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I haven't done too much since the patch, but my maskscent seemed to be working fine.

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EttaBrummi wrote:

Hi everybody

I'm just curious if this happend only to me.... Once the servers were up again, i decided to go a bit hunting outside our city on Tatooine. As usual i used /conceal once leaving the city. Everything went fine until a few cannibal dewbacks (only CL20 !) spawned in front of me and my /conceal disappeared like ice in the sun.

Ok, i thought that can happen and went to to Bestine, there are a lot of kreetles (CL3 but aggro). I /conceal-ed again and started walking around. Guess what happened: it only took seconds for the kreetles to break my camouflage ...

Did this happen to anybody else ? If yes, is this some kind of new 'feature' ?

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I went on endor and used /conceal, i rided with my speederbike from samuggler outpost to research one, conceal never broke even if i driven on every single lair/red spawn i saw. I got 5j scouting xp only for drive a few minutes.

Then i went back to Theed, masked and driven to my new city 9600m away. My masckscente never broke (i got the wearing off message when almost at home) but i got aggro from almost any of the few reds i have found in my path (mostly rawls i think from the sound of theyr attacks).

i went to dathomir with my bio engi to sample from bull and mutant rancors. my concealbroke every couple of minutes, as did my conceal on him. I attributed it to being on speeder bikes, which basically shout ''HEY LOOK AT ME!!''

I did notice an irritating bug which i reported, where creatures would just randomly aggro me without breaking conceal. Noone is fighting so it's not a group aggro transfer thing. It just decided that it wasn't going to check against my concealment and agged. Not fun. Not fun at all!

"Did this happen to anybody else ? If yes, is this some kind of new 'feature' ?"

I have been reading several posts in the Scout forum regarding similiar issues with /maskscent...

• Though it appears to be about the same percentage of the community that were having troubles prior to the patch as well.

There could be something wrong, but since I don't play on Patch Day, I have not testedthe skills outmyself.

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Prior to the patch, I did test /maskscent against kreetles and received a 93% success rate (213 checks)...

• Considering I was running that is darn close to where the rate should have been (actually higher than I initially expected ).

I suspect there is something else involved in the issue than a straight failure of the skill itself...

• But I don't have a clue what that problem might be.

My conceal never broke. I was still concealed as EVERY SINGLE NPC ON TATOOINE attacked me!

I guess that the devs figure we don't need to hide since our speeders can outrun the NPCs

I was using conceal and mask scent last night and didnt notice any big differences. Likely just a string of bad luck and since it was patch day one gets a bit suspect

Cul

I had the same bug yesterday in the squill cave while solo. masksent did not break but a group of squill hunters agroed on me and chased me out of the cave.Didnt relize it was a bug will report it if it happens today.

Well I didn't try using conceal yesterday but I did run around Tat with mask scent. I didn't have it break as much as you, but I did have a kreetle break it twice, but that would be about 2 out of 100 kreetles I passed. I used to have kreetles break my mask scent all the time before the really got it fixed. Never had a problem after that, ever, so those 2 breaks were a surprise.

i think being on a vehicle reduces the affectiveness of conceal and maskscent by likr 90%. my mask scent broke against kretles like 8 times on the ride to tusken. while i was on a mount it broke about 2 and while i run it hardly ever breaks at all.

Both worked just fine for me. Just ran a test on Talus on red aggros, nothing.

Used maskscent to pull single torturs, worked there too.

Dunno what to tell ya, mayhaps you got a run of bad luck going.

Did you check to see if there are any rasps following you?

JB

"i think being on a vehicle reduces the affectiveness of conceal and maskscent by likr 90%."

Quite possibly those sly developers linked success rate to the physical speed of your character in the game system...

• I had thought it what was simply associated with the posture of your character (crawling, running, walking), but maybe not.

Hmmm...

I was getting scout xp at the Squill caves before patch... i could walk around getting xp and mask would only break after about 1 our of 30 times. But they wouldnt agro unless i started running around. Post patch i was unable to mask scent against anything in the caves. 100% agro from every squill i came across... about 40% would attack me for no apparent reason while my Mask was still functioning. This has to be a bug... even the Kreetles were all over me.