Tactical Cloak - How does it work?

I'm secretly hoping this is a bone of contention for years.

IT HAPPENED TO US ON ME 3 WHY SHOULD YOU GUYS GET TO AVOID IT >

It's not a tactical cloak, it's a tactical damage boost, especially on HI. After 1.05 patch it works like in ME3.

Consider this trivia, unless it happens to coincide with how they did it in ME:A.

In ME 3 MP, enemy targeting was handled on a three second cycle. When you would cloak, the enemy would continue to target the place where you were standing. If you didn't move after cloaking, it wouldn't do much, until the enemy recalculated its target at the end of the three second cycle (often enough to get you killed, if you didn't understand how it worked.)

To maximize the concealment aspect of Tactical Cloak (which was, of course, considered blasphemous) you would cloak and then immediately move from your original location (laterally to incoming fire is best.) The enemies would land a bit of fire on you just after cloak, but would lose you quite quickly. Three second duration was generally enough to work, so a lot of us eventually stopped bothering with the longer duration option for TC, choosing to upgrade it with extra damage, instead.

I have no idea how much, if any of that, remains true of how it works for ME:A, but it took a fair while for people to test the details out in ME 3, so the full story of how Tactical Cloak works may emerge over further weeks of experimentation and testing.



If so, then I would like to pat myself on the back for offering an expert opinion on a game that I've never played. I AM ONE WITH THE INTERNETZ