Nerf elite/ancient hunters

[Eenkogneeto]

Good, and that's how it needs to stay. An average marine should be outclassed by an average young hunter, and then the scale picks up as they upgrade. That's my opinion anyway.

The problem, Atleast in my opinion, Is that hunters directly outclass tier threes in terms of threat, while also aging faster.
Would you rather face an elite hunter or a mature ravager? Easily the ravager in 100% of cases.
How about Elite hunter or a mature crusher? Yep still the t3
Boiler? t3 Prae? t3 Carrier? Helmet: t3 No helmet: Hunter Hivelord: Hahahahaha
Hell even compared to spitters generally you would prefer facing them over the hunter.
If the hunter doesn't directly pounce on a marine there is essentially no threat to him dying unless a sadar pops out and HE's his friends to stun the hunter briefly. The new meta is to pounce /near/ not on marines and then just slash them. Pouncing on is only used in infection and to 100% guarantee any solo or duo marines die.

[coroneljones]

Recently tried out ancient hunter
Its not that OP, and shotguns ruin their day, it takes about...one or more hours to reach ancient,from round start, you have alot of chances to die if you arent careful, if anything they are fine currently

[Eenkogneeto]

Recently tried out ancient hunter
Its not that OP, and shotguns ruin their day, it takes about...one or more hours to reach ancient,from round start, you have alot of chances to die if you arent careful, if anything they are fine currently

Why would shotguns ruin their day? All it does is disengage you for free then you pounce away due to how short their stun time is. Its actually detrimental to killing hunters to shotgun them, Pounce stun lasts longer.

[Eenkogneeto]

On a note related to previous things ive said, I find it weird that when hunters should be at their strongest is actually their weakpoint, Pouncing on a marine should be your strength, not your weakness. Buff pounce nerf other stuff when?

[Nubs]

Why would shotguns ruin their day? All it does is disengage you for free then you pounce away due to how short their stun time is. Its actually detrimental to killing hunters to shotgun them, Pounce stun lasts longer.

A bad rng roll with buckshot can crit even an ancient hunter in 1 or 2 shots.

Ideally, ravs could be made a bit better, maybe the cooldown on their charge could be lowered? I know for sure i'd take ancient hunter over rav any day.

[coroneljones]

Why would shotguns ruin their day? All it does is disengage you for free then you pounce away due to how short their stun time is. Its actually detrimental to killing hunters to shotgun them, Pounce stun lasts longer.

Stunlock a hunter with buckshot, thats how i died that same round, the wonders of auto shotties or fast pumps

[forwardslashN]

I've seen far too many ancients die to grenades, buckshot, and what have you. Denying this unless apop wants to nerf them later.