Assassinations not working in firefight?

[Tamren]

I'm having a lot of trouble assassinating stuff in arcade and limited firefight. It only works about 20% of the time and I get the ninja mask medal to indicate a successful backstab. So it should have counted as an assassination since I was holding the button down, it just didn't for some reason.

I though I might be doing it incorrectly but I hosted some local custom firefight games and my assassination success rate was a consistent 100%. I have no way to confirm this but I think the matchmade firefight has some kind of cap on how many assassinations you can do, or there is a bug or netcode problem that prevents them from registering properly. Same effect in the end.

[Paddon]

Getting a similar issue, haven't managed to assassinate since I bought the game! Had a lot of instances tonight where I should have assassinated enemies but it just ends up with me punching the square of their back

[Elvick]

I've noticed this as well, but wasn't sure if it was me or the game. I generally go for the assassination as there's so few chances to see the animations that I take it [short of it being life threatening obviously].

[lega]

you just have to hold the melee button

[DE_0]

Say what? YOU HAVE TO HOLD THE MELEE BUTTON DOWN!? I wish I had known that cause I would have gotten a lot of assisnations.

[Lucifer ★✬]

think i assassinated 1 jackal in the campaign

but as above says, hold down the melee button

[Paddon]

OP stated that he holds the melee button

[Elvick]

Originally posted by lega:

you just have to hold the melee button

yes we know how it works.

[InvaderPork]

It's a bug or something 343 purposely did. It kinda works like how brute assassinations work, where they dont see you or are focused on someone else. It sucks but that's how it is for some reason.

[Jebus]

I am pretty much unable to assassinate anything above Jackal, unless they are not aware of me at all. But honestly i think it comes down to a lag issue.

If you've noticed, the hunters arent always facing the direction the game is showing. they're really quite wonky. I have a theory its the same with pretty much every enemy in firefight.
Just to a much lesser extent.

Firefight in general is just a buggy mess when it comes to medals.
Especially the assist medal. Makes it a nightmare to get teamwork XP without a warthog.

I can have a DUEL with a wonky, moonwalkin hunter, and someone flies outta nowhere, gets the kill, and i get no assist for it.
Same with every other enemy.

I'd say i only get the assist medal 2/10 times when i deserve it.

Imagine tryharding the plasma pistol overcharge to get an assist medal,
And you get the medal for weakening a dead enemy with the overcharge,
but you dont actually get the assist.

[Tamren]

Originally posted by Jebus™:

I am pretty much unable to assassinate anything above Jackal, unless they are not aware of me at all. But honestly i think it comes down to a lag issue.

Yeah I'm reasonably certain now that it's something to do with netcode/ping.

I have done some testing and assassinations work 100% of the time in singleplayer campaign/firefight, no issues there. However in multiplayer they don't work all the time *unless the target is moving away from me*. You know how grunts will sometimes get scared and run away? I never have trouble assassinating them when they do that, and I think the cases where I can't assassinate other things like elites has to do with ping. The direction the enemy is facing clientside just doesn't match what the server thinks it is. So in firefight you can be behind an enemy and even get the backstab medal for meleeing them in the back, but it doesn't assassinate.

Not sure what they could do to fix this, better dedicated servers maybe?