I’ve already seen answers here indicating that ships are not damaged by bombs (the kind launched by Stealth Bombers) whilst holding gate cloak.
I have also heard, however, directly from players who have tested this some weeks ago both on Tranq and Sisi, that bombs exploding within damage range of ships still under gate cloak do inflict damage to them.
Please can we have a definitive verdict on this?
astronomix
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As far as I know, the other two answers are incorrect.
Gate cloaks work like undock invulnerability – your session change timer lasts 30 seconds, but your invulnerability lasts for a full minute (the same length as your gate cloak).
During that time you cannot be bumped or decloaked either.
For all intents and purposes, your ship does not exist for the first minute after jumping through a gate, unless you break the cloak.
not “intensive purposes”, but rather “intents and purposes” other than that great answer!
I find this unlikely as I have been decloaked by a ceptor (unluckily) after 40-45 second sitting at a gate camp when he came within 2k of me, therefore I must exsist in the game world. Unless I got a small amount of gate lag and went through a min of cloak or something.
It’s not something that is easy to replicate and therefore test is the problem, still a bomb hit from 15km with no MWD, it is unlikely to kill anything small, and anything with a big enough sig will likely have sufficient armour to cope.
Matt
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Unless it has been changed in one of the last few patches, the first 30 Seconds of cloak (i.e while your under session change) you are invincible.
After that you are under normal cloaking rules, ie you will take full damage, perhaps even more if you have active hardners (which will of course be off).
Dada Morr
As far as I am aware gate cloak does nothing to protect you – it doesn’t stop you getting hit by smart bombs either. In essence all gate cloak does is stop you activating modules and stop you showing up on hosile overviews (or visuals).
This is not correct. Bombers often bomb too early as soon as they see gate activation. Any good FC will ask the fleet to hold cloak until the bombs explode harmlessly doing no damage at all.
Nicolas
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You have 30 secounds session change timer. In this time you can not recieve damage, nobody can scan you, nobody can see you. You are cloaked and invincible. But if you move or do anything else to your ship, you lose this status. Then you declok and everybody can shoot you.
If you jump through a gate, DONT MOVE. Watch all directions, observe the overview and do a directional scan. These things won’t decloak you! You can do everything whats not affecting you ship.
But do NOT move your ship, activate modules, use system scanner.
Interesting to see two answers contradicting each other already.