Change to Demoralize?

I was playing one of my Stalkers today and noticed something odd. The Demoralize effect from a successful assassination was going off on the surrounding mobs even when the target died. It used to be that the target had to survive for the Demoralize to take effect, that seems to no longer be true,
When did this happen? Have I been just oblivious for a while or is this new?

It's new in Issue 21 and it affects ANY power which is implemented as a grantable temp power. e.g. Chain Induction, Transfusion, Assassin Strike's Demoralize, etc.. Where before the granted temp power would not activate if the target died first, now it will. So Kinetics users will be happy to find out that if someone kills the enemy they targeted for Transfusion, they will still get a heal out of it where before you'd see the animation but get no heal from the dead target.

So I wasn't being completely oblivious.
Thanks.

That's great to know, I found it weird when Disintegration spread to other targets on my Beam Gun corr after the killing shot on a foe.

Slightly off topic but what's the % of demoralize going off again?

Thanks, that's what I get for taking such a long break and barely playing Stalkers (and barely playing at all for the last 2 months).

It should be like 50% imo, especially since AS is so damn hard to use in higher levels due to team AoEs. I guess it 'feels' like 50% to me because I notice it so much when it goes off

It definitely feels more reliable than 25% to me too. Guess I need to pay a bit more attention.

Actually, I should play my spines more, because I'm forgetting my /da will throw off my perception of demoralize with the fear aura.

Interesting. 6 stalkers performing an AS will cause enough -tohit to floor even an AV, since it is unresistable. 8 would effectively put the team at the incarnate softcap...

The fear/terrorize stacks. The tohit debuff doesn't stack and isn't enhanceable unless they changed that with I21.

Stacking is pretty much irrelevant with that duration anyway. If it was more like 20 seconds, the stacking might make a difference, but as-is, anything that poses a threat will be in position to lay full hurt on long before you can finish it regardless of how many stacks you theoretically put on it.

I disagree. A team of Stalkers can easily coordinate a simultaneous AS and if it did stack then it would be excellent team mitigation if you could floor an AV's tohit in that way. Plus, timed right you could keep it up.

Not that I'm proposing it is a good idea, but does anyone know if it would take the bonus from the nerve alpha slot and enhance the duration that way?