Day 1 of playing reach- I see somebody and run up behind them. Hold down the punch button and excitedly watch my spartan plunge his knife into him. WOW!! That looked AMAZING!!
Day 7 of playing reach- I see somebody and run up behind them. Hold down the punch button and watch my spartan stab somebody with a knife… That was pretty cool… I GUESS…
Day 30 of playing reach- I see somebody and run up behind them. I quickly tap the punch button to avoid an assassination and save time. I never do assassinations in slayer but will still do them in elite slayer and in invasion.
Day 90 of playing reach- I will never Assasinate anybody… ever… waste of time and I risk my kill getting stolen from me and I risk a someone killing me.
Let's face it.. Assasinations in reach were shortlived. As soon as I discovered all the Assasinations and got bored of them.. I stopped doing them as much.. I would still do them sometimes but they just sort of faded out and weren't as cool to me.
Something I would love to see in Halo 4 for Assasinations (Yes they were confirmed) would be to allow players to unlock Assasinations when they level up. Sort of if Assasinations were just added to the Reach armory. The craziest and coolest Assasinations would be reserved for the higher levels.
I also would hope that Halo 4 would add many more assassinations than Bungie had in Reach, especially since they can focus purely on Spartan vs Spartan Assasinations and not have to add in elite vs spartan, spartan on elite, elite on top of spartan (-Yoink- ya!)..
IMO assasinations in Reach were simply a Gimmick and if more were added and if you had to level up to get them it would make the higher players Represent and look even more cool and add a fun aspect to leveling up besides simply visuals, abilities, and weapons.
Top tier would be Mortal Combat Fatalities and Soul Calibur Critical Finishes, now THAT would be an epic matchmaking game.
> Top tier would be Mortal Combat Fatalities and Soul Calibur Critical Finishes, now THAT would be an epic matchmaking game.
You pick up target rip body in half and throw pieces of body half way across the map… My dream assassination
Yes! and buyable/earnable via Spartan Points and achievements. That would be awesome!
I thought of that before even halo reach was released…lol
ITS A GREAT IDEA
Yeah make it surten assassination’s u get from leveling up
I would also like to see environmental assassinations, here’s an example: Your target is standing next to a wall, so you sneak behind him and slam his face into the wall. Or: Your target is near a cliff, you grab him and throw him off of it. I personally think that that would be awesome, and make for great machinima too.
> I thought of that before even halo reach was released…lol
> ITS A GREAT IDEA
This is my second time making this thread. I made it about 9 months before reach was released on Bungie forums… I thought for sure that the blurred out word for Armor Effects on the Armory options was going to say Assasinations… how disappointed i was… its an obvious thing to implement.
Ya I still do assassinations all the time, just to rub it in. A lot of the time it is by accident, but I still love them.
Being able to buy/unlock assassinations would be fun, just add a little extra value to the armory.
What if you could unlock assassinations for different weapons based on the number of assassinations completed with that weapon? Just an idea off the top of my head.
Or what if it was just based on number of assassinations completed in total, that way you dont have to be a super high rank to get cool animations. Because lets face it, a lot of the community enjoys the animations, but will never be the top rank
> Top tier would be Mortal Combat Fatalities and Soul Calibur Critical Finishes, now THAT would be an epic matchmaking game.
So you want your spartan to take off his helmet to reveal a flaming skull, and burst fire on the enemy? I’M IN!!! 
Did anyone else see that at the bottom of the first page of the H4 OXM article (I think they only had four pages), on the bottom it mentions assassinations near the page number. I don’t have my magazine on me, but they said that <mark>assassinations are returning and they will be much cooler than they are in Reach</mark>. I was stoked to hear that 
Also, I never got tired of assassinating people. I actually do it to help my friends get kills. They aren’t as good as me and I’ll hold people still for them to kill lol
Edit: threads like this get my so freaking psyched for H4. I recently came down with shingles (I’m 21 years old…) and I haven’t been able to play Reach for a few days because the shingles is on my left eye lid. The moment I get my vision back, I can’t wait to hop into a few games! First thing I’m gonna do!
Sounds like a decent idea.
Gives you something fun to unlock that won’t negatively impact balance.
I’m hoping for a Spartan assassination that involves a round house kick, and another assassination that involves a grav hammer golf swing.