Stealth Enhance shadow fail

Post » Wed Nov 10, 2010 2:59 am

If you switch weapons while in Cloak with Stealth Enhance 2 or 3 the weapons shadow becomes visible. Its really noticable with things like the JAW. Add this to the pile of bugs this game has.
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glot
 
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Post » Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:46 pm

That svcks, I had no idea. I often change to explosives while cloaked; seeing as we can't insta-deploy like in CoD.
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Post » Wed Nov 10, 2010 9:43 am

i was wondering why my shadow is showing while cloaked on other people's killcams. definitely needs to get fixed.
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Davorah Katz
 
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Post » Wed Nov 10, 2010 4:57 am

I saw one today cloaked with visible weapon and wondered why. This explains why.
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Vincent Joe
 
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Post » Wed Nov 10, 2010 7:59 am

for some reason i see people's weapons when they are in cloak! and i Haven't hacked **** of the files! they are cloaked, but their weapons are black, so i see a effing weapon moving in mid-air

I see that too, both on enemies and my own team. Its probably related to the shadow problem. Ive noticed what I posted in the first post doesnt happen all the time but does still happen. I first noticed it on Skyline, then saw it again on the next map Lighthouse but couldnt recreate it on Pier 17.
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Marie
 
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Post » Wed Nov 10, 2010 1:36 am

You do realize, that the cloak bends light around you but your still a physical object so you still create a shadow, right?
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Chloe Lou
 
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Post » Wed Nov 10, 2010 10:17 am

And you do realise that the 2nd or 3rd upgrade to the stealth perk is supposed to make that shadow invisible, right?
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Post » Wed Nov 10, 2010 12:12 am

You do realize, that the cloak bends light around you but your still a physical object so you still create a shadow, right?

Aside from the clear fact you haven't unlocked stealth enhance II, you're wrong. If light were being bent AROUND you, there would be no absence of light hitting the surface on the other side of you - therefore no shadow.

It is suggested by the crystallisation of the nanosuit skin in cloak mode that the image is simply copied and re-emitted on the other side to make the user appear invisible. This could in theory provide a shadow of some description as the light being emitted would not necessarily be of the same intensity as the original light source. However, this fails to take into account the cloaking of weapons; which have no such mechanism on them.
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Post » Tue Nov 09, 2010 7:48 pm

The crystals could spread along the weapon. Not sure what exactly would prevent the tritium dots from also being covered in crystals, though.
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