Apparently the same was done to the plasma caster, shots can be avoided if people know what they are doing.
So the old Combistick is OP, Again....
I think the only two things worth running are rhe combi/bow and combi/net gun. So i agree with that statement yes.
However i dont think i necessaryly agree with catering to the low skilled players.
Fighting games have been catering to the casual masses for nearly a decade now and it has not helped to keep a playerbase. Players will keep playing as long as something is “cool” or because of the “characters” and that shows in spades with smash bros because they just throw everything at that game, so many characters and maps and everything. Catering to the casual audience has never been shown to directly correlate with a steady playerbase, that im aware of anyways.
If we ignore the bugs and glitches in this game, the idea is great and should be enough for casuals to keep playing. Theres allot of things this game could have to appeal to a casual audience but just isnt.
The game should also have a solo mode for low skill players to play pred the way they want.
Also the casuals will eventually leave anyways so why not balance around the players that play this game well, considering they are the ones that will stay playing once everyone else leaves.
The tutorial is abismal at teaching how to play the pred effectively; pred does have a learning curve, and the way they teach it should be much more in depth.
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I get what you are saying 100% but I think this game is targeting an audience that can jump in and have a casual fun gaming experience. There isn’t much progression or replayability so to a lot of people see it as a game to look to when bored and have some fun. That’s what will bring people back I reckon. The more hardcore players will be around for the hunt, the survival, or just because they love the predator < – me!
Casual gamers will bump the player base so you might have 1 or 2 casual people coming in with 2 or 3 hardcore players during matchmaking. Keeps the queue times low’ish.
What I fear is if the game isn’t fun to those players, they will hop onto CoD, DBD, a battle Royale, something else which will give them that fun buzz instead. That’s my thoughts anyway.
I play Pred a lot and use every little thing to my advantage. Not everyone will though. They will go berserker and combi and it creates an endless loop of FT mains saying it’s broken, Pred mains saying they are forced into it, and Illfonic in a position where no matter what they do they can’t win.
Personally i think they released the game too early. Needed more beta testing and time to get the formula right. Now every change will upset and be scrutinized.
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Ugh, no.
I’ve only experimented with this today and even if I stop, there will be a ton of other predators that do this.
It’s illfonic’s problem to fix.
It might be and thats fine, but as it is right now it doesnt feel like. It feels somewhere stuck between trying to be casual and competitive, i dont know how they’d dix that so i wont even speculate.
I heard there was gonna be a big content update in a month or so, dont know how true that was; havnt gone to look it up.
Yeah im totally gonna be here for a long time no matter what happens, the game is too damn fun for me and cant wait to see how the game ends up months from now.
I agree, i think game needed a minimum of 6 more months but i would have wanted a full yesr delay; the game serious lacks content and once at lvl 100 there isnt much else going on. We need like every predator in existence as skins/classes at some point in time, the fire team needs more skins and classes ( i honestly think the fireteam needs a full rework but thats just me ) i wish we had characters from the movies to look like.
The whole game needs so much more customization items and upgrades, and an unlock to the lvl cap, or a prestige system of some kind.
Hopefully this game gets some massive updates in the future, cuz i aint going anywhere.
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This is a post I made about all the weapons in the game. But mostly pred weapons. If you guys can add to the discussion please do. I touch on pretty much everything. Just read the replies too because alot of points were already argued.
Stick together, aim well, and parry. Not even Berserker with Impenetrable can handle all four FT members unloading their clips into it at once. I’ve overcome multiple Combi Berserkers and ran into teams that overcame a blind rush-in tactic by doing this. We shouldn’t nerf things because players are too stupid to group up.
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I really dont understand why people think the combistick is op…
the sword litterly has the highest dmgoutput
contributing too the problem? you mean like being spam spotted in the trees and forced to run being shot at because your plasma caster ran out of energy after getting direct charged hits and unable to down anyone … yeah. this is why people are zerging their way in.
That “metagame” from illfonic
True Predator (Scout) is weak.
Fake slasher maniac with spear (Berserk) is op.
“Good job”
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Scout is unplayable?
What?
Are you kidding me?
Im literally running On top of FT, barraging them with arrows, caster aoe and sporadic claw scratch here and there and the juicy leap slam.
Scout received a buff that patch, bow got buffed too, survivability of preds jumped through the roof with unlimited pigs to eat (im considering dropping heal for traps or something else for my scout) .
I think I need to record some of my games as a proof you dont have to be a mindless melee combistick user nor had to abuse old 1 hit down caster (it was cheesy af).
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Yes and I agree, changes were and potentially still are needed. That’s why I said i understand why people play this way. However, using something that is also widely accepted as a broken mechanic doesn’t mean it’s ok. 2 wrongs don’t make a right. Illfonic need to figure out a compromise.
Neither Predator nor FT should have meta’s that break the game for the other team. The FT needed the Nerf. The combi potentially did, I can’t really comment as I avoided using due to the backlash on here.
Yes, please record it, because i have a simular playstyle and that results in them leaving in the chopper, everytime. Unless they are randoms who have trouble aiming.
I can hit them over and over, but the amount of cooldown the pred has with healing etc, they just rush towards the objective.
So please, show us recordings of you successfully use THAT tactic against a decent FT.
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Yeah see whittling them down wouldn’t be so bad if all your progress wasn’t lost because they revived their whole team in 15 seconds…
It takes me 3 strikes with the stick to kill a pig - claws do it with one hit. Hmm.
Are you sure it is actually op?
because the problem is not a fucking stick! The problem is berserker!
Yes, back Sticks dmg and slow it a little bit again
I think they should just come in as grunt soldiers with a set default loadout, but other than that i dont have a problem with it.
Most fireteams die to some bow damage into combistick throw into slam.
If i couldnt kill and let them respawn id just be poking the whole match with the bow until the chopper and getting bored.
I still don’t understand how the parry works. Do i need to pull my knife out and then keep pressing the stab button? Or do i have to press the parry button? Or do both options work?
You dont HAVE to pull out the knife, the standard melee button works; for some reason i find it easier to actually pull out the knife though.
So yes i pull out the knife and try and time the attack button with their animation, sometimes i do well… sometimes i dont XD im still practicing.
I have had a couple games were iv parried a berserker 5 times in a row but im gonna chalk that up to luck and not my own skill XD
And to parry is just the M1 button on pc or R2 button on console with the knife out.
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