El_Thano

I don't think it is particularly different. Does one exploit existing mean it is ok to add back in another one? I would personally expect the one you bring up to change eventually.

It was incredibly easy in beta for stalkers to farm XP really fast by picking kidnap missions from the newspaper, stealthing through to the back, killing the few guards around the NPC, then stealthing back to the entrance. I doubt you're going to get that exploit back ever.

For the fighting NPCs, this was never a problem, because they're visible for the ambushes to hit, but for kidnappings if the NPC can follow you while stealthed, it becomes a huge XP exploit.