The Future of this game.

#1

I’m going to address the elephant in the room head on.

Asymmetrical games are not a new concept. This concept actually fits very nicely in the Predator universe pitting 1 galactic hunter vs 4 humans. It works. But the key takeaway here is also this as I’m sure all of us can see post-launch: Concept.

What sets this game apart is the concept that it enables players to play as the Predator in a way no other modern title has offered thus far. It remains the key concept and value add which is both its strength and downfall. The downfall is - EVERYBODY wants to play the Predator and understandably so since it offers something new. There is nothing new or novel with playing as a man with a gun in 1st person mode.

This is of course leading to the agonizing queue times, not because of matchmaking or connectivity issues but because everyone is queuing to play as the Predator.

For the sake of making everyone happy and really bringing this game to the fullest potential, the devs really need to come up with new and inventive game modes which can enable everyone to play as the Predator(s). The only idea I can think of is some horde mode but that may eventually run dry as well and this is a PvP game at its core.

Anybody else have any ideas they wanna throw in?

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#2

I think the current game mode would be fine if they nerfed the fireteam to death for health , meds and insta respawn make predator super fragile to actually being hit but make him really hard to spot make ai threatening not overly but enough that they arent face tanked even in groups make tactics matter for the fireteam.
Make matches take longer predator should be able to throw out damage and have it last abit if he has to hit and run.
This could honestly be the best game if it wer balanced and wasnt designed to be a 5min run thats really really not what hunting is like.
For the predator taking out 4 elite soldiers should be an excercise in tactics you need time to study the herd, plan an attack and on the oposite the fire team shouldnt be able to track the predator he needs to be able to sneak up on them, the cloak needs to hide him and up to pretty damn close

#3

Balancing aside, I think the problem lies in the fact that alot of people won’t even get to play as or experience the Predator to begin with, when the fastest way to get into a game is to select No Preferences and still end up playing as Fireteam anyway. Everyone should have a shot at playing the Pred without waiting forever and still not getting to play him.

#4

I actually disagreed, predator is very very good but is so nice to feel the fear of being hunted …you dont wanna look back you only want to run cause predator is coming and that’s so nice