Varoth Drac
State of Purgatory
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Posted - 2015.02.02 23:19:00 -
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Cloak range nerf is ok, makes for interesting gameplay. Switching between scanning and visual scanning. The cloak's visibility reduction allows you to have a look around without (hopefully) being spotted yourself. Plus cloaking has that whole submarine diving feeling to it, which fits well with scan blindness.
Things that should be fixed with cloaks:
They are too easy for experieced players to spot. Nothing more annoying than attempting a cloaked flank, just to be spotted anyway. Not advocating total invisibility whilst in motion, that would be too easy, just less shimmer.
They feel clunky. By all means keep the delay, but the thing where sprinting part way through the decloak cancels the weapon switch is super annoying. Also there also should only be a delay if you are actually cloaked, not for just switching out from holding the cloak. |
Varoth Drac
State of Purgatory
General Tso's Alliance
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Posted - 2015.02.03 00:23:00 -
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Gyn Wallace wrote:
The shimmer is just right. I sometimes catch a scout's shimmer out of the corner of my eye, only to lose them when I turn and scan for them with my cross-hair. Most of the time I catch a cloaked scout's shimmer, they're moving very stupidly, across a wide open space in dark lighting. That's exactly as it should be.
I appreciate your opinion, and you could be right. It's just that it feels a bit too common that I get spotted. I don't think you should be able to run right infront of someone without being seen, but quite often I'll be a good way away, trying to stay around or beyond my opponent's peripheral vision so as not to be seen, and yet I still get spotted. This combined with hearing a lot of people declare that they have stopped using cloaks, makes me feel that they could do with less shimmer.
If the cloak isn't for moving across open spaces unseen, what exactly is it for? Standing still and watching is pretty useful, as is cloaked hacking, but the main use of a cloak is for wide flanking. It just feels a bit poor at it's job at the moment.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think its massively underpowered or anything, just a bit. |