Overview
This is for the predator who whould like to be less of an ass.
The Predator
The predator plays like a hybrid between xenomorph and marine gameplay features. It is quite fast, fast as a xeno when sprinting and has the ability to leap, giving it mobility second only to a xenomorphs. The marines are just ♥♥♥♥♥♥ in the catagory of mobility, but thats besides the point. The predator has a variety of weapons at its disposal, from the unwieldly combi stick to the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ plazma mines, and of corse, the predators famous claws. It has the highest health in the game and from what I understand is somewhat resistant to knockback. Now, reading this you might be thinking “Hey, this sounds pretty damn cheap!” and you know what you are absolutly right. However, the problem lies in the fact that every race can be cheap. Marines got there smartguns and kick ability and ♥♥♥♥, xenos got there ability to pounce, ect, ect. However, not only do the races vary in how cheap they naturally are but they also vary in how cheap the CAN be. For example, xenos don’t have any real ranged attacks and must therefor get close to there prey. There favorite method of doing this is by pouncing there prey, damaging them and possably knocking them down. But a smart marine knows he can block the attack, knocking the xeno down for a bit so the marine can paint the floor with the xenomorphs brain. However, a good ammount of marines hone there skills so they get shotguns so when the notice a xenomorph the can block, and if the xeno does anything besides running away they still kill the xeno by ether blocking the pounce and killing the xeno or if the xeno does some other tactic (e.g. the Out-Of-The-Back-Attack listed in my other guide that you should cheak out, like and all that ♥♥♥♥) they just turn around and blow them away. As you can see, both races have aspects about them that may qualify as cheap, however, as you can see in the example above, the marine can be much more cheap, even if it isn’t naturally as cheap as the xeno can be. But the predator, oh god the predator, it has nearly INFINITE potential to but EXTREAMLY cheap. In this guide, I really do hope I can inform you people on what qualifys as cheap and how to avoid being cheap.
What is cheap?
A tactic, weapon, or anything really qualifys as “cheap” when its a thing that disallows for a fair fight between two players. For example, a thing a lot of predators like to do is sprint from a xenomorph, and as the xeno is chasing them, throw down a mine right when the xeno stops sprinting so as to kill them whithout any risk to themselfs. They also tend to turn sharply around corners a lot while doing this so to make pouncing ineffective. However, cheapness can sometimes be justified. Like, lets just say your playing xeno and this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ predator keeps spaming mines and bomberangs and ITS JUST SO UN-♥♥♥♥♥♥♥-FAIR, it is perfectly justified to run behind them and stealth kill them. Normally this qualifys as really ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cheap and doing it would kind of make you qualify as an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, but looking at the big pitcure shows that your cheapness is making the playing experience more enjoyable for everyone by not having to deal with that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ for a little while. However, it should be noted that sometimes cheapness is subjective. Like, to a noob marine, the pounce is really cheap because they just can’t seem to do anything about it besides die, but to a more expirenced marine the pounce is just a common xeno tactic that with a little skill can be counterd. But to, well, anyone, unending bomberang spam is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cheap, because not only does it barly take any energy because Ive seen predators use there bomberang a lot but few and far between are the times I see them having to recharge, but there is not effective counter and it can easily one-shot you if the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ you are fighting has a little practice. Same thing with the numerous glitches predators can pull off to get easy kills and numerous other ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tactics they can use with different weapons. However, there is hope for you predators who aspire to not be the scum♥♥♥♥s of the AvP community. Like I said earlier, ever race has a natural level of cheapness, but its how you play as that race that is the real factor for cheapness.
So what can you do to not be cheap?
Well, one very, VERY big thing I’d like to ask is to NOT SPAM ONE KIND OF WEAPON. Excluding the claws, spaming only one kind of weapon is often considerd cheap and possably indicates that you lack any skill with other weapons, especially the bomberang and the plazma mines. Good god I hate the bomberang and mines. There are some situations where there useage may be considerd fair, but I rarely seen them used in such a fashion. I know that following my advice may get you less kills than being an ass, but consider the other player. They just want to have fun, get some kills and hey, maybe get a new rank or skin or some ♥♥♥♥, and here you are being a total ♥♥♥♥, just so YOU dont have to really get better at the game, develop new tactics or get better at doing something. Is it just me or would being in that kind of situation kind of make me sick of myself. Who would I think I am to just go in and ♥♥♥♥ up someone else’s day in the name of getting kills. So besides not being a weapon-spaming, piece of ♥♥♥♥, how else can you not be an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥? Anouther thing you can try is to try not to use glitches. AvP is a very glitchy game, and the predator is a great example. There are multiple glitches you can preform, and although it should go without saying, but knowingly using them on a regular basis makes the predator even MORE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ unbalanced. Oh corse sometimes you do some cheap-ass ♥♥♥♥, we all do, but the real problem arises when you knowingly use these incredably cheap things all the time, thats when you become an ass. On one final note, this was all written from the perspective of a xenomorph who has fought predators, not a marine or anouther predator fighting other predators. Cheapness is not only subjective to skill level but also to race, so some things a xenomorph would find cheap a marine wouldn’t. However, as a general whole what I have said here applies universally.
Thank you.
I’d like to take a moment to thank you for reading. Please like and/or favorite if you agree with what I have said here but most importantly, to all who play as predator, please head what was said here, and make this gameing community a better, funner place to be part of.
Post Script
Man, is it just me, or do I sound like I had a stick shoved up my ass when I origonally wrote this? Seriously, I occasionally glace at it when I read the comments on it and it just screams “I AM A WHINY ♥♥♥♥♥” to me. Im kind of embarrased about the whole thing but you guys at least, kind of like it, so I’ll keep it up.