Why do I have a cloaking system on Osprey?

[Zorbez]

Haven't played FTL in ages, saw the Advanced Edition update aaaaaaand
I'm hooked

So after a few runs of horrible dying, I tried the Osprey...
Halfway through the run, I suddenly thought, Wait a minute, since when could I install cloak on Osprey?"

Is this a new AE feature, or is it a bug?

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[Levgre]

My guess is a random event gave it to you, and that event is a workaround for Fed cruisers to get cloaking.

Or did you buy it in store

[Zorbez]

I bought it in a store...

[RAD-82]

Since they added hacking and mind control, they set an eight-system limit on ships so you can't buy them all. They probably decided to remove the no cloaking restriction from the Federation cruisers since the eight-system limit will prevent you from getting too many things.

[Zorbez]

So now the Osprey is really really good XD
Cloak... FIRE ZE ATERERY BUEAM MUHAHAHAHAHAHA

[5thHorseman]

Just wait until you also get a Zoltan shield...

[Ghaleon]

Speaking of nasty combos, there's a subsystem accessory thing (I always forget their name) which makes it so your drones/hacking unit can not be countered by enemy defense mechanism.
Assuming you have level 3 hacking on their weapon systems, and a level 3 cloaking device, do baddies have any chance to ever shoot at you unless they have attack drones or something with a very fast charge up time? If there's still a window of opportunity, imagine adding a shield drone to that mix.

Of course all this wont be very useful for the actual flagship.

[JollySam]

I find that a Cloaking ability for an Osprey is useful when fighting the Rebel flagship. Cloaking means that you can dodge particularly nasty-looking barrages during the fight.