Hello everyone!

With the incredible interest in one of our most recent Questions of the Week, we decided to talk about the term 'invisibility' and what it means in an Earthrise context.

Invisibility will play an important role in Earthrise as players will have access to cloaking technology that can let light through from every angle and side and create the optical illusion. This technology will have severe limitations, requiring players to trade off the use of many power-hungry abilities of their suits and weapons in order to support the cloaking effect. We are currently beta testing internally the effects of invisibility both in active combat and as a great way to approach and ambush your opponents and coming up with neat ways to use it in your advantage without disrupting balance; keep in mind we will explain in detail the various aspects of using invisibility in exploration, PvP and even in siege battles. One thing you can know for certain - in Earthrise invisibility will be a tactical tool with serious tradeoffs that must be considered in advance.

Don't disappear on us - we want to hear your thoughts! Keep in mind there will be more information coming, so let's hear it - or join one of the current threads in progress. (Keep in mind duplicate postings in both threads will either be merged in to the proper thread or deleted in accordance with our continual efforts to keep threads on track.)

See you next Monday with another great topic.
~ m.

Sounds neat.

I am pretty sure if the stealth / invisiblity / cloaking is getting nicely balanced, it can be something fun, instead of something people hate.


If anyone played TF2.. the spy is a awesome example. It is hard to play one, very hard infact, but if you can, there is a killing machine on the loose.

Im sort of disapointed they didnt mention if stealth will be temporary or maintained, what happens to it during combat; does it turn off or just make you more visable.

I guess by beta testing these decisions may still be being made.

Great news indeed cant wait to try it out perhaps while scouting enemy territory outpost and preparing for attack

yep, they already said there'd be ways to detect invisible people -

I would have prefered a bit more meat to this QOTW. Any chance Moll you can dig up another paragraph (this board needs a "beg" emote).

I think the only real detail that it supports is

- that the invisibility is absolute, not translucency, etc., and even thats still up for interpretation.
- players will have to turn off other abilities on their suits to engage a cloak, or that cloaker suits will inherently have fewer abilities.

The second point is definitely interesting, especially if all suits offer the ability to switch off some abilities to power others.

The fact that there will be balance and limitations is sort of the nature of the beast for any multiplayer game.

'S'all good looks like snipers with stealth will probably be ruled out due to suit energy constraints or something like that... which is good

Now it's just a matter of getting my hands on stealth and breaking it as much as possible in beta  

Glad to hear that invisibility will have its drawbacks.


I'd rather people be able to do so, but in a way that they get less out of their invisibility. ie, greater power drain, lower duration, that sort of thing. Limits should be inherent in the gear combinations themselves, not arbitrarily imposed.

I'd also like the focus to be more on active management in the field, rather than what equipment layout you leave your base with.