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Battle cloak totally broken. Any workarounds?
bmcd73
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With a huge part of this KDF event cloaking this is a rather irritating issue. It's taking me 2-4 times as long to complete missions because I get stuck in permanent-cloak mode. None of my skills seem to break it. Most are grayed out. Is there a workaround for this? I see old threads and chats on reddit that are 4+ years old asking the same questions. This seems kinda like a big deal. The only way I know around this currently is to abandon mission and restart...not the best solution and so far my KDF recruit experience is not good. I'm flying the Rom tact command warbird. I can't stand raiders and a regular cloak makes no sense for this event especially when I have an arsenal of battle cloak enabled ships. Do we know if this is a bug tied to a ship or just to battle/enhanced battle cloaks?
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So the best advice I've seen is try to avoid decloaking before the full animation or cooldown completes. The other things that are often pointed out is that Looting or interacting with most things or dialogues will break cloak, so if you can force it, you'll Unstick the cloak. The only Skills I found that reliably force the cloak-breaking is Sensor Analysis and Gather Intel. This makes Science and/or Intel ships somewhat better for those having trouble. Less reliable: enemies killing you via AoE, or enemies using Charged Particle Burst or Scattering Field. Sometimes I fly right on top of them and hope they can hit me hard enough.
I was able to get the 2500 mostly in a DHC setup on the Temer, but the Leosa Warbird and Somerville/Balth Sci-Intel ships were also nice since I had them.
Ran into the issue recently as well, it's a pretty bad oversight to not be able to manually break cloak(via a chat /command or the like).
Um, Lt tactical officer? the bozo hailing is IS THE ENEMY why did you decloak?
I like to joke that officer in question is constantly pressing the "decloak" button by accident but yeah it's something Cryptic really needs to fix as it's one of the major reasons why cloaks are such a pain to use in PvE.
It never got fixed, so I gave up on it, and I just avoid battle cloaks.
Cloak has been broken since the game first went live.. I wouldn’t count on it ever being fixed.
I found it surprising that they had a cloak related objective for the Klingon Recruits, you would think they would want to remove attention from something that’s been broken for so long. Instead they put it under a spotlight.
If you have none of those, try opening up your doff window and select one of the department options that have your BOFFs as the department head, like Marauding or Engineering. This interaction closes other dialogues and the bank and so forth as I believe it counts as a dialogue box itself, thus may decloak you.
On a side note, really annoying to see them buff Klingon battlecloaks so that you can quickly cloak and recloak in less than 5 seconds to acquire ambush bonuses, but romulan battle cloaks and probably all other types of cloaks still require waiting the 5 seconds cool-down before decloaking for the bonus. They should have applied this fast CD to all cloaks!
What are you talking about? It's not like the Romulans are the ones who invented the cloak and that all other cloaking devices in the Alpha and Beta quadrants are cheap rip-offs. Why should Romulans have the best cloaks?
(oh, wait - it was during one of the anniversary Patrols that it happened the first couple times, so there likely weren't any harvest options.)
Not sure what you're seeing, but Klingon Battle Cloaks have the same 20 second cooldown as every other cloak in the game including Romulan. Klingons cannot immediately re-cloak.
Only the bug where you get stuck in Battle Cloak is new. All other bugs like randomly uncloaking, uncloaking when hailed, enemies sometimes just shooting at you anyway.. none of that is new, it's been broken from day one. I am at the point where I just rarely use cloak at all anymore, I just consider it a horribly bugged mechanic that will likely never be fixed.
It's like Carrier Pets. They've been borked since the game went Live. Because for so long the only faction with Carriers was KDF, the devs just pretended the issue didn't exist.
Fast forward years later of Cryptic pretending there were no Hangar Pet problems, they release the Fed Jupiter Carrier. The hilarious part was they made the special frigates for it heavily focused on narrow firing arc weapons. 'Lo and behold Fed players had problems with them and Cryptic only then tried to fix it, and failed several times.
The funny part with the Jupiter's Frigate problem was that it's exactly the same issue KDF players made many threads about since Launch. The BOP pets of the Vo'Quv never really used their fancy DHCs and Torpedoes much because they're too busy flying around in circles with very little time on target for those narrow arc weapons.
In March 3, 2021, the same problems exist.
When the recent C-Store pack of T6 Fed, Rom, Dominion, KDF Carriers came out, what did the T6 Vo'Quv BOPs have? BEAM ARRAYS, because they'll never use DHCs anyways, since they're never pointed the right direction most of the time.
On paper, these "Frigates" with such a focus on narrow firing arc weapons would be doing strafing runs, turn around, and strafe again. Kind of like in my signature gif below. But that's not how hangar pet AI works.
Well its a perma +50% cat 2 dmg bound if you build a raider properly. So its not really an option to skip it... if you can't use ambush why fly a raider at all ?
Don't pick up your loot. If you get stuck just pick up any loot and you will decloak. So if your cloak cycling in combat just ignore your loot till the mission is over.
That may work for PC, but I know it doesn't on PlayStation. :-(
Ahh but it is.
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Trait:_Maquis_Tactics
+ Superior Subterfuge (if you don't have a paid source... you can always run a holo Leck)
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Holographic_Deep_Space_Nine_Bridge_Officers
There ya go 50% decloak bonus on a raider (40% on a non raider)... and if you have the recruit reward boff. Its a 15s ambush. There are ways to drop your decloak cool down to around 16s. So perma 50% cat 2 dmg bonus if you cycle your cloak properly.
BUT I have also noted that I do not beleave that every strike is counting like its supposed to.
That's what happens when shipwrights place the "ANSWER HAIL" and "DECLOAK" buttons right next to each other on the fat-fingered BOFF's console!
Seriously, that is my most hated bug, too. But I must say, I have noticed that with my new KDF Recruit, I 've got through most of the first 3 campaigns' dialogues without being forced out of cloak. By a friendly or an enemy.
Then again, I've also not been stuck in cloak. Possibly because my video card is so old I can't use Lighting 2.0. I wonder if that's the issue. Are you guys who are getting stuck in cloak all on Lighting 2.0? I wonder if it could be linked to specific graphics hardware or software settings. I keep Bloom and Lens Flare off at all times.
I have 4 characters who cloak VERY frequently (Recruit in the new free ship, KDF Rom and FED Rom both in Fleet T'Varo's and an old KDF character in a Fleet T5-U K'tinga), and none of them have been hit by this.
Or XBOX.. and not all space battles have a scan-able objective or resource to harvest. I have tried to find some console or ability that might disengage the cloak, but so far, nothing I am aware of.
On the console, if you click down on the right stick the default action is to target something and track it. Your camera follows that target. If you click again, it goes into free camera mode. I ALWAYS click twice to go into free camera targeting. When you do that none of your abilities are enabled and you are stuck in cloak. BUT, if I target and let the camera follow, I am able to come out of cloak because my shooting abilities are enabled. I have tested this 3 or 4 times now and it always breaks cloak for me.
The PC may be a bit different how it targets, etc. This is what I am experiencing on xbox.