Why is it said game is sided towards FT?

#1

Seems mostly balanced?

Aside from both the FT and predator are way to bullet spongy.

The AI is derpy too.

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#2

Its what people learn when they play on both sides on matches that have all players around the same level.

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#3

It’s balanced from the casual gamer POV.

Unbalanced in other situations, like:

  • expert predator: wins 99% of games vs random FT lobbies

  • pre-made FT lobby wins 99,9% of games vs random Pred player

  • pre-made FT vs Pred player of equal skil: game is sided towards FT

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#4

By simply looking at FTs dps vs preds. game is balanced around half the team being worthless with 0 dmg on pred. If they all shoot the pred at the same time he basically ceases to exist in the time it takes for the leap animation to finish.

Skill ceiling for FT is sustained fire for like 3 seconds with hitscan weapons.

Skill ceiling for pred is ducking around objects with a bow landing 100% headshots while not being shot at for more than a second at a time

The amount of collective health, reinforces replenishing gear, etc

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#5

Lately, you can also plasma spam and/or spam Hook weapon

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#6

less potential DPS (unless youre splashing the whole team?), and sickle means you potentially die twice as fast at that range

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#7

I didn’t say sickle, I said club, hook variant

#8

melee in itself is voluntarily offering your soul to the fireteam gambling on whether or not they spin around and mag dump you

vs ps pubs yeah meme around with netgun and shit, vs a PC premade lol no

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#9

I’ve had a certain degree of success, even vs PC premade, using club hook variant. Obviously not jumping in and starting to smash things, but hitting isolated FT after doing damage with ranged attack.

Valkyrie with savage spec, impenetrable, fearless and medic perks

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#10

would be valid if there was any reason to ever split up in this game and there really isn’t.

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#11

I guarantee it happens even with the most cohesive FT premades

It’s not “complete” isolation, bur example a player behind a building with no LOS from his teammates, etc.

Hook variant club can down a full health assault with 2 hits. And it’s fast

I’m not saying that melee is the way to go against PC premades… but it can work. The only other way is smart disc spam with modified DPI, or fast weapon switching for max dps combos (bow+plasma, bow into combithrow, etc), or the one you mentioned: zig zaging while headshooting with bow 90% of the shots.

But the latter methods are not my cup of tea…

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#12

“bugfixed” at end of month guaranteed

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#13

Considering the damage dealing, no doubt the game is unbalanced for FT side.
But you have to consider that the Pred has unlimited health resources (pigs) and FT don’t. And the Pred can destroy the FT resources and the FT can’t do the same.
That said, i think the problem relies on the missions being too short.

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#14

Because the pred mains are terrible.

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#15

Aliens player are playings bad

game is being for begging challenges of 1v1 duel. not to be fightings 4.

alien should always Lose. Many Humans are to be strong and are to be smarter. Alien is not smart and only to be using Stick and Stone and Bombs as is weak.

#16

The game was designed in mind to give the four Fireteam members the edge if working together. Where the tables are turned and the Hunter becomes the Hunted.

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#17

I think you got it right. However, this game mechanics should allow the Pred to be more sneaky and stealthy… Cause this way, the Pred is no hunter, he is just racing to give more damage faster than the FT.

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#18

Pretty much. Its no longer 15mins of stalking and hunting, its 3mins of who can down which side first the fastest.

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#19

Pretty much this

Game is balanced, indeed, but in all the wrong ways. Damage output is too high and missions are too short/simple. This is why at high level is so broken, because it becomes a game of luck more than anything. FT has 4 players, while Pred is just one, so while FT would need 4 mistakes, Pred only need to make one and is fucked. There’s no room for error recovery, but definitely, with a good team, FT can recover from mistakes (thanks mostly to the Field Medic) while Pred has to evade recon-spotting-snipers and scout-duelist-chasers.

I think that once we get a game mode that allows Pred players to team up, people will begin to understand how FT is not as OP as they make it look like. Like VoodooMagic said, game was designed with teamplay in mind. And that’s the strongest edge FT has ATM, even with meme loadouts, a good working team will win against most preds and even put a strong fight against those who are better than them.

Some people will claim here they can 1v1 ANY pred and win… we all know is bullshit and an exaggeration, as much as they wanna believe their own dreams. I will 1v1 any “Top Tier” FT player here as long as they are alone in the match. Game is not that broken.

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#20

I’m not so sure about that, but the attack combo is so fast that is probably doing 4 hits in the same amount of time other weapons can only do 2.

I was able to melee down bots with it, while I can’t do the same with any other melee weapon (even the sickle) so is definitely the strongest melee weapon ATM. Though thankfully it is easier to parry than the elder sword and the sickle.