Annihilator Posted December 4, 2004 Report Share Posted December 4, 2004 Say, my TacOps officer keeps saying "Distortion Field Detected". What does this mean? Is it the same thing as when she says "There's something out there..." to tell me there's a cloaked ship? Or something else?? I already did a search of the entire forum for "Distortion" and it came up with 15 results, 2 of which were not trash. One refers to the distortion field thing about cloaking, but its still indecisive from what he said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennyMala Posted December 5, 2004 Report Share Posted December 5, 2004 IIRC this will mean that someone has cloacked, same as "There's something out there..." but maybe this will tell you that the ship has cloacked only moments ago... Maybe the Sc can be more specific on this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Posted December 5, 2004 Report Share Posted December 5, 2004 This must be my day for learning new things. I previously thought a distortion field was created any time someone went into hyperspace. Or someone's ship, anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papi Posted December 5, 2004 Report Share Posted December 5, 2004 Actually it's stating that there's a cloaked ship in the area, friend or foe. Every once awhile a cloaked ship get "statistic" and is visible for a moment and that's when you get the warning from your tactical officer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medicated Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 Im pretty sure that a distortion feild is caused by a cloaked ship that either fires a weapon: eg. Missile, turret or main gun. Or launches and asset while cloaked. It is usually accompanied by a short blip on the radar. But What do I know, Immanewbie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jascar Posted January 2, 2005 Report Share Posted January 2, 2005 I think when she says she sees the distortion field, that the cloaked ship is real close. Just today I ended up point blank on a cloaked ship and I could see it. I could also tell it was cloaked, because the "distortion" around the ship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakesnake5 Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 The distortion (which your displays will show) is from a cloaked ship doing something. If your cloaked, the following (but not limited to) things will cause a distortion: Launching/Recovering Ships/probes Firing Weapons Activating EMD (your cloaked, WHY?) Bumping into something (I bumped a cloaked ship, go figure) etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papi Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 ...plus, like I stated in my previous post, every once in a while cloaked ship becomes visual for a second, without doing anything. You'll get report from your tactical commander even if it's one of the friendly ships that is cloaked. That is because she doesn't know the alliance of the ship, she just notices the "distortion" or "static" that the cloaked ship sends. (Yes I know I spelled wrong in the previous post , but hey it's only my finglish and I like it ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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