I thought of a way to make a backstab more desirable than a facestab, without breaking the game. If you perform a backstab, grapple cooldown is reduced.
Surely getting slammed, shotgunned, headcrabbed, ground zeroed, charged, rung out or counter-grappled is a big enough discouragement?
No way. Lastnight on Lazerazor 2 sins kept trying to facestab me while I was inbetween 2 hacked firebases. Every. Single. Time. They would die and I would pop back up with almost half my health..... :roll:
Obviously not. But if you were on their team? I see a lot more raging about bad 'sins on your own team.
Know what I don't understand the Assassin has a very deadly face grapple but next to zero Assassins use it. Shuriken Launcher face grapple does just as much as a Dagger back and if they don't kill you with the S.Launcher they can dodge your counter and you shoot shurikens at your face. These are the Assassins that bring my piss to a boil. I have only had it happen to me while I was Tank and if it works that well against him just imagine the other 5... :?: :!: :|
The more you know... Oh, wait, you didn't want to know I didn't know when I'm on your draft team. I knew(?)
A face grappling 'sin is a perfect distraction. They run around getting shot gunned, tank/assault charged and rung out while I am free to take care of business. I, for one, am appreciative of bad assassins.
I don't use it because it's harder to use. You can't grapple with the shuriken launcher while dashing, and that's the big issue. Then there's no lunge to close the distance. It does more damage because it's much harder to use.
Does it really do more damage? Lmao, I consider myself a good assassin and decided to use the shuriken launcher grab to spice things up and annoy people (boy does it work ;p), and I noticed each also takes off huge amounts of hp. I like killing gunners and bad tanks with the back shuriken grab.
dude, they wont notice a reduced cooldown, theyre noobs! but this would severely affect the metagame.
