@@nuclearjanitors also increases endurance and boosts mental stability and longevity on extended missions. Also serves as a calming agent during high intensity combat periods
The plating was about to fail, there's viscosity throughout the gel layer. Optics? Totally fried, and lets not even talk about the power supply. You know how expensive this gear is, son?
@@hartianx1698 Well it was all obsolete anyway. Your new suit's a Mark VI, just came up from Songnam this morning. Try and take it easy till you get used to the upgrades. Okay, let's test your targeting, first thing. Please look at the top light.
DarkBooger That’s it. Now the bottom one. Okay. Everything checks out. Standby, I’m gonna offline the inhibitors. Move around a little. Get a feel for it. When you’re ready, come meet me by the Zapper.
The sound of a Mjolnir shield recharging is superb. You can almost feel the energy dispensed by the generators to rebuild and recharge the personal shield. Also, the in-built alert of shield loss feels grounded in reality, you must know you are no longer safe, you must go and take cover! In the same time, I like how Mass Effect shields react to incoming projectiles (they look like they ionize the air around them to disperse the sudden energy burst) and the effect of the shield recharging itself completely (the blue line rising up from the feet like saying: OK, now you're completely safe, again).
@@gameseeker6307 I can see that. Between limited runs, experimental technology, and incredibly rare materials for said experimental technology, the price would have ballooned quite quickly.
@@gameseeker6307 Oh definitely, but you can already see with the spartan-IV's how they're beginning to be able to mass produce suits at more cost effective rates. The prototypes (first Mk.V) would be insanely expensive, with most of the expense going to R&D costs. Future generations already have the technology, so it's just streamlining and optimizing it, plus the cost of materials. Would love to see how they looked in a hundred years.
Mark Jones spartan 4s are actually in super weaker armor and when i say weaker i mean it and there were thousands of spartan 3s and about 5k spartan 4s
@@gameseeker6307 that's largely thanks to their ability to house a smart AI. Artificial intelligence infrastructure is so incredibly expensive that the UNSC could only afford to install them on the flag ships of some of their fleets. that feature combined with the shield tech made a single suit of gen 5 Mjolnir armor value in the same neighborhood as a frigate. it's stated that the Spartan II project cost as much as a full battlegroup which would include numerous cruisers, frigates, destroyers and possibly a carrier. For context, there were only 33 Spartan IIs that received Mjolnir armor.
The best personal shield is the *Rey Shield.* A form of _plot armour_ introduced in The Force Awakens, it also works offensively - in fact many fans have found it somewhat offensive.
Probably the largest leap in tech that would be required besides the shields is the power source. If we had micro fusion reactors we could probably make atleast mark 4 which didn't have shields.
the command and control systems need some work too. there can be a personell bottleneck when your bad ass armor can only be worn by mega roided trans humans. I think MJOLNIR is the most potent armor on this list but the clone commando armor is the most practical since any soldier can wear it.
A old sci-fi franchise that never got the film treatment, *Issac Asimov's Foundation* series, contains some seriously powerful personal shields [HBO may be working on a adaption]. In fact it may be the sci fi origins of the personal force shield. It's an atomic shield that's worn as a belt and surrounds the wearer with a faint glow that is hard to notice at first. It can however stop a atomic blaster at point blank range. And to give you the idea of the power of a atomic blaster, it can disintegrate the upper half of a human and create a hole in the wall behind it in one shot - which the atomic shield wearing character did after the Empire official shot him on Trantor - a planet that makes Corescant look rural.
Honorary human status is but rarely afforded to non-humans, but Garrus definitely qualifies. Not only does he fight to protect human lives, but he offers great inspirational pep talks to Sheppard.
I really liked the personal protection shield from Stargate: Atlantis. Yeah, you could suffocate if you were buried alive or submerged under water but aside from that you were invincible.
Though to be fair the Imperium does quite a nice spectrum of non-Void Shield personal energy shield technologies too, such as Conversion and Displacement fields.
Simple answer-> gameplay reasons. Lore answer-> No idea, if anything I feel like we should've been able to freaking blind an entire mountain-side with our flashlights considering we've got a nuclear reactor in our armor haha.
The shield might be an energy field with no di-electric, but if the flashlight battery is just a chemical battery, you have to wait longer to avoid exploding batteries. It should have just been on a circuit for continuous power, but... *mutters something about the government, and the lowest bidder*
Well, no, the shields in Mass Effect DID protect against energy weapons, it just did better against kinetic attacks, there are many times in game when the shields protect you against energy damage, often very very intense energy damage.
Of the 4 mentioned in this video I personally prefer the kinetic barriers. The Mjolnir shields do beat out kinetic barriers in terms of raw defensive strength, I'm not denying that. But I would prefer kinetic barriers because of one thing. They are more user friendly. In the books when the Master Chief first uses them in a combat sim he complains that the shields on the bottom of his boots make it feel like he's trying to walk on ice and the shields on his hands feel like when he's trying to hold something it's covered in oil, it's slippery and difficult to handle. His solution is to weaken the shield power in those areas. It works but makes those spots vulnerable. Kinetic barriers don't suffer from that drawback. They work by detecting incoming threats via a virtual intelligence and intercepting them with a mass effect field. Better still they are adaptable. In ME2 you can get what's called a "Shield Harness" that increases shield strength by 10%. It's basically just a belt with a built in kinetic barrier generator. Mjolinr systems are still somewhat new in the Halo universe where as if you read the lore kinetic barriers have been around for a long time. any tech that's new will always have kinks and bugs to iron out. Plus defensive tech is always designed based on what threats it's facing. Take IRL Kevlar vest and ballistic plates for example. Good against bullets and shrapnel, bad against swords and large blades. my point is Kinetic barriers are more widely usable then Mjolinr, not has hazardous and personal deflector shields, and not as quarky as the shields from Dune. But that's just my opinion.
