Has anyone found success with the Ballistic Shield?

[Odzianna]

Especially compared to the portable shield. Like, why would I take a shield that is handheld, only allows me the use of the SMG and pistol, counts as backpack AND gets dropped constantly?

Shield generator allows me the use of all guns, replenishes very quickly and apparently even works against melee, so what am I missing here?

What are the proper advantages of the Ballistic Shield?

[RayRay Jackson]

There aren't any atm. That or heavy armor (doesn't work as intended). Portable shield generator and scout armor is the way to play at the moment sadly.

[Kleiner's final Form]

Unlocking it comes with many advantages, such as:
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- having it unlocked for when the devs rebalance it into something useful
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[King]

I also noticed man is much bigger than shield so its very easy for bots to shoot fleshy man.

If you have 2 bots shooting at you your gonna get hit by 1 of them.

They need to make it as wide as the men to be more useful.

[Mesond]

It doesn't reduce rocket damage either. Full health? I die.

I don't mind getting knocked around and hurt, but if the shield is taking the impact then why am I still taking full damage?

Shields aside, the fact one rocket kills is overpowered. Considering how fast and accurately the robots shoot them.

[Odzianna]

Not exactly sure if that is the reason, but apparently one also drops the shield whenever it takes too much damage? My Helldiver usually lost it whenever a nearby bomb went off, even though I didn't receive any damage

[EdgeOfTomorrow]

yep you can use a LMG with it the games that buggy, this entire game is just a mess. I cant wait for microtransactions to release and destroy whats left of this early access

[Myth Alric]

It doesn't go down like the shield generator does(though apparently you be drop it from a bit blast? I have not played enough with it to confirm that), so you can just stand there tanking acid breaths all day or get into a melee brawl with a stalker. Obviously, we need like a melee power sword or something to go with it.

I have not tested it, but I wonder if you can throw grenades and block the blast with the shield.

[Cryptic]

The ballistic shield sucks honestly

[Myth Alric]

Originally posted by Veldaz:

Shields aside, the fact one rocket kills is overpowered. Considering how fast and accurately the robots shoot them.

It is a rocket. Do you think a person could survive a direct hit from a rocket in real life if they held up a ballistic shield?

[EdgeOfTomorrow]

Originally posted by Cryptic:

The ballistic shield sucks honestly

how so it can be equipped with the LMG and its buggy as hell maybe others have found out how to glitch and equip it with a rocket launcher and it fires through it. with the state of the game currently I'm not surprised

[Roy]

Originally posted by Sapper:

yep you can use a LMG with it the games that buggy, this entire game is just a mess. I cant wait for microtransactions to release and destroy whats left of this early access

Do you mean the stalwart?

[EdgeOfTomorrow]

Originally posted by Roy:

Originally posted by Sapper:

yep you can use a LMG with it the games that buggy, this entire game is just a mess. I cant wait for microtransactions to release and destroy whats left of this early access

Do you mean the stalwart?

all the LMG's I just never tried it with the anti material rifle or rocket launchers but I'm sure it works. with the amount of bugs I seen at level 30 the games crap and deserves to die

[Odzianna]

Well, even IF you could make the shield glitch to use it with an MG, it would still take a glitch to be an inferior version of the Shield Generator, so that's not great.

If they ever introduce stratagem modding I really hope that we can electrify the shield to shock emelee attacker, and to shieldbash bots in the face. Now, THAT would make the shield a bit more interesting

[EdgeOfTomorrow]

Originally posted by Odzianna:

Well, even IF you could make the shield glitch to use it with an MG, it would still take a glitch to be an inferior version of the Shield Generator, so that's not great.

If they ever introduce stratagem modding I really hope that we can electrify the shield to shock emelee attacker, and to shieldbash bots in the face. Now, THAT would make the shield a bit more interesting

they introducing micro transactions before anything. they already got a placeholder for the NPC on your ship. dont hold your breath for any considerable fun content, its a sony published game it will go the way off planetside 2 only 4 player co-op repetitive missions

[GeforceJoe]

Go fight bugs or the automations, put ur back to the enemy with the shield on your back.. surprisingly I took no damage when hit I. The back with the shield on my back. It’s a shady experience with bugs but it did still block some of the attacks when the shield was on my back. I also did not die when taking on a full load of the green bug spewage. Also good when having to run form automation while using it to block him fire until a rocket or base hits ya.