The assassins

[nighttarga]

@Going Postal

Seconded

thirded?

[Lord_Grievous]

I always did a quicksave and ran up to one of them and shotgun them in the face and quicksave again, rinse and repeat

[Spycrabz]

You pussy, I crowbar them.

[dky.tehkingd.u]

I ran up to them with a crossbow and refused to fire until I was able to shoot their faces point-blank.

[felcon]

Awesome looking assassin video.

[Lord_Grievous]

@Malcomy

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

They used a cloaking device in HL1 on hard mode, and I believe one of the devs confirmed this for BMS also.

But I might be mistaken

[bur]

He wasn’t asking if it will be in, he was asking if they were going to use an effect like the one in that video.

[wafflewarrior7]

@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.

I think they’ll be able to do all that, bud. They should, though, have voices instead of the silent ones in half life
Not any words, just death cries.

[Pettifogg]

Catz said she’d done pain sounds for them, so it appears they will have voices to a certain extent.

[Lord_Grievous]

@Burbinator

He wasn’t asking if it will be in, he was asking if they were going to use an effect like the one in that video.

You mean the cloaking effect? It’d be a pretty lame cloaking feature if it didn’t have a cloaking effect now wouldn’t it?

Cloaking means that it becomes invisible, that’s pretty much the only effect cloaking can have, except perhaps a shimmer where it’s still partially visible.

[Wildhound]

@Lord Grievous

Cloaking means that it becomes invisible, that’s pretty much the only effect cloaking can have, except perhaps a shimmer where it’s still partially visible.

I’m glad you clarified that because I was terribly confused about what was going on. Based on this discussion I had assumed they were putting on loose outer garments to protect them from the cold. :zip:

[bur]

@Lord Grievous

You mean the cloaking effect? It’d be a pretty lame cloaking feature if it didn’t have a cloaking effect now wouldn’t it?

Cloaking means that it becomes invisible, that’s pretty much the only effect cloaking can have, except perhaps a shimmer where it’s still partially visible.

There’s a difference between plain cloaking (i.e. just disappearing) and a cloaking effect. In the video those ships disappear gradually instead of all at once like it was in HL.

[Lord_Grievous]

Well, if I’m not mistaken, the assassins in HL1 are already cloaked and only uncloak when they’re dead.

[bur]

They uncloak whenever they shoot, as well.

[Lord_Grievous]

That’s on Easy mode, right?

[Power_Dust]

On hard mode they’ll use wallhack, am I right?

[JamesKane]

Raminator only plays on Raminator mode…the assassin do not cloak in this mode because they know it is useless against his boomerang.

[Comrade_Tiki]

that’s stupid and you’re stupid for saying it. You’re not entertaining children here, we’re adults, we can handle the fact he plays with a modified skill.cfg file where every enemy has 2000 hitpoints and none of the player’s weapons do any damage, just to keep him from winning when the mod starts up.

[JamesKane]

@Comrade Tiki

that’s stupid and you’re stupid for saying it. You’re not entertaining children here, we’re adults, we can handle the fact he plays with a modified skill.cfg file where every enemy has 2000 hitpoints and none of the player’s weapons do any damage, just to keep him from winning when the mod starts up.

:awesome:

[baconeggs]

Terminate with EXTREME prejudice.