In 5 hours plus playing FT yesterday we had zero losses vs any Pred player, unless you count us failing to disarm the Preddy Nuke. Sure, we were a full party of PC players. But one of us was an utter newbie at the game with the MS condition, which does not lend itself well to awesome aim ability. And while we were using comms, most of that chatter didnt even concern the game that much… it was not necessary to be very tactical and super aware most of the time.
When I play FT, I dont feel like I am prey. I feel like I am the hunter. The number of Pred players I have hunted down and killed in their Second Wind state is easily in the dozens.
All Predator classes are way too weak. Low health, stealth being almost useless since sound gives you away to anyone smart enough to use a headset.
And then we have not even gotten into how unreliable many Pred weapons are yet. I personally have missed fully charged perfectly aimed bow shots to the head of players, because somehow the arrow does not go where I aim… And this was close range shots on stationary targets. The arrow just does not go where it is aimed, and often hits some obstruction that should not even be there. Bow needs some adjustments to actually become the finesse weapon its supposed to be. Faster charging, and you know actually hitting what you aim the fully charged “dot” at.
Smart Disc can sure give out alot of pain… if the target is a dummy. It’s hard to control, I mean you have to drag your mouse all over the place just to turn it around, and then there is the inverted controls. And I play with high sensitivity as well.
Plasma Pistol also suffer from the “does not go where aimed” problem. Although this is somewhat mitigated by the fact that it is alot better and faster to use than the bow at least.
Melee overall is just parry bait, unless you’ve netted the target. And War Club is utter rubbish, entirely useless.
In the end all pred classes need more health. Because right now, it is fairly easy to chew up their health and then keep the pressure on them so they cant heal up again. And even if they do heal up, you can just down em again without much difficulty.
About the only time a Pred is a high threat, is if you are an isolated FT member. And even then you can deal enough damage that the Pred regrets the encounter and needs to go heal after its taken your skull… again unless they use the netgun… Netgun makes all encounters alot easier.
And before any Predator player comes in here and say they slaughter FTs left and right… Yeh, sure ya do. If they are utter rubbish and playing on the PS4 and using their TV for sound. You’ve yet to face a decent PC FT. And if you feel up to it, maybe we can engage in a few private matches and see how you fare then. Odds are, we’ll hunt you down and use yer corpse for science. Because smart FTs are not gonna let you shoot arrows at them when they try to ress their mates cause you got a few lucky shots in with the bow, nor are they gonna step in bear traps or sit still in a house letting you fire plasma bolts at them or slam the roof. They’ll spot your alien ass and light you up with all that they have.
