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I typically use it to sneak up on enemies, but I think I'm using it wrong. I don't seem to be using it often enough, is what I mean. Are you guys finding you use the cloak at every chance? Is using it somewhat often (every minute and a half or so) good? Or do I need to mash F more often?
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Being a filthy, dirty, sneaky bastard is one way to play the infil, but the best infil pilots use its ability more like a "slight of hand" sort of play. Hologram - a true sonovabitch infil pilot - will cloak just outside of sight from an enemy group, boost right through to the rear, and just hammer into the more unsettled of the group, usually to slink away once he's either rustled all the jimmies, or he's just low enough health to make you chase him. He will then slither his way back to his team, dragging you with him into a trap.

Like I said, filthy, sneaky bastard.

Edited by coldform, 08 April 2017 - 10:32 PM.

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Honestly infil cloak isn't really that great and doesn't need to be used on cooldown. It is best saved for a situation where it is relevant. The two most common situations are sneaking up on an enemy without appearing on Radar and escaping a tough situation where you are surrounded. 

 

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Sometimes I use it to sneak up on people or yolodive someone/a group but decent pilots can still see me and I usually have no fuel for the ensuing fight so that's just when I'm being wreckless or am confident it'll work out well :s


Imo it's most useful for positioning yourself during a fight.. you can lose line of sight, cloak, and immediately attempt a flank and it usually works out alright.

What's the big fuzzy bunnyng deal? Lots of amazing people have committed suicide, and they turned out alright.

 


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I Find the most effect way i have learnt to infiltrate came from alot of late nig....

 

Oh wrong context, seriously though, the best infil players i know and have played with seem to stick to the mob uncloaked at most times, picking from the back lines until they see one or two mechs in a moment of weakness or healing etc, they then cloak pop in, finish the job and open a little hole for their team to back them up with a solid push, the catch to infiltrator is as noted above, remember you are a light mech, not a pred,

dont attempt an alpha strike unless you know for a fact your target/s are alone,

dont trigger you invis as soon as you spawn and charge back into battle -> this generally only feeds the enemies free kills

do no underestimate the power of pairing your cloak with a hologram -> skilled players kinda see through this but it can also be handy

 

your cloak is not only offensive but as stated above... can be used as a defensive tool to escape or even manipulate your enemies,

 

the biggest mistake i see people make with infiltrator however, is trigger their cloak while on an empty tank,

 

personally i think if you learn the duration of the infils cloak on a full tank and how much fuel you are using to move(in some cases) you have a much better of  chance of pulling off your alpha strike and getting beck to your team before one of your victims team mates pounces and squashes you like a bug...

 

be mindful... an infiltrator will last all of about 4 seconds under concentrated fire so unless you are an infil god like hologram or _inci, there maybe some others but meh, those are the main ones i can think of... right now, DONT FRONT LINE...


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To hide your signature from the enemy's radar. That's the only purpose. Cloaking is really just a fuel consuming stealth for the radar. You are still easily seen and even highlighted on their hud for the extra blind people with +/- 5.0 eye weakness. 

Cloaking when the enemy doesn't see you is pointless too: They don't see you in the first place, no need to cloak. 

 

So yea, use cloaking for fast backstabs/ambushes so you are not seen on the radar when boosting and killing that high priority target such as jesus beam technicians.


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jesus beam technicians.

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most skilled infils i meet tend to use it as an escape, i focus them among the crowd because they are the weakest likely critical hp while cloaked and is the least likely enemy to notice me firing(only one invisible in his group hes probably like wtf why me as the hellfires come)


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Wait, Infil has a cloak?


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lol. use filthy bastard infil cloak to counter jebus beam tech.


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When you manage to fight the suicidal attack tendencies and figure out how to sneak up on enemies without using the ability, you realize it's most effective to back off after an alpha-strike. You can move to a new spot or get another chance to hit another enemy.


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When you manage to fight the suicidal attack tendencies and figure out how to sneak up on enemies without using the ability, you realize it's most effective to back off after an alpha-strike. You can move to a new spot or get another chance to hit another enemy.

 

its speed and agility and its high splash projectile weapons make it so great on a map liike uptown using heats playing just as you describe, for me i got a x7 multikill with a heat infil only they kept flowing back unable to just accept it they gave me the rest of the 20+ kills before death but the funny thing was i was being sneaky, they just had timed it so badly i was constantly sneaking attacks on every feeder comming in the uptown spawn area

the infil regenerates its ability fast enough to handle feeders running back and its agility and speed let me relocate and alpha strike the next guy in tunnel then the next guy who tried to flank and so on


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hack the game

make cloak do EXACTLY what you want

cloaking spawns a hologram that dodges (yes dodges) away from you as you dodge away from it

you then eat your opponents still beating heart

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hack the game

make cloak do EXACTLY what you want

cloaking spawns a hologram that dodges (yes dodges) away from you as you dodge away from it

you then eat your opponents still beating heart

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someones on dope


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mechfighter i don't get why you quote me while referencing your own heroin addiction, there is no correlation between the two

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I thought Infil's ability was just that it was an A-class with a grenade launcher.


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I thought Infil's ability was just that it was an A-class with a grenade launcher.

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You should be cloaked the whole time. never uncloak. ever. just hide and wait for the game to end. 

 

thats also my advice on meeting women in any scenario. 


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mechfighter i don't get why you quote me while referencing your own heroin addiction, there is no correlation between the two

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I typically use it to sneak up on enemies, but I think I'm using it wrong. I don't seem to be using it often enough, is what I mean. Are you guys finding you use the cloak at every chance? Is using it somewhat often (every minute and a half or so) good? Or do I need to mash F more often?
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Infiltrator explains its name itself and You can clock on many occasions..

I mostly use to save myself or kill dying goat (enemy below 20 percent health left) for example in my video check out 2:15 (cat and mouse game with raider which actually backfired but helpful clocked saved me) 


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The Infiltrator's cloak eating up its fuel kinda makes it a sucky special.  If it didn't eat fuel, like the Predator, it would be useful.

 

Also remember that a lot of the people who have been playing this game for years have configured their graphics to "plastic Hawken" - for those people, your cloak really doesn't do you any good anyhow, so...


To be serious for a moment this is just a joke

 


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I like to use it either mid-fight to pull off those fancy moves:

 

Mech Surfing

 

or to hover without being highlighted on radar for extra sooprize buttsecks:

 

Love From Above

 

although the good old "Wait-and-stare" can also lead to double kills:

 

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The Infiltrator's cloak eating up its fuel kinda makes it a sucky special.  If it didn't eat fuel, like the Predator, it would be useful.

 

Also remember that a lot of the people who have been playing this game for years have configured their graphics to "plastic Hawken" - for those people, your cloak really doesn't do you any good anyhow, so...

 

ewww

 

poor mans hax... go away lol


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