Make ballistic shield different (weaker/stronger)

[alpine badge]

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Currently ballistic shield is OP vs newbies, and underpowered vs skilled players.
Why?

Because skilled player never try to hit ballistic shield hole and just ignore players with ballistic shield.
Instead, all newbies tried to hit player with riot shield (trying to show how cool they are), so they discover their position and reduce fire density to my teammates.

I suggest:

1. make shield semi-transparent (at big distance you should face difficulties to decide who's with shield)
2. when enough bullets hit the shield, it should crack (that you see visually from first person, like tarkov helmets), but automatically repair itself if hidden after a while (thermal sight logic, repair bar), or be a consumable item, like a drone, broken - thrown away

ps. i still taking fun about SuicideC4 that is present in your pockets... twice. But it works well in battlebit. You explode yourself, then healed by nearest medic, and then explode yourself second time

ps2. adding pistol (as somebody created topic before) would be great if you prefer arcade over teamwork

Images:

1. First one will work only if use shield being behind cover (legs is covered by sandbag, upside is covered by glass of the shield). Should be non-crackable then.
2. Second one is fully transparent, so stronger (in-game), so needs to be breakable.

[violet birch]

oh hell no

[bitter lion]

yeah lets jut make the plastic shield bulletproof

[alpine badge]

so the reason is "non-militatry-simulator"? personally for you - first variant here

[violet birch]

let's make the shield frustrating to play against and even worse to play with. yes that's totally what the shield needs

[placid basin]

Riot shield is definitely not overpowered against new players. Most players are new, riot shield would be meta if that was true

All it really needs are some buffs to make it less trivial to counter, for example things like bouncing grenades, providing some explosion resistance, not being possible for enemies to run through

[violet birch]

not being possible to shoot through would be a great start

[placid basin]

I’m not sure exactly how it works but shooting through it doesn’t seem very possible?

I remember having a standoff with a riot shield guy on top of a building once and I fired like 300 ultimax rounds into him but none went through

[violet birch]

its possible and very annoying

[sick vault]

The riot shield feels very inconsistent in its protection

[placid basin]

The enemies are inconsistent in where they shoot you from

[bitter lion]

they can and will kill you from the front