Quote Originally Posted by Lord Torath View Post
A thought occurred to me on the train today: Ruthenium Polymers let you make a "chameleon suit" that renders you invisible to visible light (if you have enough cameras). Is there any way this could work with infrared light? We have IR cameras so this is theoretically possible. But humans/metahumans only reflect visible light; we don't emit it naturally like we do with IR. Would the heat generated by living things doom this idea to failure?
4e works a bit differently. The cameras are an assumed part of the suit, the suit provides a flat stealth bonus, and it can't be upgraded to perfect invisibility. (In an unusual fit of realism, they note that the mod is only useful if the armor covers most of your body and you don't have equipment hanging off you.) There's also an armor mod to reduce thermal signature a lot, and by any RAW you can have both on the same suit, though by the advanced rule option you can't add much more.