Assassin bugs/glitches/annoyances

I've encountered a number of issues with the Assassin, some of which have been mentioned here, and some that have not.

1. Dash and lunge still continue to be locked occasionally when spawning. They will not unlock, and dying does not guarantee the skills will be unlocked, but it does work sometimes.

2. While playing as host, the smoke bomb jump will not work more than 50% of the time. If I jump right after the smoke bomb, it is just a regular jump. I have not encountered this issue as a non-host.

3. The lunge often times will not go the full distance. While standing on the upper ring of Steel Peel, the lunge should take you to the inner ring. However, this does not always happen, and I fall on the ground somewhere between the outer and inner rings.

4. The Assassin will sometimes get stuck in a half-walk-half-run situation, dubbed "stutterstep" in which the Assassin looks like she is trying to dash but is unable to. Dash stops working in this situation, and the problem will not rectify itself unless the Assassin dies.

5. (I don't know if this is a glitch, but I assume it is) When running (sometimes moving normally as well, but the issue is more prevalent while dashing) with the Shuriken launcher without a full clip, it is impossible to switch weapons without first stopping. Even after stopping, the Assassin will make the reload motion, but will not actually reload. It is only after this that she will switch weapons.

6. If the Shuriken launcher is empty and she attempts to dash, she will stop, reload (sometimes multiple times) before she begins to dash. If she is moving when attemping this, she will not be able to dash until she stops and reloads first. Again, the reload will not always happen, just the motion.

Note that all of these happen only occasionally. I'll add more to the list if I see them.

The dash not going far enough, the occasionally tiny smoke bomb jump and the failing to switch weapons when dashing things are incredibly annoying.

Yep, the smoke bomb jump fail has gotten me killed more than once.

The inability to cancel the shuriken reload has gotten me killed more times than I'd like.... Yet I can cancel reload and switch weapons with any other class..... :|

I hate it when you're shooting shurikens for a bit of time and it gets out of sync with your reload, and it messes you up when you're trying to cloak to get the critical benefit. It's really not that big of a deal, and I haven't died from it or anything, but it's annoying.

I've had problems getting the smoke bomb jump off all the time. That's my main problem with the assassin.

This thread kinda fell to the wayside
Quick bump, these issues need some attention.

Usually the dash lock means you will start to studderstep, meaning you not only cannot run...but you cant move while shooting shurikens either

I get this problem ALL the time, host or not.
I probably die more to failed smoke bomb then I do to other players :roll:
also the smoke bomb animation is a bit too long imo

No clue what causes this, gets worse in lag though.

As I said above, this most often happens when sprint becomes "locked" but can occur by itself as well. When this happens it is impossible to hit anything with shurikens unless you stand perfectly still becasue they will fly off in random directions with even the slightest movement.

Often times I have to actually complete the reload before it will switch.
VERY annoying.


The thing the drives me crazy however is the most simple and overlooked thing about the assassin.

The assassin can jump and slash with her primary weapon....
However if you jump while sprinting, you can NOT slash with the right trigger
WHY?!?!!?

Would love to hear the devs comment on this.

your argument could go both ways however. if you cant slash while dashing, why can you slash during a jump dashing?

Because when your feet leave the ground, you leave the animation and lose the speed bonus from sprint.
You are no longer sprinting

Therefore you should be able to slash


Logic, how does it work?

I more often have it go TOO FAR when I'm not host. As host, lunge is fairly consistent, but with any amount of lag it just turns to crap. The client<->server interaction to decide where it should go is just not working well. In particular, it tends to slide past the first target that I hit, when it should stop as soon as I reach it.


Another issue:
You can slash while dashing, and it will end your dash. You can sword or dagger grab while dashing, and it will end your dash.
You can't start shooting shurikens while dashing. You can't attempt a shuriken grab while dashing.
The inconsistency here is bad, especially with the two grabs behaving differently for no reason.

I was just about to make a thread about the smoke bomb jump!! It's only happened since the update..probaly something to do with preventing double jumping. It happened probably 3/10 times I was playing to day, possibly more. My mate said he's seen other assassin struggle with this issue and I also saw a fellow acrobatic pro become victim of this glitch and perish as a result by the hands of two hunking beetle-like beasts! Please fix

I have been plagued by all of these.

Any way to put in a fix during November? No?

*sigh* Well, a guess another couple a months aint so bad....

I just lost a very, VERY close game in G3 earlier. It had just hit OT, and both moneyballs' healths were decreasing pretty fast. I lunge to the middle platform, and then I attempt to smoke bomb jump to their base to kill the moneyball and... the jump fails and I die. Then I watch as a game that I could have won for the team ends in my team's defeat.

the locked dash and lunge has happen to me a few times today but i didnt stutterstep and each game was pretty laggy also. same with these lag matches i have been doing failed smoke bombs and double smoke bomb while in the air.

and then everyone blames the assassin. isnt it horrible?

well assassins that play objective and get stuff done dont deserve hate when a game is lost.

and you assassins are getting some kind of buff post-patch anyhow, so maybe that will slightly help.

It doesn't help the situation I described though. I mean, I'm not complaining that they're too weak or nerfed, I'm complaining that the things they should be able to do aren't working.

They could give the Assassin the ability to kill the moneyball with a single shuriken. If I lunge to the middle, then fail smoke bomb jump to my death, that one shuriken won't make much of a difference will it?