Predators (Yautja) assessment of Abilities...

[Singular Intellect]

Human hunters are even less impressive when they hunt their prey from well concealed locations, using all their advanced technology and high powered scope rifles to kill at extreme range. Compared to human hunters, I'd say Yautja hunters actually are really impressive. They hunt highly intelligent prey and close to hand to hand combat range often, and do so only against intelligent prey if it's armed with dangerous technology as well.

I agree with your line of thinking, but not your final conclusion. Near-perfect stealth is an absurd advantage that a human hunter cannot hope to duplicate.

I don't see your point...high powered rifle hunters concealed safely in treetops hunting virutally defenseless prey (and often vastly less intelligent) is magnitudes more safe than merely being mostly invisible, and yet still closing to hand to hand combat range against intelligent and heavily armed prey with fully automatic weapon systems.

[Howedar]

Who said anything about safety? I thought we were talking about the "impressiveness" of a given species of hunter.

[Civil War Man]

Who said anything about safety? I thought we were talking about the "impressiveness" of a given species of hunter.

I think his point is that willingness to engage dangerous prey using methods that put the hunter in physical danger adds at least a few points to the impressiveness of the hunter.

Basically the idea that you would be an impressive hunter if you would have multiple nominations or even multiple citations for the Samuel L. Jackson Badass Motherfucker of the Week award.

[Sea Skimmer]

They're supposedly a 1980s Special Forces team right?

so where's the night vision gear, and possibly thermal imagers? That technology was around back then.

The smallest FLIR around in the 80s was still the size of a quarter keg or so. I wouldn’t be too confident about GSR working, because until the 1990s most of those systems worked by sound and headphones, not a visual display, the effectiveness is totally depend on operator skill. An operator who says he found something is just going to be laughed at when an infantry patrol turns up nothing.

[Howedar]

I wouldn’t be too confident about GSR working, because until the 1990s most of those systems worked by sound and headphones, not a visual display, the effectiveness is totally depend on operator skill. An operator who says he found something is just going to be laughed at when an infantry patrol turns up nothing.

Presumably only until half the group ends up dead by mysterious means.