Ballistic Shield with bugs

[ShadowNeko]

Why not let it block Acid and the Shrieker's swoop?

[Netaris]

Oh, I will use it just for the laugh on the terminid side. ^^

[Katmorphous333]

Yeah they need to buff the ballistic shield against bugs, the energy shield blocks everything, why not the ballistic shield aslong as you are facing the right way.

[lemmonoski]

... Why not make it effective at something? Like literally any one thing or even a few?
Found it to be useless vs bugs AND Bot shots.
And Melee.
And explosions.
And Acid.
And arc discharge.
And other divers.

Was disappointed. :-(

[FentaRino]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ please

[Deatheagle]

Originally posted by ShadowNeko:

Why not let it block Acid and the Shrieker's swoop?

Besause it is a "ballistic" shield. Since the bugs do not use bullets, a ballistic shield should be and is pretty useless.

That is until the termicide causes a bug mutation that makes some of them spew tiny, bony projectiles. Then it may become viable.

It is a bit like the flametrower and the bots. It was not very useful, because of its range against bots, but really shined as a weapon against bugs. But nobody screamed to quadruple its range, so you can fight bots effectively with it.

I dont think the answer is to give certain equipment unreasonable perks that lack grounding in reality. The solution would be to make an enemy type where it could be useful.

[Fingeris]

Originally posted by Deatheagle:

Originally posted by ShadowNeko:

Why not let it block Acid and the Shrieker's swoop?

Besause it is a "ballistic" shield. Since the bugs do not use bullets, a ballistic shield should be and is pretty useless.

Yeah, since we all historically know that shields' primary use always were bullets

Stopping any other physical object (unlisted in its name) is absurd!

[RyouDeeLuLu]

it would probably be difficult to code such a feature
which is probably why it will never happen. in terms of coding ok, if something hits this, does it take damage or is it like a gun shot and bounces of
cause as far as I can tell, the bugs are razor shop and can basically cut through metal like butter, so the shield probably won't work

which is why the magical shield works best for bug attacks

[Carcat]

Originally posted by ShadowNeko:

Why not let it block Acid and the Shrieker's swoop?

so my (insane) friend did some testing with it today. it does "work." it will block charger and bile titan stomps fully as well as any other melee hit, but its VERY directional. if the hit gets past the shield at all, you take damage. it will also block flyers but again you have to be positioned perfectly.

its not exactly great like it is against bots (rip), but it does at least somewhat function.

...not well tho...

[Sanglaine]

Because that would make it useful and the devs are ok with something being useless.

[Sanglaine]

Originally posted by Carcat:

Originally posted by ShadowNeko:

Why not let it block Acid and the Shrieker's swoop?

so my (insane) friend did some testing with it today. it does "work." it will block charger and bile titan stomps fully as well as any other melee hit, but its VERY directional. if the hit gets past the shield at all, you take damage. it will also block flyers but again you have to be positioned perfectly.

its not exactly great like it is against bots (rip), but it does at least somewhat function.

...not well tho...

Hmmmm interesting...