A Lasgun hitting a Holtzman shield does not only destroy the target but also the gunner, because both shield and lasgun explode in a massive nuclear reaction. And that's the main reason they stopped using lasguns.
Not a lot of people know about the Katarn Class Troopers, you would think the more visible reference you would have used was the Droideka seeing as it was in the Films.
The best energy shields in science fiction are Alteran shields in the Stargate series. Regular old shields conk out when they've absorbed enough damage to overwhelm them, and this includes Goa'uld and Asgard shields. Alteran shields stay up so long as they're fed power. Even better, Alteran ship shields (excluding cityship shields, as those did double duty in retaining a breathable atmosphere) are conformal shields as opposed to bubble shields, so they don't suffer from the problem of blocking shots that would otherwise have missed if the shield hadn't gotten in the way. Alteran personal shields have all the advantages of their upsized counterparts, but they also do full inertial cancellation. You could fall off the top of a skyscraper and land on your head and the shield would tank the entire impact with no harm coming to you (beyond the probable heart attack from panicking over falling from such a height). Also Mass Effect shouldn't be on the list because its energy shields aren't energy shields, they're kinetic barriers. That's not just a difference of wording, Mass Effect's kinetic barriers can't stop energy at all, because it's right there in the name, they're kinetic barriers, they only stop kinetic impacts, and the faster those kinetic impacts, the less capable the barriers get. It's why Reaper beam weapons, despite not being true energy weapons (but relativistic kinetic weapons), cut through kinetic barriers like they weren't even there.
phantasy star online had shileds, so did xenosaga, as did warframe and so many others..... but not a bad list, just..... expected a bit more variety. the Dune part was a great addition to your usual star wars, halo, mass effect list.
Dude, we could spend all week talking about all the sci-fi MMORPGs' energy shields. Hell, why don't we bring up all the Power Ranger ones while we're at it?? -_-
All units in the Protoss faction in Starcraft has their own energy shield that can block all forms of attack even physical attacks that can act as an auto parry when is blade combat.
You should check the "Powered Assault Armor" from the Section 8 games, thats Mjölnir on steroids. ^^ Mjölnir "just" saves you from high altitude impact, the PAA was designed to be repeatedly orbital droped right into a battlefield and be combat ready after impact.
The Warhammer 40k personal shields are by the best shields. They are powered by pure "fuck you, can't touch this" from the Warp (basically hell), as well as faith in the almighty God Emperor.
I love Halo armor so much too! (My profile icon is my own armor I drew myself. My deviantart is justinnator4 But what about 40 K and their void shields? I'm guessing they'd be less applicable to this list since it seems to be about shielding that you can mass produce. Phycers or physic people or Librarians or whatever who can pull up void shields would not fall into a category of being convenient for mass production. In fact, they are actually a liability to be possessed by something from the Warp. The less contact with the Warp, the better.
Void shield generators are too big for personal shielding. There are other types of shield though, such as refractor fields, conversion fields and reductor fields, which all make for very good personal shields (particularly the conversion field). My favourite 40k personal "shield" is the displacer field, which instead of intercepting the incoming attack teleports you to a random location nearby so you don't get hit; the potential for this to go wrong is in urban combat is... high. I suppose there's also Ork power fields, but... they're as likely to kill you with radiation as protect you.
Where is the vortex shield? It doubles as an offensive weapon. I guess because you could say it isn't a P.E.S. because it is equipped to a titan not a pilot
They're not personal shields, the generators are too big. Examples of personal shields in 40k include conversion fields, refractor fields, and reductor fields. If we stretch the definition of shield there's also the displacer field.
I like Mass Effect, but it annoys me that the devs didn't seem to really understand the technology they proposed, it's implications, and how reasonable people would actually utilize it in combat. Tiny bullets the size of a grain of sand with their mass reduced to almost nothing make for terrible projectiles because any wind or other disruptive force between the weapon and target would cause dramatic reductions in velocity and/or POI(point of impact) shifts. Although one could mitigate this issue by equipping the weapon with a second mass effect projector at the muzzle to ramp up the projectile's mass post acceleration, when it no longer benefits from having extremely low mass. But still, all you'd need to defend against weapons firing these projectiles is either a defensive mass effect projector, or a laser that can superheat the microbullet so that it evaporates before it has the chance to hit you, assuming the weapon discharging the microbullet is smart enough to modulate the speed of the weapon to keep it from accelerating to a speed where the atmosphere of whatever given planet/moon/station doesn't cause the microbullet to burn up like a spacecraft reentering the earth's atmosphere.
