Originally posted by hitman2120
UAVS, CUAVS, EMPS, AUAVS are only called in so much because of a broken mechanic in this game. No one deserves anything, especially not a killstreak. Why would someone get a KILLstreak even after they die? They put in assassin when they realized how stupidly common these things would be, thus making it imbalanced. Blind eye is fine in the sense that it soft-counters all air support. Regardless of whether you have blind eye or not you can die to air support. Assassin on the other hand hard counters 4 different types of things. It would have been fine if it simply countered UAvs and AUAVS. But when it counters EMPS and CUAVS you really have to question the judgment behind it all. Of course the problem run deeper than that, but having one perk do so much is almost game breaking.
As for hardline, it only works for people who suck at aiming. If you are getting enough assists per game to call in a predator; its time you work on your aim or get better connection.
Granted my view is probably biased because I almost exclusively play SnD, where Assassin is king.
Assists rarely have much to do with aiming. You can get an assist from
1. Flash/Stun/Claymore/Betty Hits
2. Killstreak such as Pred, Reaper,AC130
3. A teammate stealing your kill.
4. Getting killed but your teammate finishes the guy off.
and yes if you play SND you'd be biased since I'd imagine people are scared to move, crawling around the map with Dead Silence, staring at minimap praying for red dots...
I play Ground War and UAVs,Countersm EMPs, etc are up a lot more than SND. Maybe it shouldn't counter EMP but I see no issue with countering advanced uav since 3 UAVs turns into an advanced UAV.
Assassin doesn't counter Recon nor Recon Drone. Your point about Hardline Pro is so wrong in Ground War modes. With the spawn delay you could easily get 5-6 assists in the AC130 which makes the Assault Juug and Osprey Gunner that much easier to get. Cap 2 flags and throw 2 stuns and you could have a Pred which leads to AC130. That's potentially zero kills leading to who knows.
But obviously in SND people aren't getting big kills usually so Assassin may be more annoying however UAV takes the "Search" part out anyway :carling: