The Assassin Class of Borderlands 2 Explained

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IGN has published a new in-depth feature on [app=8533]Borderlands 2[/app] that explains how the new Assassin class will work. The enigmatic Zer0 can activate a holographic decoy of himself and simultaneously enter a Predator-style stealth mode; while in this camouflaged state, Zer0 can analyse enemy critical hit zones, and pull off lethal sneak attacks.

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[Wyld]

Sounds interesting.

Aside from the simple joy of playing the game, I'm getting more and more interested into looking at the game dynamics and see how they function.

Will certainly be purchasing this one.

[Artful-dodgeR]

Massive Mordecai fan in #1 yet i reckon ill go Turretstylez over this this time.

[Wyld]

I liked the Soldier, but I really got into the Siren gameplay last time around.

Have to say, so far each class has something I want to try out.

We're going to have to get some GoN night running, that's for sure.



Oh. ****. Remembering the old game, any news on the in-game voice comms system?

[Artful-dodgeR]

Gon nights for sure.

[Shuth]

I'm keen for more information on how multiplayer will be implemented.

[Novocaine]

Stealth? Yeah going this guy.

[tranquil]

Gon nights for sure.

this! so keen

[Spooler]

Why don't we have a GoN borderlands night ? tuesday or something ? sounds awesome to me

[Artful-dodgeR]

I just reinstalled as i wanted to have a go of Lilith (only one i didnt play). Although i only got roland up to about 15 odd.

[Marius]

I hope stealth hasn't been moved from the Siren to this guy. It was the main part of the Siren I enjoyed.

[Novocaine]

Doesn't look like the Siren has stealth any more. But what the Siren had was better than just regular stealth anyway. A little sad to lose it.

Maybe they will allow BL1 character imports at some point. MMMMM

[Marius]

It's more the phasing I'm talking about. Not sure if the Siren had regular stealth, but she could go invisible and become turbo charged for a melee attack. I hope that remains.

[vcatkiller]

The siren's ability has changed, alas. From what I read the new siren gains the "phaselock" ability, in which you encase enemies in a static immobilizing bubble of some sort.

That being said, the new Siren still looks kind of interesting.. Still gonna miss the ol' phasewalk ability though

[Mugsy]

Yeah, the new Siren (Maya) has the phaselock (aka cool time dilation field) ability instead of phasewalk and the Assassin gets the stealth.

I see phaselock as a variant of Mordecai's Bloodwing... it slows down the target like one of Bloodwing's abilities.

The Assassin's stealth attack is phasewalk's stealth and a replacement for Brick's melee beserker skill since Zero is the only one with an ability that has a melee attack.

The new classes will be interesting. Not sure which ones I want to play as the most.