Why are jetpacks silent?

Except for the fact the cloaker can't shoot you while he's cloaked, and to uncloak and actually fire his weapon will make another air horn sound giving him away. And there is a delay before I can fire when uncloaking. Yes, I've had people duck for cover or turn and blast me from the audible give away (even out to 50m). Its single handedly the dumbest game design decision I've seen in years and should be such a simple fix. It doesn't have to be silent, but FFS make it quieter.

LA shooting is pretty gimped (max COF) when using their ability too.

Well, only while using his shield.

I´ve seen it, but its not nearly as notieacable as HA or MED and can be seen clearly only from behind.

You are forgetting that the jepack can and does to lead to fall suicide damage. Cloaking doesn't lead to suicide but can lead to you being hunted. With so many HA in the field, the shield is hardly an inconvienance in any way except making you glow at night. The medic glow only makes you stick out but won't kill you on its own, just like the HA. Jumpjets can mean instant death from even low heights if you're already injured (especially when they bug out and misfire). They're instant death if you try getting somewhere high and misjudged the distance.

I'll take a louder jet for one that actually ACTS like a jet. Our JJ is more like an extended jump than a jet. Give us the Icarus! You want some noise, give us the speed back. Honestly, stop complaining. At least your cloak gets rid of the tracking doritos. Those are death sentences for LA as they track us.

He can still use nades and drop C4 and dont forget about shotguns, flying doesnt affect them so much. They can still spam people to death with them pretty effectively at closer ranges while flying.

Please hush, don't want silly ideas to nerf this class.

The Jetpack should be louder than the Infiltrator's cloaking sound. This feels like a no-brainer. The infiltrator is the sneaky one, currently a LA outshines in this department with his ability to go where others cannot, while being next to silent in the process. It wouldn't be a huge detriment to LAs if you could hear a jetpack in the distance, what with the 6 ways you can enter just about any building (I mean in general, not just for LAs). If you can tell there's an infiltrator in the next building I think it's only fair that your aware of another class at a similar range who wasn't designed for stealth.

Why are jetpacks silent?


Because it allows me to kill better.
I am not interested in "fair" or displaying some imaginary "skill" set.
I am only interested in your death.

If infiltrator actually had invisibility without sound, I would use them more. But as is, the light assault does a better job at sniping.

Try using headphones.

Anyone else think the VS jetpacks just use magnetic propulsion to be silent?

That is wrong. While you need to uncloak before you can shoot, it's virtually instant. Especially since firing a weapon is purely client-side and your client can actually transmit a "I shot the other dude in the head, killing him instantly" to the server, before the server even was able to transmit the "hey a infiltrator decloaks" message to the victim, making it actually instant to the recipient of your attention.

This is seriously nothing you can complain about. It's basic network latency and the effect of some actions being client side puts the advantage to the one reacting first, which is always in your favor as infiltrator unless you've been spotted before.

yer, trouble is, SOE will nerf LA again now. The forum warriors find things they seem to hate an then go on a crusade to have it destroyed "for their greater good" as such. The C4 nerf is just an insult to a class that has so many downsides, yet if played well can be very good. Making the jetpacks loud enough to be heard all time is a nail in its coffin. Cloak is irrelevant an has nothing to do with the jetpack issues. Cloak is a 1 second sound. jetpack can be anything up to 10 seconds... INSTANTLY telling you exactly where the person is.
I really wish the forum possie would just mind their own game an stop worrying about what everyone els is doing, because SOE have a fetish for pandering to the forum demands, an it is really destroying any sense of individuality an diversity in the game.

Jetpack sound is just fine, they are meant to be a class that can go in an mess things up on their own. Making the jetpack a freaking constant foghorn of sound will trash the class completely.

You guys really need to pick 1 thing an stick with it, infiltrators or LA both have nothing to do with each other.

I know my experience with the game and there is a delay. If you don't feel like you have any delay in uncloaking and firing, good for you. I've seen some fast uncloak & fire gameplay (nothing I'd call instant) but all those look like they are playing at 50-60 fps or better and my performance is way, way below that. I'll try checking it out again tonight and try to time how fast I can uncloak and fire with my SMG.

The sound is SO quiet though it either has to be bugged or they got the volume levels for jetpacks and cloaking mixed up.

I think most of the issue comes form peoples PC's. for me, I have a top of line soundcard, but I play with sound up loud since I use headphones.So I can always hear them.

Yep he can still do some shooting that's true. However his back is also glowing and he's surprisingly visible!

The infi can't shoot when cloaked because he's almost impossible to hit, depending on your gfx setup can actually be impossible to hit.

Have you ever watched someone play Quake 3 Arena professionally?
They hear the entire map and know exactly where someone is simply from the sound of their footsteps.
I could sit there on a point and hear your heartbeat. I can hear the shuffling of feet, your quickening breath as you try to stifle it, growing ever closer.
You turn the corner, but I already knew you were there. The grenade already found you.
There is no running.
There is no hiding.
You have but a split second to realize your mistake before the grenade explodes. No, LA jetpack isn't silent. Neither are infiltrator steps while cloaked.

Please don't nerf Light Assaults, SOE. The C4 nerf is pushing it already.

jetpacks arent loud cause light assault guys need to have some FUN...who the hell would want to wear a flight suit that sounded like an actual jet

i dont play the class but i want the people that do to enjoy it...

I'd actually say the Heavy shield is louder than a jetpack come to think of it.