Cloaking Devices

Cloaking Devices
For information on how to build a Cloaking Device Factory, see the Player Base Guide.

Cloaking Devices hide the user's ship from all ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum. There is no known countermeasure to the effect. While they make the user invisible, they do not make the user invulnerable. As they disable shields on use, this allows a quick-thinking pilot to do direct hull damage while they still know where the cloaked ship is. Missiles, mines, cruise disruptors, torpedoes, and all other seeking weaponry will continue to seek the target after a successful cloak. Upon activating the cloaking device, there is a short period (see below) before the cloaking device takes effect.

Questions and answers

 * What does cloaking actually do? Does it decreases your detection range, makes you completely invisible, leaves a distorted siluette around your ship?
 * You're totally invisible (you, your engine, your thurster), both on screen and on scanners. However, if someone knows where you're at, and fires at you, you'll still get damaged, and fire does not go through you. You can also ram stuff.


 * Can you cloak at any time you have the cloak+fuel, or it needs to be "charged"?
 * The larger the cloak, the more it takes to cloak. Fighter cloak takes about 3 seconds. Cap ship one takes like 60 seconds. While it's charging, it drains fuel too, so, most fully equipped fighters can't actually cloak.


 * If you fire while cloaked, will you uncloak?
 * You can't fire while cloaked.


 * Is it even possible to fire while cloaked (perhaps your energy is set to low, like with Cruise drives)?
 * No, it's like when you cruise, or are in a tradelane. Also, while cloaked, your shield is disabled. You can thrust, jump, dock, and cruise while cloaked.


 * While cloaked, will npcs still be able to see you?
 * No, NPCs can't and don't see you, if you are cloaked. (Kudos to Garuda for the specific answer)


 * When you are cloaked and the enemy fires a Cruisedisruptor can it target you? Meaning while you are Cloaked can the enemy just fire Missles and then see where they go and then know your location?
 * No, it can't target you, but it can hit you (like any other weapon, as you're still solid), the same way you can accidentally hit NPC's even when you don't aim at them.


 * I thought the Cloaking devices consumed fuel, why does this page not list that information?
 * Discovery Redemption has removed the fuel requirement for Cloaking Devices. All you need to operate a cloak is the cloaking device itself.