Bubble shields (looking for advice on 'em- anti beams?)

DarkenShroud · Post by **DarkenShroud** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 12:26 am

Problem is, those deflectors will shut down after a while, and not all at once. That just doesn't have the feel of a real shield bubble. Gravitic impeders come closest.

Use aegis and impeders?

ArcaneDude · Post by **ArcaneDude** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:20 am

I never use aegis, only on strategic or weaker points of my ships. I think I'm gonna go with impeders. Thanks, everyone.

Perturabo · Post by **Perturabo** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:28 am

How would you use Impeders as a shield? Don't they just slow projectiles down?

antisocialmunky · Post by **antisocialmunky** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:38 am

They don't work that well, they tend to latch onto the same projectiles. I think stupid amounts of flak do pretty good as a bubble shield of splosions.

Auriak · Post by **Auriak** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:39 am

You can mod them so that they stop projectiles outright, or even cause them to bounce away harmlessly... it's really cool. I just wish they made projectiles explode though.

Normandy · Post by **Normandy** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:55 am

*Too lazy to try*

Excessively stretched tachyon 'bubble shields' that are colored black?

Auriak · Post by **Auriak** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 2:14 am

How about a rapid fire point beam? It will work better once the point beam colour issue is fixed though.

Latooni · Post by **Latooni** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 2:41 am

Invisible Aegis work great; but they're really annoying to set up, and hard to make it "fair"

TheBlueEcho · Post by **TheBlueEcho** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 10:57 am

Auriak wrote: How about a rapid fire point beam? It will work better once the point beam colour issue is fixed though.

Been there, not all that shield-ish. More like... well... rapid fire point spam.

Normandy wrote:*Too lazy to try*
Excessively stretched tachyon 'bubble shields' that are colored black?

...Tachyon?

Master Chief · Post by **Master Chief** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 11:00 am

Auriak wrote: How about a rapid fire point beam? It will work better once the point beam colour issue is fixed though.

Hey...I WANT THAT!

ArcaneDude · Post by **ArcaneDude** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 8:14 pm

I think I'm gonna give the Angel of Merkabeh an impeder shield. Last thing I saw of was it being sliced in half, so it needs lots of improving.

About that. Is there any way to do the same against beams? And I don't mean placing invisible sections all around a ship. And I don't mean Rorsach.

Latooni · Post by **Latooni** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:48 am

Aside from invisible Aegis, or proper deflectoring, there is no way to be invulnerable to beams.

ArcaneDude · Post by **ArcaneDude** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 2:02 am

Hey...It's alive!

Anyways, I've already began using the hidden section method, so 's no matter.

osilus · Post by **osilus** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:01 am

To be invincible from beams? rapid fire rosarch?

Bad Boy · Post by **Bad Boy** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:40 am

Last thing I saw of was it being sliced in half, so it needs lots of improving.

lol this happened because of my papal fleet (am I right or did something else slice the angel in half for you?).