Hello everyone,

One thing we're not hiding this week is Question of the Week! Our question this week was inspired by this thread.

What kind of options are available for stealth? Will there be a way to hide, or will we need to hide behind/in/under objects in the world?
 
When it comes to stealth, players will be able to use a lot of different abilities and options when it comes to hiding their character out of plain view or even better, cloaking their character for someone else and surprising the opponent when he least expects it. Players will be able to become invisible and approach their enemy unexpected, although options for detecting invisibility will be popular enough for the paranoid player who constantly utilizes them to feel safe from being hit from behind. But many other abilities will exist that allow a character to hide their affiliation to either Continoma or Noir, thus faking an ally when he actually is an enemy and therefore be able to sneak past guards and enemy faction members, or abilities that hide criminals' fame which otherwise would make him hunted by the local security. While cover and active hiding behind smaller objects will not be part of the combat system, players will have the option to hide behind buildings and expect to be safe from direct attacks.

Please enjoy, and feel free to discuss below.
~ m.

ohh nice. any info on cooldowns for hidey skills? any skills that allow players to cloak and leave combat (lose aggro)?

Nice Moll thanks a lot!

Loved the faking ability   

But regarding to being invisible, will it be a complete invisible or like something else that we can see in some games that do also have a future scenario?

i like the sound of this - hoping this means ranged attacks will not travel through walls.

*edit* read that this is the case, so happy with that.

Tabula rasa's combat, although somewhat flawed in its implementation, considered both cover and character position. It simplified cover into four levels (no cover, moderate cover, heavy cover, no LOS). While still simple, it was sufficient to provide tactical decisions ranging from where to base a strike, to the path you took to the target, to were you bunkered down for an assualt.

I consider the lack of a cover system to be a fantasy melee genre hold over. A futuristic shooter should take into account what I would call a fundamental feature of ranged combat.

I personally only know of TR using cover. Can somewhat speek to what Planetside, AO, or any other sci-fi games used?

(emphasis in bold.) This implies that our faction is somehow visible or open to inspection by other players. Have the devs decided how this will happen? Or was this only to affect NPCs.

Yeah I am not going to really give feedback as that is really small information to ride off on.  As small objects is not really defined. I would expect tho small objects could be defined as tree, rocks, pillars, etc... That is what I think could define as small objects. Now I would understand trees as Ak47's can shoot through trees also. So I would guess since we are in the future the weapons are a lot more powerful.

But I am happy that you will be able to detect a player in stealth or a player that is masking him/her self. Would like to learn more about those utilities that give us those options to detect such players. Also would like more information on What it takes to actually become stealth. Is it a skill, a gear, a hand held device...?

"you can become invisible" how pathetically unorginal - real bummer for me this, maybe ill stick to darkfall