Couple dozen threads an hour is making it hard for me to keep up with so here's where I am garnering so far.

*Cloaks have glitches associated with them which leads to invisible weapon usage and vehicles

I will agree these need to be fixed.

*Cloaks are a bit hard to spot

I am a slight disagreement with this, a moving scout can be spotted quite a bit far away (my longest spotting is about 90 meters out) it is just difficult for me on controller to put fire on them.

*Cloaks persist too well through damage or flux

I agree but a full disruption punishes pure blind luck of stray shots that can happen as well. I rather see a few tweaks instead such as cloak timer draining because of damage and longer lasting cloak scattering because of damage.

As for flux, I would like to see a massive chuck eaten out of the timer with it (scaled to the flux damage maybe?)

*Cloak Noise

Maybe for self sound its a bit too loud and out of balance but as a third person its balanced.

*Decloak to weapon swap speed

Seems a bit fast for my own tastes but we don't need to bring this far too high it becomes a frustration and cumbersome and ruin the edge of a surprise attack. 2.5 sec max and lets try it 0.5 increments at a time.

*Cloak timer at prototype

80 seconds is an eternity waiting for it to recharge. I think a second variant of cloaks is warranted, something with 30 second timer across all tiers and faster cooldown efficiency.

*Cloaked hacking

I see no problems currently with this.

*Brick Tanked Cloakers

There is a problem but not sure how best to deal with it outside of ramping up cloak fitting more which means either increasing the fit cost of the cloak or decreasing scout innate bonus. While we could go after the tanking modules themselves that's going to effect ALL classes and that would get more messy than needed.

=Anything else did I miss?=
Will update points and discussion if new things are brought to my attention. I know with the 1.8 patch then 1.8 hotfix this week and the follow up tonight and possibly more on the way lots of crap flying around and my time is split between paying attention to you guys and working with fanfest build. My opinion on cloaks right now is not hardline and easily subject to change which is why I am striking up this conversation.

OT posts will not be tolerated. I know vehicle rebalancing just hit but I feel that there hasn't been enough time to adapt around it yet to see if more follow ups are needed or if they went overboard.

As for Assaults there are discussions on how to buff them but the development team isn't ready to share them yet. Other balance issues are on the fire still but rather focus on this before we get too far away from 1.8 hotfix mood and far too deep into the next patch cycle.

TL:DR for the entire thread at this point. Just gonna throw my two cents in really quick and let the people following this thread track where my money goes.

Decloaking could benefit from an INCREASE for 2 seconds to scan profile as the system destabilizes. This would mean the moment they switch weapons, pretty much everyone except an unskilled player would see the player on the TACNET. I think this might make some science sense and give some "OH CRAP!" warnings that could lead to some interesting gameplay on both ends.

The cloaker would know that they only have a split second as aware people will notice them very quickly. The target will have a moment to try to out twitch the cloaker. The Cloaker still has the advantage, but at a price of very temporarily giving his position away. After the 1 or 2 seconds of showing up on the TACNET, they would become invisible again if they are setup to avoid scans.