Well, I don't know whats up then. I have gotten many critical hits, so with 100 stealth those should be assassinations, and im using a short sword. Does the assassination thing work only on people and not monsters? When i do get a critical hit, they do die instently, but they are mudcrabs so they are kinda weak.
The conditions for an assassination:
- You have been sneaking long enough to get a Sneak Attack bonus (10+ seconds)
(and still have that bonus when attacking)
- The target's name appears on the screen when attacking
- The target (Character or Creature) can't detect you when attacking.
- You are still sneaking when attacking.
- The target isn't already in combat with you
in this case the chance for an Assassination is (Sneak + Shortblade/2 ) * ( 100 + (Luck- 40) ) / 100
The condition to detect a critical hit with short-blades is that the target is actually playing a critical hit sound, which won't happen when it dies of the normal damage anyway.
With hand-to-hand there is no critical hit sound, so the script just checks if the target plays a hand-to-hand hit sound and can't detect the player.
Does assassination have anything to do with MWE?
You need MWE, yes, without MWE its impossible to check if the targeted creature plays a critical-hit sound.
like trance, combos, or rage?
That's another MWE-mod.
Does the stealth icon need to be showing?
the stealth icon shows when
nobody can detect you, you score critical hits when the target doesn't detect you.
Other characters attack or report crimes only when they
see you, they may know that you're around but wont necessary see what you're doing.