My Predator Balance/Change Ideas

[YummyToast]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary):Essentially, I plan to list a variety of changes that I think will help balance Predators. People clearly seem upset that they are too 'god-tier' or whatever so I thought up some changes.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole):By changing some things on the Predator, it will make things more challenging and therefore fun for both the Preds themselves and others. I will be a bit honest that my gameplay as one felt a bit undermined by the fact that very few of my kills actually respected me for doing good. Seeing as killing them wasn't much of a challenge. I have decided to get some ideas to look at some of the past AvP games to see how they, in their 3d glory, decided to balance things and hopefully try to apply that to our 2d wonder.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc):

• Attacking With Certain Weapons/Melee auto-decloaks - This will make it so that Preds don't have to uncloak to attack and so that they can be properly fought.
  
  Pounced Predators become uncloaked - This is so that Xeno's that manage to pounce a cloaked Predator can actually get some good hits in
  
  New Net Trap for Predators - Essentially add a net-gun or net-trap that encases an enemy in a trap that they have to use 'resist' to get out of. Adds more fun variety
  
  Include the ability to mimic marines - Give the Predator mask some kind of voice changer or something to lure marines into areas
  
  Change to how Predators recover energy? - This one I'm iffy on. Essentially give Predators some kind of command that lets them use a device to recover energy. This gives away there location through sound and un-cloaks them. That or have locations on the map where they have to recharge from APC's or other sources in addition to this.

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it):Coding and stuff

I would like everyone to individually criticize each idea rather than the ideas as a whole. That way your posts are more accurate and constructive so we can all get a really good ideas of what we want/don't want.

[coroneljones]

Sounds interesting...tough pounce uncloak is a bit....eh
As for power,maybe the power syphon or whatever is called from the avp games? Uncloaks and produces both visible sounds and light

[YummyToast]

Sounds interesting...tough pounce uncloak is a bit....eh
As for power,maybe the power syphon or whatever is called from the avp games? Uncloaks and produces both visible sounds and light

Yeah I couldn't remember the name of the device exactly, but as for getting pounced while cloaked. It only makes sense that the alien would be able to hit you as they are standing on top of you. Maybe not the uncloak but at least make it easier to actually hit them.

[Biolock]

A predator shouldn't be fighting a xeno while cloaked anyway, and if they retreated from an honorable battle they'd be expected to kill themselves anyway, for that reason I "+1" the entire post because it's all lore friendly and would make combat more fair for xenos rather than making them cannon fodder.

[Dreviore]

The net trap could be fun.

Throw it at a marine just being annoying as a warning.

[apophis775]

Nope, we have plans for this.