Cloaking and Detection

[Optec]

posted on September 5th, 2009, 10:22 am

Last edited by Optec on September 5th, 2009, 12:22 pm, edited 3 times in total.

The next patch will probably be the largest patch we made since the release of version 3. It will feature a lot of new content - like the previously announced ingame interface redo - a ton of balancing improvements and many new features, with some not even yet revealed!

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posted on September 5th, 2009, 10:41 am

Wow, amazing stuff! 

posted on September 5th, 2009, 10:56 am

Eventhough I will probably regret saying this later in MP matches, this is a great new feature! And its a lot more realistic this way

Though a couple of questions come to mind, what will happen to the talon refit, Dominion sensor station and Dominion perimeter station?

posted on September 5th, 2009, 11:05 am

  Was about time for some changes in this respect. Great job.  Can't wait for the new patch.

posted on September 5th, 2009, 12:02 pm

That rocks. Really. Hopefully we will be able to play 3.08 soon. Very soon. Any news on WHEN?

posted on September 5th, 2009, 12:35 pm

Very nice...

posted on September 5th, 2009, 1:26 pm

That rocks. Really. Hopefully we will be able to play 3.08 soon. Very soon. Any news on WHEN?

Hmm...

From the way the new patch is presented, version number may be 3.1.0.

There is a lot of content changes, but not enought to warrant a 4.0 jump.

Anyways, it seems finally playing Romulans and Klingons will be interesting.

Oh, by the way, will Cardassians ( when/if added ) use cloaking like in STA2?

posted on September 5th, 2009, 1:29 pm

Oh, by the way, will Cardassians ( when/if added ) use cloaking like in STA2?

Unlikely, they are not a Cloak-capable race. The only ones who used Cloak is the Tal Shiar/Obsidion Order fleet.

[DarthThanatos]

posted on September 5th, 2009, 1:41 pm

Last edited by DarthThanatos on September 5th, 2009, 1:44 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Unlikely, they are not a Cloak-capable race. The only ones who used Cloak is the Tal Shiar/Obsidion Order fleet.

Uhhh...

Not to sound rude, but the Tal Shiar is the ROMULAN Intelligence Service. The Obsidian Order are the Cardassian Intelligence Service.

And if the Obsidian Order has cloaks, then the Cardassians are cloak capable, even if they limit it to the Intelligence Service.

Still, I agree that STA2 "abused" the cloaking capacity of Cardassians, granting it to almost all of their military units. AFAIK, most of cardassian units, and most notably the big guns, were NOT equipped with cloaking devices.

But FO is not DS9, and it doesn't need to follow STA2 philosophy regarding Cardassians and cloaking. So, it makes sense to ask.

[Tyler]

posted on September 5th, 2009, 1:44 pm

Last edited by Tyler on September 5th, 2009, 1:52 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Uhhh...

Not to sound rude, but the Tal Shiar is the ROMULAN Intelligence Service. The Obsidian Order are the Cardassian Intelligence Service.

And if the Obsidian Order has cloaks, then the Cardassians are cloak capable, even if they limit it to the Intelligence Service.

... If you are going to post, actually watch the show first!

posted on September 5th, 2009, 2:05 pm

the fleet which he meant was the one that got erased by a dominion ambush at the fake homeworld of the founders

posted on September 5th, 2009, 2:53 pm

Very cool!  But I have a few questions. How long does it take to scan. Is it passive or manual. And of course, what happens to thet Talon Refit?

posted on September 5th, 2009, 3:05 pm

vessels that had Tachyon detection have been converted into tachyon pings in most cases, like the Talon for example. the range varies from unit to unit.

Pings are emitted automatically every 10 seconds, unless modified by special abilities

posted on September 5th, 2009, 3:17 pm

  10 seconds... hmm, I hope is long enough. Is the ping forcing ships to decloak just like active scan does now ?

posted on September 5th, 2009, 3:48 pm

This is awesome. Really cool stuff, guys