[SPOILERS] Feral Predator Design Thread

[RidgeTop]

Posted this in the catch all but I really like this piece of fan art of the design by Jolous.

https://twitter.com/jolousDA/status/1534133772249186306

[KaliPrime]

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CemwI45s850/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Not my store, but the talented individual who made this...
https://www.ebay.com/str/lrlcustoms

[Xerxész]

Still don't know how Feral can see out of this mask...

[KaliPrime]

Good point! But if we can have passthrough on an oculus VR with itty bitty cameras that can show you the physical world through a fully occluded field of vision... gotta think a space-faring species solved that waaaaaaaaaay before.

[SiL]

I don't see how people are struggling. It's not just a bone mask, there's metal under it.

[SuperiorIronman]

They probably don't need lenses but commonly have them. Like if the sensor broke you still can see with something to protect your face. We have seen helmets without lenses over in Hunting Grounds. Even Alpha somehow is able to see out of the skull of the Amengi he gutted. Probably a sensor somewhere.

In Feral's case he probably has some sort of sensor or might be a maniac and felt the skull was good enough.

I do have this thought though that they might be able to detect where things are like a heat based echolocation. There's a word for that I'm sure, but basically I wouldn't doubt it if they functioned like Daredevil if it really came down to it. Like they can't see you but they can train themselves to look for the heat among other things to track targets. So maybe they don't strictly need eyes.

[RidgeTop]

There have been masks without external lenses before such as Serpent Hunter, and a few in Predator: Hunting Grounds.

[Mike’s Monsters]

Maybe it's a blind Predator without eyes that works with it's senses or something new and weird.

[SuperiorIronman]

Oh that'd be f**ked if we got a blind Predator. Cause that means the mud trick shouldn't work here. Or maybe it does like the mask has a sensor so he can see, but when the mask comes of and he goes blind he fights like Daredevil. Like the slightest sound sets him off and they have to work around him like the Berserker from Gears of War.

[The Shuriken]

Still don't know how Feral can see out of this mask...

Those are my favorite type of helmet or mask. With no visible eyes, makes things look scarier/badass.

[KaliPrime]

Snakes have heat pits between their mouth and nostrils that allow them to see heat radiation in 3 dimensions. Totally reasonable that preds would have something akin to that. Honestly how helpful are eyes if you only sense heat maps and no photons... 

They probably don't need lenses but commonly have them. Like if the sensor broke you still can see with something to protect your face. We have seen helmets without lenses over in Hunting Grounds. Even Alpha somehow is able to see out of the skull of the Amengi he gutted. Probably a sensor somewhere.

In Feral's case he probably has some sort of sensor or might be a maniac and felt the skull was good enough.

I do have this thought though that they might be able to detect where things are like a heat based echolocation. There's a word for that I'm sure, but basically I wouldn't doubt it if they functioned like Daredevil if it really came down to it. Like they can't see you but they can train themselves to look for the heat among other things to track targets. So maybe they don't strictly need eyes.

[Mr.Turok]

There have been masks without external lenses before such as Serpent Hunter, and a few in Predator: Hunting Grounds.

https://bbts1.azureedge.net/images/p/full/2017/01/49093177-87d0-46dc-8e8e-61d558588f04.jpghttps://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/032/431/249/4k/matthew-hatfield-illfonicpredator-mask2.jpg?1606411036

I still wonder how they see in them...

[SiL]

With monitors inside the helmet?

Like... their eye lenses are already little computer screens, what difference does it make if you can see them from the outside or not?

[Kailem]

Yeah when it comes to these eyeless masks I've always imagined that they either A) have lenses like all the others, but they're just designed to "blend in" with the mask itself so you can't tell from the outside which part is solid mask and which is actually see-through for them, or B) they have a tiny camera or sensor on the outside that relays everything they're looking at back to an internal screen, which appears much bigger and essentially just gives them a normal-sized view of their surroundings.

[GreybackElder]

Could this new predator be a bad blood and Greyback comes to take him out? Maybe Greyback comes towards the end of the movie and kills the new pred while he was trying to kill the girl?

I originally thought this my be the case too. Correct me if I'm mistaken but I believe greyback killed the City Hunter in an alternate ending to P2. That would be a cool nod to the previous film if this occurs in Prey. It would also be a cool nod to the bad blood comic as well.

After seeing the trailer/promo videos it seems less as less likely Greyback will show up. I would love it if he did of course. Fingers crossed.


Maybe someone can clarify this for me, but I vaguely remember seeing a behind the scenes for one of the predator films(AVP?) where they discuss the mandibles? Something about losing the tech that gave the jungle/city hunter its iconic mandible swinging motion? Does that ring a bell with anyone?