@@TheGundamBoi 2:50 Hey TheGundamBoi, I wanted to inform you of the fact that when the Ballistic Shield was first released, and for a bunch of patches, when you put it up against the Bots they didn't shoot you. There was something in the coding that basically blocked their sight of you, or something... It was like you were obscured from the game's AI targeting. It took a while before that bug in the code was fixed. But while it was active, you basically became invincible. I think the coding for the Illuminate Harvesters is similarly bugged for its laser.
4:03 Fun fact - Shield worked like that against every enemy, as seen on footage (devastator lost agro as soon as you get behind shield). So it was pretty solid choice for stealth play (on every front), or for disangaging.
Man, I do love shields in any game, but the combined saltiness I have with this shield due to stubbing my toe and dropping it in the past and the fact I am addicted to sentries, I haven’t used it too much. I will definetly use it more in the future. Though, I have a good story. I once dropped in on a bot mission WAYY back before rockets were fixed and did a few hundred damage per shot. I brought the shield, and picked it up. right then, a random turret tower noticed me and shot. I thought I was dead (as back then, you know, one shot), but the shield blocked it just barely, leaving me on a sliver of health and destroying the shield. only time I ever thanked a stratagem so much. (Then I proceeded to get myself beaten for the rest of the mission because rocket devastators)
Ngl, spear and shield is one of my favorite meme loadouts, using it is very funny when playing with the boys with this loadout, forming a phalanx or shieldwall
It’s interesting that you said the harvester/ factory strider can’t see you with the shield up. When factory striders first came out I fully just thought it was neat that they ignored you while your shield was up, just waiting for you to lower your defenses.
i use the sheild myself with the pummiler, and stun baton with heavy armour to look like an enforcer.. I only hope they block melee in future would be cool.
It would be cool if we could hold the shield on our arms AND wear a backpack at the same time, but have to drop the shield & manually pick it back up again every time we do something with a two-handed weapon. Shield + jetpack would go HARD!!
I wish some "backpack" things didnt actually lock-up the slot too. Like the balistic and directional shields. You allready use a strat slot for them and can only use one handed guns with them, also making them take the backpack slot makes their cost efficiency garbage. Yes its fun to use who cares but things should be balanced and fun at the same time.
4:20 - Wrong mentality, if the bots are close naturally with the SMGs red dot you can pivk their heads off (or spray and pray in a panic) I primarily run Laser Cannon, Shield and EATs "Why would you have two support weapons? You can’t carry them both" Excellent observation, key word in expendable anti-tank is EXPENDABLE It has a very shot cooldown and you only need it for tanks, turrrets and striders Laser Cannon brings down hulk heads(and everything else at long range) and gunships when shooting an engine, sometimes dont need EATs when tanks and turrets are giving attention to a teammate
My two main builds against the automaton menace, is ballistic shield and arc thrower (I call it the anchor, or the palisade) with my team mates behind me The other is AMR and jetpack which I use when there's gunships.
I wish this weapon allowed you to use any Primary and support weapons (excluding machine gun and heavy machine gun) with one hand with the counted downside of instantly breaking your arm and taking damage when you fire it ...because why not utilize the feauture if its already in the game
you forgot the best reason for the ballistic shield, and its best combo stabby stick and ballistic shield against any enemy, just because it looks fucking cool. it makes you feel invincible and you will play like you were going face to face stabbing the hell out of anything you desire. with the confidence the shield provides you win most fights and stay in combat much longer than you would without.
@@AzureIV Aight I'm taking it onto the bot front. Was looking at the wiki for damage numbers and in theory heat damage stacks on top of it. Should disable a tank in three seconds :3 (In theory...)
@@NorthEevee Aim for the actual tred/tracks themselves, not the armor plating on either side of the tred/tracks. Also the turret vent. and the back plate right below the turret and between the two sets of tred/tracks, are both Medium Armor, so the Heavy Penetration of the Laser Cannon can destroy them. So, you don't need to aim specifically for the vent on the turret, you can take out the tank from the back regardless. If you fight a Barrager Tank, the one with the missile rack, you can also target the missile rack itself. It is unarmored but has a lot of health. About three times as much as the tracks or rear hull plate.
@@AzureIV Ah thanks for the tips, really appreciate it. Gonna save me some field testing. Like, genuinely thanks. Only right I give you a tip in return: Don't forget to stim prematurely if you're against the odds or doing something risky. Saved my life so many times but even the most experienced players forget about this
The pummeller is an interesting combo since you can slow down or almost stunlock entire devestator and chainsaw squads. I really think the pummeller and the shield combo is very underrated if you don't mind taking a support role.
