’s bullshit programming
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This looks slightly more entertaining than what Friday the 13th offered for single player which was just a 1st person point & click in a cabin and matches with bots. But could definitely still use some touching up and expansion if it was to be anything more than a small little side mode ya pop into for shits & giggles every now and then.
I will however say this, I did see one moment of promise which i thought was a better use of the AI than in 80% of Fireteam’s objectives in Hunt and a fun piece of in-game narrative through gameplay.
The moment where the Predator goes near the downed cargo plane location and the secondary objective to retrieve a lost Bio-Mask comes up. At first it just seems like yeah some Pred left it on the fallen log before engaging in a final duel with someone like at the end of the first movie. But then the AI pops out once you grab it, throws down smoke, has foot soldiers rush from chokepoints & a few snipers set up. A good ambush. If they did more stuff like that, small little things that built up to better serve a tiny narrative: I’d be sold on this game mode.
Hopefully they touch it up more before release but ehh I ain’t holding out hope for anything more than a small distraction ya play for 5 or so minutes between matches.
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For once, we agree <3
True. Better proximity spawning.
What do you mean say what you will? It’s completely out of character for the predator. It looks so tacked on. And also just has literally 0 to do with hunting? Ya know what we actually wanted the single player to be? And to say, well it might be hard for new players! Disgusts me. How have we sunk THAT low. We will NEVER stop making excuses for them. ANY other franchise and I mean ANY. Would have its fans in an uproar over that. If the next halo campaign was just absolutely cake walking, no one would make the excuse of, well the new players will like it! Eh no. Every single player would be pissed off.
Anyways @Arnie.schwarzewigger we’re back at it again making excuses for illfonic. They really should consider paying the forum members for doing damage control for them
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Keep in mind, I’ve only seen the gameplay that was posted that one time. SO if it comes out WAYYY different than that, then I’ll gladly eat my words
Cleaners (Wolf, Scarface and now Cleopatra to name the stand outs) have been a thing in lore for decades now, somebody has to retrieve or destroy stolen technology & bodies from other races that try to take them and use them to advance themselves. So this mode’s set up is actually fully in-character for the Yautja. Not all of them fight purely for Hunts, there has to be ones who clean up after failed Hunts if stuff is left behind because fuck ups are inevitable.
So on a lore & set up standpoint, they’ve nailed what the premise should be and this just reinforces that the Yautja we play as in this game are Cleaners just like Scarface & Wolf was which makes sense considering Fireteam comes in and gets in their way and they’ve been obviously operating in Stargazer areas for a while considering many maps have broken up bases or skinned bodies in trees laying around, the Yautja was fucking up Stargazer on their own before FT decided to complicate things and so FT has to be hunted down, both from the practical standpoint of they too are after your tech & the casual standpoint of they’re superior prey and you can have some fun.
They just need to up the production values and change how AI works in this game to lead to a better experience. Most of it is objective tiers we’ve seen before and are used to which works in a multiplayer format but not a single player format. BUT, there are signs of promise here like the Bio-Mask Ambush I’ve detailed above, stuff like that that blends narrative into the gameplay better, is more naturally seen in the field and has the AI do stuff you wouldn’t expect like throwing down smoke and actually having a semblance of squad formations is good. We need more stuff like that, there’s promise there.
But overall this mode just looks like something ya hop in to for 5 minutes between matches for shits and giggles. Not much depth, not much to it, but something to just fuck around in I guess. Hopefully when it comes out they’ll have more cutscenes to add more production value to it all and have more creative encounters like the Bio-Mask ambush littered around. An AI rework is probably many, many moons away so stuff like cutscenes & more creative objectives & encounters is all we can really hope for.
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Where I appreciate the effort of this being thought about, sorta bummed as someone who is more of a seasoned player, seeing things made to benefit, newer players. (Drawing in newer players should always be priority, but maintaining people’s intrest and keeping things new and fresh is equally important).
I’m not quite sure how many new people they are getting compared to the amount of people waiting for the game to be expanded upon.
This is giving me some half assed vibes of the batman Arkham timed challenges, but with a huge accent on the half asked part… and I’m trying my very best to put that lightly.
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