[F]Adaptive Camo

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I’m sorry, but if popping a Shield Booster causes me to drop the bomb when I’m carrying it, I’m pretty sure popping a 20 second invisibility module should cause a ship to drop the bomb. If popping a Phase Modulator (5 second invisibility for 210 energy cost) causes the bomb to be dropped, what precisely is the rationale behind Adaptive Camo (20 second invisibility for 93 energy cost) not doing the same? It’s really hilarious watching the people who exploit this module try to justify why it’s not OP when anyone who’s played Detonation and wasn’t flying a Covert Ops Interceptor can tell you plain as day that it is.

 

Yes, IF you’ve got a Recon Interceptor and IF you’re highly skilled at flying it and IF you devote 100% of your time to trying to counter a single enemy module on a single ship type and IF you’ve got a bit of luck on your side you MIGHT have about a 50/50 chance of actually stopping a CovOps camo rush team in Detonation. The other 99.9% of the time, you’re going to be seeing a lot of Detonation matches ending within 2 minutes, as I’ve seen multiple times tonight.

 

Adaptive Camo has a lot of utility uses as a “get out of jail free” escape module, a beacon capture tool, and a Captain assassination device. Causing a CovOps ship to drop the bomb when activating it isn’t going to suddenly make the module worthless.

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Adaptive Camo should force you to drop the EMP bomb, period.

 

It ruins every Detonation match since the patch. In the heat of battle there is absolutely no way for you to notice a tiny interceptor which sneaks around on the side of the map… And even if you do somehow notice it:

  • You cannot catch up with it, except if you’re another, super-speed-built interceptor
  • You cannot stop it, because you cannot use active modules on it without a target lock
  • You cannot hit it without the lead indicator as it’s a bloody fast and tiny interceptor… Even if you manage to hit it, 1 hit will not kill it, and will also not break its stealth.

I had several matches where I was around my teams’ last beacon, within like 2km distance, and all i saw was the red text saying “the enemy has planted the EMP bomb”… seriously wtf?!

 

If Combat Reboot, Cloak, Emergency Barrier, Warping and all that kind of stuff forces you to drop the bomb, then Adaptive Camo IS an exploit and should be fixed asap. Also while active it should prevent you from capturing beacons.