Scout Archive

Guys,

Please report your experiences with Maskscent in this thread.

If it broke on you - let us know your level and the level of the critter it broke on.

If you got some XP, let us know the amount, your level and the level of the critter.

You get the gist.

Thanks!

B

Alright. I got 24 exp from some rabid shauputs, and 111 each from some rogue fambaas. BUT I can only seem to get that ONCE. No matter how long I crawl around them. Maybe I'm just doing something wrong though, who knows.

Also, this is a weird one. Mask scent seems to screw up camps. I go in and out, and start to get the leaving message when I enter, and vice versa. And my current visitors goes down by one. (YES, into the NEGATIVES). I have a post, so for a full account go here: http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=Development&message.id=475700

I kept getting 30 exp from diseased vrelts. Got that about 5 times when I was near them.

I just got mask scent exp, I think about 35 from jungle vynocks, which is the first mask scent exp I've ever gotten. I am about 100 apprentice exp from master scout and have been playing for about a month, and that's the first exp I've gotten. I got it 3 or 4 times from the same crit that I was blasting.

Iceman-KG-

walking past Bocatts/Squill hunters/Tatooine mynocks(lvl3) and other various creatures, my mask scent was detected. I am a master scout yet i cannot mask my scent from any creature so far it seems, they detect me sooooo easy.

On Rori I got 48 xp for each Plains Tusk Cat I snuck up on. I belive maskscent works something along the lines of you can only get one xp hit per maskscent "timer" however long that is, im thinking its about two minutesish, I could get an xp hit from the same kitty after about 2 minutes of finding other aggressive creatures to sneak up on (after I cycled maskscent on and off). I think its a go/nogo thing. You either get xp or you get busted and chased down, no middle ground from my experiences. You can get decent scouting xp on Rori near the Rebel outpost, as theres a few aggressive camps therebouts where you can easilly run back and fourth while the xp-timer thing "cools" or whatever. If thats your thing, personally I think hunting and harvesting >> maskscent.

They seriously beefed up the maskscent modifiers, which makes it easier for lower scouts to use it less ineffectivley.

This is the first time ive ever gotten scout xp aside from harvesting. However I think the rewards for it dont make it lucritive to just go around sneaking aggressive monsters.

I DO NOT belive this is bugged, or if it is, I havent seen any bugs with it yet. If you dont get xp from a monster and you think you should, go out of aggro range, cycle maskscent, and try again, you'll probably be sucessfull.

I haven't got any scout exp from it for... I can't remember how long, a long time. I also rarely get detected and can walk right through the middle of large groups of reds.

With Master Scout / Rifleman / Guardsman I'm getting 42xp on Shaupauts... It's not breaking alot... but they're conning blue for plain, and yellow for Greater... I think. Anyway it is breaking occasionally but not as much as pre-"FirstBigPatch. (FBP)" I'm actually pretty happy with it so far. I ran right through two groups of them and wracked up about 200xp. A little later I got gnarled by a plains hunter (which cons red) with an almost instantaneous break when I got around 40m.

It's not breaking on greens and blues for me right now (like Hermit Spiders and narglatch cubs) but I'm getting a very small amount of XP. Probably the balancing issue.

Anyway, just my observations so far. Nice to have that extra Scout XP coming in though.

-WB

Maskscent seems to be working properly (so far). Currently I'm just running around Naboo trying to finish an explorer mission. Maskscent has been up the whole time and has not yet broken. I've been getting exp off of shrapunts (sp?), spineflap guards and senturies. The exp has been 42, 42, and 54 respectivly. It only seems to work on creatures that con either white, yellow or red. I have gotten no exp from hermit spiders (which con blue to me). Could be that the new maskscent check only works on aggro creatures that con white or higher.

I'm planning on going to lok as soon as i finish my current mission, and will report the successes or failures that I have there.

KBear Lightrunner

Bloodfin

I'm at exploration 4.

Kreetle, Servort and Mutant womp rat at tattoine detect me very easy.

They even attack me from 64m +

Then i moved to dathomir, using mask scent and was near some agro mobs, no xp either and got detected easily.

Lastly I saw a rancor and it's camp, I click my maskscent right away! and got detected right away! and rancor send me to clone center right away!

A friend of mine is bounty hunter andat mt. squill cave the mask scent broke off, and it happens to his group also.

Guys,

I need a bit of help.

I wish that I knew every creature and the details of every creature off the top of my head - I know most of Naboos, but not the other planets as well.

I just got out of the game, and I haven't been having major issues with maskscent - I got XP from it when I was using it against both a hermit spider (which conned light blue to me) and some other rorian creature that I can't recall at the moment, but was a difficulty 14 creature and conned red to me at the time (but I had my axe up, not my T21).

When you are posting issues with maskscent, please include the creature name, whether or not it is aggressive, and the creature level (difficulty) if you remember it.

This will help us figure out what exactly is wrong with maskscent (if anything).

One thing I will say - the days of counting coup on Rancors is over.

B

Master Scout/ Wayfaring I

Kreetle - Tattoine - aggressive - level 7ish - detected every single time.

Scyk - Tat - aggressive - low teens - got proper XP from three at once, not detected until I did something stupid.

Sevort - Tat - aggressive - 10ish - worked properly through multiple encounters.

NPCs - detected and aggro'd 3/3 times with camo kit active. (just thought I'd throw it in - it's likely linked).

interesting lol

I ran thru the narglatch cave on naboo today, and I racked up the exp, it was hilarious....

I have exploration 4 btw