: I mean animation-wise. If the animation is the player sticking needles in
: someone's face and they're out of needles, do they just appear from
: nowhere, does the animation happen without them, does a different
: animation play...? It's a detail I've rarely if ever seen addressed with
: requests for new assassinations and it would come up in-game sooner or
: later.

Well, you're still a chemically-enhanced half-cyborg human smacking a very hard blunt object to someone's face, which, in my opinion, still qualifies as extremely painful.