How exactly do you shoot through a roof to punish a roof slam pray tell? That only goes one way where the Predator can hit through walls and such but they can’t.
Now you just made some actual arguments for why this isn’t necessarily overpowered well beyond that of anyone else here. Yeah. It does take a good while to recharge. It also has a short radius so it’s not like it can hit the entire space of any building and spreading out can negate it. Some decent points but they also kind of undermine your argument.
You say this ability to hit through ceilings and walls is necessary for this slam to combat camping and many here claim that it is the only viable counter, which is plainly ludicrous, but by your arguments it doesn’t even do a necessarily good job of that. So why don’t we replace it with something more effective and more innovative? You say that it’s easy to punish a Predator for roof slamming… but if you are blinded and slowed and just lost half your health or so and didn’t see what part of the roof he hit above you, which you can’t shoot through by the way, how exactly do you intend to punish that? It’s just giving him free potential damage for basically no reason.
So while your arguments here are the most thought out of those I have seen here not only do they not prove that this asinine mechanic is necessary… but it is entirely vindictive by its nature. You are basically telling Fireteams that if they don’t want to constantly stand out in the open with a giant bullseye on their back and aren’t capable of reliably dodging and dipping constantly or take a pounding and give a pounding back equally that they should be forced to heal out in the open where they could be sniped and if they refuse to do so you are going to punish them by an attack that hits through walls. And also like you said too. You wanna turn off newcomers to Fireteams and make Predator ques even longer? Make it so Predators can hit through walls on these poor bastards that are still learning the ropes. But that’s what people like right?
Being punished for tactical decisions not by your opponent anticipating and having prepared for it with some strategy of their own or sneakily setting the area to prime it for that engagement or whatever, just kind default give it to them more or less. And if they don’t even have health left and shit, all bruised up and hunker down in a building for one last stand… you should just automatically win? I am sure at that point you have basically already won anyways but at least give them a snowball’s chance in hell. What are you so afraid of?
