Whats the biggest issue with Predator

#1

Been playing a lot of matches of fire team with a friend, and both of us have noticed very different issues when it comes to, the missions, A.I and fighting the predator. First i want to talk about the missions and the A.I, there are some missions where the objective wont appear unless your right inside it or the vip or mission objective will be in a different dimension, overall just little issues that i have with the missions. The enemy A.I are okay for what the game is, i feel if you were to make them smarter, it would create to much of a catch 22 for the fire team, and i really hate when i shoot them and they run off chasing another member of team.

THE REAL TOPIC HERE:
now for the real topic the problems with the predator, personally dose not come from the game mechanics but instead the player, things like spamming the plasma caster not fighting the fireteam or being afk. but from things that are built in to the game, i find that the predator being able to stay clocked while firing a ranged weapon and being able to stay invisible is a little overpowered in some cases, the viking axe is probably the most powerful weapon besides the plasma cannon, were the normal swing can pretty much two hit you and the heavy swing one hit you, my other issue is the plasma cannon, the weapon can two shot you if the shot is fully charged, that would be fine, except its a AOE weapon that can hit you though walls, as for the other issues there aren’t a whole lot that i personally find to be the biggest issue with predator besides feeling more like a buzzing fly (Breaking Bad Reference)

Conclusion
Before i end my horribly written question/ rant, i Know that i went off and talked about things that have nothing to do with the predator, But i felt it was a bit necessary to talk about the fireteam gamplay as a whole but more of the base level of said gameplay. now as the title sates i want to know what YOU feel is the biggest issues with Predator, your feed back on my Personal views is Fine but i would rather hear about what you guys think. Once Again im sorry about how badly this was done, and i cant wait to hear what your biggest issues with the Predator is.

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#2

Predator hasn’t had any new weapons at all since Hook, which is literally a better war club, actually scratch that, Norse hammer was the last weapon

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#3

Agree on the axe, and still, I think both you and me should get better at the game. I agree the axe can down you in 2 hits or maybe 1 depending on many things, and I do hate it with all my poisonous soul, but there are players that can 1v1 a Predator with an axe, that is why I say we should get better… believe me, I hate when I get downed by an axe, but we should always stay near our team mates and hope they can hurt the Pred while he comes down to fight, just like good teams do.
Regarding the Plasma Caster, remember seeing the trajectory of it, (or arrows or whatever) will reveal the Pred’s location. Also, do not stay inside buildings to be killed by splash damage. Go out and fight!

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#4

Pred can fire ranged while cloaked. Always has. Always should. In all films hebdoes this. He can melee cloaked too. Uncloaking with any melee swing is a gift to FT. One of dozens. There’s very little OP things Pred has access to outside of the axe. His regular weapons, used the they have been on film is not OP.

Bugs aside, I sat back and looked at all the things this game has tried to do over several months. As it stands now, it seems like illfonic has done a pretty good job of making this as accurate to Pred films as possible. It’s a long slog of sitting back, judging game mechanics against what actually happened on film, not what we as fans would’ve liked to see, and unless a bug fouls something up, it’s pretty on point with the Pred vs elite squads. All the right things happen, but some things favor FT to make the game more challenging for Preds. That’s just a fact.

If FT members want weaker Preds, they’re available. If they want stronger preds, they’re here too. But based on the actual Pred only films, the game is reasonably accurate.

#5

The issue is that it’s been 2 years and the game hasn’t moved forward in any sort of significant way

#6

That’s not entirely accurate. Year One update was substantial, probably the best one yet. But after Cleo and Valkyrie, every update was borderline trash level, if not already rotting on the bottom. Something happened around that time and its obvious.

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#7

It’s been a while what was in the update again?

I remember the predator pack which was useless to anyone who already bought them

Why do you think it was pretty good?

#8

I linked you to it already today. Ignore the Predator pack, because yeah, its only for new players who didn’t buy any previous DLC.

It introduced Pred specializations, it gave us a new map, early access to new masks and warpaints, eight general optimization fixes, numerous new custom game options and fixes, eight FT and Pred fixes, and the smart disc buff. Those are big things, much, much more than what we have gotten in the last few months.

#9

🤔

I suppose you’re right

Too bad they didn’t double down on making further progress though

#10

@kassillian

I’m sure your name isn’t spelled correctly, I’m sorry…I don’t remember it correctly.

but, I have a question for Illfonic.

of course everyone is allowed to say their thoughts about it, but it would be nice and very nice if illfonic could say something about it.

my question :

will JH '87 get its own stats ?
maybe own specialization ?

(…I just thought that the Captured has been there for some time)

I hope I get an answer
Yes or no would be enough.
Thanks very much :)
greet everyone in the jungle ;)

#11

I died.

#12

At higher levels there needs to be variety in play styles. They would most likely do this by adding weapons or perks.

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#13

Predator hasn’t had any new weapons at all if you don’t consider the 10 variations of warclub its gotten in 2 yrs.

wrist launcher
lol
lmao

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#14

Predador deve ser mais silencioso 🤫