One day that Electronic Countermeasure module will be useful. I hope
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Totally agree, any sense of stealth has been taken out of the game to the point they don't have much purpose for some reason, fear of players getting dead I'm presuming without much notice. I thought Silent Running was thought of in the first place and implemented to give a cloak of some sort (but not indefinitely) otherwise why is it in there, you also mention the ECM, yeah it doesn't have much use, nothing a quick turn and firing at said missiles can't solve anyway, so yeah these stealth modules/functions need a bit of attention. Jamming sensors or proper rigging for silent running where you don't actually appear on sensors would make a lot of "sense", no pun intended!
Stealth lost its edge once shieldboosters and cell banks came to play.
An oft quoted phrase "Before it was who shot first, now its who has the biggest/longest lasting shields."
As silent running requires shields to be off before you could get a sneak attack on an opponent and win said fight with high alpha damage (beam lasers + plasmas/railguns/cannons).
Now they would be able to survive the initial assault, pop cell banks and laugh at your unshielded exposed ship as they tear you a new one.
I like your idea and wholly support a more useful ECM but stealth is fundamentally flawed by a feature I do not think will get removed, it may add some spice and surprise to the game but as soon as your wingmates start shooting the target will flee whilst firing off cell banks and chaff as fast as his fingers can press
An oft quoted phrase "Before it was who shot first, now its who has the biggest/longest lasting shields."
As silent running requires shields to be off before you could get a sneak attack on an opponent and win said fight with high alpha damage (beam lasers + plasmas/railguns/cannons).
Now they would be able to survive the initial assault, pop cell banks and laugh at your unshielded exposed ship as they tear you a new one.
I like your idea and wholly support a more useful ECM but stealth is fundamentally flawed by a feature I do not think will get removed, it may add some spice and surprise to the game but as soon as your wingmates start shooting the target will flee whilst firing off cell banks and chaff as fast as his fingers can press
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Yeah I agree, it could be a really amazing skill based system and it was meant to be.. Something seems to have gotten lost along the way.
"I can't shoot anything, but I can carry more shield banks than you!!!"
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I have a simple solution to at least make these modules (particularly Silent Running) a function that would at least make the player consider using it. I understand rigged for complete Silent Running is perhaps a little extreme and so can understand why Frontier have reduced its effectiveness, but I feel it has been tweaked too far the other way to the point there is little point now in using it. Plenty of risk (shields offline for over a minute even after you decide to stop using it), but little reward to offset this. So....
As we know at the moment the turbulence of this erratic jumping radar contact blip is simply not enough to confuse you, one can still zero on where ever the hostile running SR is to the point it makes little difference to try and fool anyone. So I'm not suggesting to be completely invisible to sensors (perhaps this is where the ECM can come in) but simply make how erratic the radar contact blip's behaviour is.. extremely erratic over the whole sensor map. One will know something/someone is there but not know where. This will negate any fears of "getting dead" with not much warning (if there was no sensor indication at all), so if you aren't paying enough attention to this blip jumping all over your radar to imply something sneaky is there, you probably deserve to die.
I'd also like to see Heat Sinks appear as a regular yellow radar blip, not a white (nothing of consequence blip), Heat Sinks could then be used a decoys. At the moment sensors seem to know exactly what is there and roughly where it is to the point there is little mystery and subsequently no cloak and dagger heart pumping tactics.
Yes
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+1 also, to all manner of electronic warfare equipments.
OP is expert in this .. can you define us an exhaustive, categorised list of electronic warfare techniques and gear,
or would you then have to kill us?
(arf)