Release Notes for build 1600.20090918.1 - 9/22/09
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BackAlleyBrawler,
Posted on: 2009-09-22 13:23 in The Global Training Room Test Server
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For cloak of darkness, the description is|
Originally Posted by BackAlleyBrawler
Energy Cloak specifically says "bends light around you so you become partially invisible". Even so, it does not make your character completely invisible, which Cloak of Darkness did.
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| A shroud of Netherworld darkness envelops you, making you difficult to spot at a distance. You can be seen only at close range, or if you attack a target. |
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I think for individual concept reasons, all options available for any stealth power ("full" transparency, partial transparency, black "shadowing") should be available for all stealth powers. Let me decide if my Energy Cloak bends light around me to make me partially invisible, or if it absorbs light to prevent it from reflecting off of me. |
Originally Posted by BackAlleyBrawler
Energy Cloak specifically says "bends light around you so you become partially invisible". Even so, it does not make your character completely invisible, which Cloak of Darkness did.
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I believe I mentioned in another thread that IMO the "partial invisibility" option should give 70% transparency at the most. This is the transparency you get from Group Invisibility WHEN IT IS SUPPRESSED. Since the two stealth powers we're talking about do not visibly suppress, I would like the option of having the normal 90% transparency, or the suppressed 70% transparency.
Personally, I'd like to see something more like 50% transparency for Cloak of Shadows, since you are obscured by the effect anyway, and 70% for Energy Cloak. Maybe a 70% option for Cloaking Device, Superior Invisibility and Group Invisibility as well, although those do suppress. If you can't change the suppressed value as well as the regular one, maybe make it 80%, or just change the suppressed value to 50% or 60% whether you use the partial option or the full one. It would still be obvious that it's better than Stealth. (After all, there really isn't a 70%/50% option, it's either Stealth, which is 50%/20%, or 90/70)
I'd also like to see the "shadowy" option for Hide, although I don't think it needs a partial option since it suppresses. (And suppresses to total visibility) Same with the stealth AoE powers, with only 30% transparency they don't need a partial option, but I'd like the shadow one. (If nothing else, on Shadow Fall) Don't think I'm asking for all this at once, though, you can start with the Defense sets and go from there.
I want Energy Cloak to get a opaque body theme!!!