The best build for the Alpha Predator!

#2

Med kit and bear traps with adrenal boost, impenetrable, and downrange has been fairly meta for a while.

Bear traps are a little OP because they’re indestructible.

Downrange makes for easy ranged kills, obviously.

Added stamina is great because of the huge mobility boost.

I would swap Observant for impenetrable, for the perfect meta.

And you can basically use this meta on any predator that isn’t berserker.

Especially because 99% of the time there are loads of hogs to get all your health back after each engagement.

I’m much more impressed by a fireteam defending themselves from an average predator than any predator that “steamrolles” fireteams. It’s like fish in a barrel.

#3

I like Modified Energy Reserve, Adrenal Boost, and either Observant or the more efficient Cloak one

#4

Bear traps blow up on nades fyi

#5

Well, shit. I did not know that. Thanks. I hope you’re not messing with me.

#6

No they don’t i’ve already tested this in 1.09 they bear traps are completely indestructible i’ve tried barrels and i’ve thrown 5 grenades at them they are completely indestructible anyone who told you that is lying
the only way to get rid of BT as FT is to either run into it and hope pred doesn’t kill you first or kite AI into it to waste it

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#7

Yep. Indestructible. Tried it too. Isn’t also fun playing those predator pistol spammers. Jebus. I’m about to just stick to predator until I hit platinum. Then I’ll come back once @Illfonic has…
-made bear traps destructible
-added an obvious muzzle flash to the plasma pistol
-increased the time to quick claim to at least 3 seconds
-cap the number of hogs to 4 per hunt max
-nerfed “observant” perk somehow, either it needs to cost at least 6 perk points or it should only reveal footsteps 20 seconds earlier (not the entire time you’re mudded up)

Those are the absolute minimum for me to play fireteam again. As much as I have enjoyed the predator franchise over the years, I just can’t put up with that kind of gameplay. There are other games that are very fun, no matter what character you play.

#8

I use the bow. Its more devastating

#9

I use the bow, too. The pistol has more dps and unlimited ammo.

#10

Um hs insta downs. 8 shot plasma or 2 shot bow… hell running both isnt a bad idea

#11

The pred needs no nerfs

#12

It’s not much to go on, but Hand Held emits a burst of red plasma gas when reloading. FTs should train in privates and see how it looks to them, and then learn to be able to spot it when used against them.

We know the blasts are fast, so from the time you hear the sound of the shot being fired to the impact sound you should be able to guesstimate how close the Pred is. Then it’s a case of finding cover, and looking for that red mist… Yes, I know it’s like finding a needle in a haystack but other than just wildly spraying bullets everywhere and throwing nades recklessly hoping for splash damage XP indicators to show where you hit it, it’s all we have right now. Directional headphones give you a general direction to look as well I suppose.

Of course, if anyone has developed a sure fire way of locating a perfectly still, invisible Predator using a hand held I’d love to know. I refuse to accept that there is no effective counter to someone using this.

#13

I see what you’re saying, but the red mist is only during the reload animation. The final straw for me in regard to the plasma pistol was a match I had, where I knocked the mask off early with the bolt action sniper, and the next 3 to five minutes was an invisible predator leaping around and spamming pistol shots. By the time you can tell where the the predator is actually standing, it would just leap. If anybody got knocked down, they just got blasted to death in seconds. That’s not good gameplay mechanics. As strong as the bow is, at least it is more methodical and doesn’t have so much dps and you will eventually run out of ammo if you miss.

A quick fix would be to give the plasma pistol 5 mags, then it’s out. There is no reason why it should have infinite ammo anyway since it is not linked to your cloak, mask, and caster power supply.

#14

I found the one person that thinks Observant is OP because it makes them feel bad about their crap pig n shit recon loadout when you have better situational awareness as a pred just by turning thermal off lol.
Thermal is shit enough and gimps your hearing in a game where everything is directional but yes lets nerf footprints that have a short af render distance anyways due to this game’s lack of optimization. Make thermal just for tagging people and then immediately gets toggled off why not

And imagine thinking the pistol is stronger than the bow because you panic instead of shooting back. So this is the power of ps4 fireteams xd

#15

Definitely not the power of ps4 ft. One person does not speak for any entire community. I love when the pred stands and shoots the pistol. I usually find where its coming from wait for the leap then shoot where it lands. Lol what is with ur hatred with recons. Its the best all around class. Idk man. But one or a few ppl dont talk for the rest of us.

#16

It’s just me being salty about both platforms being balanced the same way no worries

#17

Oh okay lol. The only blance i think the pistol needs is a longer reload time other than that its okay and easily countered cause once a pred players starts getting shot while shooting the pistol they 9/10 start missing shots and go in for the melee

#18

Also my recon is all offensive lol. No mud up perks lol

#19

You don’t have time to mud up during an engagement. That when thermal is very useful. Also, thermal can locate med packs and ammo creates to destroy. It’s main use is to tag so there is no problem there, either.

What is better than being able to essentially see mudded FTs?

In regard to the plasma pistol, I don’t think anybody asking for it to be buffed wanted the damage to be increased by 36%. They should have tried an ~15%
increase. That would have been more reasonable given the stealth retention and unlimited ammo.

#20

This exactly its a straight up simple ranged trade because the only way to do damage with the thing is to rapid fire it while they’re turned around before getting shot to peices and hope they don’t shoot back because the pred can’t trade into 2 or more people. The bow can reposition and just go for headshots whenever without losing half your hp to down one person. Then its 3 quick shots on the downed guy

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#21

Just turning it off and still being able to see mudded FT’s, med packs, and ammo boxes obviously.

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