But I thought they used the mass effect technology to accelerate the bullet to a fraction of the speed of light, which would mean it wouldn’t really be effected by wind as it’s momentum is the product of its mass *and* velocity
@@falling_vega1257 Lower mass means greater acceleration, meaning in more susceptible to changes in velocity. Think throwing confetti versus throwing gravel. Even if you shot the confetti out of a shotgun, and threw the gravel by hand, the confetti will still be more easily disturbed en route. While gravel fired out of a gun is practically buckshot. Not to mention at a fraction of the speed of light, the friction from most atmospheres would cause the tiny projectile to burn away before it has the chance to hit its target.
Upon further googling, you’re completely right. I’m just a fan of the game that was too quick to defend it despite not knowing much about air resistance. But at least I’ve come out of it knowing more about air resistance than I did before!
@@falling_vega1257 I'm a fan too, I didn't think about this stuff until my 4th playthrough when I was reading some flavor text. There's something else I don't understand about ME's lore. Why don't more people use jetpacks, combat chassis (like what Halo Spartans use for EVA), or use mass effect drive equipped ground vehicles to "hop" like the mobile infantry do in the Starship troopers novel, or like Mandalorians would. It's a faster, more efficient method of travel and it limits exposure to fire from less well equipped enemies.
Yeah, I guess it’s just another one to sadly file under “suspension of disbelief”, which admittedly I don’t really mind when it comes to the technology (mainly because I don’t really understand it) It’s just the “fiction” part of Si-Fi
Ok guys I like most your videos but wtf? You compared Holtzman shield and kinetic barier against a whole Mjoulnir armor and Katarn suit. Not realy fair now is it?
“The few victories that humanity did win were all carried out by the Spartan-IIs.” *Admiral Cole, Admiral Whitcomb, Vice Admiral Stanforth, Captain Keyes, and Alpha and Beta companies want to know your location.*
The shields in Borderlands are pretty good. They're cheap enough that you can buy them from vending machines and so simple to use that every other psycho on Pandora has one. Plus by the end of the game they're so strong that lower level enemies can't even hurt you and you can survive going up against giant kaiju and building sized mechs.
When talking about the personal shields in Dune, you said that their vibrations were what attracted sandworms. While they can be attracted by vibrations, the specific presence of a Holtzmann field drives worms into a berserk rage, attracting many more than something like a thumper. Thus, suspensors will also attract worms as well as shields, as seen in the first chapter of Dune: House Harkonnen.
I remember reading that too in some of the novels, the repulsors and shield emitters had a high sub-sonic frequency they emitted when active. And sand being almost as conductive with sound as water in a way just drove everything within 3k nuts. Hence it was almost safer to use mechs or even wheeled vehicles since they could stop in their tracks and the worms would eventually loose interest, or try to get to the nearest rock outcropping to wait it out since the worms couldn't burrow through that. Or even traveling on foot, fremen had a system in place much like Tusken Dune Raiders. March in single file and in step to limit the vibrations emitted from walking in the desert.
@@Grounders10 Not to my knowledge, there are sarlac pits but they are stationary. They mainly marched in single file and in step to better hide their numbers, so that any would be retaliation might find themselves either facing a small group to a massive raiding party if they were to try to track them down. This also made it easier for people to lose their tracks if winds blew over and covered them. In mass or even walking in pairs there was a higher probability to find some hint, single file had the potential to be covered over with wind and storms. So any natural way of tracking would be null and void and would require some kind of tech to look for any signs of said tracks. That would mean tracking pheromones, possibly biological signals like blood, or some kind of radiation of some sort. Thermals would be next to useless unless it was the middle of the night with the suns down since the sand would be hot enough to mask any thermal readings of a foot print. If you saw the Mandalorain series there is a perfect example of this shown in an episode. I won't go into details as to not spoil it, but suffice to say the reasoning is justifiable.
@@smallmoe maybe, in lore it even does that. of course we never see it because nothing in the trek universe does kinetic damage except the odd battlith (or similar). picard in the holodeck fired miniature force fields at the borg that looked like bullets. frankly the lack of kinetic weapons in trek is a whole weakness in their infantry.
@@jamoecw There is the TR116b from the DS9 series but I don't remember if it ever saw use against the borg. I agree, you really can't go wrong with a good slugthrower.
Na man it's all about that Grey Knight Terminator armor with rosarius and iron halo. Chief could wail on that all day until he gets tired of running around, comes in for the melee and get bitch slapped so hard Khorne pops a massive chain axe boner
Guy #1: "Quick quick, reverse the polarity!" Guy #2: "Why are you trying to break my shield while simultaneously killing me? Why would you even suggest that?" Guy #1: "But...but PLOT armor!"
The Personal shield emitter from Stargate Atlantis. It basically make you immune to everything while active, can be controlled with your mind, and comes in two forms (One that anyone can use when activated, and one that imprints on the first user_
Minor side effect that it can't be turned off in the user feels any sense of danger. In a unknown place, surrounded by bad guys, have fun eating anything.
The strongest, toughest and meaniest of sields, is actually used by an enemy I will never forget that epic bossfight yes, I'm looking at you marauder shields, oh final boss of Mass Effect
For the mass effect shield section you should have separated it into two categories because there are shields and barriers in mass effect there not the same thing just sayin
Honorable mention for the Sentients shields of the Warfreme universe. A shield that assimilates the technology that attacks it making it not only evolve, but also makes other Sentients technologies more advanced in the process.
