Thanks! What about cloaking tech in EVE? I would assume Gallente going off their scanner affinity.

Edit: ooh thanks for the reading Robot. :D

Thanks! What about cloaking tech in EVE? I would assume Gallente going off their scanner affinity.

Edit: ooh thanks for the reading Robot. :D

Cloaking technology came about as a result of the Crielere project. That was a joint venture between the Gallente and Caldari.
It collapsed shortly after the discovery leading to an arms race as the scientists scattered to various empires, all of whom were quite interested in the technology.
Any of the empires would declare themselves the 'first' to have cloaking technology but much like what happened with the fullerenes revolution it is not so simple.

None of the empires display a particular affinity for the tech.

Thanks for the insight. Is it a similar situation for eWar in general?

Lore wise, not a clue - but for the sake of gameplay no one race has any unique bonuses to cloaking.

EDIT: SoE ships not included - but faction stuff is special like that.

EDIT2: In Dust each races scouts look to be getting there own different bonus that affects cloaking - but the mechanic will work very differently than in EVE, as you'd expect.

EWAR: Listed by racial specialty.

Caldari: Jammers. Caldari Information Warfare Techs are the masters of denying enemy electronics the ability to generate a target lock, rendering them largely helpless. In EVE this tends to result in keyboards thrown through monitors as you cannot lock ANYTHING. This is not applicable to DUST, except maybe swarm launchers.

Minmatar: Target Painting allows you to laser a target to make it easier to hit with things like missiles.

Amarr: Tracking disruption causes your guns to jam up and be unable to track fast (or even slow) targets causing you to blow off precious ammo randomly into space rather than into enemy hulls.

Gallente: Sensor damping drastically reduces the range at which you can target someone. It's especially hilarious when you do it to someone in a Rokh or Raven and their targetting range goes from 120 Km to about 4 Km.

Generic EWAR:

Webbing: Uses malicious programs and electromagnetic interference to f*ck up the propulsion systems of your ship. Webbing in DUST would create servomotor jams in your armor, and cause vehicle powerplants to fart, thus reducing speed.

Warp jamming/Scrambling: You hack an enemy ship's warp drive and make it so they cannot excape you.

Interdiction Bubbles: Mimics a planetary gravity well and yoinks ships out of warp and denies them access to their warp drives for many kilometers in all directions. Warp bubbles do not discriminate and you can, in fact get you and your buddies killed by your own bubble.