Yep… 10 matches, no wins, predators basically goes head to head against 4 guns poiting at them without even care.
Predators are now steamrolling right now
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i agree i got my coffee this morning and didnt see a patch update, continue to play about 2 or 3 hour straight among people leaving match on fire team, 90% team wipe.
This game is literally shooting fish in a barrel if you are the predator.
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then you have a shit fireteam.
a good effective team can take out a any predator with ease.
1 stay together
2 keep your eyes open " dont run like headless chickens"
3 if the rest is dead. crouch mud up and get them back.
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We stay together but one power slam and a few swings of a combistick pretty much kills us. The combistick should be nerfed. It is more effective than the club and the club is a specific melee weapon.
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wich is another problem too, yeah i know that shitty teamates are a big disadvantage but even staying together is no longer viable now that the power slam attack also blinds. The best tactic right now is that the fireteam player gets meleed just focus on parry while the others shoot the predator. Then again… shitty teamates.
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i wonder why that is? oh il tell you why because being spotted in the trees from miles away and seen cloaked. i know because i just experienced this my first game of the night. plus matchmaking times 8 minutes 10 minutes. predator does or tries too from a distance he gets wrecked. so whats he to do? thats right zerg his way in because long distance isnt viable. also team mates not being competent could be another reason you guys get wrecked so easily
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Yeah, I kinda like the health buff to the hunter…but Preds can just shrug off rounds like it’s nothing. I think they need to split the difference. Playing as a Pred now offers little challenge.
Totally not true. Like at all.
If you’d like to see proof, I’ll gladly provide it for you
🤦🏼 The combi staff has been nerfed…like 3 times now? Me thinks the nerfing shouldn’t be considered a bandaid
It is possible to wipe a team with only range weapons, also i too think that direct spotting the pred should go (just the eye thing to stay) and to the cloak to be more effective the more distance keeps the predator. I only hope that devs will sort this out in time, but as for now… yeah there is no much interest to play in this current state.
I mean, predators have a lot of viable options to hunt, is just that picking berserker with combistick and just go into rampage is the least effort way to get the job done.
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yeah possible but a competent fireteam will keep spotting or spam it and shoot and see you where ever you go. thats it i was looking at aliens vs predator 2010 the game and the invisibility on that. in the beginning when the preds fully cloaked. blew me away. i was like take a leaf out of their book illfonic. yep there sure is no interest at all. i know ive been swearing in my posts but im just fucked off and rightly so. yep the cloak has to be and needs to be more effective. i played fire team till level 80 and i could see pred hopping across trees running away/ stands literally no chance when his cloak looks like a reflective mirror and not even close to being truly invisible … lol
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Your team is only as strong as the weakest link, which might be you. Were playing the same game and I’m not losing like that as FT.
disagree , i’ve been playing the whole day , 5 matches all wins , i even left one alive so i can hunt them again , i think you don’t know how to play predator , i recommend you to watch youtubers like Cartonz or
BloodThirstyLord , they play pretty good
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True, true… as of this last update I’m no longer able to go solo after a predator and stab him to death… oh wait! I think that means this game is not broken anymore! What a shame…
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With the changes fireteam teamwork has become more important. This is good.
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both sides definitely need more tuning. the pred does seem a bit too strong atm though. i think they need to focus specifically on adjusting melee combat in general.
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Must be some bad FT members or really good Preds. I suck with Pred and everytime I play Pred the FT never splits it seems.
That moment when ya want someone to just pick one, first people say it’s melee needed nerfed, it got nerfed pred used ranged, then said it’s ranged need nerfed now it’s back to melee I don’t think this cartwheel will ever end.
It can be done, but its gonna take a lot of work, and its not just a game of numbers. Buff this damage, nerf this damage. There needs to be specialities to predator weapons.
As it stands right now, we have 5 melee weapons for pred. As far as I am concerned, No matter how much they nerf the combistick, it will be better than every other weapon because it can be THROWN.
So what do we do? I think its simple.
Elder sword, wider swings, make it the weapon for hitting multiple enemies at once.
Handheld Plasma caster, Buff damage a bit, so that it can down a fireteam member in 4-5 shots point blank, but slow its fire rate. Its effectively now a melee weapon that cant be parried. But at long range, it should be as piss poor as it is now.
War club, Slow the swings even more. Make it break parries, Slower swings means easier to dodge, Breakable parries and maybe a bit more damage means it will be good at punishing players that sit in a corner of a building.
Smart disc, Full rework. Pred shouldnt have to control it, Make it do its thing and try to return automatically, Leave damage piss poor. And if it hits something on the way back, let it get stuck as it does already.
Combistick, Remove the ability to hit multiple enemies. Its effectively a spear, not a double bladed lightsaber, Make it excel at single target DPS, but it is parryable as it is now, let it be thrown still.
Keep everything else exactly the same.
Boom predator weapons balanced.
As for fireteam weapons, I hate to say it, but those are as simple as damage buffs. Assault rifles and smgs need to be buffed. first two pistols too tbh. Snipers need to have any scopes below a 5x removed, force them to be used at range. Minigun needs tighter spread, GL should get impact grenades back.
Use slam and don’t set up your attack from the trees, you’ll get spotted, lit up and have to retreat. I downed 2 members with slam running a zerker with cooling sync, ran around a building once, the team was busy with the revive so i just started hacking away. Had um all within a matter of seconds. Slam is really strong if used correctly. Perfect for creating opportunity. Also, audio decoy. The fireteam will be looking all different directions, so if you pick a good vantage point and the right target you can at least get one of them.