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Season 3 Cloaking Button

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited December 2010 in Klingon Discussion
Anyone else having trouble with their Cloaking Button on the Toolbar?
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    No... what kind of trouble are you having?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    The button doesnt stay down, and with graphics its impossible to know if the device is on or not.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Instead of dimming, it brights and is highlighted now, indicating it's a toggle. It's pretty clearly visible to me. I found the old way pretty confusing as dimming can also mean disabled.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Sorry but there is no highlights or anything. It acts like the same ol button before you cloaked, no highlights or what not.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    MY God-they nerfed it!!!!!! :p

    Though I can see where the bug that doesn't switch to cloaked graphics when you cloak and this issue being more than a bit confusing.

    Lol- It would bite to have to fly up to opponents and see if they shoot just to find out if your cloaked at all.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    My cloak is working just fine, only the button changed for me o.o;
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Mine works fine. Button changed to highlighting.

    Don't care for new button, personally, liked the old way better. Was easy enough to tell if it was active because it didn't have the countdown going.

    Hopefully, they'll adjust it a bit further, say a nice tint, rather than this white outline.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    I don't have a problem with it not activating --- my problem is that it is now TOO sensitive. On several occasions last night I found myself accidentally double-activating it, which leads to a cloak and an immediate decloak. That's not fun :p.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    TheMuse wrote: »
    I don't have a problem with it not activating --- my problem is that it is now TOO sensitive. On several occasions last night I found myself accidentally double-activating it, which leads to a cloak and an immediate decloak. That's not fun :p.

    Oh yes this here. Nothing like running around in a pvp match @ 25% hull and then "double tapping" the key.

    DON"T KILL ME BRO! Is all you are left with.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Axterix wrote:
    Don't care for new button, personally, liked the old way better. Was easy enough to tell if it was active because it didn't have the countdown going.

    Hopefully, they'll adjust it a bit further, say a nice tint, rather than this white outline.

    To add to this, why it needs to change...

    If you hover your cursor over the cloak button, it gets a yellow outline, just like any power you have your cursor over. This outline, of course, means there's no white outline. So now you cannot tell if cloak is active or not by looking at the button, which you used to be able to do. And while you can look at your ship or the buff bar, keep in mind that the change they made was for any toggled power, not just cloaking.

    The current implementation needs work.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    How about changing the button altogether? You know that shield facing botton? Why not take the ship from that, put it on a button, and have that ship disappear (leaving a darkened blank button) when the ship is cloaked?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Thats an idea, but personally I would like a change in colors to indicate it's in use.

    Red = Online
    Dark Read = Offline
    Amber = Cloak in Use.

    That or the icon changes when cloak is in use, like how the weapon icons change when various effects are used.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    A couple of time the button has shown I'm clocked when I'm not.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Katic wrote: »
    How about changing the button altogether? You know that shield facing botton? Why not take the ship from that, put it on a button, and have that ship disappear (leaving a darkened blank button) when the ship is cloaked?

    The problem with that is that it isn't too universal. There's other powers that, if I use, also get the white outline for a bit, then go to their recharge countdown. So, if they were to do something like that, they'd have to give every icon alternate art to use while active. And that's artist time that could be spent giving us more things to use in the Foundry :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    I personaly do not like that change..... but if you get used to it, I have to admit, it IS a little more clearly.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    I think the learning curve on when your cloak is on or off is pretty steep though, I made the mistake of thinking i was cloaked when i wasn't exactly 1 time.. it was pretty humiliating, approaching the Fedball with my homies, & then having 5 Feds pummel me into space-dust before i realized what happened.Havn't made that mistake again.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Mine seems to work every once in a while. Sometimes the only way I can tell if I'm cloaked or not is by my ship graphics.
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