Cloaks are dumb since they only work against the weak minded and people that have neglected their eye doctor.

I still laugh every time I see a scout racing directly at me with a cloak on. It doesn't make them invisible it makes them translucent with a bluish tint.

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I think there should be another type of cloak. One that only works if you are standing still. It boosts your dampening but completely eliminates your passive scans and temporarily knocks out your tacnet. It should cost less CPU % PG than the original cloak. Anymovement will automatically break the cloak and the recharge timer is long.

What would it be called? Camper Cloak Device? AFK Cloak Device?

It would be something that implies that it is both a camper and an AFK player.


Call it, the Caldari State Cloak.

Just my personal biased opinion but I think that CCP got cloaks right the first time (Aka the way they work in EVE).

Now transferring this to an FPS game is a little more difficult but not at all something that would be impossible.

You've just inspired me to pursue this bad idea.

In terms of who should be able to use it, I like where it is. It is not scout specific, but is more easily accessible to a scout, provided it has level 5 racial skill.

That being said, I am seeing more and more scouts giving it up in its current state precisely because it is fairly visible in most lighting situations, and has significant unintended draw backs. One being the cloak delay applying anytime the cloak is equipped regardless of whether or not you are actively cloaked, and the second is a glitch where if you sprint too soon after the weapon switch, you end up in a delay, switching back to the cloak, then having to go through the delay again just to get to the weapon.

Considering a situation in which you are seen while cloaked, trying to be evasive, and having to deal with 2 weapon delays all while being seen and shot at, and most likely having and HP disadvantage (particularly in a scout), I would think the use of it on anything other than a scout would be too big a sacrifice. Its already too big a sacrifice for most scouts.

Very interesting video. I liked the commentary.

Regarding the fit, I like it, but I would strongly recommend a kinetic catalyser over the cardiac regulator. You hardly ever got low on stamina, whereas there were lots of times extra speed would have been useful. Flanking manouvers, escapes, just getting from A to B before the cloak runs out. Also, do you really need a prototype flux grenade? I never see the point of going above standard.

About the cloak. I think it's debabtable how useful it was for you. There were relatively few examples where an enemy would have spotted you had you not been cloaked. Also there were several times where people spotted you even though you were cloaked. I'm not saying it was useless, but I think you would have been able to play almost the same way without it.

Your video is more of a demonstration of the effectiveness of EWAR mods on assaults, as well as a great spotlight on effective use of the tac AR combined with stealth gameplay.

The fact you did so well I think can be more attributed to a mixture of good play using your EWAR advantages, and your poor opponents, rather than the cloak itself.

As for cloaked assaults, I'm not sure about it. I can make a very similar fit using a scout. The scout fit I think is a bit better, as it has an advance cloak, more speed, a compact hive and a lower profile, but slightly less hp. What's interesting though is my scout fit really isn't much better at all. Nowhere near as much difference as I thought, although I could probably do better if I wasn't trying to copy the assault fit.

I think with the way assaults are at the moment, cloaks should keep their fitting costs/scout bonus. Scouts need cloaks as their "special thing" that differentiates them. The "Black Ops Assault" you have shown here is really the same as a scout. It's just a scout that focuses on ranged weapons and hp more than speed and cqc weapons. There's no need go down this route as this is what we have scouts for. I guess having an extra equipment slot differentiates scouts, but then if you remove the cloak fitting barrier you could just have cloaked logi's instead. Considering how close your assault fit is to my scout, without the high fitting cost of a cloak the assault would be far superior to the scout.

I think the main thing you have shown is that fitting your assault suit with damps and precision allows for some excellent flanking and the ability to out manouver your oppenents using superior intel. Definately something more assaults should try.

Regarding cloaks in general. The sprinting after decloak problem really needs fixing, very annoying. Also, I feel with the state they are in at the moment they could do with granting better invisibility. The scan reduction makes you use them tactically, and the decloak delay stops the easy ganking. But they just aren't quite good enough at one of their major uses, which is wide flanking through open ground. It's just too easy to be spotted by experienced players.

One final thing: you seem to have missed out on one of the cloak fields major advantages. You can hack installations whilst cloaked, providing relatively safe hacking. Not so good for objectives, but prety good nontheless.