Vision
Advantages
This is the best defense against a cloaked player. It is also a vast improvement over your usual crosshair iff. Friends will now appear as bright green, and enemies will now glow red. This makes it much easier to spot enemies at a distance, even if they are in shadows, and thus is great for spotting troublesome snipers. You can also see friends/enemies on the other side of walls at very close range.
Disadvantages
There are 4 main problems with this aug. First, you can only see cloaked people at medium/short range. This makes the vision aug slightly less advantageous on a larger map. Second, the drain on the vision aug is greater than the cloak drain, which means they can stay cloaked longer than you can see them. Third, if you are facing any kind of explosion with this aug turned on, you will be temporarily blinded. The severity and duration of the blindness depend on the closeness/brightness of the explosion, and whether you were looking straight at it or caught it at an angle. Finally, the farther away an enemy player is, the less bright red he will glow.
Opposing
The vision aug is directly opposed by the cloak. If you have the cloak, stay as far away from this person as possible and try to snipe them. The vision aug player is also very vulnerable to being blinded. Any kind of explosion or grenade stands a good chance of temporarily blinding them. The flamethrower and plasma are also bright enough to impede the vision aug player somewhat, although they do not cause the same type of blinding effect.
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