I personally don’t engage in 1v1 when the FT members are aware of my presence …I’ll usually leap around and fire the Bow at them while they stand there with their knives out like idiots haha! Doesn’t always work obviously especially now with Impact Grenades being re-introduced, but it is damn effective the better you get at it. Only go in for Melee when they’re distracted or you can get a good angle that they can’t parry which is just about any angle other than head-on. Good luck, but I do not agree knife should be breakable, respectfully.
Should knifes break?
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If you’re on PS4, I’m sorry. Sometimes I try for the 1v1… was the knife purple?
PS. I run those perks.
Of course not… That would eliminate the purpose of why it takes a perk slot
In a realistic setting, it obviously does not make sense for the FT to be able to continuously parry Predator melee attacks. Since they want to balance the game and not have every FT being killed by a melee weapon spammer. I am saying this as someone who prefers playing Predator. Obviously it is not easy to fight against good fire teams.
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Yeah. I don’t get why a lot of people don’t agree. Just because they want to be able to solo a predator with a knife. It didn’t make sense at all until Arnold’s that’s made from a predators blade. I don’t see how a human can parry a 500 Ib predator
The parry mechanic is there for game play/balance not for realism.
We all know what would probably really happen, but this is to prevent a Predator just walking up to the FT and melee-ing them down.
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It should break lol no way in hell can human metal hold up to Predator metal nonstop
You have to practice and get alot better My man, i encounter ballsy players with a knife all the time 1v1 if your having trouble taking them on u gotta practice, jump around them leap slam, net gun don’t just get frustrated and be like its impossible, its obviously not when so many other people manage to make it work.
Yeah, you can do all that. But do you know what none of that uses, melee weapons. Yeah I can slam, but I can do that without the sword. I can net gun them and quickly wristblade them down, but not with the club.
That’s my point. At the very very least, let our aim button be the plasma caster, just like you can wristblade using an only ranged weapon. But that’s not helping the issue. The base issue is if they can parry and have any situational awareness, you will not be able to use a melee weapon. So I guess use the club and sword on a bunch of PS randos?
If the pred is silly enough to get parried multiple times then he deserves to get shanked.
Unfortunately yes. The struggle of balancing around casuals to keep the population up.
That said war clubs damage numbers make no sense. Sword is fine for backstabbing. First hit is easy to parry however.
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Not having a problem just trying to see how many people agree that its bs and maybe a balance is needed. One person brought up maybe a perk to allow that kind of game style. The way I see it any class can carry a knife and do the same thing. Support can swing just as fast as the other classes so. When it comes to a 1v1 knife fight why is the pred in a disadvantage?
Agreed like stated before… “for other comments”… ok listen all classes knife the same… same speed everything… so no matter what class they play if any pred goes in for a quick kill by a straggler. He gets fucked in the process. I’m just not seeing a balance, if a pred goes melee on a team that’s dumb af and the pred deserves to get wrecked but a 1v1 situation the (doesn’t matter what ft class they have ) they can parry then stab and still have time to parry again. And due to that first parry the pred acts like he just got hit by a war club and stands there like an idiot… that’s my problem. I’m not getting my shot wrecked 247 it’s just the random match where it shouldn’t be a problem but it is.
So one person brought up another good point. All FT classes have the same speed for knifing. Support is able to parry stab parry in the same manner/speed as the other classes.
Today I had no problem as pred dealing with FT that actually worked together. I’m not bringing this issue up because I feel that it needs fixed asap, but rather see who else agrees that the knifing is broken. You have players using this method in almost every game now, it just gets boring to shoot from a distance and winning in the first 4-6min of the game. The fire team sets the difficulty right? If theres no team then it’s easy picking and that’s only fun for a little while. Get what I mean? It’s like when ur team mate doesn’t mud up. Or kills boars to let the pred know where ur at. Solo players are kinda ruining it Anyway it’s a great game just wish people would actually play as a team.
Thing is that most FT will equip the knife, so not pressing melee button while having their gun out.
So if the situation is a 1v1 like you stated and the soldier has his knife equiped, why would you keep pressing your melee button?
In said situation, equip your plasma caster (bow and netgun work too). While equiped you can still melee with wristblades. So soldier stand there with knife equiped, only able to melee, while you can shoot and melee. Mix it up and he will fall quick. If he switches back to gun he is open to full melee combo.
Stay unpredictable and you will always win.
Thanks for the advise but, as discussed with others. I’m not having an issue I’m aware to net them first and so on. The issue I brought up was how 1 person can nearly take down a pred solo just with them duking it out melee only. My stand on it was that the FT shouldn’t be faster with a knife compared to a pred “after the first parry” in this example the Ft parrys and has enough time to flip the knife around…stab and still have time to parry again. And someone brought up stamina… which brought me to another point why doesn’t stamina effect FT with their knife?
So the game gets rather slow if it’s up for the ft to set the difficulty for the pred, when they dont use teamwork… if a single ft member plays solo and leaves his team it kinda makes it easy to play against that team. I’m up for them to use the knife in a team situation but not so much when they’re solo thinking I got this… do you get the just of where I’m coming from?
The knife isn’t fast it the fact people are using the slowest animation which the heavy knife swing to easier parries doing the light parry actually way harder to pull off due to the animation being quick. Even if a human solo the knife a good solution to last as long as possible for situations to revive the entire team back. Yeah people going on there own and if the pred find them it there fault but sometimes one human veering off to get spot advantages is not a bad thing which I occasionally do while mudded cause if they pred slam you have the ability to put a full clip nearly for the advantage. Also the human parry is up to 3 times every time he successfully lands the parry
See but what ruins it for their team is when that person doesn’t mud up. Because they think they can handle a pred…I’m sure they have at some point but what if the team wanted to play normal and sneak… idk dude… I’ll just stick to far range for now maybe those people will change eventually… who knows
For me i never met a single team that goes silent due to the missions causing ai to spawn for you making stealth impossible unless you do currency runs with friends with a random predator for that extra fun in it. Not only that if the pred set off the ai alarm the ai literally automatically tracks fire teams even if they weren’t the one spotted making pointless to stealth when pred do that.