I got ambushed at a really low level as I left Nipton to get to Novac.(my first assassins ever on my first profile had a Shishkebab, I've been trying to get it since >_> ) I couldn't punch through their armor at all, even when using a Service rifle with AP rounds. Doing 1-2 damage is not my idea of fun. So I split. They chase me, chase me chase me and then they say F it and run the other way.


....why? I can understand, perhaps, troopers at McCarran who don't want to leave their post, Radscorpions may not want to abandon their nests, but Assassins? It's their job to hunt me! They have nothing better to do! If they report back, won't they be punished for letting me go? One of them was tailing me with a Super Sledge!

I think the problem is that the assassins aren't targeted to you, the game just spawns them next to you and they have a forcegreet. I think Obsidian should change it so that you are marked a priority, so that unless you outrun them and hide, they will chase you to the ends of the Earth. If you do run away, you'll keep meeting up with the same assassins you met last time.

I tried runnning away from them, and it doesn't work for me. If not for Boone or ED-E, I have my butt handed to me everytime. I don't find them easy at all. I wish I could run away and they stop chasing me, but they don't. At least not for me.