I am of course talking about the rare Grunt assassination in H4 where you grab the Grunt’s head and snap their neck. After playing the Campaign multiple times, and having spent many hours in Spartan Ops, I still haven’t figured out what causes this assassination.
Everyone I’ve asked has no idea how to obtain this particular assassination. Have any of you guys figured it out?
Approach them diagonally.
> Approach them diagonally.
I’ve tried that.
My theory right now is that it is based off the environment, like if you’re near a wall or something.
have you tried crouching before doing it or jumping?
> have you tried crouching before doing it or jumping?
Yes, I’ve practiced this all on a bunch of Grunts, they’re always dancing as part of an easter egg in Spartan Ops. I’ve tried crouching, crouch-jumping, different angles, ect.
After farming Backstab on Spartan Ops Grunt packs, I can tell you, there doesn’t seem to really be a way to cause it to happen.
However, I know what stops it from happening. The animation of a Grunt running away from you prevents your from breaking their neck. The assassination has to be a “surprise”. The Grunt can’t know you’re there.
But having it happen on a stationary Grunt is then even random, and rare.
> After farming Backstab on Spartan Ops Grunt packs, I can tell you, there doesn’t seem to really be a way to cause it to happen.
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> However, I know what stops it from happening. The animation of a Grunt running away from you prevents your from breaking their neck. The assassination has to be a “surprise”. The Grunt can’t know you’re there.
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> But having it happen on a stationary Grunt is then even random, and rare.
Huh, I think I’ve done on it Grunts that were running away before, so I’m not too sure about that.
If it has to be a surprise, then it’s probably like the Brute assassinations from Reach.
shows you how it is done at approx 01:35 in this clip…
AI expert Ghost is on the case!
We’ll see if it’s random or not. xD
You have to sprint at them, and while sprinting at them jump. But you have to jump at the right distance to where you’ll land near its back, once you get that done just hold down the melee button to get rewarded with that nice little assassination animation. I know cause I’ve tested it, everytime I do this and do it right, I get that particular assassination move. On the topic of assassinations, there should have been an achievement or Halo Waypoint award for the watcher assassination; it took me forever to get that one, but when I did it was so damn cool lol.
> AI expert Ghost is on the case!
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> We’ll see if it’s random or not. xD
Actually, knowing how you’re an expert on Halo AIs, I thought you might help out when I made this thread.
> You have to sprint at them, and while sprinting at them jump. But you have to jump at the right distance to where you’ll land near its back, once you get that done just hold down the melee button to get rewarded with that nice little assassination animation. I know cause I’ve tested it, everytime I do this and do it right, I get that particular assassination move. On the topic of assassinations, there should have been an achievement or Halo Waypoint award for the watcher assassination; it took me forever to get that one, but when I did it was so damn cool lol.
Huh, I’ll test that out right now.
Yeah, I really enjoy the H4 assassinations. Though I’m glad they added more assassinations for the Grunts and Jackals, I’m disappointed how few assassinations there are for the Elites compared to Reach, most likely since they’re not in Multiplayer anymore.
I must admit Halo 4 has soooo much better assassinations than Reach, so agile and swift compared to S3s.
It might just be a percent chance.
I’ve done that assassination before the same way I’ve done the others.
Drat, I’ve been beaten to. Actually I got sidetracked, gave up within 30 minutes for something better
> Yeah, I really enjoy the H4 assassinations. Though I’m glad they added more assassinations for the Grunts and Jackals, I’m disappointed how few assassinations there are for the Elites compared to Reach, most likely since they’re not in Multiplayer anymore.
It’s a shame we can’t airborne assassinate Elites anymore (unless they’re in the air too). Come to think of it, I don’t think it’s even been documented. checks all assassins vid
Rare? Not as rare as you might think, I’ve only ever seen two Grunt assassinations, the one where you stick them in the head with a knife and the other where you break their necks.
The neck breaker is my most common assassination. 
Jump over the top of them frontwards and then walk backwards and assassinate them.
Rare? Not for me lol. Most common assassination animation for me. 
I had about 5 in a row once.
Ya, I don’t find it that rare either.
Now assassinating a Watcher, that’s rare. I managed to pull it off once…very satisfying. It should have been it’s own achievement.
