v5.0 Patch notes by Fab

[Adam_Spire]

Cloaking now consumes batteries according to your speed
- getting very close to an enemy or letting an enemy get close to you will uncloak you
- beep sound only audible to grouped members
- if you move fast or cruise, you'll eat lots of batteries
- crawling or moving at low speed makes your cloak last for a long time

What use, in this game, do cloaks even provide any more?
- Cloaks were used a lot to evade death in combat. There is no feasible way to utilized a cloak for escape any more.
- if you're playing by the rules, which pirates never do (Using chat -Y to locate targets), how will you know there is an enemy in a system unless you're almost on top of them? Then what? You cant activate your cloak in time. They can deactivate it by just flying close
What is too close? This benefits pirates 100 times more than it does defense and casual players. Pirates normally sit at lanes and gates, making their cloak last A long time. Again, you coming off a lane* or out of a gate, forcing then to them decloaking makes no difference because they got you already. If nothing else, it is a pirate's personal reminded that you just got in range of their "roleplay" You cant escape and you can't do anything but pay up or just get blown up.

Cloaking and standing still, for the sake of evading is impossible because enemy players just need to sit by a JH or gate or lane and my proximity decloaks me and I'm right back where I started.


So unless you're a pirate, Cloaks are practically devoid of purpose in this patch.