How to deal with lag as Assassin?

I'm posting separately as there's more than one great assassin guide here.

I play in the UK so I'm pretty sure it's lag that causes my assassin headaches. I try and play as a bot/turret killer and push lanes as much as I can. But on the occasions I see an enemy player, often having sneaked round behind them, I frequently just can't get the back grapple to work. I'll be directly behind them and doing the grapple animation but no grab. It's embarassing because invariably they just casually turn around and kill me.

It's pretty much put me off playing the class, because pushing lanes is all well and good, but it would be nice to be able to occasionally grapple an enemy.

I've tried normal grapple, lunge/grapple, dash as close behind them as possible, and it rarely seems to work.

Any tips? (other than don't play assassin, which is what I currently do)


EDIT: I should add that sometimes it works perfectly, often in games with a low number of players, and I get lots of kills, which again makes me think it's lag related.

it's lag related, not much you can do sadly

Not play assassin

join/leave/join/leave/join/leave until you get host

Could you try it with the new Title Update and let us know if it works better?

Better hit detection and less issues of grappling counter balanced by a HUGE nerf to her damage output, and the removal of the weapon swap which would let skilled assassins kill mediocre heavy classes after a grapple.

At least that will be working as intended, but the assassin just got even more difficult to play (which is okay I suppose, but pretty much every class has a workable counter for her now, and even the lighter classes only have to worry about back grapples if they have armor.)

I''m sure the good assassins will find a way to make this work (Facegrapple + Lunge + melee works on the lighter classes).

I think I just found my ticket to winning the Survivitol Brawl.

I will test it out as soon as I get a chance to play. A nerfed but playable assassin would be fine by me.

Generally my grapples land now, so that's an improvement.

A problem I'm noticing post patch is I seem to warp when I lunge. At the end of the lunge I'll suddenly switch to a new position, only a metre or two away but it's very disorienting. This never happened before the patch.

I've also noticed stuttering framerate issues and again some warping when close to enemy pros and players. Everything will be fine then I'll lung towards an enemy and hold down my trigger and things go stuttery.

Overall I'd say things have improved but a laggy game is still unplayable as assassin for the reasons above.

I stopped playing for about 2 weeks because of the lag, I live in Sweden and I was always set up with mostly US players. I could get around this and still do good because I like this game, but when the update was never released I gave up.

And now I'm back to try out the patch. The host migration seems better and faster but there's still gamebreaking lag, I looked at the countries of the other players and just saw US,US, Canada, US, Canada. I LIVE IN SWEDEN!!! I'm never going to get a good connection if I get set up with players from across the globe. I really, really, like this game but it's just not fun because of the lag, and you can't have a game that only works 10% of the time of you don't live in the US.

There's a few things you could do to help reduce the lag, a local search would be the best but things like host a game button or connection bars could help too.