You're giving up two slots, two handed weapons, backpack amd the best dps options to do what one gas or stun grenade can do. I'd rather a teammate runs dps to take out the problem rather than pause then momentarily so that I need to use twice the amount of ammo to take out his threats as well as mine.
@@matthewdeklerk3457true, but it’s still a fun combo and you can still kill things on your own. But you’re right. It is a lot of setup for only a decent amount of returns.
I am so glad that the CB-9 Explosive Crossbow got updated from two-handed, to one-handed. I hope to see the same update to the SMG-32 Reprimand at some point.
If you ever feel in a cowboy mood (possibly after another playthrough of Red Dead Redemption), the Senator (nicknamed "Big Iron") could make for a rootin-tootin video
@@TheGundamBoi When they updated it from one of the only medium pen secondaries to heavy pen (and then gave the medium pen to the Verdict), I cheered. Then they fixed the Crisper to give it heavy pen. I quite enjoyed the armor re-balance update. Suddenly a lot of enemy armor became weaker and a lot of weapons that were light pen became medium pen and were actually usable against the enemies.
I used to read “One hand use” and think “Ok, whatever” After watch this video I’m like “Hell yeah” (I didn’t realize u can use primary weapons this way… until now)
2:53 When you're holding up the balistic shield the harvester considers you both "behind cover" and... not? It sees you and so attempts to fire the laser but as soon as it's firing the laser it think you went behind cover and so it stops to not waste ammunition.
The sheild can save your life against a tank or turret shell but only once as it will break fortunately cooldown is low im just glad we don’t have to deal with the super laser hulks anymore
it used to be so fucking good with the pummeler. but thye nerfed the pummeler to give the halt a reason to be picked. there was a time that ONE SHOT from the pummeler would STUN THEM like a mini stun grenade. it was amazing. now it just slightly staggers them and u need to put in like 5 more shots :(
I really want to like this weapon, but I often find it’s easier (and safer) spot simply play more aggressively, and dodge incoming fire. Also, I can use a large shield generator, which will lock rockets and laser towers.
Can you make a video looking back to throwing knife (or maybe when talking about melee weapons mention it as a lost child not sure it want to be range or melee weapons)
The fact that it takes a backpack slot AND bans two handed weapons makes it literally trash tier for me. Any other backpack willl let me run my primary and an antitank. The defende it offers is negligible given the way it forces tou to sacrifice using the best DPS primaries in the game. The best smg in the game is two handed. You cam use the pummeler, sure, but then you're using the pummeler, in which vase why arent you just taking stun grenades lmao. Arrowhead has this problem where instead of making something godtier at one thing they try to prenerf it so its bad at that and worse at ither things too than other strats and guns. There is no case (putside of larping on diff 7) where you want to sacrifice that much and still get ragdolled or randomly one shot.
The shield is really nice, but the game really needs better one handed options to go with it. The only decent one is the crossbow, and the latest SMG they added isn't even one handed... SMH
Asgainst
FINALLY SOMEONE SAW IT
@@TheGundamBoi 2:50 Hey TheGundamBoi, I wanted to inform you of the fact that when the Ballistic Shield was first released, and for a bunch of patches, when you put it up against the Bots they didn't shoot you.
There was something in the coding that basically blocked their sight of you, or something... It was like you were obscured from the game's AI targeting.
It took a while before that bug in the code was fixed. But while it was active, you basically became invincible.
I think the coding for the Illuminate Harvesters is similarly bugged for its laser.
4:03 Fun fact - Shield worked like that against every enemy, as seen on footage (devastator lost agro as soon as you get behind shield). So it was pretty solid choice for stealth play (on every front), or for disangaging.
Man if that’s the case I should have myself as a shield because no one would ever aim for me in dodge ball
Take a shield and some heavy armour and show the automatons what a real tank looks like
Heavy+medic armor if you really hate them
Heavy + Fire Resist to face tank hulk flamethrowers
Exploding cross bow made that build not only viable but insanely good. I have a few videos on it
Man, I do love shields in any game, but the combined saltiness I have with this shield due to stubbing my toe and dropping it in the past and the fact I am addicted to sentries, I haven’t used it too much. I will definetly use it more in the future. Though, I have a good story. I once dropped in on a bot mission WAYY back before rockets were fixed and did a few hundred damage per shot. I brought the shield, and picked it up. right then, a random turret tower noticed me and shot. I thought I was dead (as back then, you know, one shot), but the shield blocked it just barely, leaving me on a sliver of health and destroying the shield. only time I ever thanked a stratagem so much. (Then I proceeded to get myself beaten for the rest of the mission because rocket devastators)
rocket devs used to be impossible to fight bro
Ngl, spear and shield is one of my favorite meme loadouts, using it is very funny when playing with the boys with this loadout, forming a phalanx or shieldwall
“THIS IS SPARTA” ahh loadout
It’s interesting that you said the harvester/ factory strider can’t see you with the shield up. When factory striders first came out I fully just thought it was neat that they ignored you while your shield was up, just waiting for you to lower your defenses.
