wha... what. WHY is there a cooldown on cloaking?!

No. The guy above was hitting the button too fast. I got it to go in and out fast like that when i super rapidly hit f. In this video I was giving it a good 0.5 second. You can hear the "no!" sound that it makes when you spot people too fast. Im saying is that no time is way to long.

Its to prevent latency abuse.

I thought you meant cooldown between cloaking, not cloaking and shooting.

Yeah a cooldown after uncloaking would be bad. Currently uncloaking takes a few hundred milliseconds and you cant shoot til its finished.
I know that error sound isn't always immediate, it can be delayed, so he could have been trying to shoot during the decloak?

I can. In fact...I just did in-game. Smedley must not like you.

If you have the thing where there's a delay where you become totally visable until you fire, try this:

In a safe area, (but crowded area, perhaps by a sundy or in a sieged spawn room) hold down the fire button and then cloak at the same time. Your gun should stop firing right away. If you notice you keep firing into your cloak, you got wonderful lag going.

You're better off not using infiltrator tactics like hit and run in that case. As for anything else, I've logged more hours as an infiltrator than any other class by far (100 hours) and I've been perfectly fine at the whole de-cloak, shoot, cloak and run thing. It's how I rack up several kills per life in many cases.

I will suggest that maybe if it's not a lag issue, look at how you play your infiltrator. Do you run in to a room with 3 or more people then de-cloak? Unless you're really good or they're distracted, you shouldn't attempt it and you should wait for better targets. Try and figure out which people are doing what and focus on higher threats first (I.E. Engis and medics). What I'm trying to say is pick your battles.

EDIT: I just watched that video. I've had similar things happen where I've hit the button and it makes the activation sound but I don't cloak. I think in those cases, it's mostly a lag issue where the server can't decide if you activated the ability or not.

My brother has experienced an issue where there was a definite delay happening with the cloak ability and sometimes his weapons. This has caused him numerous deaths, so I understand the frustrations. I would say it's lag related due to the fact it's not a constant occurrence as demonstrated in the video above. After the major patches come through see if the issue continues because it's not a cool down feature by any means.

What I love are the moments where you are firing and still cloaked.

For those who have not had the pleasure, you should realize that depending on the conditions you can be dropped by an infiltrator before they show up uncloaked on your client.

So it wasn't just me noticing this then, good to know. I got on today after not having played infil for a few days and was like "Why is there a delay on my de-cloak?".

Hope it will be fixed. I just started to get the hang of the cloaking and now I have to re-learn it .

Flashing infront of people is considered a bit of a taboo in most societies.

I might make a better post with videos stuff. I realize i wasnt very clear about what im talking about.

There is no CD on stealth. But it should be there.