Bring Back Hex Shields
- Thread starter Preston
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Preston
Member
But right as the shield is down you can nearly insta kill troopers. Plus troopers just shoot you out and you can avoid being shot by holding block.
Spectre8105
Member
I think he slowly added back skills, the database is at its limit and adding anymore skills will likely crash it, might be added back when skill trees are made smaller
Dickolas Dan
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I'm against this for a few reasons.
The first being what others have said, this causes a ton of lua errors and will lag the server. The second is of course the issue of troopers being practically invincible if there are 2 or more troopers (since the troopers could easily just constantly throw them down and stay invincible to anything that isn't a trooper). The final, and in my opinion, the most important reason we shouldn't add them back is because of Overthrows now that checkpoints seem to be back. It takes 2 people to block a checkpoint and 2 troopers to throw down their hex shields to protect the 2 people. If the defenders have a single healer, then no matter what the attackers do, the defenders will win. This is because any damage taken between the hex shield being up and down (which isn't much time to begin with) can easily be healed while the defenders are invincible in the shield. The only ways to counter a hex shield is either
A.) Get a trooper in the shield to shoot whoever is in the shield
Or
B.) Get a force user in the shield to push the other person in the shield away
Both of these would fail in the checkpoint since in the first option, the defender is already parrying against anything that comes his way, so he would easily be able to block trooper shots coming from a single direction. The second would fail because the defenders have the troopers that threw down the hex shields to body block for them, so they can't be pushed away. Hell, even the healer and the Emperor could body block too with relative ease since they're at no risk.
Hex shields are too overpowered.
The first being what others have said, this causes a ton of lua errors and will lag the server. The second is of course the issue of troopers being practically invincible if there are 2 or more troopers (since the troopers could easily just constantly throw them down and stay invincible to anything that isn't a trooper). The final, and in my opinion, the most important reason we shouldn't add them back is because of Overthrows now that checkpoints seem to be back. It takes 2 people to block a checkpoint and 2 troopers to throw down their hex shields to protect the 2 people. If the defenders have a single healer, then no matter what the attackers do, the defenders will win. This is because any damage taken between the hex shield being up and down (which isn't much time to begin with) can easily be healed while the defenders are invincible in the shield. The only ways to counter a hex shield is either
A.) Get a trooper in the shield to shoot whoever is in the shield
Or
B.) Get a force user in the shield to push the other person in the shield away
Both of these would fail in the checkpoint since in the first option, the defender is already parrying against anything that comes his way, so he would easily be able to block trooper shots coming from a single direction. The second would fail because the defenders have the troopers that threw down the hex shields to body block for them, so they can't be pushed away. Hell, even the healer and the Emperor could body block too with relative ease since they're at no risk.
Hex shields are too overpowered.