Preydator

Your Prey Is Never Alone… and Neither Are You.

Preydator sharpens your senses for Prey Hunts, delivering real-time stage tracking, cinematic Predator-style audio cues, and a clean, customizable progress bar built for modern Edit Mode layouts. Every transition, every ambush warning, every moment of the hunt is delivered with clarity and intention — no clutter, no noise, just the information you need when the prey is near.

Version 4.0.0 is a complete rewrite on a new, more reliable foundation — the same Hunt tracking you know, rebuilt from the ground up.

Why Preydator

Blizzard exposes only stage transitions for Prey Hunts, not a true percent-complete — so Preydator interprets the hunt the way the game actually works: stage-based, event-driven, and zone-aware. Every cue, every transition, every alert is grounded in real API data, not guesswork.

Players choose Preydator because it delivers:

• Reliable stage tracking driven by Blizzard's own quest and widget APIs
• Cinematic Predator-inspired audio cues for every stage, ambush, and Mob Scanner mechanic
• A clean, customizable progress bar — horizontal or vertical, readable in combat
• A Hunt Table companion panel with grouping, sorting, reward icons, achievement badges, and a direct Accept action
• Deep customization for textures, colors, percent display modes, labels, and audio
• Modern Edit Mode integration
• Stable, predictable behavior that avoids taint-prone Blizzard paths and respects your UI

Major Features (v4.0.0)

• Redesigned, draggable/resizable progress bar with a full vertical layout option
• Settings built into Blizzard's own Options window (Escape → Options → AddOns → Preydator, or /preydator)
• Redesigned Hunt Table panel: reward icons (real item/currency art, hover for full name), achievement badges, and on-panel grouping/sorting by difficulty or zone
• Mob Scanner: Pack Ambush and Exploding Corpse Snakes each get their own distinct alert sound, detected reliably instead of guessing from chat text
• Bar text now changes during a real ambush or Pack Ambush, not just the sound
• "Amplify Alert Sounds" option to briefly boost alert volume over music/ambience
• Custom sound file support
• Minimap button / Addon Compartment entry point
• One-time "what's new" popup on first login after an update, with a Hunt Table icon legend and known limitations
• /pd diagnostic commands for troubleshooting (inspect, qinspect, hinspect, sinspect, and more)

Known Limitations

• Blizzard's own default prey icon can briefly reappear mid-hunt if that happens while you're in combat — addons can't hide UI elements during combat. It corrects itself once combat ends.
• A small number of unusual zone shapes may cause a brief bar flicker right at the very start of a hunt.
• If Sound Channel is set to "Dialog," alerts firing close together can cut each other off — that's how WoW's Dialog channel works for every addon. Use "Master" or "SFX" to avoid this.
• Korean/Simplified Chinese difficulty-text detection is incomplete for hunts not yet in the addon's internal data. Fluent in either? We'd love your help — see Support & Feedback below.

Slash Commands

• Entry point: /pd
• Settings: /preydator (or Escape → Options → AddOns → Preydator)
• Diagnostics: /pd inspect [bs], /pd qinspect [questID] [bs], /pd hinspect [bs], /pd pinspect [bs], /pd sinspect [bs], /pd ninspect [bs], /pd iinspect [bs], /pd zinspect [bs] — add a trailing bs to also send the report to BugSack
• /pd segments — toggle the bar's progress-segment mode (quarters/thirds), macro-friendly

Support & Feedback

All issues, feature requests, and feedback — including offers to help translate Preydator into Korean or Simplified Chinese — should be filed at: https://github.com/RagingAltoholic/Preydator/issues