Attacking an NPC without seeing him will not make him hostile

[3721assistant]

Say, if you start at night, having some sort of ranged weapon, stand a tile away from the npc and shoot toward the tile the npc stands on, you can kill the npc without making him hostile.
Well, this can be explained in a way that cause it's at night so he can not see you either. But if you are invisible, attacking an npc while you can see him will enrage him.

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[KA101]

Presumably applies to female NPCs too?

[3721assistant]

Forgive about my English, may be I should use it instead? Anyway that's a way to kill an NPC without being attacked

[ghost]

Perhaps an exception could be coded in for the player character in "npc.cpp" inside the "on_attacked" function, something like this:

Gameplay wise, it would make sense as the NPC would assume that the first thing he/she sees is the player character and therefore he/she must have attacked them.

[Night-Pryanik]

While working on #37664 I tested the case described in this issue and found it no longer valid. Firing at unseen NPC will make him hostile. So I guess this issue could be safely closed.