Spamming plasma caster and melee with staff needs to change

#22

You have to jump and leap when you are spamming. Basically leave the FT with one of two choices, either aim and absorb the blast or move around and miss the shot. Because plasma is projectile based it works efficiently, you shoot, you leap, and while you are in mid air (where you mostly get shot) FT needs to dodge the plasma bolt.

Obviously against god snipers you’ll have trouble, specially if there’s more than one in the team.

Combining plasma with melee in close range also get’s them confused. I’ve been able to take down decent PC Death Squads with that. Playing very aggressive.

#23

I swear mofos will just sit still waiting to get one shotted smh…

#24

Become best friends with the Sawz50 and you will start demolishing every predator that you encounter.

#25

I try but I inferior console player :( PC hard to afford in russian tundra

#26

I’m on console too and I have no problem smoking most of these predators.

#27

perhaps my hands too cold to use joypad?

#28

TROLL

#29

Or you just need more practice.

#30

The only problem that’s a genuine issue is the combistick parry. If you miss the first two parries, you WILL get hit by the one-two swing. Trick is, you have to look at the Predator and move into him. If you’re trying to parry the end of the stick, you’re never parrying it. This game’s parry system is the most underdeveloped I’ve seen in any game. Either you predict when he’s gonna swing, or you’re getting hit. Don’t just go FIRE BUTTON SPAMMING NOISES. It’s a difficult loop to get out of but in order to reliably parry, you need to time your swipes. What I usually do is lead with L2 and shove into the Preddy. This usually parries any incoming attack but if it doesn’t, immediately go for an R2 swing. If you miss that, you’re getting hit. Pop a stim after the parry or hit and continue swiping with R2 on each melee interval. Try to predict his patterns and swing when you think he’s going to. Takes a lot of practice, don’t expect to win every time. Hell, I’m not even as good as I’d like to be at it. Just be patient

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#31

Calm down Socrates. We don’t need an essay

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#32

You literally get a visual prompt that says “PARRY!” on your screen.

#33

literally mash heavy attack the slow 3rd hit is the only thing that matters

There was a time when combistick melee wasn’t hilarious but that time is not now since pred has to do an entire street fighter combo with the stick

#34

So hold on, as someone trying to learn to parry better, is it better to focus on spamming the heavy? Because I’ve been doing both, spam-alternating.

#35

gun -> parry is optimal but mash heavy attack if you want to turn your brain off, you’ll get a stun eventually

#36

Okay. Because usually I have a lot of melee rushers and a lot of the times the parry doesn’t work and I get shredded. I know there’s a method to it, I’m just trying to learn it. What makes gun -> parry more optimal, just the speed?

#37

Yeah. This is it.

I’m not too sure about this, but the combistick has terrible melee damage output, so just dump your mag into the pred and you’ll be fine, if your team isn’t absolutely terrible.

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#38

Being able to shoot up until they’re about to last hit you, and you get practice hitting the prompt.

if your team’s there, mash away

#39

Gotcha, I’ll give it some practice. Sadly most of my team is never there, a lot of my Pred engagements are solo, hence why I’m trying to get better at the parry.

#40

It’s simple really, git gud

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#41

You gotta know and understand the mechanics to git gud before you can ACTUALLY git gud, comrade.

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