Re: LIFELINE SHEILD

I have mixed feelings on this. On one hand, I feel a lot of the complaints about it was because players did not know and did not want to learn how to counter it. Then on the other hand I look at it as ok yea it was a little strong due to allowing the LL a good one that is fully guarded and peaks over and over like a Gibby bubble. A thermite on the ground at the shield countered it but it still allowed the lifeline to strafe shoot through the shield. 

Being friends with the number 1 lifeline in the game on pc at the moment he has even stated to me that the shield was def overpowered and the kit needed a rework. This comes from someone with 45 thousand matches played on Lifeline. While this is 1 person's belief I tend to listen to that seeing all the experience he has playing that legend alone. When he broke down how it was broken and why it should be changed I understood which some of the things he expressed I name above. It allowed a major advantage for the lifeline and the person being res. A lot of times allowing a knock to happen multiple times would save the team because the Lifeline had endless shields blocking her and she could act as if she was in a Gibby dome. His only complaints about that legend at this time is how useless her ultimate is. 

personally, I prefer having faster healing passive over the shield or the heal after reviving a teammate.

or make the DOC have an area of effect same as the heat shield which will give lifeline the ability to revive faster and her animation becomes a little faster ( which should be the norm )  and heal faster.

this way it will not be OP because it can be used with DOC only which is every 23 seconds to heal only.

so in this case lifeline player must deploy the drone first then initiate the revive 

@hayhorIf abilities that take zero skill and reward poor play can't be in the game there'd hardly be any abilities left. Most abilities are centered around "got yourself into trouble? It's okay, just push this button". Others are just click-to-wallhack.

@hayhor ok fair enough.  I did not realise the shield stuck around long enough for her to actually use it to engage in combat, I thought tt was purely protective for the rez.

@CCbathwater Seriously?  When you find yourself in trouble there are few abilities that are a get out of jail free card.  Please elaborate.

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@CCbathwater wrote:
@RockDokRockI didn't say they get out of jail for free, but that it takes zero skill to use when you're in trouble. Lifeline shielded auto-revive wasn't a get-out-of-jail card either, far from it.
Well, you play Caustic? How is clicking a button for a gas grenade a "skill", or popping a trap, when your teammate is down and you want to prevent a push/3rd? You might still get killed but the abilities doesn't take skill.
How does throwing a dome take skill when you're one hp or want to revive?
I just fail to see why Lifeline was/is the only "skillless" character that warrants so much complaining or whatever, when other legends have abilities that take no skill either, and can deny you a kill.

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@CCbathwater I guess it depends how you define skill.  Having the wisdom to know when and where to use it is "skill", pressing a button has nothing to do with it.  That gas trap has to be in the right spot for it to work.  That grenade has to hit spot on to be effective.

I don't buy for a second any of this is "skilless".  No way.

Your statement above is probably the most telling:

"I just fail to see why Lifeline was/is the only "skillless" character that warrants so much complaining or whatever, when other legends have abilities that take no skill either, and can deny you a kill."

... and can deny you a kill.  What I see isn't that it's "skillless", it's that somebody is playing their legend well and has denied you a kill.  They've made it harder for you and you don't like it.  I see it as good play and try again.

I don't know what would satisfy you then.  If you want abilities removed (sounds like that is your issue) then maybe CoD is better?  Not sure.

@hayhor I've seen this comment so often.  Lifeline's ultimate needs to be "reworked".

What would you change?

How about a ultimate Pheonix-kit like ability you can use on yourself or a team mate?

@CCbathwaterI always seen LL as a all skill player, she does nothing to cause damage or to reposition..but the res shield was kinda OP they should just bring back the original res still got the shield but LL herself had to perform it which took her outta the fight for a moment...revert LL to season 1 where she had fast heal an had to do the revive but give her the option to drop care package or replicater.

She should have a small sheild at least just annoying when randoms are in the open. 

Randoms are dumb thats why I'm saying about the sheild - they could make it so its able to be damaged with gunfire like the rampart barriers.

Well, good news - the map is so big that it is way easier to pick up people with Lifeline even without a shield, I actually start to see the legends being picked more often than before already now, at least in lower aka Gold lobbies.

Map size renders shield somewhat useless, yet it still would be nice to have it back 🙂

Exactly! Or make it smaller, or slower res! Gibby can res super fast in is dome, and dome is unbreakable. At least uou could easily throw a nade or thermite to the side of LL’s shield

Sorry gonna go a bit off topic here but since there are a lot of lifeline mains/users here, what do you think about LL's ultimate? Some LL mains are voicing their concern in twitter because of the smart loot the wildlife gives to you compared to LL's ultimate. Ian Holstead is a gameplay programmer at Respawn.