Uber live Monday August 30th, 4PM PST Post your questions!

First off, great game. I look forward to trying to get on and play with you guys tonight.

On to my questions/suggestions:
1.) If you're going to make the assassin unable to cloak during a grapple, make them invincible during the animation or make the animation way shorter.

2.) Please nerf the Sniper's grapple or make the assassin's front grapple stronger then the Sniper's. It doesn't make sense that the sharpshooter can out grapple the grappler.

3.) The assassin needs someway to get around/disarm the Sniper's freezetraps. Just jumping over is a bit limited.

I've tested this in a private match, and you CAN destroy freeze traps with the mortar, but it requires you to hit them with pinpoint accuracy, also, it doesn't really "destroy" them, as much as it just triggers them, meaning they can still freeze you if you walk into the ice area.

Sadly, by the time the freeze trap wears off, the sniper has already noticed and is probably throwing down another one, then sniping at you.

I don't understand why I've only seen two posts from the admin on this thread. To busy playing his own game?

Because it's a questions thread. Questions that might be answered during the live feed. If we answered them all here, what would we have to talk about in the live feed?

Talk about bacon, of course! although i recommend to anyone here who likes bacon, don't try "Baconasie" not only does it not taste like bacon, it's also vegetarian friendly, and kosher >_> such a sad waste of $5+ T_T

Also, FR sent lol

Quick Q:

How do you feel about external tournament support, such as GameNation tournaments and a League featuring Monday Night Combat as it's first title?

I love you.

Ah, oooooooooookay. I though answers came directly in the thread.

Also, in retrospect, my question sounds less like a joke, and more like a sarcastic ***....

>.>

I had lost of fun this evening! Too bad for the bad internets. Next time will be better.

Can you give us an explanation as to how Assassins will still be in any way balanced after they lose their cloaking ability (during a grapple)?

It was a bug that was fixed. She was never supposed to be able to cloak during a grapple.

The assassin is still plenty powerful. You might just have to adjust your tactics a little.

I don't understand how the Assassin is still powerful. I used to be able to take out Supports near their Firebases. Now, taking out such a Support will be a suicide mission. Not to mention, with the incredibly long animation, I will get murdered by any other turret that's there. I understand that's how it was supposed to be, but this unintentional bug actually made the Assassin usable and balanced. Now, it will be extremely difficult to do well with her.

How do you feel about people actually preferring the Assassin being able to cloak mid animation? Do you feel it's a fair implementation with people backing it, with no claims of it being game breaker, or overpowered (unlike the speed run, or double smoke bomb glitch) or do you stand by your decision simply because it wasn't intended to begin with?

And, lastly, if you stand by your decision, are you also going to fix the similar exploits, such as, reloading while taunting, and switching weapons mid animation?

I can live without it, but it seemed really useful.

Is there any possibility of either taking less damage while grappling, or some other way to not get killed so quickly by turrets and players?

If were going down that route, we could also shorten the time for the animation

But the animation is so cool

This is an amazing game but, I have to call it out. The assassin still being "Plenty powerful"? Not when doing class comparisons.

A sniper can sit in their spawn and kill the lane pushing assassin without ever shooting. (explosive rounds) If the assassin would like to assassinate this camping sniper, he has no answer for his traps. Secondly, if the sniper walks a step away from the traps and the assassin lands a grapple, the turrets will kill the assassin. (Possibly before he kills the sniper) One can say, well, just allow your team with a different class kill him. Well, why not pick a different class that can do both? (I guess thats the tactical change. pick another class.)

It really bums me out but, the Sniper is better at all the assassins jobs. And he can do so from close and long range.

I'm pretty much in the top 3 slots of the games that I play as assassin. I use to aim at 30 to 5 games but pushing lanes I end up more at 25 - 8 games. (I don't claim to be the greatest, just that I'm no slouch.) Lots of people were going negative and ended up at the bottom because it was arguably the most difficult class to succeed at. Now dying is even more likely. (Is there another class that people die with more?)

With the sniper option available, is there really a reason to be an assassin?

Really, the only reason I have to play assassin over sniper now is because I enjoy it a lot more than sitting in a corner surrounded in freeze traps.

I hope you people realize that there are other classes besides the Support and Sniper for the Assassin to take care of. It's a lot harder to headshot a mobile Assault than it is to backstab him, for example. And the Assassin is still much, much faster at taking out bot waves and turrets than the Sniper is.

Also, good friggin' luck sniping me. I still have the best movement in the game.

I encourage everyone to play with the change before passing judgement. It's hard to say how it's going to play until you've played it.