Let's talk about shields.
Shields are essential for team-based games such as BfN. But to no-one's surprise, some shields work better than others so I wanna discuss every shield and how well they do in team fights/chokepoints ...
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Only shield I have a problem with is space station. Even after nerf it's still a lobby killer for two or more cadets. Every other day I see a group join team vanquish and play space station to clearly have a laugh and kill the lobby and even the best players are helpless.
Very frustrating.
@Ninja2Blade Good point. Having the Shogun-Guard shield active negates critical hits as well as hopefully reducing the damage that you take. It's understandable that it has very low health and that it's a personal shield, but it has some really good uses (you can block a full ZPG with it, I've tried), and I find it very handy to have especially in 1v1 situations and when reviving allies. You can pull it up at any time without the use of an ability. It's my favourite shield type in BfN so far.
@Gormey I've teamed up with Space Cadets often. I've found that, from my experience, the shield is very overpowered and still should have a nerf by my opinion. A station can have up to 3 shields (for a total of 375 shield health, 125 per active asteroid shield) so reducing the health of these shields further (to 100 health or something) would probably be better. You shouldn't be able to easily dominate lobbies using loaded space stations.
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