I can't wait for cloaking so I can finally become a full on infiltrator. Nothing like sneaking behind enemy lines, quickly hacking an objective, and then flanking the idiots engaging my squad (lol distractions).

[Why do you have to wait for cloaking? Why can't you do that now?

See, this is what I mean....cloaking has to be the nubbest idea to an fps. Wait until good players abuse it though...let's see how much players like it then.

Cloaking: A Ninja Scouts best friend.

I do it now, but it's nowhere near as effective as it could be. Cloaking is fine, so long as you can't run around with it and it has a cool down.

If you don't like variation, DUST probably isn't the FPS for you.

Adapt or Die bro.

Just wanted to point that out. Along with the bubble shield, the dev blog says it will come at a later date.

Just letting people know, try to keep your expectations as low as possible, and you will endure through the rage.

Your such a loser lol

This is so ironic.

Cloak+shotgun?

Personally, I'm hoping the cloak is potent and effective, but takes up the light weapon slot. Combine that with a fix or three to nova knives, and you've got yourself a use for the damn things.

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Why would you make a piece of equipment use a weapon slot.....

There are so many ways to balance a cloak....why....I just....what?

I just don't really see the point in eliminating your ability to shoot in an FPS.

Can someone post a link? I can't find the Dev Blog where this was discussed any longer.

I am not excited for cloaking.

CCP just scrap it focus on other more important things.

Isn't it Ironic... don't you think

BTW I think you should apply to Imperfects... 6th time is the charm

A cloaking device is not a drop uplink, a nanohive, a remote explosive, or an AV mine. All of these, as strategically important as they may be, are ancillary equipment pieces. Yes, logi suits have their role defined by their equipment slots-- by having LOTS of them.

Almost any combination of cloak + light weapon I can think of is, on its face, overpowered. For all following examples, assume abundant dampening.

Cloak + shotgun = sneak sneak REEK REEK +50 sneak

Cloak + tactical sniper = lurk aiiiiiiiim toom toom +50 lurk

Cloak + AR = sneak aim dugdugdug +50 sneak

Cloak + mass driver ... pretty much the same.

You get the freaking idea.

I still don't get why you would put it in a weapon slot. Every single piece of equipment needs to be readied by the weapon wheel already. You can't, for example, use an Injector and a Sniper Rifle at once. So a sniper simply can't be using his cloak device and sniper rifle at the same time. Problem solved there. It would have to be shoot first, then cloak quickly to hide from counter snipers.

As for CQC assassinations, just add a sound to the cloaking device. When you put it away, a distinctive noise goes off letting everyone in the vicinity know a cloak went up or down. Kinda like when you hear the shotgun "reek reek" you start looking for it. Except in this case it would give the victim an extra split second while the assassin readies his weapon.

(Shotgun assassination-- decloaks at close range, requires little to no aim or skill)

Great, people won't have to camp in the MCC anymore... they can just cloak wherever they like. :p

That's why cloak should require you to be slow, not quick. In the time it takes that shotgun assassin to get set up, an average Joe with an AR has already picked up 3-4 kills, nevermind the actual skilled guy.

Like I said, we're working from different paradigms. I'd much rather have a lightly-armed assassin who can move quickly and effectively, but has to make good use of a second-rate weapon.

Gimping speed ... ugh. I assure you, this idea is every bit as painful to me as the idea of losing the light weapon slot seems to be to you. It was bad enough when the thing whose speed was getting gimped was a spaceship. I play scout suits for a reason.

SOME slowdown is acceptable. Moving like a heavy, which is the image you're invoking in my head, not so much.

So I'm curious about something

Why is it wrong for someone to sneak up on you with a shotgun and kill you, but it's ok for someone stacking melee damage mods to sneak up on you and kill you with a knife?

(actually melee mods don't stack with knives, for whatever silly reason. Same goes with a point blank SMG with complex mods though, same effect as a shotgun at that range and with surprise)

So I'm curious about something

Why is it wrong for someone to sneak up on you with a shotgun and kill you, but it's ok for someone stacking melee damage mods to sneak up on you and kill you with a knife?

(actually melee mods don't stack with knives, for whatever silly reason. Same goes with a point blank SMG with complex mods though, same effect as a shotgun at that range and with surprise)