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• Assault: Assault is probably the least important class on the face of things, but without a good one it's going to take a long time to kill that monster. I've been mostly playing Assault today (just about to unlock Hyde) and it's a really fun class to play. Take jetpack recharge or movement speed and just book it after the monster. Once you find him use your shield to buy you some time while your squad catches up. Run around with the assault rifle but switch to mines and the lightning gun when you get close, these do LUDICROUS amounts of damage to the monster. Always set up a minefield when an arena goes down, and yell at your team to get the monster into it. 4-5 mines can take off a third or more of the monsters health and it's not hard to run him into them (especially Goliath).
  
• Support: About as important as the Medic. A good Support is key to being able to fight the monster when you catch him. Orbital strike is simply the most damage you can do, in my second game I caught a monster evolving and landed a full orbital on him. It did 80% of his health and leveled me from level 2 to level 8 at the end of the round. You need to save this for when the monster is tranq'd, trapped, or otherwise stuck. Cloak is also SUPER important, it's the only way to get a revive off against a good monster and it allows you to get the drop on a monster that's not paying attention. The shield gun is op as hell, but it's a huge KILL ME FIRST target above your head so always have an escape route when you use it. I haven't unlocked the robot support yet, but my buddy did. He can detach his head as a UAV which is BROKEN for chasing the monster, if he finds it the monster can't escape. However, his body is rooted during this time so he can get boned pretty bad. He keeps the stealth but the shield and laser gun are replaced by auto-turrets (really good for fighting in the arena) and a rocket launcher.
  
• Medic: The only class I haven't played yet. Tranq is really useful for hunting and if your team actually uses the sniper rifle weak points their damage goes through the roof. The healing gun is obviously super important, not just for fighting the monster but also for keeping your team topped off from random environmental/wildlife damage. The healing burst is ridiculously important, it's a ton of healing and more importantly heals you. The number 1 medic mistake I see as a monster is a medic who doesn't use the burst. They'll come into a fight with half health and I'll just kill them instantly and then the game is over. Lazarus, the second medic character, loses the tranq and the healing burst but he gains an instant revive which REFILLS your health ticks (the hp you lose permanently when you get downed) which is CRAZY because the monster then has to down you two more times to instakill you. I forgot what else he gets but it's a pretty tough call between tranqs vs his revive. I think Val might be a bit better with pubs just cause you can take hunting the monster into your own hands.
  
• Trapper: The most important class, kind of. Basically with the Trapper you just need to be able to land Arenas. Everything else is frosting, if you can't land Arenas then you will lose your team the game. All the other stuff the Trappers can do is really useful but largely non-essential, your Trapper can be completely AFK aside from the ability to land Arenas and you can still win. I've got both unlocked, Daisy is actually pretty useful as a revive bot or if you are totally lost, and the harpoon traps can be brutal if your team is coordinated. One team I had we got a level 2 monster in a minefield which had 3 harpoon traps, 5 mines, and then we orbital struck him. He died instantly, it was pretty amazing. I think I like Griffin more though, the harpoon gun is REALLY good for chasing, and his audio sensors are crazy useful, they have ridiculous coverage. His gun does a bit more damage too (I think), which is a nice bonus.
  

• Goliath: A blast to play. I always start with charge and flame breath, the other two are a feel thing. Charge is essential for escaping early, and flame breath lets you kill wildlife very easily as well as letting you sneak up and kill flocks of birds (yes its true, if you flame breath a flock of birds they will NOT trigger an alarm for the hunters, its pretty op). As far as evolving, I think maxing flame breath by level 3 is mandatory, other than that it's whatever. A couple things to note: ALWAYS sneak early on, especially immediately after the round starts. If you leap (space) and hit ctrl in the air, you will land into a sneak, which lets you move quickly and quietly. While sneaking, you can hold left mouse to charge a sneak attack, which will do a dash forward (depending on how long you charged it goes farther), instantly and silently kill small wildlife, and put you into a L4D Hunter-style pounce attack on players. Really useful. As you gain armor, you start to glow, so it becomes much harder to escape detection, keep that in mind. Also as you evolve you get slower and louder, there's really not much point sneaking at level 3. Smell (right trigger) should basically be on cooldown 100% of the time, especially early in the round. You can do it while doing almost anything else, especially important while feeding. In terms of when to fight the hunters, my favorite tactic is to evolve to level 2, armor up, and then set an ambush somewhere that favors me (near some dangerous wildlife or some useful terrain). I'll try to sneak attack one of the hunters off the bat and then just brawl till my armor is out. Usually at that point I'll have killed at least one hunter and downed the others once or twice, so I'll just end the game there. If they're all still up, I'll just run off once the arena goes down and evolve (since I had a full bar before I fought). Level 3 gives a big max-hp boost and even if they are right on top of you when you come out of the evolve you can just kill them easily. Goliath might be a bit overpowered, even against coordinated teams I have never come close to losing, he just brawls so well.
  
• Kraken: I've played 5 games with Kraken so far and he is a ton of fun, but I think Goliath is a bit better. Kraken stomps bad players a lot harder than Goliath, since they just run into all his skillshots and mines, but he's an easier target than Goliath and his crowd control is harder to land, not to mention he's a bit more fragile. He also has a harder time sneaking around because his flight lights him up like a Christmas tree, so he can't do the sneak->jump->sneak thing as easily as Goliath. However he can run much easier since he loving flies, so hit-and-run tactics are much more viable with Kraken (banshee mines are super useful here). The last game I played (and the closest I've come to losing as the monster, 2 health bars left), I did my normal strategy of running till level 2, armoring up, and setting an ambush. I got cocky though and fought the hunters the same way I would as Goliath, in a big brawl. Their medic and support were really on point and prevented me from getting kills with lightning strike and the team was able to get a second arena on me after my armor had ran out. I ended up killing them but it was a close thing, I should have ran immediately after the first arena went down and kited them around for a while longer (easy to do with Kraken).
  

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