It’s really frustrating to accidentally assassinate someone when you only wanted to quickly backsmack them.
I wish 343 would give us a toggle in the control setup menu to turn it off completely.
Anyone else feel this way?
I thought we did…
i agree, that would be great 
> It’s really frustrating to accidentally assassinate someone when you only wanted to quickly backsmack them.
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> I wish 343 would give us a toggle in the control setup menu to turn it off completely.
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> Anyone else feel this way?
Yes, i have found a lot of times me just going for a beat down and seeing an assassination pop up which is followed by me shouting at the Tv when i’m killed afterwards. ^.^
But yes it would be appreciated. I wouldn’t mind if they wasn’t in at all tbh, i don’t see a gain in it.
It’s just another form of teabagging IMO
Did you not already check the options? My box is miles away but I’m pretty darn sure it’s there. Heck you can make melees completely ineffective, 0 damage.
I thought you held the Melee button in order to assassinate… Don’t hold the button…?
I’m actually against this, because it would ultimately bring forth a gap in players. For example, you would be expected to have your assassination toggle off in playlists like MLG or Arena and therefore criticized if you had it on. In other words, it would just be another reason to call people noobs. And I’ll be completely honest with you here. I love assassinations. There’s something really inherently satisfying about the animations, and subsequent medals.
Yes, a toggle would be a bad idea. I would support a more “one size fits all” kind of system. My initial thoughts are something like this. Have assassinations automatically turned on (obviously). However, in certain situations, make it impossible to do assassinations. For example, if your victim has no shields, force a simple back smack and disable the animation. This is as opposed to if they have full shields, as then it’s an automatic assassination, whether you hold the button down or not.
> Did you not already check the options? My box is miles away but I’m pretty darn sure it’s there. Heck you can make melees completely ineffective, 0 damage.
I assume you didnt understand. He meant in general, not custom games
> I thought you held the Melee button in order to assassinate… Don’t hold the button…?
You still sometimes intend to backsmack and end up doing the assassination animation
> It’s really frustrating to accidentally assassinate someone when you only wanted to quickly backsmack them.
>
> I wish 343 would give us a toggle in the control setup menu to turn it off completely.
>
> Anyone else feel this way?
I whole-heartedly agree!
> I assume you didnt understand. He meant in general, not custom games
Oh, well then. TS 
You either learn how to tap melee and remember to never forget to not hold it, you watch yourself slay another being in cold-polygon.
> It’s really frustrating to accidentally assassinate someone when you only wanted to quickly backsmack them.
>
> I wish 343 would give us a toggle in the control setup menu to turn it off completely.
>
> Anyone else feel this way?
We had this since launch.
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If one is trying to perform in the heat of the moment, why would they hold down the melee button anyway? They would want to tap each button as quick as possible for max performance.
People are just finding things to moan over now, IMO, because the other stuff is too old to moan about.
approved. i was kinda wondering why we didnt have this functionality at release.
its kinda strange, sometimes i’ll try for the long assassination, hold down the button AS HARD AS I CAN, and it wont give it to me. other times it seems like i barely tap it and it does the long one when i TOTALLY dont want it to.
toggle would be sick. yanno what would be even more sick? a pre-set option for EACH PLAYLIST. MLG? toggle it off. every time you play MLG it will be off in the future.
team classic? toggle it on. every time you play team classic it will be on in the future.
(and of course you could change your options too :P)
The real problem is when you try to backsmack someone who is doing an assassination. I can’t count the number of times it doesn’t even inflict damage. I should get a showstopper but instead it’s like a empty melee.
Absolutely ridiculous that we didn’t have one to start with. What a stupid -Yoinking!- idea these were.
> > It’s really frustrating to accidentally assassinate someone when you only wanted to quickly backsmack them.
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> > I wish 343 would give us a toggle in the control setup menu to turn it off completely.
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> > Anyone else feel this way?
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> We had this since launch.
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> /thread
No…We don’t have it right now.
I’ve honestly never had a problem with the assassination system in Reach. If I wanted to just do the quick hit in the back, I would just tap the button. if I wanted to go with the full animation, I would hold the button.
You guys should pay attention to what you’re doing rather than blame the game.
Stop clenching the controller so much and you’ll stop “accidently” performing assassinations … Glad I could help
I understand completely where this would be thought up, however I think an idea that both parties would like is easily available: Assassinations should only occur if you press and hold the melee button through the duration of the animation, and at any time you let go before it has completed its cycle it stops and reverts as a normal backsmack.
I don’t see the harm in that at all.
For those of you saying we’ve had this since launch.
He is talking about in the controller options. similar to toggle crouch.
NOT THE CUSTOM GAMES OPTION.
on topic: its not difficult to just tap the melee button. i’ve never had this problem.