Does the riot shield not cover the full body when deployed

[Hawk Tuah Pyro]

I heard someone say that it doesnt but im pretty sure thats not true.

[Netsa]

It covers everything except your feet.

[LonewolfDiConis]

No it doesn't cover your body completely, not even when you are crouching.
Sadly the riot shield is completely useless in this game.

[Hawk Tuah Pyro]

Originally posted by Netsa:

It covers everything except your feet.

thats pretty dumb. How hard is it to shoot the feet of the user? I pretty much never see anyone use the riotshield

Something thats useful about the shield is that it protects from explosives, even if they are right infront of you

[Netsa]

Originally posted by Punished Sanders:

Originally posted by Netsa:

It covers everything except your feet.

thats pretty dumb. How hard is it to shoot the feet of the user? I pretty much never see anyone use the riotshield

Something thats useful about the shield is that it protects from explosives, even if they are right infront of you

Frankly, I didn't even know I could shoot their feet when I started playing, so Riot Shielders were completely invincible for me. If the person you're fighting doesn't know the weakness, they're probably going to just run away or attempt a flank.

The feet are also a pretty small area, so you're still going to be taking a lot less damage than you would normally.

Despite what the other guy said, the Riot Shield isn't useless, it just has the same weaknesses all the melee weapons in the game currently do. They're super easy to counter because the only class that can easily close a gap are Lights (who also have the least HP). People can just walk away or lay a mine down.

That said, if you get really good at closing distances, it does do a lot damage and it's really hard to hit because the shield keeps blocking everything. There was a certain guy on the forums here before who mained Riot Shield, surprised he hasn't shown up to sing its praises.

[Hawk Tuah Pyro]

Originally posted by Netsa:

Originally posted by Punished Sanders:

thats pretty dumb. How hard is it to shoot the feet of the user? I pretty much never see anyone use the riotshield

Something thats useful about the shield is that it protects from explosives, even if they are right infront of you

Frankly, I didn't even know I could shoot their feet when I started playing, so Riot Shielders were completely invincible for me. If the person you're fighting doesn't know the weakness, they're probably going to just run away or attempt a flank.

The feet are also a pretty small area, so you're still going to be taking a lot less damage than you would normally.

Despite what the other guy said, the Riot Shield isn't useless, it just has the same weaknesses all the melee weapons in the game currently do. They're super easy to counter because the only class that can easily close a gap are Lights (who also have the least HP). People can just walk away or lay a mine down.

That said, if you get really good at closing distances, it does do a lot damage and it's really hard to hit because the shield keeps blocking everything. There was a certain guy on the forums here before who mained Riot Shield, surprised he hasn't shown up to sing its praises.

IMO the riotshield is a kinda bad but it can work sometimes. The main problem with it is that gas and fire can shoot through it . Not to mention heavies and just shoot nukes and rpgs behind you.

But sometimes when you push with your team you can pretty easily bully lights and mediums if they dont have gas. But you get hard counted by heavies so its not really good

[Hawk Tuah Pyro]

to make riot shield work, you would probably just be passive and heal your team, spam nades/mines and occasionally try to kill a lone medium or scout with your team

Something thats pretty nice is that you can throw a nade at your feet and raise your shield and you dont take damage

[YummyBubbles]

Originally posted by Netsa:

Originally posted by Punished Sanders:

thats pretty dumb. How hard is it to shoot the feet of the user? I pretty much never see anyone use the riotshield

Something thats useful about the shield is that it protects from explosives, even if they are right infront of you

Frankly, I didn't even know I could shoot their feet when I started playing, so Riot Shielders were completely invincible for me. If the person you're fighting doesn't know the weakness, they're probably going to just run away or attempt a flank.

The feet are also a pretty small area, so you're still going to be taking a lot less damage than you would normally.

Despite what the other guy said, the Riot Shield isn't useless, it just has the same weaknesses all the melee weapons in the game currently do. They're super easy to counter because the only class that can easily close a gap are Lights (who also have the least HP). People can just walk away or lay a mine down.

