Since cloaking makes you immune to all damage and breaks target lock etc, I think you should not be able to cloak while you have the bomb and this is why:
I have noticed in many of the games I play an inty, or fighter will grab the bomb fly to the beacon and cloak, while cloaked the set timer expires and he plants the bomb. It is virtually impossible to stop this tactic, or prevent said pilot from planting the bomb.
I consider this an exploit as it “Directly” effects game play and can be used to “Insta win” so to speak.
I believe when a pilot has the bomb he should not be allowed to do the following or that the following should occur if a pilot has the bomb and uses one of the above skills:
* Use any type of module which Cloaks, Makes immune to damage, or breaks locks.
* The “set Bomb” timer should be extended to ensure that ample time is given to the defenders to kill the person. (If its a frig its not going to die within the set timer for example).
* Using any immunity skill, Cloak skill, Or break lock skill should “force” the pilot to drop the bomb.
Since cloaking makes you immune to all damage and breaks target lock etc, I think you should not be able to cloak while you have the bomb and this is why:
I have noticed in many of the games I play an inty, or fighter will grab the bomb fly to the beacon and cloak, while cloaked the set timer expires and he plants the bomb. It is virtually impossible to stop this tactic, or prevent said pilot from planting the bomb.
I consider this an exploit as it “Directly” effects game play and can be used to “Insta win” so to speak.
I believe when a pilot has the bomb he should not be allowed to do the following or that the following should occur if a pilot has the bomb and uses one of the above skills:
* Use any type of module which Cloaks, Makes immune to damage, or breaks locks.
* The “set Bomb” timer should be extended to ensure that ample time is given to the defenders to kill the person. (If its a frig its not going to die within the set timer for example).
* Using any immunity skill, Cloak skill, Or break lock skill should “force” the pilot to drop the bomb.
At least emergency shield drops the bomb. If it wasn’t for that then it would be impossible to stop bomb planting.
I was under the impression that cloaking with a bomb dropped it, same as the emergency shield. I swear I remember trying to cloak with the bomb and it dropped.
Regarding the set bomb timer, I think it’s perfectly reasonable as is. A team of defenders who focus the bomb carrier can kill them no matter the ship they fly well within the time given. Frigates have it bad already because they’re too slow to even make it to the beacons usually.
The cloaking faction drops it, the phase modulator doesn’t.
I was under the impression that cloaking with a bomb dropped it, same as the emergency shield. I swear I remember trying to cloak with the bomb and it dropped.
Regarding the set bomb timer, I think it’s perfectly reasonable as is. A team of defenders who focus the bomb carrier can kill them no matter the ship they fly well within the time given. Frigates have it bad already because they’re too slow to even make it to the beacons usually.
As another poster said the phase module doesn’t drop it, Neither does it drop if you cloak while you are “Planting it”. It also will not drop with the green shield module that makes you immune to damage etc.
But yea this is definitely an exploit, and bug which should be Fixed ASAP.
It drops with the “green shield module”, the Emergency Barrier. If it doesn’t thats a hacker.
Also cloaking doesn’t make you immune to all damage.
All I know is every game I have been in both my team and the enemy team goes to the beacon with the bomb and once the “Setting bomb” timer initiated they cloak up and 3 seconds later uncloak and zoom off with the “ENEMY HAS PLANTED BEACON” message on screen. Same if they use the green shield.
So it may be that while not planting the bomb yea it drops I have seen this happen, so its probably the mechanic dealing with setting the bomb itself they need to fix.
Green shield makes you drop the bomb, I will test out phase cloak tonight.
It’s not the phase modulator or not all ships, it force me to drop the bomb when I use the cloak on the T3 Black Bomber.
Airsuicide is making stuff up…
It’s not the phase modulator or not all ships, it force me to drop the bomb when I use the cloak on the T3 Black Bomber.
Try doing it while Planting the bomb. Because thats when I mainly se it happen, Other times yea I see them drop it as I said earlier, I’m talking about specifically while waiting on the set bomb timer.
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Pick up the bomb
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Fly to enemy beacon
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Once Planting Charge" apears - Cloak / Green shield
Let me know what happens, because if it doesn’t interrupt the planting timer we have our culprate, If it does, they are hacking and should be banned. Either way well know whats going on.
Going to be a pain in the xxxx to get there with out going splat but I’ll give it a shot, more we can near down about the bug the better.
Now are we sure they Interceptor wasn’t humping the beacon and broke LoS because that what I do when I’m trying to score. You know like when you chase a squirrel and they are always on the other side of the tree that’s what I try doing.
Going to be a pain in the xxxx to get there with out going splat but I’ll give it a shot, more we can near down about the bug the better.
Now are we sure they Interceptor wasn’t humping the beacon and broke LoS because that what I do when I’m trying to score. You know like when you chase a squirrel and they are always on the other side of the tree that’s what I try doing.
I do it also when planting, just going behind the beacon or sneaking behind asteroids makes sniper loose LoS and time to regain it is equal to your ship lock on stat.
On the other hand, though - its one of few reports I saw about someone exploiting some sort of cloak during either pick-up phase or planting phase. So it’s worth checking.
I’ve checked Chameleon in T1 and T2 Federal fighters (all three types) and it causes to drop the bomb. But then with exploits like that even slight change to your ship setup might trigger it - so it would be cool if devs could look at the code if some ; or > or ) isn’t missing somewhere. 
(assuming that it wasn’t cheater, that is)
T3 its getting me bang up trying to get to the beacon and then cloak, I think for testing tomorrow I might drop down to a lower tier,
So the bug we trying to repeat if anyone wants to test is phase modulator after the bomb plant bar pops up so we talking a 3 second window. I know after tonight that before then the phase modulator was making me drop the bomb other issue we going to have to deal with it phase modulator doesn’t stop damage so even cloak aoe can still kill you.
Even though the bomb doesn’t drop. you still appear on people’s hud that you have the bomb. your targeting computer just cant lead the target. Keep shooting at it blind, and you will pull your target out of cloak.
I tested the passive emergency shield (green shield) today, in my frig while planting the bomb, I didnt drop the bomb and the ebacon went boom.
Emergency passive shield does not make you drop the bomb if planting = Varified.
Havent tested the cloak yet