Ranger Archive

Ok today I went back to Lok just to empty my harbester which is pulling up some very nice wheat at the moment, so there I am with maskscent on which is keeping the flits from bothering more as they hover around my flora farm when suddenly they vanish and around 40m from me spawns two kimogila and a kimo hatchling. Needless to say I emptied that hooper as fast as possible that second and burst ran away at high speed.... only to realise that i got scouting exp from the maskscent as i was standing there.

So I went back, got to 70m... no problem. Walked to 60m.. stil fine. Decided to not push my luck so i went prone and start crawling towards the three of them. Suddenly more scout exp but it's still holding. being a bio-engineer I was very surprized to get right up next to them and take a few samples to drop the Kimo with ease. A quick meat harvest later and both are dead and I have 200 meat to play around with. Now when I was last on Lok and attempting to go near Kimo it broke every single time when i had wayfaring 3. Now suddenly it's a breeze. So I summerized that the 95 points of camoflage is enhancing the maskscent to the point where it's an indication of the CL rating it works reliably against. At wayfaring 3 is worked a good 80% of the time up to CL60 but CL90 Kimo's broke it every time at 64m.

Now at wayfaring 3 i had 75 points of camo. And could get close to CL60 animals with ease while prone which apparently increases the effect by around 20% holo said. So thats equal to 90 points... and against CL90 animals it broke pretty much every time. Now at 95 points and prone it's equal to 114. So to test this I went looking for one of the other Kimo species, and found a dune Kimo which is CL120. In almost every case but one it broke at 64m. It was surprizing for at one time it worked, giving a nice 367 scouting exp. But out of4 attempts this only happened once.

But once the skill enhancers are fixed for bio-engineers you're gonna start seeing the possibility for suits whcih give an extra 25 points to camoflage and maskscent. Judging from what I've witnessed this means someone could crawl past (or up to in abio-engineer/ranger's case)a CL120 animal with ease and just squeeze by a CL150 giant Kimogila if they're lucky. Sounds like fun

So then? Anyone want some CL90 dna?