That said, if you get really good at closing distances, it does do a lot damage and it's really hard to hit because the shield keeps blocking everything. There was a certain guy on the forums here before who mained Riot Shield, surprised he hasn't shown up to sing its praises.

If the only counter to riot shields is the worst class in the game with almost no effective tactics aside from invis + shotty, then there's no good counter in the game to riot shields :/

that being said:
C4+chair (heavies)
Any nade weaponry
flamethrowers
other melee weapons
mines

and when in doubt, just ignore them, kill the rest of their team 3v2 and then turn on the riot shielder.

[Hawk Tuah Pyro]

Originally posted by YummyBubbles:

Originally posted by Netsa:

Frankly, I didn't even know I could shoot their feet when I started playing, so Riot Shielders were completely invincible for me. If the person you're fighting doesn't know the weakness, they're probably going to just run away or attempt a flank.

The feet are also a pretty small area, so you're still going to be taking a lot less damage than you would normally.

Despite what the other guy said, the Riot Shield isn't useless, it just has the same weaknesses all the melee weapons in the game currently do. They're super easy to counter because the only class that can easily close a gap are Lights (who also have the least HP). People can just walk away or lay a mine down.

That said, if you get really good at closing distances, it does do a lot damage and it's really hard to hit because the shield keeps blocking everything. There was a certain guy on the forums here before who mained Riot Shield, surprised he hasn't shown up to sing its praises.

If the only counter to riot shields is the worst class in the game with almost no effective tactics aside from invis + shotty, then there's no good counter in the game to riot shields :/

that being said:
C4+chair (heavies)
Any nade weaponry
flamethrowers
other melee weapons
mines

and when in doubt, just ignore them, kill the rest of their team 3v2 and then turn on the riot shielder.

no riot is pretty good against light they are very sqiushy and have very little AOE

[YummyBubbles]

Originally posted by Punished Sanders:

Originally posted by YummyBubbles:

If the only counter to riot shields is the worst class in the game with almost no effective tactics aside from invis + shotty, then there's no good counter in the game to riot shields :/

that being said:
C4+chair (heavies)
Any nade weaponry
flamethrowers
other melee weapons
mines

and when in doubt, just ignore them, kill the rest of their team 3v2 and then turn on the riot shielder.

no riot is pretty good against light they are very sqiushy and have very little AOE

riots are only bad against lights because of their ability to flank/maneuver effectively, not because of their AOE damage

lights are bad against everyone else because all of their stuff is just worse versions of medium/heavy stuff, plus they get oneshot by everything and don't have the health to trade in gunfights

mediums and heavies can also easily keep up with them

There's nothing good about lights except invis + shotty and that's shut down by mediums recon, or recon nades, or gas nades, or mines......

[LukanGamer]

ya no1 uses riot shield because its the most useless weapon in the game, people are to sweaty these days they have 0 issue killing a shield user.

I main it as my 4th most used for fun, ie
because I like playing with unique things, support, no1 really ever uses it, to buy that extra brief moment, and to laugh at the 1% that some how don't know to just shoot feet.

[Hawk Tuah Pyro]

Originally posted by YummyBubbles:

Originally posted by Punished Sanders:

no riot is pretty good against light they are very sqiushy and have very little AOE

riots are only bad against lights because of their ability to flank/maneuver effectively, not because of their AOE damage

lights are bad against everyone else because all of their stuff is just worse versions of medium/heavy stuff, plus they get oneshot by everything and don't have the health to trade in gunfights

mediums and heavies can also easily keep up with them

There's nothing good about lights except invis + shotty and that's shut down by mediums recon, or recon nades, or gas nades, or mines......

its not super hard not to get flanked w riot shield you just turn around. Again though, riot shield isnt that good even against light but sometimes you can lone lights or mediums

Honestly invis shotgun is only kinda good and its not the best thing light has
mp7+glitch grenad/stun gun is pretty good at heavy killing and coutnering meshield and mine spam