The cloak is an equipment item with an activation time and a cooldown. You canGÇÖt perform actions such as firing or hacking whilst cloaked. It is not finished so IGÇÖm very interested to hear your ideas on it before it is :-)

This would infact be a cool idea for a passive cloaking module.

For an active, you would just be constantly cloaked, maybe the active device could be like a cloaking bubble that could be deployable too, hide a medic in it or something.

For passive, the movement from the suit generates a distortion or something that provides that passive cloak the "power" it needs or whatever to cloak the user. For lore purposes. Mods could include batteries or field enhancers to either A extend the time it takes to decloak or decrease the time it takes to charge up to cloak the user or provide better cloaking which will render the user more "invisible" with less distortion which could possibly give away the users position.

As for the lore, that adapts to whatever works for gameplay, but in EVE a weakness of cloaking devices work in that if you get close to another object, it decloaks you. If we apply that logic to my version of the cloak, this means you become visible when standing still and visible if you get within X amount of metres of another player/vehicle.

I have however played a lot of online games with the traditional moving slow cloak, and it just doesn't seem suitable to the fast gameplay in DUST.

What I would like to see from you is an argument why the traditional form of cloaking, or your own version is more balanced, or superior. I mean it's fine to disagree with my idea, but at least put some effort into a constructive counter argument please.