Serious unbalance being a veteran Predator

#1

Look and I say this with the utmost respect to anyone who plays predator on the reg. But it’s quite unbalanced in favour of the predator.

Bear with me before you go all defensive on me. But being a new player here is my two cents… playing as a group of two and two randoms. Me and my cousin are finding that vsing experienced players there strategy is either jumping with control in quick succession around players while slowly dicing is up and pissing off and healing taking us out one by one I’m fine with taking us out one by one but not when he comes In Tanks all our ammo And leaves to heal infinitely ( thanks to boars ) . ( we personally think there should be a stamina bar for the pred, not to much it’s going to make it hard to play, having respect for the pred. But being able to be cloaked and jump 50 times while hitting you really makes it hard on us fireteam players and you have to aggre with that. Unless your intent on stomping everyone you vs. I’m ok with lossing but not like that.

Anyone else agree? Remember I’m talking about players who abuse this not just people jumping from tree to tree or to move around I mean hitting that CTRL button more than any other button combined.

#2

Sorry its too hard for you and your wssting all your ammo. I disagree with you and there are plently of other methods and ways to replinish ammo and knowing when to fire your weapon.

If you cant use team work or joining in random matches with random players who do little to aid you (no mic) thats not the predators mechanics fault.

The only class who has a high jump rate is the scout which is a good balance being the scouts health can be taken down fast with a full clip or clips of the fireteam’s weapons.

Scouts require a higher learning curve vs the other classes.

City hunter and alpha being the most used class with a katanana combo itself offers a lower and easy learning curve.

So doing what your asking will cripple the use of the standard classes for the predator.

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#3

Wait what are you on about lmfao…

the only stamina issue here is fireteams stamina which regens faster than predators and lasts about the same lol… Not to mention the new perks make the person run same as usain bolt or scout runs faster lmao.

But i will tell you that honestly fireteam has infinite ammo and health if done right lmao… which i think is unfair as well but i gave up cause oh well they did some changes to it patches before due to me and lazys rework thing.

The worst thing is… only thing saving predator from getting hunted is the leaping from branch to branch and his stamina…

But i will give you this tho and to everyone listening this reply.

If u want this can be sort of agreement okay…

-Nerf fireteam stamina to the point where it gets wasted more when sprinting a lot, gets burnt out when knifing which takes a small bar of stamina, takes almost entire stamina leaving you with enough to swing a knife and do dmg to predator instead of parry.
-Add bullet drop as i proposed
-Better hitbox realistic one

-Nerf predator stamina the one you proposed
-Make predator hitbox better and challening for fireteam to deal damage to… (im talking about my mechanic i proposed where i made certain body part gain more dmg let trough)

Legs/arms = 20% dmg to preds health
torso = 50%
head = 100%

with the dmg reduction by enviorement which should be passive perk by predator aka the map… and his surroundings…

It will go like this with the 50% reduction

legs/arms = 10%
torso = 25%
head = 50%

So if they add this to the game for predator im fine with his stamina nerf :P

#4

Im thinking you never played as predator also. Most classes minus the scout can only jump about 3 to 4 times at most before draining a good amount of stamina and thats not including weapon use that also drains stamina.

The scout only gets a couple more jumps before downing stamina bar and thats if they dont attack(melee) or have perks to counter.

I believe the predator mechanics are good for now as well as the fire teams.

Only thing I see being abused is

Predator ( katana ) use.
Either reduce bleedout damage or increase stamina drain a bit.

Improve boar spawn points(not just near fireteam.)
You either dont get boars some matches or you get many.

Fireteam is fine for what it is and with a well thought out team loadout is very tuff to take down in itself.
Unless your going in with your cousin and joining useless randoms. Lol.

Though if you 2 really try and loadout accordling you can give the predator a hard time.

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#5

You aren’t likely to get much support from the community, but don’t let that stop you. Lots of people here don’t play with random’s and it can bias their view a bit.