You missed a few personal shields. For instance Star Trek had a few examples of personal shields. The most basic wasn't for combat but exploration and was seen mostly in the cartoon. The other is in Star Trek online. Also there are more too. Make a sequel for this video please. So much more out there.
Toss up between Mjolnir shields and Katarn shields. The fast recharge of the Mjolnir and high toughness of it is good, while being able to tank a railgun on steroids from point blank range is a point towards Katarn shields.
You forgot to mention that the Mjolnir suits also carried an orchestra conducted by Martin O'Donnell and Micheal Salvatori.
Boosts offensive and defensive capabilities.
Katarn suits carried a Mando'a choir. Checkmate.
@@KoalaTContent i love mando chants but I'm sorry, our Lords and Saviors Marty and Michael take the cake.
@@nuclearjanitors also increases endurance and boosts mental stability and longevity on extended missions. Also serves as a calming agent during high intensity combat periods
That's what hardens the armour. Got nothing to do with the energy shield.
The plating was about to fail, there's viscosity throughout the gel layer. Optics? Totally fried, and lets not even talk about the power supply. You know how expensive this gear is, son?
Tell that to the Covenant.
@@hartianx1698 Well it was all obsolete anyway. Your new suit's a Mark VI, just came up from Songnam this morning. Try and take it easy till you get used to the upgrades. Okay, let's test your targeting, first thing. Please look at the top light.
@@darkbooger Good. Now look at the bottom light.
@@avatariroh0543 Alright. Look at the top light again.
DarkBooger That’s it. Now the bottom one. Okay. Everything checks out. Standby, I’m gonna offline the inhibitors. Move around a little. Get a feel for it. When you’re ready, come meet me by the Zapper.
The sound of a Mjolnir shield recharging is superb. You can almost feel the energy dispensed by the generators to rebuild and recharge the personal shield. Also, the in-built alert of shield loss feels grounded in reality, you must know you are no longer safe, you must go and take cover!
In the same time, I like how Mass Effect shields react to incoming projectiles (they look like they ionize the air around them to disperse the sudden energy burst) and the effect of the shield recharging itself completely (the blue line rising up from the feet like saying: OK, now you're completely safe, again).
Apparently those suits are more expensive than some of the UNSC spacecraft
@@gameseeker6307 I can see that. Between limited runs, experimental technology, and incredibly rare materials for said experimental technology, the price would have ballooned quite quickly.
@@gameseeker6307 Oh definitely, but you can already see with the spartan-IV's how they're beginning to be able to mass produce suits at more cost effective rates. The prototypes (first Mk.V) would be insanely expensive, with most of the expense going to R&D costs. Future generations already have the technology, so it's just streamlining and optimizing it, plus the cost of materials. Would love to see how they looked in a hundred years.
Mark Jones spartan 4s are actually in super weaker armor and when i say weaker i mean it and there were thousands of spartan 3s and about 5k spartan 4s
@@gameseeker6307 that's largely thanks to their ability to house a smart AI. Artificial intelligence infrastructure is so incredibly expensive that the UNSC could only afford to install them on the flag ships of some of their fleets. that feature combined with the shield tech made a single suit of gen 5 Mjolnir armor value in the same neighborhood as a frigate. it's stated that the Spartan II project cost as much as a full battlegroup which would include numerous cruisers, frigates, destroyers and possibly a carrier. For context, there were only 33 Spartan IIs that received Mjolnir armor.
The best personal shield is the *Rey Shield.*
A form of _plot armour_ introduced in The Force Awakens, it also works offensively - in fact many fans have found it somewhat offensive.
Lol so true thou!
Good that only one person has it.
Nice
Oh you... *sitcom laugh track plays*
I prefer plot armor, lol! Just kidding, the armor wore by Spartans from Halo looks like the most practical one I had ever seen.
Probably the largest leap in tech that would be required besides the shields is the power source. If we had micro fusion reactors we could probably make atleast mark 4 which didn't have shields.
@@Raeinok maybe
@@Raeinok I mean... It did take us 5 centuries to get to that point.
the command and control systems need some work too. there can be a personell bottleneck when your bad ass armor can only be worn by mega roided trans humans. I think MJOLNIR is the most potent armor on this list but the clone commando armor is the most practical since any soldier can wear it.
40k Space Marines don't get shields to make it fair for everyone else lol. Thats why the eldar got them.
A old sci-fi franchise that never got the film treatment, *Issac Asimov's Foundation* series, contains some seriously powerful personal shields [HBO may be working on a adaption].
In fact it may be the sci fi origins of the personal force shield.
It's an atomic shield that's worn as a belt and surrounds the wearer with a faint glow that is hard to notice at first.
It can however stop a atomic blaster at point blank range. And to give you the idea of the power of a atomic blaster, it can disintegrate the upper half of a human and create a hole in the wall behind it in one shot - which the atomic shield wearing character did after the Empire official shot him on Trantor - a planet that makes Corescant look rural.
"When in doubt, reverse the polarity" should be a creed of every engineer in science fiction.
I still don’t know what that means
Also works on clogged toilets
We’re confusing the polarity!
Ima keep it real
Garrus has earned a no kill xeno pass
Best buddy in a Space Opera video game
Honorary human status is but rarely afforded to non-humans, but Garrus definitely qualifies. Not only does he fight to protect human lives, but he offers great inspirational pep talks to Sheppard.
