Talk:Hunter Cloaking/@comment-71.236.23.106-20150313013150/@comment-95.94.1.2-20150810224335

the only explanation, according to lore, would be that the cloak is, literally, a CLOAK, made not of physical tissue, but of activable nanites surrounding the whole user, much similar to the overshield the Heavies use.

these nanites, instead of providing damage absorption, would instead bend light around the wielder. this would also make sense with the different invisibility levels related to movement, the flashing when hit (the cloak needs to re-arrange itself) and, more notoriously, according to the wiki, it can have its power use tweaked, explaining why you cannot keep a primary weapon fully invisible permanently - it would require more nanites to cover a larger area, thus more energy, whereas keeping a user + a weapon invisible can be managed indefinitely.

finally, the resist cloak is a hybrid version of hunter + resist chield, with much lower duration thanks to the extra power needed to give it ballistic protection.

damn, i am starting to sound like a frikin' vano scientist. lets leave this as it is.