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Why does Tactical Fleet decloak you?

vocmcpvocmcp Member Posts: 1,134 Arc User
edited April 2014 in The Academy
I've been flying my Defiant and Gal-X for a very long time. However since about 2 month I notice that I get decloaked prematurely when charging up my alpha. The ability that seems to do so is Tactical Fleet. I've noticed this happening in STF's, CCE's and Kerrat. Possibly other places as well.

Is this supposed to happen? It didn't do so until a while ago. Or is this a bug that should be reported?
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  • razar2380razar2380 Member Posts: 1,187 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    As far as I know, that shouldn't be happening. It doesn't do it with my Rommie. I would recommend (If you haven't done this before) move the cloak to another spot in your skill tray, then cloak and activate only Tactical Fleet.

    I did have a problem before with a skill activating when I activated a completely different skill, and the other was never suppose to activate. Somehow the two skills themselves became linked together. No matter where I put both of them, if a specific skill was activated, it activated the other one.

    I had to reload my saved keybinds. If this is happening, and you don't have your keybinds saved, them you might want to reset your keybinds and redo them.

    Though, something to keep in mind is that they might have changed that and not mention it. Things like that have happened before.

    If nothing else works, I suggest putting in a ticket, just incase it isn't a change they made.
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  • vocmcpvocmcp Member Posts: 1,134 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    I'll try that thanks!

    We'll see if it it will change much. Got a fleet mate reporting the same issue. Btw. I'm not using key binds.
  • razar2380razar2380 Member Posts: 1,187 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Any button or mouse click you do is a keybind. To see what they are, just go to your options menu, and go to the Keybinds tab.

    Even your mouse buttons need to be set to something, otherwise they will not work as intended.
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  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    The inclusion of Ker'rat is somewhat odd...were you teamed at the time? Being teamed and using a Team Ability where a member of the team is in combat can result in decloaking - it puts you in combat, and using a non-battle cloak - it's going to drop cloak when you're in combat.
  • monkeybone13monkeybone13 Member Posts: 4,640 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    vocmcp wrote: »
    I've been flying my Defiant and Gal-X for a very long time. However since about 2 month I notice that I get decloaked prematurely when charging up my alpha. The ability that seems to do so is Tactical Fleet. I've noticed this happening in STF's, CCE's and Kerrat. Possibly other places as well.

    Is this supposed to happen? It didn't do so until a while ago. Or is this a bug that should be reported?

    I've noticed that for a very long time and it took me a little while to figure it out.

    Tactical fleet, engineering fleet, and science fleet are team wide buffs. They affect everyone on your team, though I don't know if there is a range limit. The wiki lists the range as "team" so I don't know if it affects team members anywhere on the map or if they have to be within a certain distance of you. http://sto.gamepedia.com/Ability:_Tactical_Fleet

    What happens is if it ends up buffing someone on your team that is under red alert you get decloaked for some reason. I've seen it happen so many times I never use tactical fleet until I'm ready to decloak. It doesn't seem to happen your ships with a battle or enhanced battle cloak though, only standard cloaked ships. And the cloak console you're using on those 2 ships is standard as in you can only use it out of combat.
  • vocmcpvocmcp Member Posts: 1,134 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    The inclusion of Ker'rat is somewhat odd...were you teamed at the time? Being teamed and using a Team Ability where a member of the team is in combat can result in decloaking - it puts you in combat, and using a non-battle cloak - it's going to drop cloak when you're in combat.
    I've noticed that for a very long time and it took me a little while to figure it out.

    Tactical fleet, engineering fleet, and science fleet are team wide buffs. They affect everyone on your team, though I don't know if there is a range limit. The wiki lists the range as "team" so I don't know if it affects team members anywhere on the map or if they have to be within a certain distance of you. http://sto.gamepedia.com/Ability:_Tactical_Fleet

    What happens is if it ends up buffing someone on your team that is under red alert you get decloaked for some reason. I've seen it happen so many times I never use tactical fleet until I'm ready to decloak. It doesn't seem to happen your ships with a battle or enhanced battle cloak though, only standard cloaked ships. And the cloak console you're using on those 2 ships is standard as in you can only use it out of combat.

    Awesome! Thanks a lot for the explanation!
  • irwin109irwin109 Member Posts: 518 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    I've noticed that for a very long time and it took me a little while It doesn't seem to happen your ships with a battle or enhanced battle cloak though, only standard cloaked ships.

    I think I did have it happen on my B'Rel, though that may have been FOMM, but either way it'd act as if I was firing torp's; decloak for a second or two and recloak on its own...
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  • shadowwraith77shadowwraith77 Member Posts: 6,395 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Did not know this was an issue, and I will keep this in mind, as for popping a fleet skill I usually never use them, until everyone has engaged the enemy together.
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  • lomax6996lomax6996 Member Posts: 512 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    I've noticed that for a very long time and it took me a little while to figure it out.

    Tactical fleet, engineering fleet, and science fleet are team wide buffs. They affect everyone on your team, though I don't know if there is a range limit. The wiki lists the range as "team" so I don't know if it affects team members anywhere on the map or if they have to be within a certain distance of you. http://sto.gamepedia.com/Ability:_Tactical_Fleet

    What happens is if it ends up buffing someone on your team that is under red alert you get decloaked for some reason. I've seen it happen so many times I never use tactical fleet until I'm ready to decloak. It doesn't seem to happen your ships with a battle or enhanced battle cloak though, only standard cloaked ships. And the cloak console you're using on those 2 ships is standard as in you can only use it out of combat.

    Thanks for this! I've experienced the same thing as OP on my Klingon Tac in his Fleet Tor'Khat. However it didn't happen on the Fleet Norgh. I also have a Rom Tac in a Fleet Mogai and it never happened there. I was beginning to think it was a bug but this explains it. Thanks, again :D
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