Maybe it’s eyes are so bad it looks like a big grey block walking around
i use the sheild myself with the pummiler, and stun baton with heavy armour to look like an enforcer.. I only hope they block melee in future would be cool.
4:06 OKAY THATS IT
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Glad to have you on board!
It would be cool if we could hold the shield on our arms AND wear a backpack at the same time, but have to drop the shield & manually pick it back up again every time we do something with a two-handed weapon.
Shield + jetpack would go HARD!!
THAT WOULD BE KILLER, BE COME FULL GUNDAM
I wish some "backpack" things didnt actually lock-up the slot too. Like the balistic and directional shields. You allready use a strat slot for them and can only use one handed guns with them, also making them take the backpack slot makes their cost efficiency garbage. Yes its fun to use who cares but things should be balanced and fun at the same time.
Your content and editing makes me laugh alot, keep the videos coming!!
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Hey I'm glad it does! Hope to see you on the next video!
YOU CANT KEEP DISSING THE BREAKER SPRAY AND PRAY STOP YOURE HURTING ME
Happy to see it covered!
Hopefully more people will pick this over the bubble shield on the bot front now :3
4:20 - Wrong mentality, if the bots are close naturally with the SMGs red dot you can pivk their heads off (or spray and pray in a panic)
I primarily run Laser Cannon, Shield and EATs
"Why would you have two support weapons? You can’t carry them both"
Excellent observation, key word in expendable anti-tank is EXPENDABLE
It has a very shot cooldown and you only need it for tanks, turrrets and striders
Laser Cannon brings down hulk heads(and everything else at long range) and gunships when shooting an engine, sometimes dont need EATs when tanks and turrets are giving attention to a teammate
My two main builds against the automaton menace, is ballistic shield and arc thrower (I call it the anchor, or the palisade) with my team mates behind me
The other is AMR and jetpack which I use when there's gunships.
I wish this weapon allowed you to use any Primary and support weapons (excluding machine gun and heavy machine gun) with one hand with the counted downside of instantly breaking your arm and taking damage when you fire it
...because why not utilize the feauture if its already in the game
you forgot the best reason for the ballistic shield, and its best combo
stabby stick and ballistic shield against any enemy, just because it looks fucking cool.
it makes you feel invincible and you will play like you were going face to face stabbing the hell out of anything you desire. with the confidence the shield provides you win most fights and stay in combat much longer than you would without.
i love using the ballistic shield, its always looks over function for me
Hell yeah! Ballistic shield time, baby!!!
Can we PLEASE look at god damn laser cannon? Its amazing!
Doesn't it shred tanks by destroying it's tracks, allowing you to get behind it and shoot the engine?
@@NorthEevee It can do that, yes.
@@AzureIV Aight I'm taking it onto the bot front. Was looking at the wiki for damage numbers and in theory heat damage stacks on top of it. Should disable a tank in three seconds :3
(In theory...)
@@NorthEevee Aim for the actual tred/tracks themselves, not the armor plating on either side of the tred/tracks.
Also the turret vent. and the back plate right below the turret and between the two sets of tred/tracks, are both Medium Armor, so the Heavy Penetration of the Laser Cannon can destroy them.
So, you don't need to aim specifically for the vent on the turret, you can take out the tank from the back regardless.
If you fight a Barrager Tank, the one with the missile rack, you can also target the missile rack itself. It is unarmored but has a lot of health. About three times as much as the tracks or rear hull plate.
@@AzureIV Ah thanks for the tips, really appreciate it. Gonna save me some field testing. Like, genuinely thanks.
Only right I give you a tip in return: Don't forget to stim prematurely if you're against the odds or doing something risky. Saved my life so many times but even the most experienced players forget about this
The pummeller is an interesting combo since you can slow down or almost stunlock entire devestator and chainsaw squads. I really think the pummeller and the shield combo is very underrated if you don't mind taking a support role.
You're giving up two slots, two handed weapons, backpack amd the best dps options to do what one gas or stun grenade can do. I'd rather a teammate runs dps to take out the problem rather than pause then momentarily so that I need to use twice the amount of ammo to take out his threats as well as mine.
@@matthewdeklerk3457true, but it’s still a fun combo and you can still kill things on your own. But you’re right. It is a lot of setup for only a decent amount of returns.
The Ballistic Shield, your personal _nuh uh_
I am so glad that the CB-9 Explosive Crossbow got updated from two-handed, to one-handed.
I hope to see the same update to the SMG-32 Reprimand at some point.
