
Kaeru Nayiri
OSG Planetary Operations Covert Intervention
279
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Posted - 2014.12.09 19:41:00 -
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CCP Rattati wrote:yes, with more scanning around, this may be a time to lessen the penalty. Scouts, feel free to propose stuff!
I want to help come up with an idea for this, but the truth is the greatest problem with cloaks and scouts right now is the horrible implementation of the no-fire delay.
Currently, shotgun and rifle scouts can STILL FIRE FROM CLOAK because the weapon swap and the decloak animations are not asynchronous. Even as a temporary fix, decloak animation should be changed back to 0 seconds (so that scouts appear instantly) and the long delay to get off the cloak equipment removed. At the very least one could not fire from cloak in that configuration.
Currently, being cloaked or not has NO EFFECT ON THE DELAY when swapping off the equipment.
Currently, if you try to change from cloak equipment to a weapon and then begin to sprint, it CANCELS THE ENTIRE EQUIPMENT SWAP, forcing you to start it up again. You have to either do it while sprinting or wait until it is over before sprinting.
We NEED to fix these issues so that the cloak is working AS INTENDED before giving it any buffs. Decloaking fire delay should be tied to being cloaked, not the swapping of equipment. The swapping of equipment should not be interrupted by changing states, like falling, climbing or sprinting. |

Kaeru Nayiri
OSG Planetary Operations Covert Intervention
286
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Posted - 2014.12.10 19:20:00 -
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I honestly think the cloak is fine as it is IF we can fix the bugs with it.
Right now sprinting cancels the swap from cloak to weapon. This is REALLY frustrating for me. Also, originally it was thought that 0.3 delay would've been sufficient. Due to the timing of decloaking and changing of equipment, it made no difference so it was beefed up to 1 second. Now that decloaking and swapping is asynchronous as it was originally intended to be, I think the delay needs to be revisited. No further buff to the cloak is necessary, in my opinion.
EDIT: I would even gladly accept the 1 second delay remaining as is if the glitch causing the equipment swap to fail when sprinting was fixed. |