(DISCLAIMER: There is a tl;dr at the bottom for you to read, incase the text is too long) I have recently picked up the Stalker Infiltrator and after a bit of practice, I fell in love with this playstyle. There are however two problems I've come across lately, which may break the Infil in some situations. The first one being, that sometimes, enemies survive an activated Powerknife. Im not talking about overshielded heavies, but usual infanterymen, in one case even another Infiltrator. So far, it has happened 5 times this week, and all these "miraculous survivors" had one thing in common: the Safeguard Implant. As a Stalker Infil, you have alot of time to observe and plan attacks, and I am 100% certain, that these Players were NOT being revived, nor have respawned in the last 1-2 seconds. So it looks to me, that in some obscure cases, Safeguard is preventing OHKOs with the Powerknifes, despite the Implant being inactive. Moving on, the other issue concerns Infiltrators inside Biolabs. For some odd reason, I keep on shimmering while cloaked and running or standing/crouching while turning around. Imagine someone putting a darklight on his gun, putting his mouse on 10.000 DPI and then spazzing around on your cloaked Infil. Thats what it looks like. I am not yet certain, if it is only clientside or visible to the enemies. On occasinos, Ive even seen this bug outside of Biolabs with no friendlies/enemies near me. Propably something went wrong when updating Biolabs, introducing this bug. There is also the delayed cloak/unresponsive cloaking issue, which might be a server Problem, but I won't talk about that right now. Did anyone else experience these issues? I certainly hope they get resolved soon. tl;dr: The two issues/Bugs are: -Enemies with Safeguard Implant equipped, at times survive activated Powerknife -Visible shimmering/flickering while inside Biolabs (sometimes even outside them) (-Unresponsive Cloak/Delayed Cloak which might be a Server problem)
I quite not sure if the cloak is "unresponsive" at some times, but I have the problem, when I hit my mousebutton 5 for the cloak to activate or deactivate, it seem to work twice. Trying to get it off and it gets off and on again, and trying to get it on, it gets on and off again... which is quite anoying when you try to cloak in emergency and you can only notice you are dead, because your cloak failed to work. Currently I think it is the mousebutton, but when I switched to mousebutton 4 it was the same. But if someone else gets the same problems, who knows, my mouse could still be fine...
Thanks for your answers! @N0oT: I do not recall leg hits preventing a kill on enemies, when using the powerknife. Let alone enemy Infiltrators. The other issue is pretty much the same one this guy has reported: https://forums.daybreakgames.com/ps2/index.php?threads/dark-light-bugs.246398/ I do not think this flickering is caused by bullets or tank lights though. @Zagareth: Thanks for letting me know about Safeguard 5s passive. I was using Iridars article as source for Information, however it is outdated at the moment, and I didn't realize. That being said, I highly doubt that out of the 5 People who lived through my Powerknife were running Safeguard 5. In fact, I remember my last almost victim running the Safeguard 1 and Target Focus 1 combo (which has lead me to create a forum account and point this issue out). Remember Catlike being bugged, so that Tier 4 gave you the Tier 5 benefit? I think that Safeguard might be bugged for a few Players aswell, gaining its passive while not even noticing it, bacause they dont get stabbed by other players all the time.
Infiltrator Cloaking and Wraith Flash Cloaking is still broken. I can still "Q" spot them while their cloaking is engaged. Yesterday I had a lot of fun "Q" spotting Infiltrators which then activates my Spitfire to start firing at them. It was like having a remote control to get your Spitfire to start firing at cloaked Infiltrators. I let them get close to the Spitfire, "Q" spot them and watch them panic and try to run away. I feel sorry for Wraith Flash drivers. You're driving a vehicle and yet Spitfires can still shoot at you. One successful "Q" spot while cloaked will reveal your presence to every enemy and Spitfire in range.
Hope they never fix spotting cloaked infiltrators. Trash class. I get tired of the wanna be snipers leeching kills, OHK weapons at medium range+, firing while still cloaked on victims screen, wanna sit in one spot all day stalkers, see through wall hacking, and how everyone wants to play as one to be cool when they really are useless and annoy the crap out of people, making them just leave the "fight". The class has always been stupid. I feel as if it was just thrown in because it seemed "cool". It is like one of the easiest classes ever. I personally use it to easily avoid annoying air, punch large groups in the face since I have see through wall hacks, snipe lames in the face when they camp, clear points of explosives and weaken enemies on capture points when I'm outnumbered in medium to small fights, and my personal favorite, hunting down and knifing sniping infiltrators being useless and annoying sitting on rocks/hills for no dang good reason. Please don't argue about the infiltrator having less health please.. That affects me NONE against MOST people when I have any SMG equipped. Strafing + Hip firing at close to medium > iWin shield + ADS. At medium range, cloak + (ADS + some cover) > any other class, decloak, fire, cover and reload, finish them off. Only great players are hard to kill when you play that class, but even then, if I get annoyed, I emp and cheese them to death. Too easy, Too cheesy
I just read in another post that medic shield regen device can make an infil cloak flicker atm.....................
Power knives do 1,000 damage and an advanced shield capacitor gives non-infiltrators 1,050 hp total. It's available to everyone and a lot of people do use it. Hence a single power knife kill (or two nons) won't kill them. Moral: Don't assume you can OHK everyone with a power knife. While berserk knifers can and do exist and sometimes do well, it doesn't always work out that easily. p.s. you could of course just use an Ameratasu and expect to three hit everyone... ok, that wasn't really a serious suggestion but it is true.
I could imagine that you have hit either the arms or legs as these are probably taking the least damage...but it is weird though!! Reason why I reply to you topic is the second bug you mentioned, I play Inflitrator exclusively and I have had this bug for like more than a few months now, I recently started playing with a new character as i've completed my NC infiltrator directive three and the sniper rifle too, but I went back to my NC character a few times and It also had these shimmerings. The enemies don't seems to notice but I've seen a dozen of infiltrators shimmer even without taking damage so it could be possible that they also suffer from this unnessasary bug! It is almost not possible to play infiltrator in biolabs due to this BUG and my invested money is useless I don't enjoy playing Infiltrator in biolabs anymore... First they added the shaking that battlehardened eliminates , The new implant system got rid of all of my hard earned implants as a vetran, and it's almost impossible to get it to the max tier without spending money. If you just save up ISO then it take a LONG time. Now the Shimmering in biolabs that compleetly destroy my infiltrator gameplay... Why this is not taken care of is a riddle to me.. It must be something that the majority of other players do not suffer from otherwise there would be more threads about this BUG. But they don't seem to care at all and they do not read these topics as i've made a new thread myself about this bug too..so..
In regards to spotting things while they're cloaked, cloaked sundies are also experiencing this glitch as well.
