So you’ve gone for the assassination, you’ve grabbed our enemy and are driving a knife through his lower back. when all of a sudden your team mate comes up and melees him twice. Are you ok with this? and would you do the same in his situation?
I myself believe once the assassination has begun, it is rightfully their kill, and do my best to leave that kill for them. your thoughts?
I only do it to my friends because it’s funny.
I do it to other people if they do it to me first.
i generally dont do it, there have been a few occaisions where ive thrown a grenade and it just happened to land where someone was being assassinated, that wasnt intentional.
however, i will steal assassinations if the matches are really close and coming to an end, because its time being wasted in an animation that could be being spent not getting shot at.
overall, bad, in some cases forgivable.
I never steal other players assassinations unless it was originally my kill.
For example, if I spend my time in a firefight with another player, get their shields down, and some person comes up to assassinate them, I’ll take my kill.
If someone else sneaks up on someone though and I just turn a corner or something, I’ll let my teammate have it. Sometimes I’ll even try to be a distraction.
I generally believe that anyone that is assassinating rightfully deserves the kill. Assassinations are risky and require some sort of thought to pull off mid combat Assassinations.
If I see a team mate assassinating someone, I will -Yoink!- the player whilst he’s getting assassinated because it’s one of the few times that they have no choice but to witness it. If someone “Yoinks!” me intentionally, I will see to it that you die by my hands one way or another. I’ll only do it once, (that is unless of course the person continues to do it, which in that case I would proceed to getting them killed)
However there is a time and place to have it done, If I’m playing with a party, we usually try to go for a solid win, so I generally don’t mind having them stolen then because I’m effectively putting me and my team at risk.
The said ‘teammates’ shouldn’t even be allowed to ‘yoink’ the assassination. It’s especially annoying it a ghost driving -Yoink- boosts into you victim and kills you as well. If I had it my way they would be banned from Matchmaking for 24 hours.
Steal one of my assassinations and you have just made it to my -Yoink!- I going to steal everyone of your kills in this match list
Sometime the lag is such that what you see on your screen is not what the other guy sees on his screen.
If the guy is an enemy, has a weapon and is alive I don’t risk it anymore. I’ve seen so many assassinations start and then then enemy turns around and headshots the guy because I didn’t attack him.
If someone kills an enemy I am knifing I just grin and carry on. The only good enemy is a dead enemy. I’m sure that in the long run it won’t mean that much difference because you will get assassinations in other matches. If you want to assassassinate try Regicide. More assassassassassinations than you could shake your -Yoink- hat… no… -Yoink- at. :}
Oh yeah, I’ve been knifing someone only to get them sniped out of my hands. Now THAT was cheeky. Certainly made me jump. Another one got gauss hogged. So yeah, I’ve been there.
It’s annoying.
I’ve NEVER done it, but I’ve already been stolen 4 times my assassination. 2 of those were in the same game by the same guy!
-Yoink!-!
Is the enemy dead, leaving the two of you alive? Then yes, it’s OK “ethically”, but it’s not OK tactically. It leaves the two of you wide open for attack.
> The said ‘teammates’ shouldn’t even be allowed to ‘yoink’ the assassination. It’s especially annoying it a ghost driving -Yoink!- boosts into you victim and kills you as well. If I had it my way they would be banned from Matchmaking for 24 hours.
I’ve not done that but seen it happen. The player sees the enemy and goes for him… Someone runs up and assassinates but the Ghost is shifting now and those things don’t steer well and has no brakes so it’s going to end in tears.
You can tell the ones who are trying to avoid the friendly. They are the ones trying to turn the Ghost which then hits at about 40 degrees. I even saw one guy going sidewards and took out 3 of his team. Luckily I was on the other team at the time.
Only on Ragnarok, if the player decides the Mantis is rightfully his and plasma grenades it whilst I’m in it, I will do my best to steal all their kills to make up for the kills I could have got in the Mantis. However, if a player has done nothing but work tactfully throughout the match, I will let them have the assassination, and I expect the same treatment back.
I don’t like stealing assassinations, simply 'cause I hate it when people do it to me
The only times I ever do is either by accident (a rogue grenade, or it’s too confusing to tell who’s assassinating who), or if somebody yoinked mine earlier
> Only on Ragnarok, if the player decides the Mantis is rightfully his and plasma grenades it whilst I’m in it, I will do my best to steal all their kills to make up for the kills I could have got in the Mantis. However, if a player has done nothing but work tactfully throughout the match, I will let them have the assassination, and I expect the same treatment back.
That’s the way to go!
Nothing’s worse than having your assassination stolen from a jerk if you didn’t do anything wrong to him.
Stealing them is in the game. It’s inevitable. Doesn’t bother me at all. Already have the Venator set anyways. Assassinations are just luxuries to me now.
Good thing, because IT ISN’T YOUR KILL until you killed it.
If anything your holding him down so I can land the finishing touch.
Frankly, I think that stealing another person’s assassination shouldn’t even be allowed.
Stopping the animation by killing the person, absolutely. Showstopper medals are absolutely alright, if not a bit of an annoyance in that someone can even stopping you from killing someone that’s in your grip even now.
But you didn’t work to get that kill, and your teammate clearly has it under control. You could be dedicating your time to killing another enemy in the area, and furthering victory, not furthering your own agenda by being an -Yoink- and taking a single hard-earned kill away.
What’s even worse is when teammates are so incredibly belligerent and ignorant that they don’t pay attention to anyone else to get their kills.
In a single match today, I’d already been betrayed once by way of Incendiary Cannon, because this guy was so intent on getting his Forerunner Ordnance that he didn’t care if there were five teammates in the area if it meant he got to fire that thing at one guy. I got vaporized by it, considered booting him, but he apologized profusely, so I let it go once.
Later on, after helping him to further his goals by repeatedly securing Forerunner Ordnance for him, I’d been trying to get some kills of my own. Whenever I see an assassination open, I take it-- I’m more of a full-frontal assault type of guy, so that’s going to be a difficult Commendation for me to get. So when I have my knife in a guy’s neck, and get sniped by the same guy who’d earlier betrayed me, thereby letting the enemy go just to snipe that guy?
Oh my God. The boot button was never used more quickly.
He insisted he couldn’t tell the guy was being assassinated. Except for the fact that he was directly behind me, and there was no way he couldn’t have seen me.
TL;DR: Assassination stealing is awful. Greedy -Yoinks!- willing to screw their teammates for a quick kill are even worse.
Thankfully, it seems most of the community has grown up a bit, in my personal opinion. When I manage an assassination in SPARTAN-Ops, no matter how lengthy and over the top the game might have made it, most people will concede it. Even in standard multiplayer, most people will concede the kill. This is quite refreshing from Reach’s community, which scrambled to get any kills by any means necessary.
I laugh at them. The person who stole my assassination ends up suffering their inevitable demise (death by enemy) a few seconds later.
But other then that, I worked hard only to get things rightfully mine stolen. It’s not good.
I don’t have this problem because I never do Assassinations I just backsmack and be on my way. Doing an assassination is dumb imo it just leaves you vulnerable from all directions and usually gets you killed. silly if you ask me.
But if I see my teammate doing an assassination I generally don’t steal them unless i’m desperate or having a bad game. and need kills.
I will NEVER intentionally yoink someone, people that do this on a regular basis are scum.
they don’t get any cookies.