I was playing on a 1.04i server today and decided to give this a little test for myself. Took my cloked fade and parked in front of the left vent by Viaduct that lead to Power Silo. Saw a Marine in that vent, parasited and with hive sight.
That hall is a relatively brightly lit hall, but the marine dropped right down in front of me and walked on. Poor fellow didn't last long after I started clawing him.
Sensory is still a worse pick though, simply because we need adrenline so much. If 50% of the adrenline's advantage was moved off of the chamber and just given to aliens naturally it'd not be such an issue.
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It works just as well as the pictures indicate. With level-3, you cloak quite fast. I camped as a fade in a brightly-lit hall, waited for a marine to come close, and crushed him. Then I changed locations and did it again. The marine that I clawed the first time came looking for me, and even though he knew I was cloaked and approximately where I'd be, he was not able to find me. I expect most of the complaints are about the "90%" figure, not knowing how effective it really is.
I can barely make out that skulk in the .png there...
But one sort of comment just to throw out: Remember that the still images probably make it seem better (maybe not by much) than it really is--because when you're moving in relation to the cloaked creature you can see changes in the background. In a static image, it's hard to tell if the shadings of a cloaked kharaa are part of the wall or not, there's no parallax effect going on--which is one of the main ways we see things like nearly-transparent-jellyfish in water and such.
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I love that site.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> I actually first saw it when my C++ prof. wrote it on the board one day, and I thought it was hilarious. I think it's just a computer-nerd joke; I don't think ThinkGeek made it up. That's where most people have seen it tho.
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The easiest way to make cloak *not* work is to turn your body - a change in shape (from head-on to profile) is much easier to make out than a stationary image. On the same principle, often the *best* way to cloak is to keep your crosshair trained on your intended target - that way the marine always sees the same shape (even if he doesn't consciously *see* it).
Man I used to hate the idea that cloaking was 90% but mannnn does it work! I tried it as onos on ns_eclipse and went onos and parked myself RIGHT OUTSIDE there front doors and i mean like two feet away every marine passed me by no problem! and I love how FAST it works too, like two seconds BOOM cloaked its really helpful, and as those marines that passed me by hehehe I paralyzed them all and waited for a gorge to heal them ALL to death muwahahahah! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
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That hall is a relatively brightly lit hall, but the marine dropped right down in front of me and walked on. Poor fellow didn't last long after I started clawing him.
Sensory is still a worse pick though, simply because we need adrenline so much. If 50% of the adrenline's advantage was moved off of the chamber and just given to aliens naturally it'd not be such an issue.
It works just as well as the pictures indicate. With level-3, you cloak quite fast. I camped as a fade in a brightly-lit hall, waited for a marine to come close, and crushed him. Then I changed locations and did it again. The marine that I clawed the first time came looking for me, and even though he knew I was cloaked and approximately where I'd be, he was not able to find me. I expect most of the complaints are about the "90%" figure, not knowing how effective it really is.
<a href='http://www.umich.edu/~akluck/images/cloak-skulk.png' target='_blank'>http://www.umich.edu/~akluck/images/cloak-skulk.png</a>
But one sort of comment just to throw out: Remember that the still images probably make it seem better (maybe not by much) than it really is--because when you're moving in relation to the cloaked creature you can see changes in the background. In a static image, it's hard to tell if the shadings of a cloaked kharaa are part of the wall or not, there's no parallax effect going on--which is one of the main ways we see things like nearly-transparent-jellyfish in water and such.
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HA! Your sig quote is from a shirt at thinkgeek.com.
My freind has that shirt.
He also has the "No I will not fix your computer" shirt
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the "All your base are belong to us." shirt
I love that site.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I actually first saw it when my C++ prof. wrote it on the board one day, and I thought it was hilarious.
I think it's just a computer-nerd joke; I don't think ThinkGeek made it up. That's where most people have seen it tho.