EVE General Discussion

Unless you screw up, you are 99% uncatchable. Theres always a tiny chance that you'll be right next to something that prevents you from recloaking, or that you get decloaked by someone that happened to be close to your spawnpoint.

Fit nanos, mwd, covops cloak.

It works exactly like doing the t2 cloak/mwd trick, except that you don't have to uncloak at the end to warp away, and you get a full mwd cycle of speed while cloaked because there is no penalty.

pick a direction to travel in, either a celestial to align to, or a random direction they won't pick guess.
Hit align or double-click in space
wait between 0.1 and 0.5 seconds.
activate cloak
activate mwd

Now, if you are warping to a gate and land in a bubble AND get decloaked by an item near the edge of the bubble where you landed, you have a very high chance of getting killed. Tactical boomarks and bouncing off a celestial are preferred when you see other people in local and the destination gate is out of scan range.

You have to be careful not to hit a bubble off the gate when you warp to it. That will stop you in warp. And sometimes they'll drop jetcans on your landing point to decloak you when you land.
Also watch for interceptors decloaking you when you jump through.

Usually you can get away with warp and cloak. If there's interceptor or bubble or both you might have to hit align or double click in space, cloak, mwd, and then warp. Its very hard for people to catch you unless you cloak and don't move.

Sometimes mwd back to gate, cloak and warp if not uncloaked is better because if you do get uncloaked you'll be close to gate and might be able to jump. Plus the decloakers likely will assume you're moving in the opposite direction if you're a cloaky.

Oh one more thing - its like Das Boot! Enjoy it.

Depends how big the camp is, whether it's snowballed and how good the de-cloaker is. I've seen plenty of covert, even nullified ships being blown up. There's no way to avoid it except not to land on it or jump into it. If you escape, you were lucky that time. Next time you might not be.

Intel is also extremely important. I know I can attest from personal experience that what people call 99% safe is highly relative. I've lost track of how many ships I've lost because of a gate camp - as far as I'm concerned, any sizable gate camp has more than a 50% chance of getting you regardless of what you fly unless you have both bubble immunity AND covert ops cloak. And even then, you had best enter warp in about 2 seconds.

I lost my hound to a gate camp that had an interceptor decloak me literally in less than 2 seconds after I dropped gate cloak. I've had a shuttle pointed out of gate cloak. I've had a clear region with supposedly clear intel spawn a gate camp in an area I scouted around 5 minutes ago, mysteriously at the same time as I undocked my expensive ship but I've never seen them when I flew anything cheap around as a scout.

Nullsec "safety" is really just a game of Russian Roulette. If any one strategy other than flying in a giant fleet has ever worked for you several times in a row with no failures, it can be better attributed to several unloaded barrels in a row than anything else.

jumping into a gate camp with bubbles is just a matter of MWD, cloak and use your speed to travel away from where the decloakers are trying to get you.
most cov ops frigs however are caught travelling to a gate and hitting a bubble that decloaks them. they are then pointed and killed. To avoid this use load ups on gates you often use (a load up is 250km from a gate not in the direction of any celestial)
warping to a well made load up will avoid all bubbles and allow you sight of the gate and intel of how easy it will be to break through.
If you don't have a load up then instead of warping gate to gate it is better to warp to a celestial well away from where you enter system and make a safe spot in warp. ideally this will be well out of align of celestials so that drag and stop bubbles will be missed. An alternate to this is to warp to a planet near the gate so you can see on dscan what is at the party.
dedicated gate camps aren't that common and usually at null entrance/exit points.
i often fly many jumps through hostile space in an assault frig with no issues. It is less scary/dangerous than people make out.

Thank you for all the tips!

An alternative is to deliberately empty your capacitor with repeated warp/cancel, then warp to the gate. You'll land short but hopefully in dscan range.

The FC's i fly with tend to refer to this as "spiking the bubble" usually its cans and other debris placed on the side of the bubble facing the thing you're trying to catch things from, its especially hard to escape from an older camp as there will be corpses and wrecks to decloak you, as a word of advice as a cov ops pilot, have an overview tab that shows anything and everything that can decloak you and fly around in empire for a bit, that alone should give you an idea of how complicated it can be to navigate a gate camp :)

mwd then cloak