[Suggestion] Remove Flash cloaking

Discussion in 'PlanetSide 2 Gameplay Discussion' started by Fatal_Finn, Dec 5, 2014.

  1. Fatal_Finn

    So many epic desert/large field fights ruined already because of this "feature". Suddenly get killed by air and see afterwards it was a cloaked flash. Recently this cloacked flash ramming has become worse and even organized activity. AT mines help a bit but if there are 3 invisible flashes running over your squad, there's not much you can do.
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  2. I play by many names

    Flash should get a cloak or a weapon, NEVER both. That is my only problem with it.
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  3. HadesR

    Not sure if it's a bug or not but recently I've noticed cloaked flashes not showing up on Motion spotters ...
  4. FateJH

    Vehicles don't normally show up on Motion Spotters, do they?
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  5. HadesR

    Thought they did or they seemed to appear when iv'e placed one before .. But hey if they don't then a vehicle with a cloak ability should IMO ..

    Since the Spotter lists " enemies " rather than infantry it wouldn't a big change ..
  6. 1Fuzzy

    Nah, leave it in.
    I fired so many infils off of cloaked flashs, because they just drive around thinking they're completely invisible and cannot shoot when cloaked.
    Also when they're driving they're almost as visible as uncloaked ones imo.

    A cloaked flash is just as dangerous as a flash without weapon equipped.
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  7. Fatal_Finn

    But you can't spot them.
  8. Richter03

    Just pull out any vehicle with a gun that you equip thermal optics into it if they are annoy too much.
    Cloak flash isn't much trouble for me, Harasser is problem especially TR Harasser; their faction gun isn't just anti-infantry like other faction gun.
  9. Ronin Oni

    I hate spotting in general TBQH....

    wish it never got introduced into the game. Not the 3d icons *cough*targets*cough* anyways.

    Minimap spotting is fine. Shooting doritos was the worst addition to FPS since lockons.

    THANKS DICE! (the asshats who first added it. Bad Company 1 ; circa 2008)
  10. doombro

    It is the duty of every true American patriot to remove wraith flashes with lethal force. Turbo is non-negotiable.
  11. Ronin Oni

    ?

    Thermals don't counter cloak...

    not that a moving cloaked flash is hard to see anyways.
  12. Richter03

    Really ? I often use it on my magridder to kill a cloak infiltrator, I'm not much remember about a cloak flash 'cause it's not much hard to spot them.
  13. Ronin Oni

    o_O

    cloaking hides you from thermals. I use thermals on every vehicle in the game and can confirm infils cloaking while viewing them in thermals... of course, I know where they were when they cloaked and see them on my radar in my ESF anyways, so they still die... and prolly think I hacked... but they're invisible for sure. More so than non-thermal where you can see the ripple effect.
  14. Rikkit

    when yo see the cloaker with termal, the cloaker isn't cloaked. (don't matter if flash or infantery cloaker)
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