The latest in Malta technology

After years in development, the Malta sprung their latest weapon on me a couple of nights ago: the Stealth Titan.



Sure, its only a prototype and it was eventually destroyed, but its cloaking technology was superb and completely impossible to target through. See for yourself (notice in the beginning single target attacks are not autoselecting it: its not just invisible: its untargetable). Unfortunately, as the video shows, I broke the cloaking device when I destroyed it, so its secrets were unsalvageable.


(I've seen this particular bug maybe half a dozen times on the live servers, but this was the first time I had the presence of mind to record it. It can sometimes happen if a Titan merge is disrupted at just the right instant in time.)

Lets hope they don't make stealth sappers x_x

Looks like Director 11 might be rolling out his invisible friend tech to other Malta units

I've seen this happen twice Live.

Both times when I killed one of two Titans that are trying to merge.

If fired rocket swarms at me that did no damage, but the AoE gas clouds they created did. I had to click a glowie to end the mission so it was very annoying.

The other mission was, IIRC, a defeat all, and even though the Inviso-Titan was still operational and tailing me, it completed when I KOed a Gunslinger.

Once the bug is fixed, I think the devs should add an actual stealth Titan unit to Malta. Smaller than the Hercules class, they use their smaller size and active cammo to move about in the city unnoticed.

Because nothing screams "secretive stealth ops cabal" like giant white or blue robots and guys in blue cowboy hats walking around the city core in daylight.



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I don't suppose you thought to demorecord that too? *looks plaintively at Arcanaville*

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Anyone else remember when there were some Titans and other such Malta (I believe it was? pretty sure) stuck just under the streets of Peregrine? About 3 blocks north-east of the ferry, where the residential blocks start, they'd pin people down and be completely untargetable. very annoying.

Though this is pretty funny. I thought, "time for some pbaoes!"

Notice at the end, there: Arcanaville did the math and KICKED IT INTO EXISTENCE.

Yep, I've had it happen. IIRC, I killed one just as they were combining. Since I didn't feel like trying to take down a Titan with Typhoon's Edge, I just left it there.

5th Column throughout the city whisper tales of the haunted base under Talos. No one lives there anymore, except perhaps a badly damaged Warcry robot. The base has been forgotten by all but the most fastidious record-keepers in the Column....but whenever they send a squad to find out what happened, the air turns toxic, fires randomly appear under their feet, and missile swarms chase them from nowhere, until they run out of the base screaming and vowing to never speak of it to anyone.

They aren't the only ones with groundbreaking tech. The Knives have learned how to kill lightning.

Now I want an actual stealth titan mob.

Relevant here; Belladonna Vertrano does this in Praetoria in the "Take Down Cockatrice" mission given by Sinclair. She "teleports" away and then proceeds to shoot the crap out of you as an untargetable, invisible enemy.

It literally makes the mission impossible to complete.