Cloaking?

[Anguille]

I have played Stellaris for many hours but am not aware if cloaking is available in the game. Hope they will implement this for the Klingons and the Romulans.

[skeetz]

botf had it so if this doesnt im sure alot will be peeved

[Anguille]

Originally posted by skeetz:

botf had it so if this doesnt im sure alot will be peeved

Yes, its really a cool feature in Botf and very important.

[skeetz]

especially when ur romulans and wana take on a borg cube event u need that free first shot with ur fleet.

[corestandeven]

I believe Stellaris has introduced cloaking only recently, but no idea if it is any good as a game mechanic or whether it replicates well how cloaking works in TNG.

In BOTF cloaking was overpowered, because as raised by Skeetz you just have a free shot which the other side can do nothing about, so I hope in this it would be implemented in a better/fairer way.

[vkobe]

Originally posted by Anguille:

I have played Stellaris for many hours but am not aware if cloaking is available in the game. Hope they will implement this for the Klingons and the Romulans.

yes we can, science ship has by default cloaking

[Druark]

Science ships do NOT have cloaking by default. You have to research the technology in Stellaris, only then do they have access to it. Cloaking in Stellaris is also fairly useless for actual combat related tasks as they cannot attack whilst cloaking and nearly everyone will have extremely effective cloaking detection which forcibly decloaks your ships within a few hours of the game starting. Meaning you can't even sneak in to hostile territory with your ships either.

If they were going to use the same system here it would need some serious rework to function like it does in Star Trek and actually be useful for more than just science ships.

[vkobe]

Originally posted by Druark:

Science ships do NOT have cloaking by default. You have to research the technology in Stellaris, only then do they have access to it. Cloaking in Stellaris is also fairly useless for actual combat related tasks as they cannot attack whilst cloaking and nearly everyone will have extremely effective cloaking detection which forcibly decloaks your ships within a few hours of the game starting. Meaning you can't even sneak in to hostile territory with your ships either.

If they were going to use the same system here it would need some serious rework to function like it does in Star Trek and actually be useful for more than just science ships.

when they introduced cloaking science had cloaking by default

pretty sure the psychic cloaking force opponant to use psychic detection to detect psychic cloaking

[Horus]

You'll have cloaking for the Romulans, but I think for the Klingons you have to develop it because they stole it originally from the Romulans and re-engineered it. It they are going to keep it cannon you may have to skill-tree it first. If the developers stay with canon.

[skeetz]

Canon they actually had a brief alliance the romulans got klingon ship design and the klingons got cloak, thats why u see romulans use d7 style ships in tos.

[corestandeven]

As I understand this game is set just before the TNG series, and so presumably well after ENT and TOS. Therefore the Klingons should have cloaking tech.

[[SR] Milan]

@Vkobe
In Stellaris, cloaking tech came only recently with the "First Contact" DLC and ultimately rendered useless as all other species will sooner or later install cloak detectors.

@Horus
In Star Trek, cloak was first introduced in TOS where the Enterprise encountered Romulans who attack a Federation outpost (Star Trek s1-e14 Balance of Terror).
Later that same century the Romulans traded this cloaking tech with the Klingons in 2268 for a Political Alliance among both empires.