Removing the lock-on thing

[Yrjosmiel]

I mean, this lock-on thing (you know, when you press F on a ship it gets highlighted) doesn't give a chance for optically stealthy (like, blending in the background) ships. It makes camouflaged ships impossible, so I suggest this:
How about, you only get that lock-on thing when it's your own ship or your factions. You can't see other factions' ships with that thing BUT if you press F on the ship, there it will show the lock-on thing.

 

[Megacrafter127]

Having an active radar-jammer (not cloaker) on the camouflaged ship will do just that.

 

[Yrjosmiel]

Having an active radar-jammer (not cloaker) on the camouflaged ship will do just that.

How about you can't see the lock-on thing by default? And radar jammers just prevent pressing F doing their thing.

 

[Malacodor]

So you want to force everyone to build black ships?

 

[Drakkart]

maybe he just does not get what does what...
Cloaker -> camoflages hides visualy
Radarjammer -> surpresses targeting of the various signals your ship emits and makeing it unable to lock on with guided missiles.

 

[Yrjosmiel]

maybe he just does not get what does what...
Cloaker -> camoflages hides visualy
Radarjammer -> surpresses targeting of the various signals your ship emits and makeing it unable to lock on with guided missiles.

wait radar jammers actually do sht
damn, i thought they're pointless

 

[Lecic]

So, give every ship a free radar jammer? No. If you want to visually cloak, you have two choices-

1. Use a cloaker + radar jammer (completely invisible, but has high energy costs)
2. Use a camouflaged hull design (lower energy costs, but only works well for systems where it matches the background color)

 

[Edymnion]

wait radar jammers actually do sht
damn, i thought they're pointless

Nope, Radar Jammers prevent missile lock-ons and prevent the HUD reticule from showing up.
And a scanner sends out a wave that actively disables the Cloak on a ship making it visible.

 

[PizzaPress]

Nope, Radar Jammers prevent missile lock-ons and prevent the HUD reticule from showing up.
And a scanner sends out a wave that actively disables the Cloak on a ship making it visible.

Addendum(this is what I've heard, please pardon and correct me if any of this is innacurate):the other player can immediately re-enable cloaking and jamming, but due to missile and AI quirks, missile turrets/drones will fire lock-on missiles as soon as you decloak, and the missiles(beam, missile, and pulse slaves)will not give up their tracking when you re-enable cloaking and/or jamming.

 

[Edymnion]

Addendum(this is what I've heard, please pardon and correct me if any of this is innacurate):the other player can immediately re-enable cloaking and jamming, but due to missile and AI quirks, missile turrets/drones will fire lock-on missiles as soon as you decloak, and the missiles(beam, missile, and pulse slaves)will not give up their tracking when you re-enable cloaking and/or jamming.

This is correct. Has not happened to me, but I was watching a video of a fight where somebody had a finger slip and dropped their jammer for a split second and suddenly had dozens of missiles coming for them. Re-enabling the jammer did nothing, it was too late. Got hammered, hard.

Missiles apparently only need to be locked on at the time of firing. After that, you're screwed.

 

[Lecic]

This is correct. Has not happened to me, but I was watching a video of a fight where somebody had a finger slip and dropped their jammer for a split second and suddenly had dozens of missiles coming for them. Re-enabling the jammer did nothing, it was too late. Got hammered, hard.

Probably Thryn during B&S. We had a lot of lock-on missile turrets.