Don’t read this and then cry to me “learn when to pick your moments!”
I’m tired of waiting for over 10 minutes to play as a predator only to get maybe one or two kills.
I’m a good predator! I am! I know how to use him, I know what to do, I play a LOT of asymmetrical games. But this is just lunacy. Devs went for an overly cinematic badass animation set for a predator that gets blown to bits in seconds.
Every game I’ve played since yesterday you have people running around with “boomsticks” which are just the large sniper with a red dot sight.
So here’s my rant on all the BIGGEST problems with the predator that I (and I am most certain, you too) are having with this game.
1: everything sucks except combi stick, and even that has it’s limits. why? because it chews through your stamina and you get depending on your loadout about 2 - 2 1/2 combos before you have NO stamina at all. That’s right! No stamina. None to run away, none to leap, OH BUT YOU CAN JUMP NORMALLY at a snails pace while you get shredded by gunfire. oh, and if you used all your stamina trying to down that one isolated guy with a combo and he parries you and slaps you into second wind? you have no stamina to run away. running away in second wind requires stamina on top of not being able to leap, climb, or anything. you are fucked.
2: leap slam. fuckin. leap slam. you go to leap in cas you just downed one of the fireteams or you gotta get that one guy before that reinforce pops? well guess what, leap slam is a totally cool option! nahh don’t be boring and use NOTHING BUT THE CASTER because it’s literally the only thing worth using in a moments notice of SHEER PANIC. but what’s wrong with it, you ask? it uses all your energy. not a huge problem but the cooldown for overheat is insane. but wait, there’s more. leap has a big problem of bouncing off things unpredictably if there is ANY clutter between you and the landing zone. all that compared to flight time and the target being able to just run out of the way comes to the grand finale! you miss. every time. and the animation takes literally 5 seconds, where you are shredded unable to do anything. it’s okay though! you have your combi stick out! punish him! nah dude, leap took 2/3 your stamina, now you have maybe one combo you know damn well he’s gunna parry you and shoot you point blank while you’re stunned.
3: the branches. OHH the branches! your targetting system says you’ve got a clear shot but that tiny little corner of a leaf texture is in the way and you either just missed the fully charged shot and exposed yourself, ORRR you just blew yourself and quite possibly your own mask off. well done.
4: movement issues. yes, the movement issues. predator is about as fluid and easy to control as alex mercer from prototype great game, look it up. only in that game, the character you play can actually take a beating and you don’t really care. in a game like this where it’s so pressed against you to get everything right? fuuuuck off. you bounce, you slip, you go the wrong direction, you walk through every other bush but that ONE bush stops you. even trying to drop from a tree fast doesn’t work, you have to stop moving completely and SPAM the C button to drop and even the animation to do that is slow.
5:combos look cool, everything is real awesome and cinematic, but it DOESN’T WORK. if you wanna be successful as a predator and you know you’re against a decent player who will parry you? you gotta attack him by click, run away. click, run away. repeat. why? because if you try to combo you will get parried. if you combo and he just runs behind you, you end up 3 feet away from him cas the combo is so long and flashy flashy that they didn’t bother to add in a fluid targetting or direction change in case your sentient target decided to wise up and move around you.
this game is amazing. I’m a huge fan of the franchise. I’m playing this game out of spite because I want to play as my favorite fictional alien but my fucking god is it exhausting. when you get a team wipe it feels amazing but honestly only a few times. every other time after that you know it was because at least one or two people in that team didn’t fully know what they were doing. its a hollow experience.
playing as predator at all is like playing dark souls with a controller that has it’s dodge button work half the time. it’s frustrating, it’s not your fault, and you have nothing to vent your anger at besides a forum to alleviate some of the stress because at least you know almost all other predator players feel the same.
PS that goes for fireteam as well. I understand you want to play the most efficiently but it’s not fun for us predator mains. it’s not.