DUST Search - Need Advice: Catching cloaks with Medium frames

Django Quik wrote:

Tesfa Alem wrote:

the whole ''look with your eyes'' advice doesn't help too much, because i'm focusing on supporting my squad. Easy to detect sillhuettes of regular enemies but man its impossible to detect a shimmer out of the corner of your eye, unless you are looking directly ahead in open space. 1v1 it makes sense to search everywhere for shimmer, but in the middle of a firefigt with the other team with thier own heavies logis and assauts, i dont have time to chase shadows.

Its actually easier to catch cloaks in a heavy suit, cuz you can spray and pray each room you enter.

anyways, just went level 3 in all ewar skills, i'll see how it plays out.

You may not see it as helpful advice but it's really the best you can do. If you're getting killed by cloaked scouts a lot then you're letting them flank you and don't have anyone watching the back or sides of your squad/group. I guarantee no one is cloaking at coming at you face on and killing you. If they cloaked and killed you from behind, they could have done the same thing uncloaked and a little bit dampened.


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Kristoff Atruin Subdreddit Test Alliance Please Ignore 1998	Posted - 2014.04.02 14:44:00 - [1] - Quote Django Quik wrote: Tesfa Alem wrote: the whole ''look with your eyes'' advice doesn't help too much, because i'm focusing on supporting my squad. Easy to detect sillhuettes of regular enemies but man its impossible to detect a shimmer out of the corner of your eye, unless you are looking directly ahead in open space. 1v1 it makes sense to search everywhere for shimmer, but in the middle of a firefigt with the other team with thier own heavies logis and assauts, i dont have time to chase shadows. Its actually easier to catch cloaks in a heavy suit, cuz you can spray and pray each room you enter. anyways, just went level 3 in all ewar skills, i'll see how it plays out. You may not see it as helpful advice but it's really the best you can do. If you're getting killed by cloaked scouts a lot then you're letting them flank you and don't have anyone watching the back or sides of your squad/group. I guarantee no one is cloaking at coming at you face on and killing you. If they cloaked and killed you from behind, they could have done the same thing uncloaked and a little bit dampened. Not necessarily. If this was true people would have already had this problem before 1.8, since most people never carried anything higher than advanced scanners. You can regularly check your six but not catch a cloaked scout because it was moving at walking speed behind two bits of cover, especially when the color of the socket you're in matches the color of the cloak pretty well. Sure you'd catch him if you dedicated one guy to staring to the rear, but you never needed that to pick up on someone who wasn't cloaked. A brief glance to the back every once in a while would suffice unless you were inside a building. Think about it: uncloaked scout running behind us and I do my regular scan of the back yard. I see a shape out of the corner of my eye. Not only do I know what it is, but I have a direction of travel and we can go do something about it. If the scout is cloaked and he's smart, he isn't sprinting around behind us. I think I see a faint shimmer out of the corner of my eye, but the guy was watching his tacnet and stopped moving the moment I turned, meaning he was flat out invisible by the time he was anywhere close to the middle of the screen. I think I saw something, but I can't be sure and my reticule isn't highlighting anything. When used to be aggressive rather than set up ambushes it's very different from an uncloaked suit.