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Question/Request to Devs: Enhanced Battle Cloak as Console
kolbrandr
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This is directed to the developers. My apologies if this is not the correct venue for this type of question/request.
With the addition of the Scimitar's Cloaked Barrage console, has there been any thought towards making the Enhanced Battle Cloak of the B'rel and T'varo into a console as well?
I could see the cloak on those two ships being changed to a standard Battle Cloak. Meanwhile the Enhanced Battle Cloak console would be b'rel and T'varo only, do something like the following:
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Cloaked Projectiles
Fire projectile weapons while cloaked
Applies Cloaked Projectiles to self
Allows you to fire projectiles while cloaked. You can still be detected by abilities that reveal cloaked ships.
Current Weapon Power set to 0 for 15 seconds.
Enables use of (projectile?) weapons while cloaked to self for 15 seconds.
3 minute cooldown
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This would represent the ability demonstrated by the B'rel prototype in STVI quite well, and much better than the 3-second decloak/cloak animation/ability that the B'rel and T'varo have at this time. It also does this without creating the problem of cloaked torpedo spam, and brings the B'rel and T'varo in line with the other ships with special abilities tied to consoles.
As a final note, if anybody knows of a better place to put this so that it can be given some attention, please let me know. I would appreciate it very much.
Thank you for taking the time to read this post. It is very appreciated. Have a fantastic day.
With the addition of the Scimitar's Cloaked Barrage console, has there been any thought towards making the Enhanced Battle Cloak of the B'rel and T'varo into a console as well?
I could see the cloak on those two ships being changed to a standard Battle Cloak. Meanwhile the Enhanced Battle Cloak console would be b'rel and T'varo only, do something like the following:
**************
Cloaked Projectiles
Fire projectile weapons while cloaked
Applies Cloaked Projectiles to self
Allows you to fire projectiles while cloaked. You can still be detected by abilities that reveal cloaked ships.
Current Weapon Power set to 0 for 15 seconds.
Enables use of (projectile?) weapons while cloaked to self for 15 seconds.
3 minute cooldown
**************
This would represent the ability demonstrated by the B'rel prototype in STVI quite well, and much better than the 3-second decloak/cloak animation/ability that the B'rel and T'varo have at this time. It also does this without creating the problem of cloaked torpedo spam, and brings the B'rel and T'varo in line with the other ships with special abilities tied to consoles.
As a final note, if anybody knows of a better place to put this so that it can be given some attention, please let me know. I would appreciate it very much.
Thank you for taking the time to read this post. It is very appreciated. Have a fantastic day.
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3 minutes for a torpedo attack from cloak? Do you realize how USELESS a single torpedo attack run is on a target?
The enhanced battle cloak effect is fine as it is. The only thing I agree with you is that it should not be built into the hull.
Due to the ship already being out in fleet and zstore format for so long, the easiest way for them to do this is to turn the enhanced battle cloak into a device (not console) usable only in the t'varo and b'rel that gives the enhanced cloak functionality as a passive, always active feature.
any means. It requires an extremely narrow skill tree spec to be effective, and requires skill
to be able to fly. Also, flying with no shields and all the FAW scimitards everywhere really just
make life harder.
I totally disagree that the enhanced cloak should be a console, but I guess I do have a bias.
How about leaving it the way it is? Or better yet, not having the b'rel be exposed when it fires?
Your suggestion would render the only benefit to the b'rel retrofit, and it's fleet variant, useless.
The b'rel retrofit is a niche ship, why make it irrelevant just so you can make another ship do what it does? Locking the console to this ship is an even worse idea. You now have the same ship, but with one less console slot. Same goes for a device slot.
Do you have one of these ships? Or were you a victim of one in Kerrat?
But I think it is time to move away from the 3 second decloak/cloak bandaid, and have a true "fire while cloaked" effect. To increase immersion and better represent the ship as it was depicted in the movie/lore.
Don't get me wrong. The B'rel is an absolute labor of love for me. I still have messages in my inbox from people who saw my b'rel video back in day and want build advice. I LOVE the B'rel retro.
I really just want the "exposed" effect to go away because it is immersion breaking and doesn't represent what the ship actually did. But when it didn't have it (uninformed) people cried. So I am trying to work out a compromise.
Just look at what happened when the fleet rom boffs cloak timer buff stacked. B'rels were re-cloaking so fast that you could barely see them for a split second, much less target them (even with tab!).
R.I.P
Agreed,
It sounds like the OP got Rick Rolled by someone using either the B'rel Retro or the T'Varo and is trying to get back at them :P
That would be fine and fantastic with me. You would get rivers of Fed tears though.
but don't quote me on that, as it's been a long time since i've used the console
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