Coffee, be nice to the new people. I’d like some of them to stick around. 😉

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#6

TwT … fine…

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#7

👀 that’s some funny looking change you’ve left here 🤔

To the OP, this game may seem sided with the predator but actually the FT have the advantage just tad more than they should

Predators atm have a very minimal variety on the choices they choose when engaging the FT

I’ve played this game about 1 week after it dropped and have seen all the changes happen. Right now the balance is not perfect but more at extremes ends

You either dominate or die horribly 🤷‍♂️

#8

As playing phg since april 35days worth of play time.
I can tell you right now its pretty hard to lose as ft right now. The only 3 methods work and if your not perfect on execution youll lose as predator. This is also the reason why you see these preds. They have been shoot out of the sky by some of the best fts. Then your on the menu and that predator can smell fear.image

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#9

You’re new you just need to learn the ropes

#10

tottally agree if we are talking about randoms. Tottaly disagree if its a premade (especially PC)

#11

Git gud

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#12

I’m afraid not, pard. Im a lvl 150 and just last evening I lost to an ok FT. (Second match froze up, so I quit for the night.) Granted, I was running a new loadout, trying some new stuff I hadn’t before, but the fact remains, the Predator is at a disadvantage when FT is at full or even 75% strength. 2 on 1, its pretty even. 1 on 1, predator is favored. Its just the way it is. The thing that bugs me the most about FT is how a human can chase down a Predator on foot. That is b.s. and needs to be changed. Either uo the Predator foot and sprint speed or lower ft sprint speed, I say. All this being said, If I lose (as in die, not prey escaped), I deserve it. If, as FT I kill a Pred, I earned the kill. If I win as Pred, I earned it too. Remember, survival is more important than an outright win in this game.

#13

Nice OP. The last thing in preds toolkit, jumping 50 times vs people using controller

#14

I dont see the issue with the pred being tracked down or chased down as in apredstor 2, the city hunter was tracked and chased at certain points. You just have to lose them and have them off your trail. Which is why the second wind gives you time to do so.

Not so bad unless youre facing a fireteam that plays predator also than thats a challenge as they know what a predator would do on the run.

Challenging and exciting

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#16

Tracked via blood trail is one thing. But a person keeping pace with a predator is another. In P2, Harrigan caught up with CH because CH stopped for about 5 minutes to treat his severed arm. Had he not stopped moving entirely, Harrigan would’ve lost him, and probably died the next day, after CH got a scolding, and Greyback went out to clean up the mess. Bottom line, humans should not be able to keep pace with a Predator and run it down.

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#17

I know for a fact FT cant keep pace with a pred especially a Scout FT.

Maybe with the clunky Berserker class at beast but if your jumping and leaping from place to place its easy to track you down.

It all falls under how the predator player hides his/her tracks

#18

I’ve done it. That means it can be done.

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#19

I love how everyone (not everyone but an annoying number) has decided that Scouts shouldn’t be able to do the one thing they are good at, which is run down Predators.

Have any of you ever tried running in a low oxygen high altitude environment. I walked up a glacier a few years ago, at the bottom the air was thin but you could still move around and not get to tired no spots in your vision or weakness, at the top of the glacier after a couple hours climb/walking, it was significantly worse. Trying to move fast was like asking for a blackout, spots would appear at the edges of your vision if you didn’t stop and breath every 30 or 40 feet and I wasn’t even that high up. It wasn’t even that cold on the glacier but it felt like the air was always sliding down the surface of the ice, like you could feel it being pulled down past you and away from your lungs.

I imagine being a 400 pound alien that lacks hemoglobin, even breathing at sea level is a bitch.

PS. Not opposed to Pred getting a gear item like the breathing mask to boost their stamina recovery or give them slightly more jumps or a smidge more speed (speed should be variable, the berserker should benefit more than the scout.)

#20

I believe the scouts should have the skill set (chasing down) which factors there lower health as a trade off.

Predators who get caught by fire team during a chase are poor preds and will need to adjust there eluding.

Remember some of these FT players are also good pred players so they can think and figure out where the pred will stop to heal. Im one of them.

Tho its not always a guarantee as some preds are good at loosing the FT pursuers