Why No....?

#1

I think the game is a great concept, they nailed the feeling of the predator movies. Here’s my list of but “Why”?

Why…

  • Why even have a predator playable at level 0 with as weak as it is? All players seem to agree that it isn’t playable until you unlock a variety of gear…Low level predator experience sucks.
  • Why should I play as a predator when it takes me 30 minutes to get in 1 game when sometimes I can get 3-5 games in as FIRETEAM? Getting XP as predator sucks.
  • Why don’t you allow the groups to keep playing after 1 match, instead of having to go back to the LONG matchmaking times. I wouldn’t mind a long wait if I could keep playing with the same party. Maybe the predator could be randomized.
  • Why don’t you allow us to create ‘custom’ matches with variable rules? Set predator health, maybe what kits are used…allow us the ability to play the way we want…NOT the way your server dictates?
  • Why don’t you have a practice mode to allow us to try out all weapons, characters on each side? How can I learn as the Predator when I have to wait 20 minutes to get into a game, maybe get 3 minutes of play time/predator use, then rinse & repeat…that experience sucks :(
  • Why don’t you build an offline mode against bots?
  • Why don’t you have a variety of game modes…such as Predators fighting off waves of bots (wave mode)?

I’m sure I have more, but that’s just a few off the top of my head.

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#2
  • Why even have a predator playable at level 0 with as weak as it is? All players seem to agree that it isn’t playable until you unlock a variety of gear…Low-level predator experience sucks.

Answer. Because you share XP between fireteam and predator. If predator had his gear at start fireteam would never win. So yes while playing at low levels can suck. You can still win games if you are skilled and not relying on meta or broken builds.

  • Why should I play as a predator when it takes me 30 minutes to get in 1 game when sometimes I can get 3-5 games in as FIRETEAM? Getting XP as predator sucks.

Answer. Because more people want to play predator. So you are waiting in line behind them. It is the simple fact that as it stands we need more players playing fire team over predator to lower wait times.

  • Why don’t you allow the groups to keep playing after 1 match, instead of having to go back to the LONG matchmaking times. I wouldn’t mind a long wait if I could keep playing with the same party. Maybe the predator could be randomized.

Answer. This should be an option but then you would be stuck in the same roles. For that go play private games. The way this should be is 5 players queue up and the predator is given to one random player each time the game ends.

  • Why don’t you allow us to create ‘custom’ matches with variable rules? Set predator health, maybe what kits are used…allow us the ability to play the way we want…NOT the way your server dictates?

Answer. Because this is an asymmetric survival game.

  • Why don’t you have a practice mode to allow us to try out all weapons, characters on each side? How can I learn as the Predator when I have to wait 20 minutes to get into a game, maybe get 3 minutes of play time/predator use, then rinse & repeat…that experience sucks :(

Answer. This is a “practice mode” you can simply load up into private solo. While you won’t get a pred or fire team depending on what you pick. you can test on Ai.

  • Why don’t you build an offline mode against bots?

Answer. Again this is an asymmetric survival game. it is meant to be 1v4… This is not an action game or shooter… While they put an offline mode against bots in Friday 13th. It was garbage.

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#3

Incorrect - if the team is all agreed to stay as the 5 (4 FT 1 pred) then the game can simply randomise between all players who gets to be the pred. Other games do this easily.

#4

That is exactly what I said. But you are wrong in how you worded it. Because if you queue with the current system. Then no you would stay pred and them fire team.All they would need to do is do like they did for Friday the 13th. Make it one Queue with you setting your pref in the options. Then you would go in and it would keep the lobbies together and randomly pick a predator each time.

The only way it works under the current system is if every person went in by picking no pref. But with the system as it is. The game locks you into your position once you load into a lobbie. Even private matches you have to go back to the start to pick the predator.

#5

Yeah I agree…I don’t care how they start the queue, just allow us to get into a match and remain there. Maybe randomize who’s on what team. I want to PLAY not matchmake all day. As it stands, I’m spending more time MATCHMAKING than PLAYING. This isn’t PREDATOR: MATCHMAKING GROUNDS :(

Or it shouldn’t be. :)

#6

I am not wrong; you don’t understand simple coding. You join a game with 4 other randoms; you’re the pred - at end of game if you all agree to stay in the same team - then the system has no fucking problem randomising which of the newly formed ‘group’ can be the predator OR even asking the team what their preference is and then randomising between those who chose predator. Simple.

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#7

Yep…I agree :)

#8

I do understand simple and complex coding. An while yes it would be a simple task for them to do. Nothing with Illfonic is simple. Much like this last patch and all the patches for either f13 or phg when they patch they break other things. What I am saying is that with the current system they have in place they do not have the needed coding to do what you are saying. So they would need to revamp the coding for the queue system since there is no randomizer in place. So again what you are saying is the exact same thing I said. Just in a different wording. So again it would be simpler for them to use the system they use and are familiar with… You talk about coding like it is easy to just slap something in. Which tells me you don’t understand a damn thing your speaking about. Since when it comes to a small dev team building a game. They don’t have the same assets them game developers like activation have. Those things coast money. Money they likely don’t have because developing a video game is not cheap.

if they were to go in and just some “simple” code in it would then make the game unstable in some way that they would then need to fix. Which then takes time. So they went with this system for a reason. So if you want to have random… Make a private lobbie and roll a dice.

#9

@PredFan If you’re on ps4 your best bet is to join the ps4 community and look for groups to play with… if you ever need someone you can add me on psn… Whysoegar… My group is always looking for chill people to bring in to play with.