1- Most of us don't use traps against Xenos. It's kinda shitty to hunt them when they're trapped as it makes them borderline innocent prey. It feels incredibly unfair to the Xeno, so we avoid doing it. Are you advocating for us doing dirty shit that pisses people off? Also, there are factors other than robustness of the two parties to consider, as well. Example: the computer I rarely get to play on is prone to unforgiving lag spikes that have put me at the mercy of a fucking young runner or lone SMG marine in the past.Aestel wrote: ↑21 Oct 2018, 07:111) a good mature defender can whoop my ass, an elder+ runner can whoop my ass if they're good
If you are even remotely robust, use traps, or in general have a brain you will win this engagement 100% of the time.
2)a marine who knows how to KO a pred can whoop my ass as wel
Strike to the head which requires you to be in melee range and survive the incoming warglaive. Since you are faster, you decide when this happens as the predator and have more time to react. Again: not be braindead
3) a gang of marines will whoop my as- *BLAM* Plasma caster
4)If you can't out maneuver an HEDP you wouldn't even be qualified to be a delta private.
5) SADAR spec is now wasting his time dealing with your shitty meme of a job instead of helping the marines against the xenos. One marine in the entire force should not be the only way to kill a pred. (Takes AP and a direct hit, lets also ignore the fact that preds can survive a direct tank hit, while on fire, and being run over for 5 minutes with the current tank)
6) Again, grenades and the getting good.
You are effectively countered by a single marine who honestly is a bit strong himself at the moment(which will likely be nerfed). This marine is also the prime target for the entire hive and will 75% of the time die in the first engagement due to that. Meanwhile, each of your weapons will 100% of the time kill marines should you happen to strike them with it.
When I compare predators to marines and xenos, I am assuming a player of equal skill level. This will not always be the case as all three sides have very unrobust and very robust people to tilt the scale depending on which one faces each other. A robust marine will dunk a braindead pred. A robust pred will massacre an unrobust hive. A robust pred will beat a squad of robust marines. See the argument? Balance design choices should always be done with an assumed level of equal skill because the alternative is impossible to achieve.
2- See second half of response 1. Also, we have to try and act with a level of roleplay. We're encouraged to interact with a marine as we're not psychic to know for certain he will unga us. The amount of times I've done literally fucking nothing through the round but rp and got unga'd while talking is too damn high. It was because of that that I did't get a kill for 4 pred rounds.
3-See first half of response one, second half of response two. Also, the plasma caster isn't a fucking nuclear missile launcher. If the marines are spaced out more than about 5 tiles the big shot won't fuck them all, and if using the small or medium shots they have more than enough time to use grenades or buckshot before we down a single one.
4- Tell that to most current Delta privates. Sometimes the environment makes it damn near impossible to avoid them, or, as said above, I was talking to them and would have to click out of my chat window pop up.
5- He doesn't have to waste his time with anything. I've seen a sadar shoot at us while 2 of us were talking to a survivor and marine with no thoughts for their safety. The other predator was instantly killed but not gibbed, and I chose to drag his ass away rather than trying to SD him in the middle of an entire squad after taking an explosion.
6- See 4.
7- Scimmies, SOME clan weapons, and the ungodly-recharge timed high plasma caster will make a Karine absolutely get fucked. Not all weapons.
Responding to some of your other stuff:
A- You don't ever try to rp with us. You, my friend, are part of the problem.
B- We don't follow the code of honor? Adorable. If one of us broke it in round and the others knew they'd slap his shit one way or another. Which brings us to...
C- Reports against whitelisted do nothing? I guess aceluke, the former staff member, didn't lose his commander whitelist on a suspension. I'm imagining that, right?
D- The synthetic is relatively overpowered if they don't follow their rules, just like a predator becomes worse if they don't follow the code.
E- I'm going to hope your OB comment wasn't a confession to metagaming. Then again, I heard from some commander that whitelisters can't get in trouble so what would that do if you did?
F- You salt about us using our casters in one post, then you encourage it above. ???
G- So you're allowed to complain about something, but we are not allowed to debate against your complaints? Taking a page from Zane's book:
H- All in all, please tone down the salt a little. I think you have made whole lakes of fresh water undrinkable at this point.