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Something else I discovered while running tests, Placate seems to be functioning as an AoE Placate. Not sure when that changed, but visual effects shows it being AoE. So that kind of shoots my idea down a notch there.

Just ran some tests and recorded them, I think my findings will be a bit interesting to you. I'll let you know when I have it uploaded. Should be about 10 to 15 minutes.

I can make new tests and record them. I'll do that when I get some time.

Hmmm, you may be on to something there. But how would that explain that sometimes it works as intended, but other times it does not? And to answer your question, no. The animation is the fast version when it doesn't work. It doesn't do the slow version then give the lower damage. And I am absolutely sure I am not being interrupted. I did some controlled tests vs 1v1 enemies to test that about a year or so ago. When it fast casts after using Placate, it seems very random and there is no rhyme or reason to it that I can tell. The only thing that really stands out is that it always happens when you have stacks of Assassin's Focus.

I see what you are saying now. You are referring to the "Hidden" status, rather than the status of Hide. However, the suggestion still accomplishes the same thing.since the suggestion consumes the stacks of Assassin's Focus, which is another culprit of the cause of the bug. The other goal which was mentioned, was to put Placate back to its original status by use of the Assassin's Focus Mechanic.

Even if this is the case, the suggestion covers that by saying Full Hide, you can easily equate that to Full Stealth. Either way, right or wrong, the desired Suggestion still remains the same and getting too deep in to what hide is or is not only complicates the suggestion and "placates" the overall meaning of the request. However, the term "Pseudo Hide" was a term coined by Castle himself. So any confusion there has the source that dates back to him. He called it Pseudo Hide, so that is what the rest of us called it as well. So for argument's sake, let's just say that instead of Full Hide, we call it 100% Stealth from Hide.

Trust me, I understand the concept full well of how Hide/Stealth works. I mean, if you would like me to prove it to you I have time. Just log on a character with zero +perception and this can be verified. All I am saying is that is not at all how Castle explained it to us.

not according to Castle, Castle specifically told us in the Stalker forums during live, that Placate no longer puts you in Hide, it only puts you in Pseudo Hide. This was verified in PvP, where if you were Placated, you could still see the Stalker, you just couldn't target the Stalker.

The way I see it, what were you going to do with those stacks of Focus anyway if the desired effect is to get the Full use of Assassin's Strike after Placate? Picken up what I'm dropping down?

I have a possible fix to this bug, and a solution to make Placate what it was meant to be. Devs and players alike can check it out in the link below.

So Placate has been bugged for a while now. Or maybe it is just the mechanic all together of the Fast Activating Assassin's Strike (or other variants) that is bugged. Placate has its own bugs, but this is speaking more specifically when after using it, sometimes you might get the Full Power of Assassin's Strike, sometimes you still get the Fast Activation Assassin's Strike. Some players have been reporting that they never get the Full Power version at all unless they use Assassin's Strike as their opener. This has been reported before and sadly didn't get much traction. However, recently it was brought up again and finally it is getting some attention from the players. THIS IS THE THREAD HERE As a bug, that is going to be one that will be tricky to figure out the cause of. The reason is that, it is assumed that the primary reason the Assassin's Strike activates quickly instead of the Full Power Version after using Placate, is because Placate only places you in a (which can be fixed by allowing Placate to place you in to Full Hide like it was originally intended to do) Pseudo Hide. When the circumstances allow Assassin's Strike to cast quickly, it tends to negate the slow activation that should take place when the caster uses Placate, which puts them in a Pseudo Hide rather than Full Hide. The only time your Assassin's Strike will give you the Full Version even if you are procced for a quick version, is if you are in Full Hide, which takes 6 seconds from the last damage dealt or taken. Of course this is just my personal running theory. However, what we do know is that the root cause for this bug is because Assassin's Strike is procced for quick casting, and the game doesn't seem to know if it should Quick Cast after using Placate, or if it should allow the Full Power Assassin's Strike. So the chances of getting the Full Version seems to be about 50/50 for some and absolute zero for others. I think the reason for this may depend on the power set; just a guess. SUGGESTION Allow Placate to place you back in to Full Hide and made an AoE Placate when you have Assassin's Focus Charges. The conditions for this must be met by using Placate while you have Assassin's Focus Charges, otherwise Placate works no differently than it works now. Here is how this works. When you use Placate, it will use up any and all Assassin's Focus when doing so. The mechanics for this will play as follows; each Assassin's Focus it uses will place you in Full Hide for 2 seconds per Assassin's Focus Charge. If you have three of them, it will place you in Full Hide for the 6 seconds it takes to put you in to Full Hide Naturally, additionally it will turn the Single Target Placate in to an AoE Placate for 10 Feet per Assassin's Focus consumed, not to exceed 30 Feet. This not only allows Assassin's Strike to bypass the Bug and use the Full Cast Version, but also extends the mechanic that already exists. This also gives the desired effect that Placate had before it was nerfed due to players having a lack of Resistances to Placate in those early days. Now that the lack of Resistances no longer exist, that nerf is no longer a requirement, but rather a hindrance since Resistances to Placate are very common in today's game. The nerf that took place can now be reverted by means of a procc mechanic that already exists, but can be added to. @Wavicle You may be interested in this. To the rest of you, thoughts?

