What the hell are you talking about ‘nerfed Predator’ dude? The Predator got quite a few significant buffs and the FT got some much needed nerds. Sure there is still more to be done. Sure it’s still got some serious issues. But so what if the PC doesn’t one shot anymore? So what if the combistick is marginally weaker? I main Predator and I have never had it easier on me where I actually felt like I had something resembling a chance much less a position of some strength over the Fireteam, however slight it may still be.
Also I don’t know what you are talking about with knife damage. I did a long finish with a guy knifing me half the way through before I cancelled as a scout and I still turned around and beat his ass, with the combistick mind you. My experiments shows the knife isn’t a major difference but it’s the difference between taking five and taking eight or more depending on class. As a berserker it’s almost cute. Biggest thing was the parry that was fucking me over in melee and now that’s just stalling for back up but ain’t no back up if all your friends are dead.
If you wanna talk about incompetence go play Ark Survival Evolved. A game that has been out for at least half a decade, still 50 bucks that has only JUST addressed game breaking mechanics that allow you to literally go under the map and kill everyone’s shit uncontested and couldn’t even do that right and now you can lose Dino’s you spent months or even years breeding for the strongest mutations and stats to just get deleted by the anti mesh in an instant because they clipped through a rock slightly. And it took years to even accomplish even THAT. Five days after release they post a patch is largely successful for what it has been meant to do, sure some of the stuff isn’t working properly, and you are bitching about incompetence? It just sounds like you just have a raging hate boner you need to stroke and just looking for any minuscule excuse to do so.