Is it me or the cloaking device doesn't hide you from anything?

[CR48]

While cloaked i still draw attention from sentinels, hostile mobs can still spot me, npc want to interact with me and the passive wild life still acknowledge your presence.

[william_es]

When I used mine, sentinels stop shooting at me. I'd say that's working as intended. it may have no effect at all outside of combat.

[CR48]

Originally posted by william_es:

When I used mine, sentinels stop shooting at me. I'd say that's working as intended. it may have no effect at all outside of combat.

that might be it because i used it to sneak around a sentinel in a hostile sentinel planet and it was of no use. Also a predator creature attacked me a few minutes ago and the stealth field did nothing to stop it from tracking me and attacking me

[Captain Brendig]

I believe it only hides you from sentinels, and not if you have your MT in hand.

[aggressor27]

Aye, yeah. It only works while sentinels are hostile. Outside of that they'll still look at you as you pass by. I just chalked that up to shoddy programming. I never tried it with fauna but considering it was featured with all this other sentinel tech it makes sense that it would only work against them.

[CR48]

well that's kind of sad, it would have helped to avoid conflict altogether for those times you really have other things to do

[wkitty42]

those are the times that i just melee-jump away and keep on going...

[Mr. Bufferlow]

I read up on the device from the install screen. Apparently it is only temporary and only works if you have not used your tool for shooting. It is primarily designed for helping you run away from an aggressive sentinel encounter- not sneak up so you can snipe them better.

[aggressor27]

I dunno, I use my cloak mid fight and they stop aggro'ing me until I pop back out. It gives me a chance to reload.

[Aurumworks]

When Sentinels search for you they will not go to detected status even when they're right on top of you and scanning while you have the cloak on. The search timer keeps going down and they deactivate at zero should the cloak last long enough. Also when you trigger a sentinel to investigate, you can just cloak up and after going blue for a scan routine it will pop back into white if you were cloaked in that duration.

[Ydyp]

So from what I gathered here another half baked system introduced by HG where it only works for the combat sentinels and not for anything else like wildlife or the patrol drones that haven't gone aggro yet.

And seeing as they leave half baked systems alone for ages, I don't expect them to change it to make it work all the time even outside of combat. Which you would expect how a cloaking device that makes you invisible should work.

[Gaxel]

Well, to be honest, fight with sentinels it's way more easy now then before. I've three sentinel upgrades with almost 100% to shields and core, among other things, A a class multitool with full pulse splitter, plasma launcher and the freezing one, I've fully updated the minotaur with three S class upgrades to its cannon and I have Laylaps always with me. I breeze through all the five sentinels waves, beside deactivating them if I find a pillar before. Now I've found a royal C class multitool with over 1000 of base damage... I'm expanding it to become my main weapons and I think it will make fight even easier

Don't see the point of a cloaking device here.