if the choppa is there and the blast goes off next to the choppa and its within radius then it should get blown up killing all team members surely?
Self Destruct
Self-Destruct in it’s entirety is SHIT. Too easy to counter/avoid.
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it is entirely stupid. i get why its not a thing gameplay-wise, cause it’d suck as a fireteam, but at the same time wtf lol. had it been like friday13th where you just escape it would’ve made just a bit more sense
I’ve noticed a few people that think the self-destruct mechanic doesn’t really function as desired. What do you guys think would be a way to balance it or even rework it to something more interesting? I like the idea of possibly a perk that would make the puzzle SIGNIFICANTLY harder to disarm. Perhaps name it something like “advanced encryption” or something similar. I don’t like the idea of taking away a perk from a Predator that already feels a tad under-powered just to spite the FT though.
An alternate way to fix it would be to play around with the blast radius or the time that the Fire Team has to deactivate it. Perhaps both. Maybe there simply needs to be a harder puzzle variant than simply matching the symbols? What are your thoughts on re-balancing, everybody?
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To me its should be either you have to run right away to barely make it out as a whole squad or all commit to a difficult puzzle. Blast range is laughable and the puzzle is also laughable.
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Agreed
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I agree with that either commit and kill the pred and solve the puzzle or you’re guaranteed to be blown up other option run as soon as you down him
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Yeah agreed, the puzzle should be harder, and the distance of the blast should be further, and yea should kill the chopper if its still there.
Maybe add a new win condition for the FT, of Blast Survivor… Doesnt give as much as pred body secured, but its better than missing the chopper.
The one time I had to use the self destruct, the guy disarmed it in less than 5 seconds. 5 seconds. That’s ridiculous. For an advanced alien race of hunters their encryption sure is crap.
I’m not saying the disarm feature is bad, just that it’s too easy to do. When the Predator arms the bomb you should have the fight or flight reaction in your head. From videos I’ve watched people rarely run away because it’s just too easy disarm it. Make it a bit more difficult so it’ll add some intensity to the situation.
Its just the time limit it gives you to disarm i’d say. even to run away you get too much time, mainly due to AOE, which is rightfully small because the maps are small (taking into account where the Predator goes down that is); not sure how many seconds the game gives you from when the bomb is armed to when it goes off, but its a comfortable time limit and small blast radius, no where near stressful. Making the puzzle harder could work but i think we’d just get that much more better tbh; But i guess the question REALLY is, WHAT would make it be more difficult. Let’s say the time symbols are DISTORTED enough you have to almost guess which symbol is which.
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Like a few Hunting Grounds fans said already blast radius needs to be a good run boy… Come on you know Dutch barely made it out alive and he even dove out of that blast radius. And as far as the disarming of the bomb Ive tried it once this whole time. Looks like you just match them up right? Well I say if you get an incorrect sequence it would automatically go off…killing everything in its radius.
I don’t understand how these “serious yautja” or whatever they call themselves want to use the self destruct as a tool for winning. It’s like watch the movie and don’t die next time, lmao.
Hey hey, nobody wants exploits of kamikadze predators waiting until the chopper and destroying it with all FT. Self-destruct is nice now I think. Just played as FT and it was pretty hard to disarm it. They added more glyphs in the last patch and the last glyph I selected in the last few seconds before detonation. It was cool and exciting! The predator laughs louder and there are a lot of glyph options! In fact, one mistake and you are dead.
tbh we need hangman… it would better than our symbol game apparently lol tbh
Damn that encryption idea is legit dopeeee we need a perk like that and I was thinking for future perks and stuff they should cost V so u can choose what you’ll like to have when u have enough money like 5-7,500k 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️