Why are jetpacks silent?

i agree that maybe the radius needs to be tweaked. Some people act as if there should be no sound AT ALL, and that the cloak should be completely invisible.

why does infiltrator whine turn into LA nerfs? It would be like an LA saying that cloaks should disable shields because LAs die from falls when their jetpacks run out of fuel.

tell them "this is wrong and here's why"
we are doing exactly the same thing with sound level of jetpacks. in short: "This is wrong, here is why:
- infiltrator is designed to be the stealth class
- LA is better at infiltration than infiltrator
- jet engines are loud irl and should be a trafe-off between drawing attention and unparalleled mobility
- level of Light Assault stealth should be below inf by definition"

I don't know what you are talking about. Our whines never did anything to anybody. It's the tank/sunderer drivers carpet bombed by LAs (or blown up by engie AT mines) and meatgrinder participants owned with shotguns and explosives by the dozen that made the most damage to the LA class. They are able to make enough noise so devs manage to notice and cave in. We merely ask for LA to be brought down on the stealth ladder a notch below infs (or infs brought up notch above the LAs) so we can claim this niche that is rightfully ours. You can compensate LAs with 3 new nifty toys for all i care.

No it wouldn't. There are plenty of strings attached already.
1. 100 shield penalty right off the bat
2. loud distinct sound
3. complete defenselessness when cloaked. You have 1 second of free reign vs cloaked inf in your crosshair and TTK in this game is in this ballpark. In this scope wider CoF when flying doesn't sound that bad
Also I'd give a lot for even a chance to reduce/eliminate fall damage like LAs can - as it stands jumping out the window is often the only way for infiltrators to bail when things go south.

How about making a new whine thread for your Inf.?

how about you write something productive instead of being a smug idiot?
Inf class forum is of the size of the next 2 combined, there are plenty of threads covering the topic already.

Gameplay discussion:
"Top tier sniper rifles should OHK at long range as advertised" - reponse of community : deal with it, scrub.
"OMG shotguns are OP!" - well duh, shotguns are supposed to OHK, l2p noob.
that's the logic we are dealing with on a daily basis.

As a light assault myself, I agree that our jetpacks are too quiet. However, I would like to have a "stealth" jetpack certification which makes the jetpack more quiet (close to what we have now) at the cost of fuel.

that is some kind of solution, for both LA jet and Inf cloak.
"if you want to be really really silent better be ready to sink tons of certs in it" is a fair approach.

Are you purposing they nerf the LA again, so we can continue on the path to Heavy AssaultSide: 2 Indar Edition even faster?

They only just fixed the jetpack bug that had been in since alpha, along with patching up all the windows. You can atleast leave the LA its silent jetpacks

The problem is that LA takes the role of the infiltrator and the infiltrator is only good at sniping, something that doesn't help one bit at taking objectives, we're a useless class.

how HA/ENG being OP is any justification for a broken balance between LA and INF?

Make jet packs have sound. Embrace Logic.

The cloak sound is fine IMO, and is about as loud as the jetpack should be.

the ONLY sensible thing they could possibly do is have the jet-pack takeoff make a sound. Having the jet-pack constantly roaring negates any combat advantage to having the jetpack.

If they did that, then they would have to give LA assault rifles and shields, because flying around would make them targets- that CANT go invisible.

As much as Infiltrators want to say they cant be sneaky, i see many infiltrators behind enemy lines and sneakily hacking terminals. This is basically a cry to make it easy mode. Again- STOP trying to be an assault class and you wont have problems. I guarantee most of the people unhappy with the infiltrator is because they try to take on a base by themselves, hoping to kill and disappear. If you would actually try to snipe and sneak and hack, without trying to be a Rambo, you wouldnt have as much trouble.

LAs make horrible snipers. I dont cry about it, i change classes if i need to snipe. If you want to assault a base, choose an LA. If i want to snipe, i choose an infiltrator.


and PLEASE stop getting hung up on the name. If you think LA is better at "infiltrating" and you want to infiltrate- then pick an LA.

That is totally not true, it's allows anyone using it to go places and use routes any other class cannot use.

It is also very, very, very effective for avoiding fire, made even better by the dodgy netcode and hitbox issue with flying infantry.



I can't imagine jetpack being louder than a whisper would negate either of those things in anyway, it would just make Jetpacks less stealthy (as at the moment they are more stealty than Mr Stealth the Stealth-Panther from Stealthville ).

Because nanites...

I don't even know what noise you expecting them to make, based on real life jetpacks? Stop using modern ideas and applying them to a game set in the future and life will be a little less complicated for you. Apparently you can't rocket jump in real life and hedgehogs are neither fast or blue, and they don't collect rings either...

hardly 90% of the forum demands are because little Timmy can do something jonney cant....personally I don't care the way it is, I use inf all time an dont have any issues. The infs that get killed because of cloak are the morons to spam "Q" all time, that stupid **** voice pac gives them away everytime.