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there should be ways for people who aren't the two crewmembers who get thermals to locate cloakers besides be near them exactly when they're opening a door (and if they're in a main hallway you can't even spot that)
possibilities
- show any blood/wounds on the invisible person, wounds can be dealt with pretty easily obviously but it'll still make at least pot shot throwing something heavy be able to help your allies. showing blood makes people have to make a choice; make themselves noticeable by killing a target on the spot and rushing to the shower, or sneaking off to disposals/a gibber/an airlock and seeing if people won't see the body being dragged behind them
make stuff like fire extinguisher foam stick onto them
if you want to be really radical you could make any gear besides jumpsuits be seeable (so shoes, backpacks, armor are seen as floating around) but this is kinda extreme
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Dauntasa Wrote:What if you made it so that you're only invisible to people who are at least one tile away from you? If you're right next to someone, you're visible to them and they can hit you, but if you stay away they won't know where you are. This would remove the bullshit that you can't actually hit someone who's invisible even if you know where they are, but still let cloakers blindside or shoot people.
I like this idea, possibly with a drop of the cost to 4 telecrystals to compensate. If you have a gun it's still very dangerous but at least people without thermals or guns might be able to fight back; and if you get knocked down you can be stripped.
Cogwerks Wrote:Personally I think the cloaking device should function like the advanced laser or the radbow - have a slowly self-replenishing charge and make thermals have a similar limitation.
Yes please. Having invisibility (and melee invulnerability) with no downsides after the very few threats against you are dealt with is silly.
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Dauntasa Wrote:What if you made it so that you're only invisible to people who are at least one tile away from you? If you're right next to someone, you're visible to them and they can hit you, but if you stay away they won't know where you are. This would remove the bullshit that you can't actually hit someone who's invisible even if you know where they are, but still let cloakers blindside or shoot people.
Gotta drop the cost so it can be used with the csaber. Again. That would make it roughly half as powerful as the current chameleon projector
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