CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.04.28 16:55:00 -
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Scrub Zero wrote:All TV's are NOT alike. I have noticed that it next to imposible to see a cloaked scout on my projection TV. Yet they are clear as day on my plasma TV. Id imagine CCP only tested cloaks on HDMI/hi def.
I truly feel bad for the noobs with older TV's. They just can't get a break.........
Zero, it's hilarious how your thread on the Cloak render, became a chat about Hi-Fi television that Ralph Cramden never wanted to shell out money for. 
But on point, I DO confirm your assessment of the cloak render. I play Dust alternately on two different PS3s, but off the same LCD television monitor. One console is outputting HDMI with full-white in the video options---and the other PS3 is outputting 720p over an S-Video cable.
The monitor is great at decifering the best quality from both, and when you're running around in HDMI you SEE when the cloaker is making mistakes that reveal himself to you. (But only if you remember CCP's DESCRIPTION of how the cloak field behaves when being used... otherwise, you just dismiss what your eye sees as a graphic glitch in your 720p game.)
In HDMI, 've made several kills to cloakers who "exceeded the ability of their cloak field", usually strafing them as they flee until a "kill" credit come up on the HUD.
I've had to tweak my S-video image (THROUGH the Dust brightness/detail/image-ratio settings in the menu, NOT my tv or PS3 picture), in order to increase my cloaker-kills on the 720p-output PS3. It's sitll not as easy to "see" the sneaky pest in 720 as it is in HDMI.
If the cloak effect works this way for all players, I think the render is JUST RIGHT.
It's just on the edge between being exploitable by an experienced player who wants to "hunt cloak-boys", and being soft enough that less-masterful players will DISMISS what they may be seeing (actually being given the clues, but ignoring them because they're in the middle of getting some other thing done that's just as important and urgent).
It's just adding another layer of "situation awareness" to your survival on the maps.
Those of you with 480i monitors or tiny screens: Go into the Dust menu while you're safely at the beginning of the match, and experiment with the "detail", "brightness", and especially "image ratio" (the right name....someone please confirm for us),... until you get the tweak that helps you pick up the cloak-clues better!
The sooner we start slaughtering cloaker wholesale, the sooner the cloaking will calm down to a more conservative level of use. 
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