itzatrap wrote:

 

ROTFLMAO

I remember when people used to write that on the forums when it was cool, (5 years ago).

So because I like to rush or flank with a silencer and assasian, that makes me a douche?

Okay, Ill go to camping in the corner than

Point taken, I hear these points alot about Assassin... and it certainly does have a great number of different benefits.... but you're forgetting Assassin's biggest downfall:

It's design forces you to need to be a loner in order to fully benefit from it.

Sure, you personally get to always no matter what bypass those EMP effects...

But most people with Assassin have to do what they can to avoid their team. I'm speaking from my personal experience as an Assassin user. Let me give you some scenarios:

1. Team or team member respawns on the Assassin user.

UAV gives away team's position, making the enemy aware of the Assassin user's position.

2. team member without Assassin shadowing/ghosting the Assassin user. This can happen either to be obnoxious, or the player is inexperienced, or just trying to be a team player with good intentions.

UAV gives away Assassin user's position via the teammate.

Now on those two examples alone, take UAV and replace with AUAV, HBS, also Portable Radar, and you have 4 total items that can easily negate Assassin thanks to the Assassin user's team.

I'd give up being invisible to AUAV if the assasin perk would guarantee you to spawn away from and not be spawned on by teammates who aren't utilizing assassin.

Of course, I'm sure the implementation would be a nightmare... but it would be nice... but then again so would getting the current spawning fixed

Do you have any idea how many times an assassin user gets killed due to losing the surprise element thanks to some teammate who won't quit shadowing him?

It definitely is NOT a flawless perk, take this from an avid user of it. You have to work hard and many time take routes you would rather not just to avoid your own team (of course, I'm one of those assassin users who moves 95% of the time and camps only when you start beeline gunning repeatedly for him because you get to spot his position on the kill cam  (don't even get me started on the kill cam... which really should be a death streak, not a 100% benefit everytime you die).

VL6

I agree with most people here that I love to use assassin with blind eye and a silenced weapon. I will sneak around the map, kill you, and then shoot down your air support just to piss you off. One odd thing I have noticed is that if you have assassin pro and you have a placeable killstreak like a turret you can still use it as long as it was in your inventory before the EMP went off.

No.