Changes to locking cloakers

So with the test server being on there are a few changes with the minimap and whilst it does seem pretty small on the surface, the effect it will have on people being able to lock cloakers is actually pretty big.

When you hold down your mouse to move your ship, your cross on the minimap will move as well showing where your mouse is on the minimap compared to where it is on the screen. It looks like this:




So as you can see you just have to line up the cross on the minimap to the dot and then click and you have the cloaker on lock. Would only take a couple of seconds to do. When you lock a cloaker it shows the red lock around their invisible ship as well now.
The box around your ship on the minimap indicated your screen size.

I'm not really too sure what to think about this, I suppose it's one less good way to escape which is nice after the ice rockets were introduced, however at the same time a simple cloak has saved me from dying plenty of times x)

What's your thoughts?

 

I think we are just going to have to adapt to this, right now people think its impossible to lock cloaks and you are immediately considered " Auto locking". Cloaks hide your ship visually, not mini map wise. With this new update I think it might ( my opinion) be way easier to lock others, the box is giving you a look at where you mouse is compared to where your enemy is, indirectly telling you if the enemy is close enough to your mouse to even lock him. The downside of this, people are still going to accuse and moan saying others that they autolock. I am pretty hyped about this update, simply because when i lock, i only watch the mini-map and click randomly to get a lock, with the cross giving you the location of your mouse with this update, it's ganna be even easier to click now since you don't have to randomly jam your mouse button. people who do this same technique will surely like this update as well

 

Good. It makes autolocks slightly less effective in a sense.

While I too enjoy the emp cloak getaways, I think it will make random 1v1s more interesting since the prospect of simply running away has a lower percentage of success.

I like it

 

I mean the point of cloaking is to give you the advantage. Removing that advantage is kinda stupid because now the concept of it is lost. But i get it, too many people cry about cloakers, and too many cry about autolock. So i guess its ok. It still takes good hand eye coordination to accomplish this task.

 

Cloaking lost its purpose when EMP's came out.

They used to be used to surprise and uncloak on people but now they are primarily used to uncloak on someone in a group, kill them, hit an emp, re- cloak, and do the whole thing over again.

 

Looking forward to this.
I sucked at locking cloakers, recently improved. This should help a bit

 

My way of locking and will always be this, click click click click click click click lock lol
Even emps dont really help at times, because you have people such as myself who have a good browser, which allows me to catch your lock quicker than most. But yet, Im called an autolocker. Sometimes we need to pay attention to the math of locking a cloaker. It doesnt work all the time lol. BUt the best way to practice is this. Look at an npc and see the red dot on the mini map. Make a memory adjust of how close the red dot is on the mini map and compare it to the larger map. Practice Practice and more practice. Thats how I got good at it. And yet im only at 50-60% locking skills lol.

 

It'll make things more interesting that's for sure. Don't really like it though, I liked the clicky click on maps and watching noobs do 360's as they tried to target me

 

isnt that how some packet bots looked like? ^^

 

I think so lmao

 

Never-mind ... they changed the cross to a big fat blue dot:



Now you have to have a massive screen, something like 4k, if you don't want to have a big chunk of it taken up by the blue dot :/

 

aka good tactics?

 

useless update

 

having a pet blob on my minimap is bad enough, i seriously hope this isnt implemented

 

I must agree with you, the cross is way better than this huge dot.