No more hacking turrets - some dev hates inflitration.

[Ghoest9]

I have seen this happen in other game - some dev doesnt like the idea of sneaking around so they nerf stealthers till they cant do anything sneaky.

Hacking turrets was the only thing even remotely "infiltrators" left in the game.
It wasnt terrible effective(I think I only ever killed 2 people from a hacked turret) but it was the only fun hacking thing we had since they also have no doors.

I get that the character dev hates sneaking and just wants a sniper class - but inflitrating was one of the great things about PS1 why remove it.

[Saintlycow]

You better be joking

[Ghoest9]

Ive tied to hack turrets at 4 different bases - no joy.

[Timealude]

there seems to be a huge bug with infy's right now, for this whole week. i have been getting the cloak bug where it causes your cloak to no longer work.

[psijaka]

Originally Posted by Ghoest9

I have seen this happen in other game - some dev doesnt like the idea of sneaking around so they nerf stealthers till they cant do anything sneaky.

Hacking turrets was the only thing even remotely "infiltrators" left in the game.
It wasnt terrible effective(I think I only ever killed 2 people from a hacked turret) but it was the only fun hacking thing we had since they also have no doors.

I get that the character dev hates sneaking and just wants a sniper class - but inflitrating was one of the great things about PS1 why remove it.

WTF?

I hope that this is a bug; pretty unwarranted nerf if not.

I like to sneak in (at great risk, I might add) to hack the turrets just to deny them to the enemy; a useful role. As well as hacking all the vehicle/aircraft terminals.

[Figment]

I've noticed the hacking activation is sometimes a lot higher than where you expect it to be. Turrets have been raised a bit (and raise further when you man them). Maybe you were trying to hack them at too low a point?

Note: haven't had time to double check, but I could hack turrets this week.

And yeah, seems to be a bug that stops you from activating cloak now and then, which seems similar to not being able to use your Light Assaults jetpack.

[Helwyr]

I too was unable to hack turrets tonight.

Regarding the not able to activate special ability bug, I think I may have found a temp fix, when I die as an Infiltrator I spawn as an Engineer and then switch back to Infiltrator. I have yet to be unable to use my cloak when doing this, but I don't die too often so it might just be a statistical anomaly, but try it and see if it helps avoid this annoying bug. Of course once you get the bug only relogging seems to fix it.

[Shackram]

Last night i saw a cloacked infiltrator running to where i was covering to recover my shields. He started shooting at me with his pistol while cloacked and remained cloacked while doind so.

I remember being unable to fire your gun while cloacked until the patch.

Originally Posted by Figment

And yeah, seems to be a bug that stops you from activating cloak now and then, which seems similar to not being able to use your Light Assaults jetpack.

The one time i had that bug i also couldn't activate the special shield on the HA or use the LA Jetpack.

[Erendil]

Originally Posted by Figment

And yeah, seems to be a bug that stops you from activating cloak now and then, which seems similar to not being able to use your Light Assaults jetpack.

Originally Posted by Shackram

The one time i had that bug i also couldn't activate the special shield on the HA or use the LA Jetpack.

I think it can happen to any of the Class "special" abilities if they're an active ability. One thing to look out for when it happens is to see if you just died while actually pressing your cloak activate button. I don't cloak much, but I play LA a ton and I noticed the Jumpjet bug only seems to happen to me if I die while I'm holding down the jumpjet key. I'm not sure but I think it happened to me once as HA while activating my Resist Shield too.