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Originally Posted by Rygar
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- Not AggroPC and CAN See Invis = Scowls (will agro you if invis is up)
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Yeah, that can't be right. What that would mean is any time anyone happened to be invis in a friendly city, they'd be jumped by every see invis guard/NPC. That was definitely not a thing.
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Originally Posted by Rygar
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Sneak, as far as I can tell, still worked as Indifferent if behind the mob. I believe it was just a check to see if you were in the awareness radius as it was call by the dev team and ignored faction completely.
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Correct - it's important to demarcate sneak from any discussion about invis and hide. Sneak shouldn't even enter the conversation - it's a simple 180-degree aggro check across all classes, and nothing can see through it. Not gods, not see invis mobs, not see rogue hide mobs, not the undead, etc. Anyone who says otherwise doesn't understand that mechanic. The only notable difference in sneak is that it never fails for rogues once the skill is trained (except after vendoring for some god-forsaken reason), and sneak's movement speed increases for rogues as they level.
A common confusion is that sneak somehow affects a rogue's hide ability - it doesn't. Sneak allows a rogue to move while hidden, and stacks the 180-degree non-aggro feature, but that's it - hide is no more and no less effective for a rogue if the rogue is also sneaking. It simply allows them the advantage of movement while also being hidden. The rest of this stuff is pretty interesting, but as the saying goes: substantive claims require substantive evidence. If I were developing P99 I wouldn't quite feel confident in changing anything unless there were some really solid classic-era screenshots demonstrating these mechanics.