Cloak bug

[Mímir]

Not really a glitch / bug.

rather a weak point of a cloak.

A rather weak point, considering it effectively renders the cloak useless...

Has it been submitted to the bug report section?

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[Hell Hunter]

It's fine if you BLIND fire a cd and hit. Where it shoots in a straight line or randomly.


NOT fine if its TRACKING.

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[SnakThree]

DELETE

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[Hidamari]

What if the rockets are heat seeking?

Your trying to tell me that just because you are invisible, that absolutely everything about your ship is removed from existance?

Your ship would still be there if checked for heat signatures because your engines are still on. what about if they scanned for radiation coming from your ships reactor? what about scanning on the electro magnetic spectrum your ship would stand out like a sore thumb still..

cloaking would not be the do all and end all technology people believe it to have become.


cloaking should be used to pass unseen through an area, what people dont know is there, they wont bother scanning for. however when people KNOW you are there, they would use every ECCM available to them to stop you escaping, you would not escape even with a cloak.

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[Mímir]

It's not a question of realism or RP reasons for this that and the other, its the question of whether or not a 700 million piece of kit in the mod works as intended.

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[massdriver]

What if the rockets are heat seeking?

Your trying to tell me that just because you are invisible, that absolutely everything about your ship is removed from existance?

Your ship would still be there if checked for heat signatures because your engines are still on. what about if they scanned for radiation coming from your ships reactor? what about scanning on the electro magnetic spectrum your ship would stand out like a sore thumb still..

cloaking would not be the do all and end all technology people believe it to have become.
cloaking should be used to pass unseen through an area, what people dont know is there, they wont bother scanning for. however when people KNOW you are there, they would use every ECCM available to them to stop you escaping, you would not escape even with a cloak.

heat = e-magnetic nature like light, u no see cloaked ship 'cos u no see light that is reflected by it's surface. heat in vacuum is transfered using radiation - EM waves. so if cloak works only in visible range it sucks 'cos it needs to work in any EM wave freq range.

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[Mercarryn]

It's not a question of realism or RP reasons for this that and the other, its the question of whether or not a <strike>700 million</strike> piece of kit introduced by admins and devs in the mod works as intended.

If fixed it a bit for you, but other then that, you are right.
And if no one has forwarded it to bug-forum, do so. because I have no evidence for this right now.

[oZoneRanger]

The whole point of getting a cloak is to evade capture by the enemie the fact that they can't hit you with a cd if they don't scan you prior to scanning means that the moderators didn't want anyone to be able to CD a ship that's cloaked by any means, but that's my opinion. Besides how are you supposed to get out of scanner range when he's clearly in a fighter and has a CD.

So ships lock onto you at like 10k and from that point they can shoot you once they are with in gun range...yea....ok...i see what you are saying now....No way a cloak gets you out of danger unless you cloak beyond them entering 10k of your ship and that is hard to do.

[Hell Hunter]

It's still worth it
You can sneak away. Don't waste time cruising up in FRONT of your enemies.
It's still good as a sneaking device..

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[Hidamari]

It's not a question of realism or RP reasons for this that and the other, its the question of whether or not a 700 million piece of kit in the mod works as intended.

was the equipment made a certain price by the admins or do people make the prices for cloaking devices? every device has a weakness of some kind, tbh this just balances it out.

if admins set the prices for these things, then they should be drastically reduced in cost to reflect their use. people saying they are completely useless are saying it for the wrong reasons.

a submarine captain approaches a convoy of ships, it is submerged and running quietly, on the surface all seems normal, the convoy has no idea the submarine is there and neither do the escort, and as such they are not searching for him.
sub captain decides to take out two of the transports. the escorts are now alerted to his presence, submerged or not, they will find him and they will sink him, does the captain then complain because being submerged did not help him escape because the enemy escorts had sonar?

if a combat unit is alerted to your presence, a cloak wouldn't and should never mean a get out of jail free card that is re-useable every time you get in a pinch. A cloak would be used for stealth only and infiltration only.

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