Do you play 40k by any chance?

Space Marines possibly?

or am I reading too much into this?



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The problem with "cloaking" in any game is the balancing issue, and preventing it from being abused. Which sadly KILLZONE3 horribly, horribly, horribly failed at -- KILLZONE2 was much more balanced infact. Even Warhawk had issues, and still does, but that is part of the player problem really. Give a device like this to the players, and they act like bigger pu$5ies then they already do. Taking corner camping to the extremes. If CCP does plan on introducing the "cloak" modules and skills I seriously hope they keep an eye on that thing for a good long time, and continue to tweek and balance it. If I have to put up with corner campers abusing cloak I will go off. Seriously you are already immortal and a respawning clone, and still people camp like b!+ches. ISK cost is not a valid excuse. It's the players problem to solve and manage their own expenses, and expendatures. If you cannot real in your costs and balance it with your level of income that is on you, and good luck at making through modern life. You will most likely be cowering in debt from collectors for the rest of your life.

Too serious? Maybe.. I just have had many issues with all of the above. Crysis2 the blunder that could anyone? Yeah. Just remember what cloaking does to a game.

In eve you can move with a cloak, that's it. Kind of hoping it will be the same here. There is also a delay with most cloaks before you can fire etc after dropping it.

Umm... you guys, I think he meant cloak, as in a cape, rather than a cloaking device/module

I would like to add:

Cloaking should be an equipment module requiring a moderate amount of skills to use, and different grades of the cloak module (standard, advanced, and prototype) should have progressively better cloak duration, and levels of invisibility; for example standard cloak modules should only have 10 seconds of cloaking before the cool down, have a strong refraction effect that gives them away to those who pay attention, but the refraction effect should be much less in higher grade cloak modules, and prototype cloak modules would be able to be invisible for 20 seconds before having to cool down. There should also be different variants each with varying strong points and weaknesses.

Chevrons (the symbol over a player's head) should not appear on a cloaked player, even if his cloak is unconvincing visually.

Weapons (even knife) should not be usable at all until cloak is disabled. I don't mean once you fire or knife that the cloak turns off, I mean you can't fire or knife at all until you turn off the cloak, or until it has to cool down.

Cloak disabling should make a electrical discharge sound. This would give observant players a chance of spotting a newly de-cloaked enemy who is about to knife them in the back.

Cloaking should be meant for avoiding combat, not getting stealth kills.

There should be deployable equipment designed to locate enemies, and higher levels of this equipment should spot cloaked players at a certain proximity. I think there is an equipment listed in the store (though not currently in the game) that might fit this.

Cloak should be more easily fitted in a logistics dropsuit compared to other slot; they have lots of PG/CPU, and cloaking would be great for avoiding combat for the sake of supporting others (like sneaking past enemies to place a drop uplink).

Can't really think of more right now.

i played space marines 40k last month i think? cloaks are cool though...

i want a cloak for my merc...

then it hits me... what about a cloak for the squad leader?

i want a cloak for my merc...

then it hits me... what about a cloak for the squad leader?

In eve you can move with a cloak, that's it. Kind of hoping it will be the same here. There is also a delay with most cloaks before you can fire etc after dropping it.

Prefer the Eldar or Tau myself

Actually part of the reason I like Dust is the tech. reminds me of the Tau,
if only a little.

And Tau aren't fond of cloaks either, lol



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Since that is the case then is stands to reason the technology would have to be the same for cloaked soldiers.