Re: Improve assassins
I don't think assassinations should be viewed too realistically. Otherwise you'd need to start asking questions like why the assassin doesn't just put poison in the target's food, or push a stone off a parapet onto his head, or why he's never equipped differently because he could be in disguise, or why he shouldn't sometimes have his assassination aborted simply because he didn't have an opportunity to get to the target.
Dom3's assassination mechanic is a gameplay representation, not a reality simulator - it could have as easily been abstracted to a percentage chance like the way it is done in the Total War series, or just a success/fail message like Mind Hunts. The bottom line is that it works for gameplay: we all know what happens and how we can influence the outcome, and it looks nice.
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