What Predator Hunting grounds Actually needs to be a better game

#1

1. Playing fireteam needs to be fun. It is not fun because:

  • if you die early, you’ll be sitting around bored for 3 - 4 min
  • bad predators don’t hunt you, good predators slaughter random, uncoordinated teams quickly
  • most guns, gear, specializations, and perks are irrelevant, due to clear meta essentials
  • most missions are short or boring
  • AI is inconsistent and 1-dimensional

2. Movement for both Predator and Fireteam needs to be more fluid

  • numerous small objects completely stall movement, where most games would automatically move you around or over these types of objects
  • getting stunned by parries, slowed by melee, etc. only slow gameplay and remove fun cat and mouse engagements

3. More melee battles.

  • remove the stun from parry OR
  • buff the melee damage of the Hammer, Elder Sword, Combistick, and War Club, and double the bleed damage on the katana
  • Double the energy cost of the plasma caster for less plasma spam and more incentive to use melee
  • Double the stamina cost of melee, so predators must employ hit and run tactics, and give the Fireteam opportunities to react to attacks on multiple team members

4. Imbalance. Predators only have access to projectile weapons, while Fireteam can instantly hit the predator at extreme range.

More to come…

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#2

nobody has to play like you described. I mean you can stare at mud all day long if you want but you can’t find enjoyment in something you should not be looking at.

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#3

Get rid of the pary system for a blocking type system.

Maybe you hold down R3 to activate it like a melee, but instead of readying for the next melee, you hold your knife in a defensive position?

Feel the current mechanic isn’t consistent enough.

Reinforce should be like 20 seconds after someone dies, you’ll still take time to get people back.

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#4

Nothing is changing. Just stay silent and buy the DLCs.

Hail Satan.

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#5

I know. 😔

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#6

To make this game better is, ranked matches, leader boards, smoother mechanics, smoother textures, more weapons for both sides, new maps, new missions, new fireteam characters, and more customization for both sides. Also traps from fireteams when the preds eat pigs, they can destroy fireteam supplies but why can’t the fireteam trap a pig with a mine or grenade? Like illfonic has a shit ton of things todo in this game but they can’t keep up. Honestly they should hand this game over to a bigger company or fans who actually can code a game, kinda like how skyrim has a modding community but actually find people who will be up to the tasks and challenge to make this game better. Oh and we can’t forget new game modes to where it’s 3 preds vs 2 or 3 fireteams. There’s alot that this game needs.

#7

I’d also truly enjoy less AOE and more DIRECT plasma trade off.

#8

More stealth. For both sides

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#9

Smarter AI that won’t give away your stealth instantly 🤣

Crouch walking needs to be completely silent.

FT crouch walk with no sound other than what they rub up against in terms of shrubbery

Feel it should be same for pred.

#10

  1. What would you suggest, to have infinte immediate respawn like Battlefield games? This is a different mechanic and there’s no alternative to the boring 3-4 minute wait. Most pred players still whine about reinforcements at it’s current state considering it OP , imagine what would happen with immediate respawn.

  2. How do you transform bad predators in good ones and good ones in friendly predado that doesn’t kill opponents? With magic?

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#11

More questions. Do you have solutions?

I believe what skoolboy is trying to do here is brainstorm and get people involved to help get this game into a more fun and sensible position.

If we always have this “problem oriented” way of thinking, literally nothing would get done.

Imo there should be social implications or a “rank” you receive based on how you hunt as a yautja.

Use minimal equipment, end the match in 30 seconds “badblood”. Earn less exp, socially seen as the cheesiest, easiest and poorest way to play.

Use a good variety of gear, push the match till at least the last 5 minutes, you are blooded or earn the respect from your fellow yautja.

Same goes for FT.

Solution oriented criticism. 🤙

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#12

Dont get the incentive in pushing for melee, its the thing that takes the least amount of skill to use on this game, on both sides, why reward braindead gameplay that even a kid can do?

Ranged weapons take skill, specially for Predator from Far since its projectile and you need to time to hit the targed + consider the ping affecting you. Most Predators cant play ranged for a reason, they arent good enough for it. And its why they die so fast.

If one nerf Sawz and 1011-12 feel free to nerf disk or plasma. Bow, pistol and Combi for throws should stay as they are.

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#13

This has already been discussed.
Just repost @Lazycollinator last big post.

All the good ideas where there, and everyone actually spoke there and discussed different ideas.

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#14

Not bad ideas

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#15

would require a rework from the top down because the AI are shit, the objectives are shit, and the gunplay is shit.

The whole half of the game without the pred present is one of the worst shooters ever with some tacked on melee components.
And the balance is innately screwed because this game is purely aim-based while also having awful console controls.

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#16

I feel that in my thumbs. 😔

#17

Unfortunately, I’m under no delusion that this is at all a likely outcome.

Mostly, I saw a different thread that was titled “what would make PHG good” but answered with it should be like “this other game.” So I would rather discuss what could actually make this game better.

Why I don’t advocate complete reworks is because that would essentially have to be a PHG2. Discussing changes that could be implemented is at least a possible outcome, however improbable.

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#18

But you have to admit its entertaining as fuck and funny too!

#19

remove predator from it and replace it with a generic monster and you have a corpse of a game

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#20

Well yeah. Obviously. But if you removed predator, then why do you need to embedd your time into a noname product with no lore no cool designs, no audio design? You just have yourself atmosphere with no objective and no incentive.
Is that what you’re trying to get at? For fucks sake homo, say what you mean!