As the Epic Voice Guy said in the Mass Effect honest trailer, Garrus is the best alien bro since Chewbacca
Plus, he has great reach
@@TheRewasder97 Though not so much flexibility...
Doom: *_Laughs in Marauder_*
Laughs in preator suit
Or the annoying shields that the zombie soldiers have. They are so annoying
GIN Elite Laughs in the icons of sins armour
*LAUGHS IN THE ABILITY TO BREAK ALL OF THESE SHIELDS*
Shadow Paradox Laughs in plot armor
I really liked the personal protection shield from Stargate: Atlantis. Yeah, you could suffocate if you were buried alive or submerged under water but aside from that you were invincible.
Warhammer: We just yeet bullets and bombs straight into Hell...atleast when we run out of meat shields.
Titans and warships have void shields, but I will concede that the primary defense is the wall of guns known as the Imperial Guard.
Though to be fair the Imperium does quite a nice spectrum of non-Void Shield personal energy shield technologies too, such as Conversion and Displacement fields.
iron halo storm shield rosarius
With all respect I fight hell on my own and you need an army.
@@doomslayer2290 a space marine would wreck you in a fight.
Woah woah woah, did you say the only victories for humanity where done by the spartans. You forget the sacrifice of one halo Admiral Preston Cole.
What about the ODST's?
*screams in Spirit Of Fire*
5:00 is by far the funniest thing I've ever heard on the Generation family of channels, well done Alan.
I liked the shields in Dune.
Makes warfare go back to some sweet sweet melee combat in a sci-fi setting.
Glad to see your stuff going strong, remember your first video. Hope to see many more.
Mjolnir armor has a nuclear reactor so why do I need to wait for the damn flashlight to recharge
Simple answer-> gameplay reasons.
Lore answer-> No idea, if anything I feel like we should've been able to freaking blind an entire mountain-side with our flashlights considering we've got a nuclear reactor in our armor haha.
The shield might be an energy field with no di-electric, but if the flashlight battery is just a chemical battery, you have to wait longer to avoid exploding batteries.
It should have just been on a circuit for continuous power, but...
*mutters something about the government, and the lowest bidder*
It's purely a gameplay mechanic. Though in actual lore Flashlight does not need to recharge.
@@mrweirdguy5249 spartans don't even need that, they can see in the dark
Well, no, the shields in Mass Effect DID protect against energy weapons, it just did better against kinetic attacks, there are many times in game when the shields protect you against energy damage, often very very intense energy damage.
Of the 4 mentioned in this video I personally prefer the kinetic barriers. The Mjolnir shields do beat out kinetic barriers in terms of raw defensive strength, I'm not denying that. But I would prefer kinetic barriers because of one thing. They are more user friendly. In the books when the Master Chief first uses them in a combat sim he complains that the shields on the bottom of his boots make it feel like he's trying to walk on ice and the shields on his hands feel like when he's trying to hold something it's covered in oil, it's slippery and difficult to handle. His solution is to weaken the shield power in those areas. It works but makes those spots vulnerable. Kinetic barriers don't suffer from that drawback. They work by detecting incoming threats via a virtual intelligence and intercepting them with a mass effect field. Better still they are adaptable. In ME2 you can get what's called a "Shield Harness" that increases shield strength by 10%. It's basically just a belt with a built in kinetic barrier generator. Mjolinr systems are still somewhat new in the Halo universe where as if you read the lore kinetic barriers have been around for a long time. any tech that's new will always have kinks and bugs to iron out. Plus defensive tech is always designed based on what threats it's facing. Take IRL Kevlar vest and ballistic plates for example. Good against bullets and shrapnel, bad against swords and large blades. my point is Kinetic barriers are more widely usable then Mjolinr, not has hazardous and personal deflector shields, and not as quarky as the shields from Dune. But that's just my opinion.
Nice, another generation tech upload.
I love this channel!
Dune, and star wars. My favorite sci fi movies. I love it. Thanks.
Always remember to angle your personal shields so that they are reflecting, not stopping, incoming weapons fire. They last longer that way.
A Lasgun hitting a Holtzman shield does not only destroy the target but also the gunner, because both shield and lasgun explode in a massive nuclear reaction. And that's the main reason they stopped using lasguns.
Indeed if it was just the shield that went nuclear then you could just shot them from outside the blast radius.
Not a lot of people know about the Katarn Class Troopers, you would think the more visible reference you would have used was the Droideka seeing as it was in the Films.
I love the concept of the dune personal shield, that fight scene at the beginning of the Dune movie in the 80s was mind boggling.
Whyd the thumbnail image have to include the N7 Paladin? I FINALLY moved on from that game and now I wanna play it again
Get British Ben in here to talk about the Borg personal shields.
1. Meat shields to collect attack data.
2. Analyze energy that bypassed shields.
3. Update shield suite.
4. Commence assimilation.
The best energy shields in science fiction are Alteran shields in the Stargate series. Regular old shields conk out when they've absorbed enough damage to overwhelm them, and this includes Goa'uld and Asgard shields. Alteran shields stay up so long as they're fed power. Even better, Alteran ship shields (excluding cityship shields, as those did double duty in retaining a breathable atmosphere) are conformal shields as opposed to bubble shields, so they don't suffer from the problem of blocking shots that would otherwise have missed if the shield hadn't gotten in the way. Alteran personal shields have all the advantages of their upsized counterparts, but they also do full inertial cancellation. You could fall off the top of a skyscraper and land on your head and the shield would tank the entire impact with no harm coming to you (beyond the probable heart attack from panicking over falling from such a height).
