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While playing Mass Effect 3 multiplayer as an infiltrator, about 30% of the time that I use Tactical Cloak it turns itself off within a second, triggering the cooldown again. Is this a bug that other people have experienced? Is there a way to keep it from happening?

Edit: I should mention that I've run into the problem while using both Geth and Salarian Infiltrators. I use this build with a Geth Pulse Shotgun in case that helps. I realize that starting to charge the shotgun breaks cloak, but I am not doing this.

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  • Are you shooting your gun and/or pressing the cloak key again?
    – Raven Dreamer
    Commented May 6, 2012 at 1:12
  • No shooting or using of abilities of any kind, just moving around (which shouldn't be an issue).
    – Brysonic
    Commented May 6, 2012 at 1:35
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    have you tried it with a non-charging weapon, just in case?
    – Raven Dreamer
    Commented May 6, 2012 at 3:08
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    Are you still having this issue? When I played an infiltrator, I had to teach myself to be careful with the cloak button - sometimes when waiting for a cooldown to finish, I'll impatiently start tapping the button of the ability I want to ensure I use it ASAP. Doing so with cloak led me to occasionally over-tapping it, and breaking my cloak near-immediately.
    – Izzy
    Commented May 12, 2012 at 23:06
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    @RavenDreamer It took me a while, but I tried several rounds using a non-charging shotgun and didn't encounter the problem at all, so I think that you're right. If you'd like to submit this as an answer I'll accept it.
    – Brysonic
    Commented Jul 24, 2012 at 11:21

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It sounds like you're having a negative interaction between tactical cloak, your charging weapon, and possibly also your latency.

Since you've mentioned it doesn't have any issue with "regular" shotguns, I think that the bottom line is that Cloak hasn't been failing for you, though it probably has been behaving in a way contrary to what you were hoping.

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The only scenarios in which my cloak has broken are the following:

  • Shooting a bullet, or performing a melee attack
  • Using a power (unless you unlocked the skill to perform one while still cloaked).
  • Being impatient and spamming my cloak hotkey.
  • Receiving damage from an already initiated attack, or splash damage from a grenade, etc... Receiving damage in general breaks the cloak (as it does with Geth Hunters).

Also, I've noticed that the enemies aren't completely baffled by a cloak. If they see you cloaking, they will assume you haven't switched location and will try to attack that location.

Can you confirm if you may have taken damage right after cloaking?

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