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The thing with Darklight and cloakers is that most people don't turn on Darklight unless they think a cloaker is present, or they are in a place where cloakers usualy are present like the cc. A good cloaker will never be noticed and will spend as little time as possible in the usual places. A good cloaker has little to fear from darklight. There is very little luck involved.
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If you are trying to go somewhere the enemy expects, like the cap room, you will die. The game has been out for too long for people to be caught with their pants down and have nobody around who has Darklight. This is, by the way, referring to the "30 guys guarding the cap" scenario I mentioned in my post. I'm fully aware that most people don't put Darklight on when they're going from Point A to Point B, but in that case, all a cloaker need do is crouch and move slowly. Not being noticed is very easy, IMO, as all it involves is not moving quickly, not attacking, and not running into enemies.
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Grunts have the luxury of being able to use powerful weapons and armor. Grunts hide behind armor, cloakers hide behind invisiblility.
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You'd be surprised how powerful an AMP is compared to an assault rifle at close range. Grenades, too, can deal a lot of damage, although the cloaker does have a more limited amount of them. Even still, the knife with a melee booster implant is nothing to ignore. Two hits on secondary and your target is finished.
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Being an infl also involves using weapons, implants, and medkits as much as or more so than grunts. Infls have to rely on equipment because we dont have the luxury of heavy weaponry (sp?). Alos, a skilled cloaker MUST use tactick to tay alive. Using cover is a very efective way to lower your visibility even further. Cloakers have to come from different directions. Sneaking through a firefight is a good way to die in the crossfire.
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Valid points, but the actual execution of them is very simple. The only weapons an infiltrator has which need real skill to use is the knife, grenades, and the Beamer/Repeater (AMP involves simply holding down the trigger and keeping the weapon pointed at the target). The equipment part, well, given that you die almost instantly when you're found out, it plays a far lesser role (grunts need to keep their armor and health up, which is a serious issue given that they commonly have multiple people from a distance firing on them -- infiltrators, if they aren't running or walking into enemy fire, have only that of their target).
Although I will admit fully that an NC grunt with a Jackhammer takes far less skill in killing than even an infiltrator circle-strafing his target with an AMP.
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I have played both also. I obviously think playing a cloaker takes more skill. I guess its a matter of opinion.
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I think everyone can agree that MAXs take the least skill though.
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