How does the Seeker work?

[drake275]

I set up a multiplayer squad that relies on the Seeker for scouting purposes, but there's no rhyme or reason to its cloaking. Case in point: I ended up in a rooftop battle where the enemy had a psionic soldier using Telekinetic Barrier, which was giving my sniper fits. I was going to try to cloak the Seeker, move in, and strangle the enemy trooper.

The blasted thing WOULDN'T CLOAK. Well, it would, and then it would instantly de-cloak. Is there some mechanic I'm missing out on, here? It told me the Seeker had 2x charges left, but it just kept de-cloaking right after cloaking.

As an aside, is there a better unit to use for scouting, and are there any particularly useful tricks with the Seeker? I'm fairly new to the multiplayer, so I'm not quite used to playing with aliens.

[thedUWUmslayer]

There are several abilities and equipment that reveal cloaked enemies, as well as several aliens that can reveal cloaked enemies. That soldier probably had one of those abilities.

[P-47 Thunderbolt]

Probably bio-eletric skin gene mod or a battlescanner. Also, advanced armors prevent strangulation.

Seekers are not that good since they have so many counters but you should find more use in 10k point matches.

[MGR: Revengeance: The Musical]

Hi! This funny because i recently had a rooftop fight were i was using a genemoded support psi soldier. He had the hyper senses mod and the other player tried to sneak a seeker and when it got revealed he tried to clocked again a couple times only to be revealed agiain. I guess this happens to a lot of people. To answer your question: Seekers get reveal by bioelectric skin, battle scanner and when not in flight good-old shield scan. Maybe next time try not relying on them to much. Have fun!