DUST Search - Should the Cloak be a Module, Equipment Slot, or a Light Weapon. Discuss.

Korvin Lomont wrote:

Garrett Blacknova wrote:

Equipment.

Insane CPU and maybe PG cost.

CPU cost (and PG if relevant) massively reduced on Scout suits.

If your suit comes with an equipment slot, you CAN put a Cloak on it, but unless you're a Scout, that's probably ALL you can have.

Well insane CPU is a bit tricky as the scout has the lowest CPU rating of all suits(apart from the commando). So a medium frame will still be able to fit that equipment without beeing hindered so much as mediums have at 50 CPU more than scouts.

If you look at the current skill bonusses the highest is 10% per level (and I highly doubt scouts will get 10% bonus to CPU and PG for cloaking devices 5% is more realistic). So even if the cloaking device will need 100CPU a medium can fit this thing rather comfortabel and will still be able to run in a valid fit.

PG on the other hand would work better as scouts PG values are much closer to the assault PG rating. So a module with moderate CPU and higher PG could work better when scouts get a huge CPU/PG bonus...


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Garrett Blacknova Codex Troopers 4216	Posted - 2013.12.18 07:09:00 - [1] - Quote Equipment. Insane CPU and maybe PG cost. CPU cost (and PG if relevant) massively reduced on Scout suits. If your suit comes with an equipment slot, you CAN put a Cloak on it, but unless you're a Scout, that's probably ALL you can have.
Garrett Blacknova Codex Troopers 4216	Posted - 2013.12.18 07:21:00 - [2] - Quote Mossellia Delt wrote: Create 3rd fitting requirement - apart from CPU/PG, Active mods are run off of this. Call it "capacitor". Give it a max value which modules require to be fitted, and a recharge rate which influences how long they can run for.
Garrett Blacknova Codex Troopers 4216	Posted - 2013.12.18 07:38:00 - [3] - Quote The Robot Devil wrote: Or make the cloak so useless that it is only used to hide and move slowly. Only special op suits should have weapons close to decloak. What would be the point of a cloak on a heavy if he couldn't use his weapon for 3-5 seconds? They've confirmed there will be a "shimmer" effect which gets more pronounced when you move, and that there will be a Scout-exclusive buff reducing this effect. Slow movement unless you're running the Scout or a black ops Light Frame suit. Also, if it's equipment, you can't be holding a gun AND your cloak at the same time, it's one or the other, so you can't shoot while cloaked, there's a delay between disengaging the cloak and starting to fire.
Garrett Blacknova Codex Troopers 4218	Posted - 2013.12.18 09:31:00 - [4] - Quote Korvin Lomont wrote: Garrett Blacknova wrote: Equipment. Insane CPU and maybe PG cost. CPU cost (and PG if relevant) massively reduced on Scout suits. If your suit comes with an equipment slot, you CAN put a Cloak on it, but unless you're a Scout, that's probably ALL you can have. Well insane CPU is a bit tricky as the scout has the lowest CPU rating of all suits(apart from the commando). So a medium frame will still be able to fit that equipment without beeing hindered so much as mediums have at 50 CPU more than scouts. If you look at the current skill bonusses the highest is 10% per level (and I highly doubt scouts will get 10% bonus to CPU and PG for cloaking devices 5% is more realistic). So even if the cloaking device will need 100CPU a medium can fit this thing rather comfortabel and will still be able to run in a valid fit. PG on the other hand would work better as scouts PG values are much closer to the assault PG rating. So a module with moderate CPU and higher PG could work better when scouts get a huge CPU/PG bonus... Nope. More like EVE with 95% or more CPU reduction. You can literally fit it on a Scout normally or fit ONLY the cloak on another suit. They've been talking about having a massive difference in fitting of cloaks on Scout suits compared with other suit types.
Garrett Blacknova Codex Troopers 4228	Posted - 2013.12.19 00:08:00 - [5] - Quote Canis Ferox wrote: No cloaking, this isn't Harry Potter. No, it's not. It's EVE Online. And you know what EVE has? CLOAKING DEVICES. Kind of like the ones that have ALREADY BEEN CONFIRMED FOR THE FUTURE OF DUST. Sorry to burst your bubble, but Harry Potter isn't the only made-up universe where invisibility is an option.