Making the shield gun alt fire useful. (and something else)

How about making the shield about 2/3 times as big, while able to absorb damage from 2/3 random skaarj, and i mean the splash too, at least when the shield catches the blast.

I've been trying to think of a reason why this is a bad idea, but i cant think of one.

Also, i was wondering if you could add a five second invulnerability delay (5 seconds or until offensive action taken) after one exits ghosting. It's nice that you add this "free ghost" to newbie characters like myself, but it doesnt help that you tend to get shot down like a dog when you spawn, either by your own rocket launcher or a random enemy that is standing there.

Clarifying, you do mean 2 to 3 times as big, not two-thirds as big, right?

Tasuric wrote:

Also, i was wondering if you could add a five second invulnerability delay (5 seconds or until offensive action taken) after one exits ghosting.

Last time, I ghosted next to some monster, cant specifically remember which, and when I spanwed... it got me right away. And this was with the level one ghost(for people under level 40).

Actually, the alt fire on the shield gun is already useful. You can use it to reduce your damage when you are jumping down, and it does help with the damage from bugs... Ain't gonna stop a titan rock from killing ya, but I found it somewhat helpful even against those dang vamp razor flies.

helps with the bunny blasts too, or ultima blasts in pvp game types

FogRaider(_MM) wrote:

Clarifying, you do mean 2 to 3 times as big, not two-thirds as big, right?

I do mean 2 to 3 times as big so they can cover your entire body, the fact they only cover such a small part atm renders them pretty much useless due to all the AOE weapons, and they can only take a rediculously small amount of damage, and drain too fast.

As for the ghosting, it could use some tweaking, being ghosted to the other side of the map for 60 seconds only to be smacked by a titan that's loitering around basically sucks.

As for the ghosting issue....

Not to get off topic, but as they say, "that's the way the cookie crumbles".

Indeed it isn't nice when ghost drops you off right in front of a bunch of monsters, but that's the way it goes. I equate it to placing a trans somewhere "safe" on a map and then later warping yourself back to your trans only to find a bunch of monsters hanging around. That's the chance you take. Ghosting generally takes you to the same spot(s) on a given map. I don't know that it would be very easy to do some sort of "monster check" before ghost drops you in a particular spot.

The only times i use the shield-alt is when making long falls to help break my fall and reduce fall damage, however if you have a high enough level of ion legs, this becomes fairly useless. I suppose it would also be useful when using the redeemer or painter within a close proximity of yourself to reduce self inflicted damage.