Shield diversity

[Crotalus]

Resin has made some really good work with personal deflector shields (viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6526).

What if we diversify the current shields of the races, without changing the real effect / balance of them? For instance:

UEF:
Current shield mechanics with swallowing everything into the shield.

Aeon:
Reflect a projectile (but with laws of reflection) instead of just swallowing, reduce the damage/velocity of the projectile in the process.

Cybran:
Projectile hitting the shield falls right through with reduced velocity, hitting the ground doing no damage at impact (disabled with EMP)

Seraphim:
Pull the projectiles into the shield generator after it passes the shield. (black hole, antimatter effect)

[RK4000]

coughsupcom2

Personally I didn't really like that at all in supcom 2, I like the shields having that sense of a solid energy barrier rather than just some sponge that absorbs most of the damage.

[Crotalus]

Oh, lol, I haven't ever played Supcom 2 or seen anything about it.

What I mean is making the real effect the same, preventing damage inside the shield. It would just be the visual effect that's different.

[Szakalot]

I think there are bigger priorities than small projectile behaviour factional diversity projects : )

[RK4000]

Oh, lol, I haven't ever played Supcom 2 or seen anything about it.

What I mean is making the real effect the same, preventing damage inside the shield. It would just be the visual effect that's different.

Funny, because everything you describe in your suggestions is 100% like SC2, aside from seraphim ofc ^^

[Crotalus]

I guess it's the logical race diversity with reflect and EMP. May I ask what Seraphim shields do in SupCom2?

[RK4000]

There are no seraphim in SC2, that's why i said "aside from seraphim ofc"

[Crotalus]

Haha, hmmm maybe I should try out Supcom 2 just to get some basic knowledge about it :]

[da_monstr]

Seraphim
SupCom2

For posterity.

[Crotalus]

There´s an inverse relationship between knowledge about SupCom2 and common sense. The less you know about it the better. It's like X:Rebirth...