After a half hour of hit and run tactics on a lone predator with a R15 tackler and random other players it was destroyed. It dropped an alien container with 20 artifacts. That’s better than nothing, but waaaayy to low. And as Fox said most of the times they drop nothing.
After picking up the alien container another predator joins the party and BOOOOOMMM bye bye back to hangar.
I hope we can have the special weapons soon to kill those predators more easily.
I killed two of them earlier on with a Crus S, which took 5 minutes to kill each of them (Constant fire of a heavy blaster + attack drones + Pulsar) only to find out that they drop nothing at all. For a ship this strong it should at least have the drop rates of a hunter!
Also had a kill on one and even helped kill a few more last night, never saw a drop at all.
Their homing shots are a bit OPed imho. At first they did not seem to do much damage to my zigging and zagging Cov Ops, then all of a sudden I realized that they simply do not do much damage in-general, can’t miss regardless of my movement, and can hit me while I’m 4K+ Km away and flying at max speed (with dual Adaptives, of course).