[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Hey Toasty are you playing it the psn or not? If you are we'll have to have a game sometime.

But yeah I agree with your entire assesment there. It is really well balanced, Preds will fall to gunfire easily and melee really doesn't favour them. Key to Preds is stealth, which generally leads to people calling you a camper or complaining because you're using the caster at long range (although the only times I've ever really used the caster is when marines camp the smartgun, so maybe they should not camp either and get out there and take down preds up close and head on, because they won't survive). And so what if I'm using the caster, I'm gona have to recharge soon, move to catch me then!

I've had the same problem with getting the drop affectively on people as the xeno for the most part too, except for 1 really cool moment when I ceiling crawled, transitioned to a wall, then jumped at a waiting Pred and hacked him up. Felt very "Alien".

Alien speed isn't as good as you might think though either; as a Pred you can sprint as fast as a fleeing xeno and trophy kill them easily. I don't know whether the xenos who I manged this one were sprinting as well or not though so if you're not sprinting as a xeno, then get off the floor, because your speed isn't keeping you safe.