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The Cloak - I heard you!

voporakvoporak Member Posts: 5,621 Arc User
edited May 2013 in Builds, Powers, and Game Mechanics
Why is it that people can hear me buffing up under my cloak? I have wondered this many times, and I have seen people talk about it, but I never got an answer.

Is it a bug? If so, can it be fixed? Is it working as intended?

If it is a bug, I haven't heard any discussion or talk of fixing it, unless I missed it. If it is "working as intended", why can people hear me buffing up? I'm supposed to be undetectable! Many an alpha strike have been ruined because someone popped TT and EPtS right as they heard me going in to hit them.

Any information on this would be much appreciated.
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  • majortiraomegamajortiraomega Member Posts: 2,214 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    voporak wrote: »
    Why is it that people can hear me buffing up under my cloak? I have wondered this many times, and I have seen people talk about it, but I never got an answer.

    Is it a bug? If so, can it be fixed? Is it working as intended?

    If it is a bug, I haven't heard any discussion or talk of fixing it, unless I missed it. If it is "working as intended", why can people hear me buffing up? I'm supposed to be undetectable! Many an alpha strike have been ruined because someone popped TT and EPtS right as they heard me going in to hit them.

    Any information on this would be much appreciated.

    It's not a bug, it's there for balancing reasons. You just need to learn to either buff at a distance or use other sounds to cover your buffing.
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  • fishworshipper1fishworshipper1 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    All the cloak does is redirect light, not muffle sound ^.^
    A better question is why they can hear you at all... ever. Are you keeping a hail open on your target so they can hear you commanding your bridge officers or what?
  • pantsmaster916pantsmaster916 Member Posts: 97 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    fishworshipper1 wrote: »
    All the cloak does is redirect light, not muffle sound ^.^

    Yes, because sound carries so well in Space. :rolleyes:
  • fishworshipper1fishworshipper1 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    pantsmaster916 wrote: »
    Yes, because sound carries so well in Space. :rolleyes:

    Tis why I added the second bit.
  • warmaker001bwarmaker001b Member Posts: 9,205 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    That's funny, I never saw in any instance in any Star Trek TV episodes or movies, that cloaked warships were all the sudden detectable once they did any preparations for an attack :rolleyes:

    File this under "Idiotic," just like the decloaking bug when any of your ship's crew says a whisper, sneezes, or farts.

    General Chang in Undiscovered Country was transmitting to the Enterprise, gloating, taunting to Kirk, and never once did his cloaks drop.
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  • sander233sander233 Member Posts: 3,992 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    warmaker001b wrote: »
    General Chang in Undiscovered Country was transmitting to the Enterprise, gloating, taunting to Kirk, and never once did his cloaks drop.

    Wait, that's it! Try giving your orders in the form of Shakespearian quotations.
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    ...Oh, baby, you know, I've really got to leave you / Oh, I can hear it callin 'me / I said don't you hear it callin' me the way it used to do?...
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