This right here should honestly sum up the entire thread. This is the most logical answer anyone could have made. The recognition of the frustration/problem, then logically breaking down the only two possible solutions, applying the most logical solution. Great post, @PeregrineFalcon

I'm not trying to make it anything, In fact I even said that I run in to players like this "From time to time." I never said I run in to them constantly. I also said there wasn't anything you could do about it. I just think it's asinine that people pretend it's not a problem at all and anyone who posts about it is treated like they are lying. I am not making it out to be more than what it is, I am simply not pretending "pretending" like it just doesn't happen. Want to know my stance since you clearly didn't read my stance so you can stop claiming that I am making it out to something that it is not? 1: I recognize the problem and admit it exists on an unknown level. 2: I admit nothing can, nor should be done about it. Any words you put in my mouth other than those two statements is a lie. <-----Was a butthole thing to say. I apologize. Anything other than that is a misrepresentation of my intentions or thoughts at this current time. I say this because my opinion has been altered a bit over the course of this thread. Edited for being a butthole.

Nobody gave an example of somebody who actually played the game without being PLed who didn't have at very least a kill badge, or damage taken badge or healing badge or any other number of badge they could have if they didn't PL. That would be extremely difficult to do unless you just stood by the door while the team ran missions. Also, I didn't say it automatically means they were PLed, but it is a pretty good indication.

You noob! lol

Never? Like, ever? Lucky you... I run in to them here and there. Not often, but when it happens it's painfully obvious. Then you look at their badges and see nothing, nodda. They are level 50 and they don't even have the first damage badge as damage dealers, or the first healing badge as a healer, or the first damage taken badge as a Tanker, they have no exploration badges or even "you killed X amount of Z's" badges. People are saying you can't tell based on badges, I disagree strongly. Sure, you can't tell from the badges alone, but if I have even bothered to look at your badge, it's because you have given several clues that you know absolutely nothing about the game or even how to get anywhere and you gave me every reason in the world to test my suspicion and check out your nonexistent badges. They say you can't tell if somebody has been PLed or not based on badges....they are wrong. You might not be able to tell if somebody new was PLed to 50, but you can sure tell if that 50 was PLed to 50 until they start getting some content under their belts. But yeah, the PLed brand new players are out there, all one needs to do to get a slight understanding of this is to head to your nearest AE farm and watch all the beggars pleading for somebody to power level them. I have literally, out of pure twisted curiosity sat in an AE while chatting with an old friend who I have not spoken to in a while, and watched how long people will stand around and beg. There were two characters in particular, one male, one female, both begging like crazy in both local and LFG chat for well over an hour. That is an hour they could have been leveling, but instead insist on begging for an hour (or more, I couldn't stand to stomach it any longer after an hour's time) instead of actually playing the game. Now, I don't know if they were new or not, but that is some pretty messed up crap right there if you ask me. What I will say is this, a new player comes in, somebody invites them to an AE team and next thing they know they are 50 in no time. It feeds an addiction. Anything with an instant gratification attached to it can become an addiction. To play it off like players like this do not exist is a grievous statement. We know they exist. Are they as big of a problem as everyone says they are? I don't know. But I do know they are a big enough problem that people trickle in to these forums often enough to keep the subject popping. Of course these people get dog piled and they give it up, but then soon after another person will make another post. So players are certainly experiencing this in game or these types of threads would not keep popping up. Now, folks down thumbs me down all you like, but it won't stop these threads from popping up. So how about we all stop pretending like it's not a problem and start asking the real question? Can anything even be done about it, and should anything be done about it? Answer: No. First, there isn't much we can do about it. People will always find a way and people will always power level noobs. This has been a problem since Fire Tanks herding maps, it won't be going away. Best thing that can be done is like somebody earlier told me. If you run across a noob who does something stupid because he power leveled to 50, help the chump learn so that he stops being a chump. It's all we can do.

You mean like this? 🙂 It's been updated.

I play at very loud volumes, so try it at your preferred volume and see how it works for you. Those sounds can be adjusted. Ii for one love the continuous sounds, but I understand why others don't and completely understand why that is not everyone's cup of tea. It's kind of what got me doing these to begin with, I got tired of watching sounds vanish one by one over the years and decided, "Why can't both parties have what they want?" so in began my research in how to create mods. My particular favorite is the Transformers mod for Robot MM's. 😉 🙂

@Sovera and @AxerJ Enjoy!

@Sovera and @AxerJ I'll whip something up either tonight or tomorrow.

Simply put, I would like to change my game account name. Anyone know how to go about this? I see how to change the Forum name, just not so sure how to change the game account name.

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When I first started playing the game, a friend of mine was talking shit about another friends of line. This was the first game I have played that had chat bubbles. So when he would send me tells about my other friend, I was paranoid as hell that my other friend would see his chat bubbles. We were all on the same team together, and I thought that if I could see them, so could he. I was scared they were going to end up in to it, having no idea that he couldn't see the chat bubbles because it was in tells. It took me awhile to figure out that nobody seen those bubbles but me, lol.

To be more specific, it's working as intended. The idea for it is so that PBAoE Toggles don't hit you while you are in a delicate situation of that crucial interrupt time it takes for you to fire off your Assassin Strike. You lose that as soon as you attack or are hit. It has worked this way since day one.

Yeah, I can see your point there.