If you ever feel in a cowboy mood (possibly after another playthrough of Red Dead Redemption), the Senator (nicknamed "Big Iron") could make for a rootin-tootin video
ah yes that will be a good one
@@TheGundamBoi When they updated it from one of the only medium pen secondaries to heavy pen (and then gave the medium pen to the Verdict), I cheered.
Then they fixed the Crisper to give it heavy pen.
I quite enjoyed the armor re-balance update. Suddenly a lot of enemy armor became weaker and a lot of weapons that were light pen became medium pen and were actually usable against the enemies.
Bro playing peekaboo with the tripod
I used to read “One hand use” and think “Ok, whatever”
After watch this video I’m like “Hell yeah”
(I didn’t realize u can use primary weapons this way… until now)
2:53 When you're holding up the balistic shield the harvester considers you both "behind cover" and... not?
It sees you and so attempts to fire the laser but as soon as it's firing the laser it think you went behind cover and so it stops to not waste ammunition.
Shield and spear is my preferred build against bots
I like this load out! I run the devastator armor and HMG, so I can show those bots who the real devastator!
I like taking the shield with the F-55 Devastator heavy armor so I look like a refrigerator
Fun fact thr Machinegun is Anti-Tank on the walkers, give it a try sometime.
I think the ballistic shield might do some wack with some enemies line of sight like the tripod, hence why it sometimes just cannot seem to shoot well
I wish there was a throwable shield that would come back to me...
You should write comics.
HAH
would love some in depth info bout the mortar sentries. their targeting always so damn inconsistent!
I've had it with the shield where I'll be run over by the car with it enabled and itll kill the driver sometimes lol.
The sheild can save your life against a tank or turret shell but only once as it will break fortunately cooldown is low im just glad we don’t have to deal with the super laser hulks anymore
I kinda want you to cover either of the concussive weapons because it'll be funny. I want you to suffer getting footage.
Challenge accepted
it used to be so fucking good with the pummeler. but thye nerfed the pummeler to give the halt a reason to be picked. there was a time that ONE SHOT from the pummeler would STUN THEM like a mini stun grenade. it was amazing. now it just slightly staggers them and u need to put in like 5 more shots :(
i felt that while recording my next video
I really want to like this weapon, but I often find it’s easier (and safer) spot simply play more aggressively, and dodge incoming fire. Also, I can use a large shield generator, which will lock rockets and laser towers.
We need some one handed support weapons.
maybe i should give it a try against the squids
I typically use light or medium armor with the shield, because the way i see it, if it is going through the shield then it was gonna kill you anyways
god i would kill for the ballistic shield to block melee i wanna be fucking invincible (conditions may apply) on all fronts
Sorry it can only stop rockets and missiles and lasers, not a punch by a 40kg cat. That just wouldn't be realistic
I want to be able to shield-bash with it as well.
Saw Gundam instant subscribe
They should make it where if an enemy hits u a couple of times he lowers the shield
Can you make a video looking back to throwing knife (or maybe when talking about melee weapons mention it as a lost child not sure it want to be range or melee weapons)
Sure! Maybe a indepth melee guide, Could slap the knives in somewhere
Please, Arrowhead, let me stab with the knife!
Embrace the way of bullet hell. Take ballisshield. New killzone SMG and gatling gun sentry. Make bots cry
Autocannon perchance? Ive really started using it again after not using it for ages, and i didnt realise how much i missed it :D
ah yes the classic
W video fr fr
1:34 😭
How does it stack up against the relatively new wide energy shield?
what about vs that mew shield
The harvester prob percieves the shield as an obstacle not worth firing at
Whats the intro music??
The harvester was missing because its top horn was broken
nah as soon as i dropped the shield he could aim at me, must blind him like the factory striders
Poggers
a sterilizer video would be cool i think
The fact that it takes a backpack slot AND bans two handed weapons makes it literally trash tier for me. Any other backpack willl let me run my primary and an antitank. The defende it offers is negligible given the way it forces tou to sacrifice using the best DPS primaries in the game. The best smg in the game is two handed. You cam use the pummeler, sure, but then you're using the pummeler, in which vase why arent you just taking stun grenades lmao.
Arrowhead has this problem where instead of making something godtier at one thing they try to prenerf it so its bad at that and worse at ither things too than other strats and guns. There is no case (putside of larping on diff 7) where you want to sacrifice that much and still get ragdolled or randomly one shot.
Can We See You 🥺
sure its right here ruclips.net/video/QwLvrnlfdNo/видео.html
Oh, I know that link 😂
The shield is really nice, but the game really needs better one handed options to go with it. The only decent one is the crossbow, and the latest SMG they added isn't even one handed... SMH
Spray and prey is not that terrible tho
what is this aspect ratio 😭😭