Taskmaster

The Taskmaster skill tree is a set of Total Crackdown player skills that lets your hostages help out. Teams with a Taskmaster on hand gain a variety of passive benefits from keeping these bargaining chips alive and tied down.

Taskmaster Skills
Lookout Duty Basic: Your team's Hostages will automatically Mark any Special Enemies within 10 meters. Aced: Your team's Hostages will also automatically Mark any Standard Enemies within 10 meters and cause all enemies within range to take +10% damage from all sources.
Stay Down Basic: Your team's Hostages grant +25% Damage Resistance to teammates within 5 meters. Aced: Each of your team's Hostages will fake surrendering once upon being traded for a teammate, releasing the teammate from custody without turning themselves in. Note: Stay Down Aced will force the "faked" Hostage to be chosen again for the next trade.	Pack Mules Basic: Your team's Civilian Hostages can carry lootbags. Aced: Your team's Civilian Hostages move +50% faster. Note: Hostages are slowed by lootbag contents in the same way that as heisters.
Pied Piper Basic: You can have up to two Hostages following you at once. Aced: You can have up to three Hostages following you at once.	Zip It Basic: Increases your supply of Cable Ties to 20. Civilians will not immediately flee upon being untied. Aced: Civilians are intimidated by the noise you make. Shouting intimidates all Civilians within 10 meters of the target.
False Idol Basic: Your team's civilian Hostages are invulnerable while prone. Additionally, you gain the ability to restore a lost Down by striking a prone civilian Hostage with a Melee Attack to release them early. Aced: Your team's Hostages release all teammates in custody when traded. Note: Players can only trigger False Idol Basic if they have fewer than the maximum incaps available to them.

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