User blog comment:Kabutsu/The Crimson Polls II: 26/@comment-3096856-20131106115411/@comment-4829046-20131108112000

Actually you can kill enemies without using a killing animation or secondary weapon, its just pointless to do so. And in ACIV you have faster ways of killing them as well and is actually part of gameplay and not a glitch-turned-into-mechanic thing.

And while the melee stealth kills from cover in Splinter cell are good I find them WAAAAAAY too much. My eyebrow is always raised even though it is fun to do.

And another good thing about ACIV combat is that now high profile kills done outside the line of sight don't alert psychic guards. I was so happy when I saw an air assassination done just a dozen meters behind a guard and he didn't hear it. THAT'S AWESOME!!! I always found these guards with super-human senses in previous games to be so stupid. This now allows me to not have to always use low profile kills when not trying to alert guards.