Assassin has broken head hitboxes, I literally headshotted her 3 times today and all of them missed, she was standing still and I'm not that bad at sniping... I've had a 35 kill streak as a sniper once. Pros can still grapple while frozen by Sniper's freeze traps, that should be fixed ASAP please. It's annoying having an Assassin back grapple you while frozen, makes the freeze traps absolutely useless at times, I'm paranoid as hell because of this, I miss ALOT of headshots just to turn around because I heard a sonic bomb, turns out it was an ally.
But it doesn't even make sense, they cant walk but they can grapple you in an acrobatic style? honestly... EDIT: I've seen this once or twice, assassins attacking while cloaked, glitch or hax? I'm not entirely sure.
Well, let me put it like this, from my kill stats: Assassin kills: 300 Sniper kills: 100 Be a gentleman and give the ladies a chance, their workday is hard enough as it is. I think the freeze traps are more of an early warning system and if you place them in the right spots they will give you enough time to defend yourself. You already have the best distance weapon, a very powerful AoE skill and traps that warn you and slow down your enemies. But if you have trouble with Assassins, you might want to give another class a try. Tanks are pretty good against Assassins. Or you can play Assassin yourself for a few matches. That's what I usually do when I run into trouble with another class. Nothing is more valuable than to walk in another classes shoes to learn their weaknesses!
they ******* lunge and get 10 ft past the god damn trap are you ******* with me? these classes should be nerfed this game is infested with glitches, fix it god dammit fix it!
Nope, I'm quite serious. Assassin is a counter class to the Sniper. Personally I prefer Assault to annoy Snipers though. The developers play MNC themselves and I have played a few rounds with Scathis, the dev responsible for balance. Let me tell you: He's fing good and knows what he's doing! I looked up your stats, at least I believe those are yours. Looks like you are doing pretty well. Lot's of ring outs so I guess you have found a way to deal with pesky Assassins even when they break through your traps. You are not supposed to be invulnerable as Sniper. Your traps are supposed to help you but not to turn the whole place into an ice fortress. PS: And I don't work for Uber so it's not my place to fix or balance anything. I'm just giving you the information. And I play neither Sniper nor Assassin so I don't really care either way...
I have no problems at all with assaults i can pop their heads easily, by far the easiest class to kill as sniper. But these assassins are absolutely annoying, I mean,sure killing a normal assassin is easy as hell but the experienced assassins make you miserable. i cant believe the lunge doesn't have a cool down... this is the cycle of assassins: find target>cloak and get near>lunge>back grapple>get kill>sonic bomb jump>retreat rinse and repeat. you can obviously see that this **** is far overpowered, if they at least remove lunging I'll stop complaining. And fix the hitboxes, honestly.. snipers and assassins have terrible hit boxes, shot the wall today and got a headshot on assassin..
Snipers are way overpowered. You have like a bazillion tools to deal with Assassins. If you can't kill them despite all of that, it's your own fault. This coming from someone who plays both Assassin and Sniper extensively. When I play Sniper, Assassins make me laugh because I will not let them kill me. Maybe you should play a little more. It's easy for someone just starting out to think that everything is overpowered. But as you continue to play, you'll learn more and more counters to each and every tactic.
I'm not sure why you made two threads about this, for starters (viewtopic.php?f=29&t=7640). Considering your complaints are crossing over heavily, these threads could have been merged. If after 80 something hours of playtime you STILL cannot deal with Assassins, you've got a serious situational awareness problem going on. This is not a problem with the Assassin's "OP lunge with no cooldown," but your playstyle. Listen for the hum, check your surroundings and stop playing in a tunnel all day. Additionally, why in the world are you placing traps so close to yourself that when enemies get stuck they are right next to you? This is not a problem with grapple, but a problem with your trap placement. Place them further away where enemies still have to pass through them, and you'll be better off. Also, you're supposed to be paranoid due to your low HP and high priority potential. That's your class's shortcoming. Deal with it. EDIT: Head hitboxes should be slightly adjusted though. The rest of the stuff is your fault.
It's intended. Really, the sniper has plenty of tools to deal with assassin. You should consider the traps as alarm bells, not a failsafe. Also: when you spotted an assassin, a sniper stands a pretty good chance in a fight because his close range weapon is better and so is his grapple.
Fine, I'll try dealing with it, but if I hit lv 99 and I still can't deal with assassins, I will shoot my self. and btw good assassins dont give you enough time to hear them lol, I hear the bad ones easily, turn around and ring them out. but some of them are extremely fast ;/
You're complaining because there is one class that gives you trouble and makes you miserable? Think about all those poor other classes that you headshot with no trouble. Think how sad and miserable they are when your mere prescence on the other side of the map forces them to abandon all open areas and confines them to a game of hide and seek in the side passages and back alleys. Being dominated by 1 out of 6 classes (while you dominate the rest) does not make that class broken, it makes your class balanced.
