The assassins

[MadMax_Reborn]

I call that Jackie Channing it.

quoted for awesomeness.
but seriously,do you realy need realistic movments for ninja like assassines in a game with aliens and a nerd on a killing spree?

[MaxTheLimit]

@Comrade Tiki

There was so much pointless discussion earlier about new animations, and I must say, I can’t imagine the assassins climbing or swinging through the rare railing. The only imaginable scenario is seeing one jump to a corner (of one of the many shipping containers) and then quickly pulling herself all the way up.

You mean other than the examples people have provided?

Using parkour would be cool, but with those prong-legs they’ve got, they’re perfectly justified in being able to do whatever kind of crazy leap they want And animating parkour would slow down the production of the game (unless they have a traceur on their animation team) because of the planning and research involved. Or else they would just vastly screw up even the simplest techniques. (like Mirror’s Edge did… Good God, that game is like nails on a chalkboard to me).

I supposed you missed the whole part of the conversation where it was discussed that it wasn’t being referenced as a replacement for existing abilities, but as an addition to them. Even with the leg implants, there is a limit to how high/far assassins can jump and not look silly.

Also, I never really looked up the spelling, and it’s not dumb Americanization. It seemed logical that the word containing content derived from the verb to run ‘courir’, would be composed of the original spelling of the verb.

It would be more akin to this situation if it free running was supposed to be spelled free-ronning…or something.

I always thought Parkour was more of a martial art, but instead of fighting it’s about avoiding your opponent by overcoming any obstacle.

Free-Running is more about insane stunts and looking awesome, while parkour focusses speed and efficiency.

Probably. I’m no expert. That’s just the word origins. I don’t know the technical differences.

quoted for awesomeness.
but seriously,do you realy need realistic movments for ninja like assassines in a game with aliens and a nerd on a killing spree?

Get the fuck out right now. Every consider that you were banned for making moronic posts? I certainly hope posts like this go towards getting you banned again.

[raw_bean]

Evading a ban with a new account is instantly ban-worthy anyway (evading a temp-ban this way ironically lead to all FailCrash’s perma-bans), no matter the posts.

[DrasarSalman]

@Marc

A few suggestions for the assassin NPC:

1. In HL1, the assassins mostly avoided the direct contact with the player by running and jumping away.
   I could imagine that it would make sense, if the assassins would go into a direct confrontation sometimes and not only shooting from the distance and for example try to stab the player in close combat, especially if you stand with your back to them.

They could jump at you from a higher position for melee attacking.

I think the melee abilities (punching, kicking and the use of their dagger) of this enemy should also more show to advantage in general.

2. Also it would be cool, if the assassins could perform a few more athletic movements than in in the original. Like doing a roundoff. I could imagine, that the movie Matrix would also give you some inspiration for great fighting movements.

3. They should be able to jump onto higher objects (like a container) from the ground.

that is exactly what the HL2 beta/leak female combine assasin does!

[MaxTheLimit]

You revived a thread that’s been dead for almost a month to mention that?

[Zsub]

@raw_bean

Someone needs to relearn the difference between a crazed gunman and an assassin.

Bwahaha!!! Nice going chap

Still those fuckers were creepy as hell the first time I played it. I used to sprint to a corner jumping around like a madman and then hiding in aforementioned corner until they came looking for me, then double-shotting and/or grenading them

[JeffMOD]

Really? I always wait for the first one that sees you to show up, shoot her with the crossbow, quickly run around the corner, tranq her, and sneak up on the last one.

Tranquilizer crossbow. Because Freeman wanted to catch the bastards who shot barney alive.

[Mr_Someguy]

I always ran around like a maniac spraying at movement with the MP5 and firing grenades to try and hit them before they ran off.

[baconeggs]

You all know nothing! The best strategy is to line every wall with tripmines then lie and wait with the magnum drawn to pick off survivors.

[Zsub]

Friend of mine went into sneak mode and crowbarred them all

He took almost an hour, though

[JeffMOD]

And god mode, right?

[UrBY]

If it took an hour I’m guessing he had to try several times.

[XZer0]

Would be great, if the assassins could perform something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-okxtpEl7IA

[Mr_Someguy]

That was pretty cool actually.

[Dr_icecream]

@Marc

try to stab the player in close combat, especially if you stand with your back to them.

That assassin is a SPY!

[intooblivion]

Old video btw.

Been discussed millions of times.

[Malcomy]

Will there be any special effect for the cloaking feature?
Like this for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1U-K6Zf8mY

[213]

gameplay scenario: assassins moving around in vents and shooting unseen ala the sniper additions.

[brokenfridgehinge]

No, and don’t bump old threads.

[zable]

the assassins where hard enough as it is, i remember playing and restarting again and again because of how low health i had when i encountered them, it was bloody freaky as well :S