What if we took outdated Pred lore dating as far away as the original movie and gave it a breath of fresh air? I think a lot of their stuff is dated, including their gadgets and probably their behind the curtain spaghetti code as well.
They should still be a warrior race, but they have to be more outwardly hostile towards humans. Perhaps they could be a part of a theocratic space alliance? To not distract from the wider HvX conflict, they could just be there to gather relics for their religion and technology left behind by a precursor race (Among Us aliens?), gathering intel for their invasion of USMC space as well.
Their physical appearance doesn’t need to change, except they would have elongated necks. Maybe be a bit more reptilian, too.
They would use energy melee weapons but also have shields that are good against ballistic weapons. We’d have to make them somewhat less tanky, though.
They could work closely with other races, such as an entire species of HvH AMR Snipers that have an instant target acquisition and kill marines instantly in one hit. This weapon is radical, Legendary even.
Ive said it before and ill say it again, Pred whitelist should be the Old yee ass strong af preds, like in AvP 2, with a stronger code to follow and who are sent in to deal with big messes, such as predaliens, marines getting ahold of a pred body/tech etc.
Non whitelist should be reg preds, youngbloods with something to prove, by collecting their gear and fighting worthy prey, give the old preds a drone/flying thing with stealth to follow them and reward them if they fight worthy prey, eventually having this as a good backing to follow into the whitelist with a track record of being robust, killing hard prey and collecting their gear.
Youngbloods would spawn with less gear, less options to defend themselves and no options to fight big crowds, challenging marines/xenos and either rewarding them with a predalien/pred gear, and at the same time having a good positive influence on rounds, marines know if they kill a pred a big old guy with huge balls is gonna come for them, same as xenos, would make for very interesting rounds imo instead of the current “gonna watch you for a bit, spam a voiceline or two and run around maybe killing a xeno/marine because im bored”.
Big RP rules still apply, and maybe something similar to predalien guide on how to play would need to be done first idk, old preds would be watching anyway and help with rulings and questions from the young ones.
Better idea. Youngbloods have to fight with no cheats and beat a PVT. If they can do that, they will be granted whitelist and autoclicker instead of better gear.
