It is way to easy to spot and hear the predator. There have been movies where predator is literally breathing on someone and they dont see Or hear him till he decloaks. Why is the predator so loud even when crouching? How has a race of master hunters survived for so long if you can hear them stomping and croaking from miles away?
Too easy to spot predator.
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Predator is really loud when cloaked.
Sneaking without using a cloak is a much wiswr idea.
Cloak up when already engaged, throw in few audio decoys, so they cant pinpoint you anymore and you can use cloak mid fight then.
But if you really want to ambush them, dont use cloak and move slowly.
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Most of the pred noises need to be toned down by 50%.
Cloak is OKish, but would be nice to be harder to spot when standing still
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You are completely transparent when you stand still for a few seconds.
The issue is, you are generating a lot of noise, if someone uses headphones they can and will easily pin point your location and spot you without much of an issue.
I have been spotted numerous times, standing still for upwards of 10s, waiting on a FT to approach an objective. I could believe it adds to the camo, but it is anything but complete.
If they’re going to keep the Pred-noises around as a “proximity warning” type of tension-builder (sort of like Jason’s ominous music in F13), then it really should just be an ambient sound that the team hears, without the ability to pinpoint it (like…well…F13).
Even so, I think any kind of ambient sound from the Predator kind of defeats the point of him “hunting and stalking” his prey. The fire team should probably only hear Pred-clicks or music-stings when one of the fire team spots it or is downed by it.
I don’t remember the Predator ever giving himself away in the original film by chirping and clicking as he trails Dutch’s squad.
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He chirped, spoke, flashed his eyes, etc.
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You need to remember it is a game, multiplayer at that.
I doubt it would be fun or fair to play if you all would just kept getting 1 shot from out of no where 24/7 without any chance to retaliate or counter.
Toning down on how often these sounds are generated or how loud and from how far they are audible could indeed be tweaked, but isnt as much of a deal as people make it. You just need to overcome weakness of these tools or use them to your advantage.
Again, decoys, they indeed do generate sounds that can confuse ft thinking you are there, mean while you are some where else.
I know I was baited at least 3 times by them even though Im the one who mostly spots the Pred or gets his hp from 100% to less than 30% with the sniper rifle and revolver, while my random teammates collect potatoes for their families.
Same as using cloak to make them see you go one direction, decloak during some loud moment (use caster to hide the sound) and sneak up on them from the other side without cloak.
It works, but be smart.
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I just wish predators had better sounding taunts. Most are mimic and only the roar is good. I like the sounds once I’m in position.
Pro-tip: Predator is close to/if not fully invisible when crouch cloaked and stood still.
I feel like the “spotted” ability from the fireteam needs to have a cooldown added. I mean, it’s pretty much the same as " target isolation. 20-30s per use range should be fair.
Yes, the audience hears the Predator clicking and mimicking speech as he’s following them around…but in any of the “kill sequences”, his location (or even presence) is never given away by his noises. Mac does catch his visor flashing and I think that’s a nice touch that they added to the game but at that point, the Predator had just finished a kill and was retreating anyway, so it gave him away post-kill, not pre-kill.
but actualy you can see the predator from 200m even in stealth and you can hear him and find him way to easily
they need to do something for the stealh or for the noise
Dont give a “pro tip” when you dont even know if its true.
He is fully Invisible when still for 1-2 seconds, standing and crouched. 100% impossible to see.
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Incorrect
Doesnt matter if you try to be stealthy and sneak up on fireteam uncloaked, I’ll still hear your big ass feet stomps.
Cloaking is fine and as Urukai83 stated, you are 100% invisible when standing still for 1-2 seconds. What is a problem though is being able to spot said 100% invisible Predator anyways by mashing a button and getting lucky.
Yeah. Right.
I’ve utilised it myself, crouch cloaking while healing - the FT were right around me but didn’t know where I was.
I’ve come across a Predator that did the same thing - I shot around where I could hear it making healing sounds, (while my other FT members were walking around the area trying to look for it) until I saw the XP marker tick and blood start splattering. Then we started unloading into it.
I’ve also managed to have a match with a Predator where it was myself and them only. We waited in a lobby for over 30mins together before deciding to ready into the match 1v1. They were friendly in-game and I was able to witness the difference between cloaking and walking vs crouch cloaking and staying still first hand.
They were completely invisible.
Not to mention a video I saw on these very forums of crouch cloaking working in-game.
Frankly, I don’t care what you other others have to say about this. I’ve both seen it work and had it work for myself - and that’s good enough for me.
ya for real. i would have just used the actual sounds from the movie. its not like the taunts are going to convince anyone on the fireteam to come over here or anything.
It’s honestly too easy for ft to keep up with predator on second wind. I run a scout and pretty much ran across the map to do second wind. Was literally chased and died lol… like how does a human keep up with a superhuman alien all that way…