If you just walk backwards and swing your weapon in most cases thief won’t have enough stealth time to backstab you, so he will wwaste it on facestab or just run out of stealth. SA thieves are sure annoying as hell, but backstab itself should be totally fine for anyone who played thief ever once.
Why the emphasis on backstab? Just a facestabbing thief can kill you and just stealth when you try to counter him. Facestab, stealth, facestab, stealth. You die either way.
Don’t pretend there’s a punishment for missing a backstab. It hardly matters.
There’s a team getting actual money to make sure things are balanced.
They needed to be sacked before the game got released. Stealth is the biggest mistake any game can make. I say this as a Dark Age of Camelot shadowblade (rogue) of four years.
You are correct! Did you know Guild Wars never had stealth in result: it made Guild Wars very popular, fun and risk-reward challenging? Imagine Guild Wars 2 was improve version of Guild Wars- just imagine?
I did a lot of research in Guild Wars: Assassin Profession: see for yourself how fun, challenging-risk reward this profession was? yes, again!! with no stealth and with no reward first than risk after.
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Read this:
This is Perfect Example of Arena net Thief Profession: “Stealth and Empowerment Why the —-——— are Failures”
http://www.nuclearfridge.com/2011/11/feature-stealth-and-empowerment-why.html
“My focus will be on the singleplayer modes of the —-—— – and all of the shortcomings that arise from fundamental flaws with their design philosophies”
“A child could play —-—— and probably do really well. The difficulty barrier for the games is set abysmally low – and seems to get lower with each successive game. In the earlier entries of the series, combat revolved mainly around mashing a single button and occasionally executing a two-button counter. It requires little manual dexterity and an average sense of timing”.
“To sum things up, kitten was easy. Furthermore, killing guards in the —-——- series usually results in some spectacular, over-the-top killing animations, and everybody loves these. The later entries into the series seemed to parody this, introducing killstreaks (allowing the player to instantly kill at the push of a button) and double kills (seriously, what?), making the game even easier. In short, a player only needs to input a small amount of effort in order to ensure a far greater output”.
“After reflecting on all of these considerations, we seem to see the inherent problem with the design of the —-——- series: it empowers the player far too much. While this is perfect for the action portion of the game, it makes the stealth portion of the game completely irrelevant. Good stealth means empowerment through disempowerment, such as in —-———— "
“In that game, taking guards head-on is never a good idea. Christian Bal- er, Adam Jensen is by no means a bullet sponge, no matter how many augments he gets. This is what makes stealth rewarding: while a player is not required to use it, it greatly increases the player’s chances of survival. Furthermore, stealthy takedowns are pretty kitten cool, making the player feel like something straight out of Predator. In this manner, —-———- manages to encourage players to take a stealthy approach”.
“The same take on stealth holds true in —-——-. While Batman has a high level of martial skill, he’s not infallible – bullets will put down the Bat very quickly. That’s why he – and you, the player – naturally enter stealth mode in a room filled with armed guards. Batman’s potential takedowns, combined with enemies getting increasingly frightened, are what empower and reward the player as he plays stealthily. You can fight these guards head-on, of course, but it will take a wise use of gadgets and a careful consideration of every attack you make. In this kind of situation, the player’s high input will be matched by a high output – a perfect balance”.
Anonymous- “This is exactly what i was saying! but fanboys will blindly defend the game, saying it’s perfect in all ways, and doesnt need to be fixed, i love to stealthily kill some dude in this game, but since there is little to no consequence to just head on murder them, i must annoyingly force myself to use stealth!”
Bye.