Wouldn’t it be cool to front assassinate with the sword instead of just boring old slash and trying so hard to get behind the person just to assassinate. But you have to hold the RB button down just in case if there’s more than one person.
We have frontal assassinations. They are called melee.
An assassination is meant to show your skill at sneaking up on someone. If any type of frontal assassination was made, it would negate the humiliating purpose of such an attack, as anyone can do it.
> We have frontal assassinations. They are called beat downs.
> An assassination is meant to show your skill at sneaking up on someone. If any type of frontal assassination was made, it would negate the humiliating purpose of such an attack, as anyone can do it.
A beat down is a simple melee from behind. Plus, his idea is just for the Energy Sword, not any other weapon. Since the sword is a one-hit kill anyway, I don’t see how a frontal assassination with it could do any harm.
^^ the energy sword is a one hit kill yes, but not to overshields or hopefully they bring back the ability to block it, being able to assassinate from the front would be over powered and render the overshield useless since only assassinations are “one hit kills” even if the user has overshields on
> ^^ the energy sword is a one hit kill yes, but not to overshields or hopefully they bring back the ability to block it, being able to assassinate from the front would be over powered and render the overshield useless since only assassinations are “one hit kills” even if the user has overshields on
Then the simple solution would be to make impossible to do if your opponent has over shields (or any other similar buff). I’m not necessarily saying I support the frontal assassination idea, just that there’s no real reason to be strongly against it.
I dunno, this would kind of take away the novelty of assassinations…
> > ^^ the energy sword is a one hit kill yes, but not to overshields or hopefully they bring back the ability to block it, being able to assassinate from the front would be over powered and render the overshield useless since only assassinations are “one hit kills” even if the user has overshields on
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> Then the simple solution would be to make impossible to do if your opponent has over shields (or any other similar buff). I’m not necessarily saying I support the frontal assassination idea, just that there’s no real reason to be strongly against it.
this ^^^^
I don’t want to accidentally do that.
I passively resist this idea. It seems like it puts you on the road to a thousand wasted mechanics that just clutter the game without it really affecting game play.
I’m not particularly hard line on this one though.
This would look cool.
The drawback to having this is that it would take longer to kill the person. And this would allow you to be shot by other players or other players to kill your target before completing the assassination (Yoink / Showstopper).
> This would look cool.
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> The drawback to having this is that it would take longer to kill the person. And this would allow you to be shot by other players or other players to kill your target before completing the assassination (Yoink / Showstopper).
Then it is no different than other assassinations. Assassinations, since implementation in Reach, have been slow. So in reality, we change nothing other than a new animation.
> I don’t want to accidentally do that.
All the reason why not to add this animation.