22-07-2019, 12:57 AM
Since release new T1-T2-T3 deployable shields they are not used by players at all. It's a fact that they have no place in current NI as they are. Many obvious reasons.
From another side in-between current engineering items there is no item to use to protect shooting position in tight spots. There are walls, but wall size makes it impossible to use them in many locations.
There was Heavy Wall (hope I member its name right) in old building system which looked like it made for this reason (was bad model though and unusable then), but it was removed and replaced with Heavy Wall Barricade instead, which is usable, but still too big very often.
So since depshields are unusable anyway how about making them higher (Wall-height) and maybe 1.5 times wider (not sure, seen model in game maybe once, have feeling it's too thin for 1 player to stand behind safely) to be able to use them to protect shooting positions and have ability to build several of them in a row and protect whole archers division in small space. Even should be usable by throwers too.
Crossbowmen have tower shields to deploy and even can use current depshields as protection (by obvious reasons), so adding archers/throwers some means to do the same might be good from balance perspective as well. Throwers can jump and throw while archers can't, so it's mainly for archers.
You can say there are Heavy Platforms, but they are not really usable by standing on top except you want to get arrow between your eyes, using from side is clunky (because of their size) and they take a lot of space, so they are not for this. Usable for crossbowmen, again.
Changing existing models should be not very difficult as well. Maybe it's possible even do it with pure scaling without changing anything in the models at all.
From another side in-between current engineering items there is no item to use to protect shooting position in tight spots. There are walls, but wall size makes it impossible to use them in many locations.
There was Heavy Wall (hope I member its name right) in old building system which looked like it made for this reason (was bad model though and unusable then), but it was removed and replaced with Heavy Wall Barricade instead, which is usable, but still too big very often.
So since depshields are unusable anyway how about making them higher (Wall-height) and maybe 1.5 times wider (not sure, seen model in game maybe once, have feeling it's too thin for 1 player to stand behind safely) to be able to use them to protect shooting positions and have ability to build several of them in a row and protect whole archers division in small space. Even should be usable by throwers too.
Crossbowmen have tower shields to deploy and even can use current depshields as protection (by obvious reasons), so adding archers/throwers some means to do the same might be good from balance perspective as well. Throwers can jump and throw while archers can't, so it's mainly for archers.
You can say there are Heavy Platforms, but they are not really usable by standing on top except you want to get arrow between your eyes, using from side is clunky (because of their size) and they take a lot of space, so they are not for this. Usable for crossbowmen, again.
Changing existing models should be not very difficult as well. Maybe it's possible even do it with pure scaling without changing anything in the models at all.
