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That was a good read forwardslashN and Fewher. I feel like history like that should be put on the wiki somewhere.
If the server really changed that much from RP focus to team death match, I could see how predators back then could be seen as a welcome change in the flow of typical games. I could also see predators as admins just trying to balance the game or try something for RP purposes. I can see a casual admin needing buffs to fight a sweaty 3 shotgun marine.
Thinking more of the preds and why I was so mad with them, I believe it is more along the lines of they can kill whenever they want and I have no say in the matter. It is like they have no clear goals in my mind except to be murderhobos. The unjust feeling of dying and not knowing why. If there was some goal I was aware they were doing like a xeno swallowed an artifact and we have to protect them, or they are protecting their temple and xenos/marines siege it from time to time, I wouldn't mind as it wouldn't be a seemingly random murderhobo event. This sort of unjust feeling stems off the fact that it is more of a team deathmatch rather than something to RP though. If there wasn't a strong desire to have my team win and was more just RPing the events that come, I don't think I would have the same reaction.
As the rules are in RP rather than ingame mechanics as you said it would take a strong whitelist council which I feel would fade as time progresses. I wonder if there are rules/goals that can be set up to better integrate them into the deathmatch feel. Either that or a stronger push to make the server go back to an RP feel.
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This was a very interested read but someone with a rather huge love for Aliens and Predator thinks that, the Predator in this game... It's not good.
It's so meta-gamey it's not even fun to spot a Predator ingame. All they do is stand around waiting for someone to either attack them, or issue a challenge.
They can open doors, they can open alien corridors, but they don't fulfill any reason for existing.
All the lore and backstory for them written here is borderlining on gibberish - Needless to say, I don't... like it.
It's like I have to question if those who wrote and decided on them even knows what a Predator does...
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They hunt, and they kill anyone holding a weapon. They'll wipe out entire armies to get worthy trophies. They'll even go into hand to hand combat with a Queen for honor.
And yes, there are some that perform dishonorable actions. Scarface above faced great dishonor and was punished for it, and then had to reclaim his honor.
Other ones become known as 'Bad Blood' as they kill anyone simply for the joy of it, and they get hunted by other Predators.
As it stands right now... The Predator is only here to make some unga scream " COME OOOOOONNN! " and then try to show what big swinging tree he is.
It is the epitome of disappointment and misunderstanding, I find.
The reason why the majority of predators don't attack people on sight (which they can) is that it's not fun for the people being attacked. We already have people reporting predators for doing this multiple times and of course, the reports are denied since it is an OK thing to do but you will be disliked by the community for doing it. Movie Predators are different from our predators for the sole reason that if we ever tweaked our honor code around movie predators, EVERYONE except the preds in the game would hate it.
We already had experimental rounds of movie preds and nobody enjoyed it on the side of xenos and marines.
You have to think about the people you're attacking too you know, it might be fun for you but what about them? That's why we wait for others to initiate the attack or we taunt them to initiate a duel.
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Well that's true enough but how about spicing things up in that case?
Have specific Marines vs Predator rounds where it's maybe 3 Predators against I guess a lowpop round?
After all there's already plenty of people that say they want HvH rounds ( say, doesn't mean anyone would like it but, you know ).
Just throwing it out there, it'd go a long way to making the Predator less.. Well what it is now.
Personally at this point with Predators and the way the game has evolved I'd just turn Predators into a third faction.
Remove the RP elements of them, remove the whitelist and time-lock them to something high.
Re-Balance them so theyll fit in and let them just run around fighting and killing stuff.
No need for this whole charade of a whitelist or roleplay position as it's not that anymore.