As we all know, silent death needs some change. It's obvious that sneaker shouldn't be able to easily kill 200+ armored character. Making silent death for hth/melee only is out of the question, players are going to be disgusted because they chose perk which is totally useless.A simple solution comes to my mind:SD for weapons with aim mode only (one handed without burst mode).This way every player who took silent death could use its potential. Throwers could use throwing knives, small gunners could use needler or 223 pistol and lazor sneakers could use laser pistols and plasma pistols (though it might be the next thing people will whine about, it's not a secret that you can kill 290 hp guy with two shots from plasma).
because, hth/unarmed are the same thing, sir . hth = hand to hand (unarmed) unarmed = hth
The real problem is armour bypassing crits, if they removed the bypass armour wouldn't be useless, plasma could be guarded against and people would have a chance to fight back.
I wish melee got some buff, like silent death for also two handed melee weapons , and heavy handed.