Forum:Legionary assassins more active?

Is it my imagination, or have the legionary assassin teams woken up some after the last patch? I hardly used to see them no matter how much of a nuisance I was being to the Legion. Now they arrive as regular as clockwork, and quite frequently too.

They're also totally incompetent. They tend to attack in single file or a close group, so they get into each others' way and can be taken out with a single 40mm grenade. The last time I played, one of them threw a plasma grenade that bounced back right into his own group. Ouch.

And after they're dead, it's Christmas time. Free delivery of brush rifles, trail carbines, 12.7mm submachine guns, Super Sledges, and thermic lances.... it used to be hard to find a thermic lance before the middle of the game; now it's dead easy if you offend Caesar. And the assassins never get close enough to use it, anyway.

All of these goodies make the game a LOT easier. Wunengzi 11:13, July 12, 2011 (UTC)

Well I wish I was able to play with the update to experience this joyful bounty of hilariously incompetent enemies and wonderful weapons but alas, I cannot play with the patch for endless save loading screen sucks balls. Crossfire XVI 04:57, July 13, 2011 (UTC)

I have to agree that they're more active now. I had never seen one EVER before until about 30 minutes ago and now I've seen them twice. I thought they were just a story parents used to tell there kids to make them behave. The legion has always hated me on my main profile which has over 100 hours on it. Allhailme 04:10, July 17, 2011 (UTC

I know there position and went there in Nipton right on time like you said but when I beat the other 3 the last one was stuck in the rocks by the wolves den so I don't think it was patched.

You are not imagining it. I bet NCR hitsquads are awake too. I got ambushed three times already in one day. Once fast traveling to wolf horn ranch, once at the coyote den, and once walking sergeant McGee all the way from primm to forlorn hope (I wondered where he was going). The patch seemed to fix all the problems involving their spawning, so now they are like talon mercs from Fo3. Good news is that vexillarius armor is a convenient fix for my Desert Ranger armor! Plus with jury rigging you can fix up all their weapons for sale. To think I used to farm black mountain for super sledges, now they are delivered!