This game is supposed to be a Predator Hunting game. Not a hack and slash game.
The Predator didn’t use guerilla tactics.
He killed them one by one.
What this game forces you to do is have a 1v1 while being shot at by the other Fireteam members because this game gives no actual reason for the Fireteam to ever split up so they all just huddle around each other packed inside a room, then run to the next location all huddled together.
In the first movie (what this game tries to resemble), no one had any clue what they were up against so they didn’t mud themselves up right away, they didn’t scan the trees every possible second. They visually can’t mark the Predator into their eyesight so everyone else can see them.
Carl Weather’s character actually says halfway through the movie “There’s a couple of guys out there runnin around and we gotta take em out.” Only Billy and Dutch really had an idea what they were up against, but even Billy was like “There’s something out there waiting for us, and it ain’t no man. We’re all gonna die.”
You shouldn’t be running around the map attacking at different angles trying to juke the Fireteam.
You should be stalking them. Tricking them into thinking something is there but it’s not. Taking your time. Placing traps. Getting the upper hand. Outsmarting.
But this game is basically just, look up at the trees. Spot the Predator, wait for the objective to complete, spot the predator, camp in a room, force the Predator into second wind by parrying with your knife (just like in the movies, right?), chase after the Predator because you can.
This game is a lot of fun, but once every single encounter either ends in a squad wipe or the Predator losing due to being chased down, it gets predictable. I want to feel how Arnold felt after basically risking his whole life and whole entire squads life to kill one of the most feared galactic hunters of all time.
When I win as the Fireteam, im just like, “That was it?”
When I win as the Predator, it’s usually because I run the Beserker Combistick combo because everything else in the game is either too underpowered or too slow, even then I’m not impressed.
I’d honestly feel the right starting point for change, is to make the objectives take longer, or add a third objective.
This game should reward you for hunting, not slaughtering.
This is a Predator game, not their Friday the 13th game.
Predator is thriller/suspense/action.
F13 is horror/hack and slash.
I feel like Illfonic is giving out the wrong theme in this game.