Question to Beta Testers: Ranged Weapons Against Shielded Enemies

[Gleitfrosch]

How effective are ranged build when fighting a shielded npc/player?
I know that there are different weapon types, some overcharge the shield, others drill through it. But what about standard weapons? How effective are they?

[Mavor]

Standard ranged weapons can only defeat a shield by draining a shields battery - which, since they don't have any special way of doing so, takes a LOT of ammo and too much time.

Generally speaking, you really don't want to sit there plugging away at a shielded opponent with a normal dart weapon.

[Bloodflush]

yeah fast guns get the shield down fast
slow guns have problems
but anyway only shielded melee are a problem on that anyway after all you shoot shield goes down same goes for enemys so if there in melee pull your melee out stab them easy
and at the same time you aswell save under your shield vs guns

but there are aswell other ways around the shield toxic gas skills bypass shield same sniper that have toxic bullets so there bypass the shield to x%
and other stuff

[Gleitfrosch]

Thanks, that's some good info

[CY13ERPUNK]

why not lasgun the shield? insta nuke

[Mavor]

Originally posted by CY13ERPUNK:

why not lasgun the shield? insta nuke

Fluff-wise: Lasguns, in the DA world, have been ordained, by the Emperor, to have safety mechanisms installed that cause them to not fire at shielded targets.

[Chaon]

The 'science' behind the prohibition on using laser weapons against shields is that the shields would instantly slow the laser energy to zero because of how fast it is traveling, resulting in an E=MC squared result. ie nuclear explosion, bad thing.

Holtzman shields work by inversely affecting incoming projectiles or weapons. The faster the velocity of them the more the shield reduces their velocity, thus the slow blade can penetrate a shield.

This is also why your shields turn off for a moment when you fire out of them. Otherwise your guns would be useless.

So to get around that, the Emperor mandated that all laser weapons would refuse to fire into shields.