Balancing in this game will be nearly impossible right now.
You have:
*People of different skill Levels
*People who play on PC or PS4
*People who play casually or with a competitive mindset
*People who play only with randoms, solo, mostly with randoms or in organized groups
However, the playerbase is certainly not large enough to balance for one group only, as you run the risk of losing the other players, which of course increases the waiting times extremely.
A ranked mode could be a possible solution.
Depending on the rank, you could assign modifiers to the FT or the Predator to take the different requirements of the different skill groups into account, such as:
- +10% HP
- +10% Plasma Caster Damage
- -10% Melee Damage
- Predator is unspottable
- Predator makes way less sounds
etc.
The values are just an example and would of course have to be fine tuned bit by bit.
Please feel free to discuss.