Are you talking about Battle Cloak or regular cloak?

Ships under regular cloak do not take direct hull damage. As soon as it goes to Red Alert, the shields are up instantly. Which means, it's ups before the weapon fire even comes close to the hull.

That is one advantage to the regular cloak.

In planetside 2, the infiltrator has a cloaking device but when activated it starts a timer then runs out soon after, followed by a cool down period before it can be used again.

This is an idea.

Or you could get the adapted honour guard 3 part set and use its ABC/mask energy signature power.


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the Defiant cloak fails EVERY week in Ds9
its frankly sub standard and a knock off
why should it even come close to a proper cloak

Cryptic, I'll make you a deal. Move the cloak back to "built-in ability" instead of a console, just for the Fleet Tactical Escort Retrofit and without removing any console space, and I'll stop bothering you about battle cloaks.

I'm sorry, 1) what do you mean back to? It's always been a console 2.) why?

The Defiant is already a top escort. Any additional bonus to it it would make it completely unbalanced in all regards.

Efforting this I as we speak. Compiling sources for what its worth as any evidence will most likely dismissed as non-canon if its not from onscreen, on TV or listed in Memory Alpha ior generally suits the fan notion of how things are.

Get in a B'rel or Hegh'ta if you want battlecloak. We need more Klingon pilots fighting Feds.

Ah, yeah, watch these videos for an idea of how to pilot one:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAA.../videos?view=0


^ On topic.

It's always been that way on the fleet ship, but on the good old Vice Admiral tactical escort retrofit, it was originally a built-in ability that did not require a console. You could also buy that bad boy with a free token.

I think you're misunderstanding what I mean.

While cloaked, your shields are down. It doesn't matter what kind of cloak you have, the shields are still down. Hence, being fired upon while actively cloaked (say, if someone sensor scans and detects you, or a sci ship has high enough AUX and you move too close, or the 2-3 other ways I've seen people detect me without actually decloaking me) will result in direct hits to the hull. In that way, you're vulnerable.

Because canon doesn't really mean much in this game. The game isn't really required to follow canon that closely. All they have to do is meet the guidelines set out by CBS/whatever other copyright holders they're working with.