Specializations are broken

#41

No salt, just doing what is necessary to have a fair fight against multiple FMs. I was laughing the whole match. They thought spamming revive would be enough.

#42

Next time use an @

Second I don’t care what op is saying…

You still haven’t told me what a meta is :(

#43

I will not use specializations in pubs from now on. I’m taking a stand. I do not want easy mode.
I’m sure more will follow if they wanna prove worthy.

in privates, could be a different story depending on who’s playing pred. Some of these guys are way to good for me and I may probably have to get all the help I can. Still, I will try to avoid it.

Doesn’t feel fair or challenging to me. And I know I’m not the only one who feels like this.

I play mostly FT, btw, for those who believe I am crying for Pred. I understand now how devs, in trying to balance a fair game against potatoes, ended up breaking it for top tier players.

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#44

🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱

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#45

While we’re on the subject of broken stuff: leaping. It’s a mess.

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#46

I say illfonic fix there broken game

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#47

I mean hell if you’re talking about predator walking is a f****** mess for the most part. Oh look there’s a pebble on the ground I guess I’ll just walk in place. Oh look there’s a sapling in front of me Guess I’ll just leap straight up in the air…I mean damn.

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#48

They just need to remove them or heavily nerf them. Like I said in another topic, they should add to your play style, not define it. They are overwhelmingly powerful

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#49

So I guess I’m the only one who moonwalks in place when I see a rock in real life? Nerds.

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#50

I find the same thing when i play cod and the buff weapons that are already overpowered that your force to play meta or get shredded

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#51

Yeah I mean predator already is forced to use plasma 99 percent of the time against a good team and then you add specializations and ft damage is just too high to attempt anything other than range

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#52

So true!

All these balance discussions tend to lack of two important differentiations:

  • balance on PC is totally different from PS, the latter seems to be far better
  • balance for Noobs is totally different from Top Tiers

You said something quite important: all top tiers are free to nerf themselves to make up a challenge! If you think, the Hammerhead is far overpowered, just use the Z06…

The balancing is done for the main audience - which is fine, if you ask me. They pay…

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#53

Here’s where I feel like @Fire should say something about balance. it should be a balanced game not balanced to the players that play the game regardless of top tier or not. The game should be balanced.

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#54

problem with that is that is nearly impossible.
and if done it would hurt potatoes so much that the player base would shrink further.

if ppl wanna play easy mode, go ahead, but don’t dare to call yourself top tier. you are average, at best.

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#55

Don’t get me wrong I understand where your logic is at. You’re absolutely right specializations are abused. I agree that setting the balance for potatoes is difficult, but honestly if you’re talking about that type of person how much time will they put into the game anyway? If they don’t take the time to figure out that all they need to do is point and shoot at the predator and he dies instantaneously, then they’re probably fly by night players anyway.

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#56

Perhaps specializations that affect dmg output should only apply to AI?

While adding new gear like FMJs and body armor

#57

In non-E-sports, alike soccer, nobody would think of putting a professional in a team with beginners.

Normally, there are leagues.

In PHG they put together completely different skill levels. Finding a balance for that is per se impossible, if you ask me - as the constellation is not balanced from the beginning.

There is a quite simple way, this problem could be solved - two modes, one for Noobs - give them the Hammerhead as an option. Another for top tiers - do not give them the Hammerhead as an option. For example.

If you play e.g. Badminton, there are different shuttlecocks for beginners then for professionals. Same for Squash. The topic is not new…

#58

I like your style I’ve thought of that myself. I have not thought of the proper way to implement it though because people tend to want a ranked matchmaking which I’m fine with as long as there is not a ranking. Rankings tend to bring the worse down people if you know what I mean. I even thought of maybe Publics being random only no set teams.

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#59

Or somehow in the wait screen show the people that are in groups together that way the predator could better determine what he needs to bring in against the given squad. If he sees that four or three people were together that’s a whole different load out to take

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