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Ok good points.

But what about when you placate and you do get the green hidden status in your bar?

I have been hidden using Placate and had the green hidden effect come up. I have also been hidden using placate and it not come up. Does the game know the difference? How can we?

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If you placate and then dont get attacked for 10 seconds, you will go back into your regular hide mode. What probubly happened is you placated, then didnt attack or get attacked for 10 seconds without realizing it.

The only way you will know the difference is if you see the hidden status in your status bar. If you dont see the word hidden, then your not.

There is a lot of confusion lately on how exactly Placate works. So I am going to attempt to explain it so everyone can understand. It would be nice if a Red Name (Castle) could come in and back me up.

Placate is a single target attack.

It is auto-hit.

When you use it, ONLY the player/mob you Placated is affected. That player/mob can no longer target or attack you until placate wears off, or if your placated hide is broken.

You can then get a critical or AS ANY other player/mob, unless you get interupted. However, you are NOT hidden to anyone else besides the player/mob you placated, so anyone else in the area can target and attack you.

Also, while in a Placated hide, you do NOT get the defensive bonus that hide provides, as you are not truely hidden. You can tell because there is no hidden status in your buff/debuff bar.

This has all been confirmed and tested. Test it for yourselves if you dont believe me. Go into a PvP zone with a couple friends. Placate one friend, and ask the other friend if they can still see you, I garuntee the answer is YES! Then, attack the friend that can still see you (the one you didn't placate) and you will get a critical.

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2) I thought that stealth powers rendered our power sounds mute, just like it renders our glowing power effects invisible. Is Build Up (and others?) an exception to this? I know some things can't be heard since back in beta I'd stand next to people with some loud toggle powers on and they clearly didn't know it.

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Stealth does not mute the sounds you make. People can hear you use Build up if your too close, always try to activate it 20-30yds away.

Same goes for splashes in water. Other players can hear and see your tracks in the water.

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The real code to make yourself Invulnerable to AS is as follows.

Up, Down, Up, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right B, A, Select, Start.

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LOL. I swear that code will forever be implanted in any gamers head.

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Some are even dense enough to immediately use an awaken.

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I love them! Ahhh, good times.

I'm a EM Stalker. Nerf Me!

LOL oops sorry, though I was in the CoH side, my B.

The contact for the special missions seems to be located in the back of Atlas City Hall, almost directly behind Sunburst (from a leaked screenshot). See if he's there (I'm at work so cant check myself)

WooHoo! Thank you Statesman!

Your guide came out great! Good info, easy to read, I like it. w00t, I got a mention! Thanks magicj.