Assassins... Assassins everywhere! | Forums

[UbiInsulin]

Enter the Thick Meta.

We have let the team know that there's some concern about the preponderance of Assassins lately.

[Tundra 793]

We have let the team know that there's some concern about the preponderance of Assassins lately.

[Knight_Raime]

I typically label characters assassins more by how they play and feel rather than the label the devs gave them, ex; Aramusha is a 'hybrid' officially, but to me hes still a dude with low HP who gets in my grill and spams lights. whatever he is a hybrid of, its certainly one part assassin, and one part not a heavy

so in my eyes our DLC roster was 4 assassins, one hybrid and one heavy

ah okay I understand you.

I assume you play mainly duel because dominion, there is decent number of conqs and cents running around.
But i have to admit the assassins are certainly more numerous by some margin, and i would like to see some different character archetypes introduced into the game, because when 5 out of 6 new characters relased are (often dual wielding) speedsters, it gets really stale.

yes I really only duel.

[The_B0G_]

Most matches I've seen lately are mostly assassins, I see a lot of LBs lately with all 3 grenade feats on as well.

I parried an Orochi that was being super turtley today and he parried my HL light attack afterwards, not sure whats up there but assumed it was because of lag.

I have high hopes for HL major balance, any buff will be much appreciated.

It's very hard to fight aggressive light spamming characters with him.

[Tyrjo]

On console the assassin meta has been prevalent for quite a while. 30FPS together with fast lights, soft feints you have like 100ms to react to, is making it really hard to counter the most powerful assassins.

[PDXGorechild]

Numbers wise, there are too many Assassins. That much is obvious what with 1/3 of the roster being pure Assassins plus a few hybrids. But in terms of balance I don't really see it as a huge problem.

I'd much rather fight a team of Assassins in 4v4 than the Raider/Lawbringer/Nobushi/Centurion gank brigades going about. Swap any of those with a good Aramusha and you've got yourself an Assassin meat grinder team. If peoples concerns about Assassins are aimed toward 1v1, I get that. But the stuns/charges/disablers that some of the heavies, vanguards and hybrids get are far more valuable in an organised 4v4 team game than spammable light attacks and fast dodges.

I'd like to see more heavies too, but purely for variety.

[VougishMan]

Yeah i'm starting to notice that about half of my games have like 5 assassins altogether in a match.

I'm a little torn on the issue at hand.

I've played assassin characters for the majority of the year, berserker and orochi in particular, so knowing how hard it is to learn all the moves and then perfect them makes me want to appreciate that more players are taking on the challenge as well. However, i'm getting real tired of fighting other assassins. I know the moves, so it's not very hard to beat them, some of them are better than i am so i learn something new everytime i lose, but give me something different. I wanna play against raiders, warlords, conquerors, shugoki's, hell even a Valkyrie every once in a while if not more. Where'd all these mains go?

Also i'm not gonna bash on other players, we all like to have fun, but it'd be nice if the particularly salty players could refrain from playing my main, you're making zerker look bad my dudes, don't do that to him, he's been good to us.

[Devils-_-legacy]

I want to see more vanguards then heavy's I feel we need a good jack of trades that suits the acrtype other then assassin that's the best all rounder(shaman)