Awareness

Awareness is used to counteract Stealth and locate hidden creatures.

Usage
Passively, awareness has a chance to show a brief visible flash and a sound any time you successfully detect a hidden creature. This passive function will neither reveal the target nor actually show you who was hidden, it simply notifies you of the existence of something hidden moving in your area.

The active function is very similar to the passive, however it has a visible emote associated with it, unless you are currently hidden. If successful, it will reveal any hidden targets in the area (excluding party members).

Formula
The Success of any awareness action, active or passive, begins with a skill check.

%Chance = 20 + Awareness Skill / 5



Active use of awareness automatically doubles your chance of success. Facing will similarly double the effective chance; any target within the indicated area of "in front" of the searcher will have the chance to detect them doubled.

However, the chance drops with every tile of distance away from the hidden target. At a range of 2 tiles away, your detection chance is halved. Keep in mind this division is the final step before the chance is calculated. As an example: the active attempt with 100 awareness, against a target who was standing in front of you would begin at a chance of 160%. Then drop to an 80% chance at 2 tiles away, 53.3% chance at 3 tiles, 40% at 4 and so on.

Differences from Ultima Online
Awareness replaces the function of Detect Hidden. Unlike original UO, the active use of Awareness doesn't need to be targeted.