Also Mass Effect shouldn't be on the list because its energy shields aren't energy shields, they're kinetic barriers. That's not just a difference of wording, Mass Effect's kinetic barriers can't stop energy at all, because it's right there in the name, they're kinetic barriers, they only stop kinetic impacts, and the faster those kinetic impacts, the less capable the barriers get. It's why Reaper beam weapons, despite not being true energy weapons (but relativistic kinetic weapons), cut through kinetic barriers like they weren't even there.
phantasy star online had shileds, so did xenosaga, as did warframe and so many others..... but not a bad list, just..... expected a bit more variety. the Dune part was a great addition to your usual star wars, halo, mass effect list.
Dude, we could spend all week talking about all the sci-fi MMORPGs' energy shields. Hell, why don't we bring up all the Power Ranger ones while we're at it?? -_-
All units in the Protoss faction in Starcraft has their own energy shield that can block all forms of attack even physical attacks that can act as an auto parry when is blade combat.
You seem to have forgotten the gen3 mjolnirs literally impenetrable shields
Honestly I love halo 4 hardlight shield even if it's not practical. But it's still cool to me non the less.
The Borg ;)
It might be a small mention but could have talked about the Star Gate Atlantis Personal Body shield that Rodney found in Atlantis...
Star Trek elite force hazard team armour is pretty mental
You should check the "Powered Assault Armor" from the Section 8 games, thats Mjölnir on steroids. ^^
Mjölnir "just" saves you from high altitude impact, the PAA was designed to be repeatedly orbital droped right into a battlefield and be combat ready after impact.
MJLONIR GEN 2 was designed for that as well actually. You can even fold the energy shield to provide a parafoil effect.
Shields up.
What about Green Lantern rings or anything from SG-1 or Atlantis
Show us the quarantine hair!
The goa'uld energy sheild is pretty decent
What about doctor Doom's armor or cap Captain America's replacement gauntlet
why is this channel not bigger
What about the protoss plasma shields?
the best shield in Sci-fi, is the tardis forcefield, nothing can get through that.
Katarn for the win
Welp, time to remake this video for the new Dune adaptation's shields
What? No Resistance 2 mention for those large drones?
The Warhammer 40k personal shields are by the best shields. They are powered by pure "fuck you, can't touch this" from the Warp (basically hell), as well as faith in the almighty God Emperor.
Gaylo armor is your pick. I prefer Warhammer Iron Halos myself.
I just watched "Dune" and I was curious if you include it
Stargate Asgard shields is the best! or Atlantis shield
Let's not forget Trek shields are capable withstanding violence from solar storms. Boldest, energy weapons and impacts from.ither ships.
I love Halo armor so much too! (My profile icon is my own armor I drew myself. My deviantart is justinnator4
But what about 40 K and their void shields? I'm guessing they'd be less applicable to this list since it seems to be about shielding that you can mass produce. Phycers or physic people or Librarians or whatever who can pull up void shields would not fall into a category of being convenient for mass production. In fact, they are actually a liability to be possessed by something from the Warp. The less contact with the Warp, the better.
Void shield generators are too big for personal shielding. There are other types of shield though, such as refractor fields, conversion fields and reductor fields, which all make for very good personal shields (particularly the conversion field). My favourite 40k personal "shield" is the displacer field, which instead of intercepting the incoming attack teleports you to a random location nearby so you don't get hit; the potential for this to go wrong is in urban combat is... high.
I suppose there's also Ork power fields, but... they're as likely to kill you with radiation as protect you.
We like Energy Shields. Energy shields are TIGHT! "But you'd have joined me in death;.." Which Movie Character said that?
Where is the vortex shield? It doubles as an offensive weapon. I guess because you could say it isn't a P.E.S. because it is equipped to a titan not a pilot
The Kaminoans see in Ultraviolet, not Infrared
Why are Iron Halo's and such from Warhammer 40k not on this list?
Hi I will take any one of them if can help thought any war.
You showed but never mentioned slow bullets from the Dune universe. Odd thing there.
Stargate has 2 different types of personal shields
Katarn armor...
Is that were Kyle got his name?
No, they both come from the same weird animal I think.
what about 40K's Void Shields?
They're not personal shields, the generators are too big. Examples of personal shields in 40k include conversion fields, refractor fields, and reductor fields. If we stretch the definition of shield there's also the displacer field.
@@eruantien9932 ah, allright, didnt know that thanks! pretty new to 40k
iron halos have left the chat
dude how about "Destiny game " energy shield
Where's the 40k Iron Halo??!! Heresy!!
I have my own shield Kakyoin, Za Warudo!
I like Mass Effect, but it annoys me that the devs didn't seem to really understand the technology they proposed, it's implications, and how reasonable people would actually utilize it in combat.
Tiny bullets the size of a grain of sand with their mass reduced to almost nothing make for terrible projectiles because any wind or other disruptive force between the weapon and target would cause dramatic reductions in velocity and/or POI(point of impact) shifts. Although one could mitigate this issue by equipping the weapon with a second mass effect projector at the muzzle to ramp up the projectile's mass post acceleration, when it no longer benefits from having extremely low mass.
