Yes, but unlike the space pirate cloak, if you look closely you would be able to pick out the elite even though he is invisible.
When the elite has his cloak on it has a kind of "glass" effect so the elite can still be seen if a person is looking hard enough.
Plus can't use a sword as it gives away the postion, plus firing also gives away the postion so its only a matter of time before the space pirate finds him.
The only thing the elite has going for him is his radar. But the space pirate can wait till the elite is in close range before attacking.
ill go with the pirates, they were brutal toward the end of prime. the ones with weaknesses to only one kind of weapon would decimate anything without that particular weapon.
their fast, agile, well armed, cammoflaged and very mean. i admit i dont know all that much about halo, i only played it a few times, but the pirates are brutal at the end of mp and i dont remember the elites being as big a challange.
out of curiosity, what design would people prefer for the pirates, from mp or mp2? i love the look in prime but never found the echoes design anywhere near as threatening or cool.
Not that I'm on the elite's side but you haven't forgotten that the cloaked space pirates can't shoot their weapons. The cloaking system draws too much power from the system to use the plasma gun. They only have the energy sycthe which is usually enough if they can get in close.
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I never said they didn't. Plus as dark99 said, when using cloak they wouldn't have enough energy to maintain a cloak and fire at the same time. That is if dark99 is correct of course.
In Metroid Prime it said under the shadow pirate which is the one that uses the cloaking technology that the cloaking system drains too much power from the gun. It also says this under the omega pirate which is why it always uses its invisibility for defensive and healing purposes.
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They may be able to cloak and fire weapons at the same time but usually it's those weapons that give them away. It's really easy to tell when an elite is cloaked because you can either see the sword that they are carrying or the electrical and energy ends of the plasma gun that they use. Besides it is still rather easy to see through the cloak so it probably wouldn't give them that much of an advantage anyways. On the other hand you cannot see cloaked pirates whatsoever, when they are cloaked they do not distort the area around them and you cannot see their blade weapons. Unless you have thermal or x-ray vision of course.
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Yeah it's not that hard to pick up the trace of a carbine. The bullets can still be tracked back to the source pretty easily. Besides if the space pirate is cloaked it is going to be really hard for the elite to get an accurate shot off, not to mention a continued stream of bullets.
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