Prowlers ruining stormpoint
Three games today they interfere in critical battles against humans. I’m playing to pit my lousy skills against humans, not monsters that make it even harder for me to compete. Very frustrated and no...
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Disagree. They are intrusive to the concept of humans competing against other humans. They ruin every battle they affect. With my lousy skills, I have a 5% chance of winning battles. With the monsters involved, I have a 0% chance. The monsters further and unfairly tilt the advantage towards the better skilled players. It doesn’t matter how much damage they do, their mere presence means I am guaranteed to die if enemies are also involved.
I think they are ok in the game.
You can farm them for dmg to increase shields or upgrade some loot. But it is risky as it causes noise and you may not get what you want out of them.
You can use the spiders to advantage by shooting the eggs when a team is under them to cause distractions when they come out.
If you find them to cause you problems the prowlers are easy enough to avoid. Rotate around them.
They are a new thing that you have to adjust your playstyle to.
- @Asmodeus566 I’m usually following other teammates. And often we are forced through prowler areas either because of the ring or because of enemy positions blocking other routes or because of being pursued. No one says to themselves “let’s go the long way because there are here”. I instead hope no enemies show up as we pass through the monster areas. Theirs easy to kill, except when a superior enemy player is fragging you. And that’s the point. They’re useless to the game, at best, or ruin my chances in battles, at worst. My stats have plummeted in stormpoint, and the monsters are making it worse. I might try another game soon that sticks to the core idea of humans vs humans.
Are you playing PUBS or Ranked?
Sounds like you are playing with Randoms is that correct?
Try playing with friends and with microphones if possible for better communication.
I play with both Randoms and friends, with friends the coms are better and we can better navigate together. With Randoms the mic is helpful but the others do not always have that so the ping system has to work.
I have and do when it is tactically sound perform long rotations for many various reasons. To avoid obvious choke points, have a better position in the next rings (so teams have to come to us, not us to them). So yes prowlers can be avoided for the most part if not entirely.
I am playing mostly ranked and for the most part the Randoms I play with have a pretty good game/map sense and they are usually looking for early KP, the win/placement and are very aware of the benefits of proper positioning and rotating on the map require.
I think they are okay, but there are too many of them. They should be more like spiders - only coming out if you shoot at the nest (and why do creatures that big live underground lol?)