But still, all you'd need to defend against weapons firing these projectiles is either a defensive mass effect projector, or a laser that can superheat the microbullet so that it evaporates before it has the chance to hit you, assuming the weapon discharging the microbullet is smart enough to modulate the speed of the weapon to keep it from accelerating to a speed where the atmosphere of whatever given planet/moon/station doesn't cause the microbullet to burn up like a spacecraft reentering the earth's atmosphere.
But I thought they used the mass effect technology to accelerate the bullet to a fraction of the speed of light, which would mean it wouldn’t really be effected by wind as it’s momentum is the product of its mass *and* velocity
@@falling_vega1257 Lower mass means greater acceleration, meaning in more susceptible to changes in velocity.
Think throwing confetti versus throwing gravel. Even if you shot the confetti out of a shotgun, and threw the gravel by hand, the confetti will still be more easily disturbed en route.
While gravel fired out of a gun is practically buckshot.
Not to mention at a fraction of the speed of light, the friction from most atmospheres would cause the tiny projectile to burn away before it has the chance to hit its target.
Upon further googling, you’re completely right.
I’m just a fan of the game that was too quick to defend it despite not knowing much about air resistance.
But at least I’ve come out of it knowing more about air resistance than I did before!
@@falling_vega1257 I'm a fan too, I didn't think about this stuff until my 4th playthrough when I was reading some flavor text.
There's something else I don't understand about ME's lore.
Why don't more people use jetpacks, combat chassis (like what Halo Spartans use for EVA), or use mass effect drive equipped ground vehicles to "hop" like the mobile infantry do in the Starship troopers novel, or like Mandalorians would. It's a faster, more efficient method of travel and it limits exposure to fire from less well equipped enemies.
Yeah, I guess it’s just another one to sadly file under “suspension of disbelief”, which admittedly I don’t really mind when it comes to the technology (mainly because I don’t really understand it)
It’s just the “fiction” part of Si-Fi
Best science fiction shield? Doom Eternal Marauder's shield.
DUNE!
Damn Sandworms 13%.
Power armor from 40k is more durable than the Mjolnir. A class of power armor that only the Tau from the same franchis could beat.
Power armour itself isn't shielded though. Some Astartes officers have conversion fields in the form of Iron Halos though.
WH40K, Void Barriers?
Nope
Every time someone says Mjölnir i immediately think Thor
wait, no 40k?
Buuuuuut you forgot Force shield and armor worn by the BORG....lol
The Halo insurection looks like the clone war, and the clone war look like the american revolution
Ok guys I like most your videos but wtf? You compared Holtzman shield and kinetic barier against a whole Mjoulnir armor and Katarn suit. Not realy fair now is it?
I cringe at the dune shield. But that was just a product of its time and doesnt reflect to the idea behind it
The Warhammer 40k Astartes equipped with an Iron Halo needs to the added.
My first experience with energy shields was warframe
Assuming that experience didnt come recently, that'd mean your first experience was with USELESS shielding, and the SUPERIOR shieldless Nidus
@@Nine-Oh-Five in 2014
@@familylangens209 then i was partially correct. Shields were piss poor then
@@Nine-Oh-Five yeah true
“The few victories that humanity did win were all carried out by the Spartan-IIs.”
*Admiral Cole, Admiral Whitcomb, Vice Admiral Stanforth, Captain Keyes, and Alpha and Beta companies want to know your location.*
*Sad Lord Hood noises*
Don't forget about the Marines, and every one who sacrificed their lives for those victories.
Don't forget spartan 3s and sergeant johnson
@@kostakatsoulis2922 sergeant johnson was a spartan 1 so ya (he was one of the two or 3 oens that survived the procedure)
@@Antimatter_ray ok spartan ones then would also like to know your location.
The shields in Borderlands are pretty good. They're cheap enough that you can buy them from vending machines and so simple to use that every other psycho on Pandora has one. Plus by the end of the game they're so strong that lower level enemies can't even hurt you and you can survive going up against giant kaiju and building sized mechs.
When talking about the personal shields in Dune, you said that their vibrations were what attracted sandworms. While they can be attracted by vibrations, the specific presence of a Holtzmann field drives worms into a berserk rage, attracting many more than something like a thumper. Thus, suspensors will also attract worms as well as shields, as seen in the first chapter of Dune: House Harkonnen.
I remember reading that too in some of the novels, the repulsors and shield emitters had a high sub-sonic frequency they emitted when active. And sand being almost as conductive with sound as water in a way just drove everything within 3k nuts. Hence it was almost safer to use mechs or even wheeled vehicles since they could stop in their tracks and the worms would eventually loose interest, or try to get to the nearest rock outcropping to wait it out since the worms couldn't burrow through that. Or even traveling on foot, fremen had a system in place much like Tusken Dune Raiders. March in single file and in step to limit the vibrations emitted from walking in the desert.
@@danielbeck2739 makes me wonder if there are giant worms in some sections of the Dune Sea on Tatooine
@@Grounders10 Not to my knowledge, there are sarlac pits but they are stationary. They mainly marched in single file and in step to better hide their numbers, so that any would be retaliation might find themselves either facing a small group to a massive raiding party if they were to try to track them down. This also made it easier for people to lose their tracks if winds blew over and covered them. In mass or even walking in pairs there was a higher probability to find some hint, single file had the potential to be covered over with wind and storms. So any natural way of tracking would be null and void and would require some kind of tech to look for any signs of said tracks. That would mean tracking pheromones, possibly biological signals like blood, or some kind of radiation of some sort. Thermals would be next to useless unless it was the middle of the night with the suns down since the sand would be hot enough to mask any thermal readings of a foot print. If you saw the Mandalorain series there is a perfect example of this shown in an episode. I won't go into details as to not spoil it, but suffice to say the reasoning is justifiable.
If I was a Marine or ODST in Halo I try to steal a Jackal Shield.
Jackal shield with a Halo 1 magnum
Thats covenant contraband..........
@@Sp00kyV0id I think thd UNSC wanted contraband for study.
@@Sp00kyV0id Unlike the Imperium of Man in 40k, the UNSC actually embraced xenos technology and wanted to reverse engineer it.
Has anyone in the halo universe the books even try to steal a jackal shield
I don’t mean any disrespect, but you guys TOTALLY forgot about the Borg!
the borg shields are the best in science fiction because it negates all damage from a source after a little bit of time.
@@jamoecw except for kinetic damage
@@smallmoe maybe, in lore it even does that. of course we never see it because nothing in the trek universe does kinetic damage except the odd battlith (or similar). picard in the holodeck fired miniature force fields at the borg that looked like bullets. frankly the lack of kinetic weapons in trek is a whole weakness in their infantry.
@@jamoecw There is the TR116b from the DS9 series but I don't remember if it ever saw use against the borg. I agree, you really can't go wrong with a good slugthrower.
@@smallmoe in the episode they say it lost out in the dev cycle to self re-modulating phaser weapons.
I do prefer the Mjolnir suits from Halo. It's one of my favorite science fiction exosuits.
Na man it's all about that Grey Knight Terminator armor with rosarius and iron halo. Chief could wail on that all day until he gets tired of running around, comes in for the melee and get bitch slapped so hard Khorne pops a massive chain axe boner
I agree with that. But it's a personal opinion.
The Best Energy Shield is the one you have on you when the bolts start flying.
I use to think "reverse the polarity" sounded cool. Then....I became an electrician. Now, hearing that just pisses me off.
Indeed. It's the most cheap and boring thing you could think of.
Guy #1: "Quick quick, reverse the polarity!"
Guy #2: "Why are you trying to break my shield while simultaneously killing me? Why would you even suggest that?"
Guy #1: "But...but PLOT armor!"
The Personal shield emitter from Stargate Atlantis. It basically make you immune to everything while active, can be controlled with your mind, and comes in two forms (One that anyone can use when activated, and one that imprints on the first user_
This would be my choice...
Minor side effect that it can't be turned off in the user feels any sense of danger. In a unknown place, surrounded by bad guys, have fun eating anything.
@@TheBntimmins MaKay learned to use it far better, being able to turn it on and off at will.
@@TheBntimmins to be fair that is something you can get around by training, or simply don't have such a long list of phobia.
@@TheBntimmins I'm not sure that's true... It was true for McKay, but he's a nut, lol.
The strongest, toughest and meaniest of sields, is actually used by an enemy
I will never forget that epic bossfight
yes, I'm looking at you marauder shields, oh final boss of Mass Effect
What about the BORG?
WH40K: *Laughs in human wave*
You forgot the holy rosarius brother
@@DCPTF2 Yes, thank you for reminding me, honourable battle brother. The Emperor Protects.
@@Irmarinen The Emperor Protects
@@DCPTF2 Those things are very rare. So rare that most imperial soldiers don't even know it existed.
???????? Are you spreading HERESY?
Talking about Mass Effect and not mentioning the famous Marauder Shields?
- Talks about Mass Effect
- Shows "Andromeda" footage
What heresy is this?
Preferred he used Mass Effect 3 /s
Worst of all, Tali doesn't appear once
Andromeda has no shields
haha Doom: Laughs in Marauder and the Slayer argent energy shield
*laughs in space marine and emperor class titan void shields"
pepe did 7/11 question, can those shields break?
@@gmaninatrashcan7144 laughs in praetor suit.
@@gmaninatrashcan7144 Laughts in vin diesel plot shield
*laughs in halo forerunner class 18 combat skin*
If it was in game I'd prefer the mass effect shields because of how fast they recharge and their durable as long as your not in the middle of a battle
Astartes best energy shield is the imperial Guard meat shield
For the mass effect shield section you should have separated it into two categories because there are shields and barriers in mass effect there not the same thing just sayin
Honorable mention for the Sentients shields of the Warfreme universe.
A shield that assimilates the technology that attacks it making it not only evolve, but also makes other Sentients technologies more advanced in the process.
You missed a few personal shields. For instance Star Trek had a few examples of personal shields. The most basic wasn't for combat but exploration and was seen mostly in the cartoon. The other is in Star Trek online. Also there are more too. Make a sequel for this video please. So much more out there.
Toss up between Mjolnir shields and Katarn shields. The fast recharge of the Mjolnir and high toughness of it is good, while being able to tank a railgun on steroids from point blank range is a point towards Katarn shields.