Personal shields?

[durann31]

Well, the idea is to raise the viability of melee weapons.

The basic way the shields work is that you can't shoot in or out. So you'd use one if you were a melee fighter.
So like how police carry shields and batons???
They do take damage and lose energy. If they take enough damage they'll pop and take a while to reset. You can also still be shot by people who are in adjacent cells (melee range).

So something similar to police with shields and batons?… if so 10/10 if not.. then still 10/10

[StorymasterQ]

So, like Goa'uld personal shields?

[dakenho]

I think shields should require a recharge bay or at-least batteries
also does this mean we will see base shields?

[Shinzy]

I want the kind of nintendo bullet deflecting shields
the kind the ping them off to different direction and might hit someone else =P

[ShootyFace]

Oh man, finally! I have managed to find use for melee, but this will make brawlers a lot more attractive. This is *almost* as good as a personal cloaking device (modders!).

[Haplo]

Hmm, I already see the death of my next alpha colony:
A melee pirate group lands nearby and storms the colony. As my colonists and the turrets are mostly gunners they try but fail to destroy their shields in time. A short while later every one with a gun is fighting close range and failing horribly. Soon after the colony is only a burning ruin..
So I present to you the next arch enemy: space brawlers with personal shields

[keylocke]

all of my gunners have power claws or scyther blades, while most of melee raiders usually just carry shivs. so as usual, i'll probably just force melee attack them one at a time as they trickle towards my ranks.

meanwhile, sending a couple of melee units with shields against AI snipers for distraction is gonna be sweet.

[ShootyFace]

Way to pee on the parade, Haplo. :/ Didn't even consider the fact raiders would have them, too.

[Nasikabatrachus]

Personal shields are necessary because the future has yet to invent workable shoulder or leg armor.

[Tynan]

Personal shields are necessary because the future has yet to invent workable shoulder or leg armor.

It's a technical impossibility!

[Noobshock]

Hmm, I already see the death of my next alpha colony:
A melee pirate group lands nearby and storms the colony. As my colonists and the turrets are mostly gunners they try but fail to destroy their shields in time. A short while later every one with a gun is fighting close range and failing horribly. Soon after the colony is only a burning ruin..
So I present to you the next arch enemy: space brawlers with personal shields

we are sooo going to need new types of defenses

[mumblemumble]

 the shields can pop, so its not impossible to kill them, just hard. And point blank bullets pass through so shotguns would actually be extremely viable for them, if you had friends. Infact it could get a little left4dead-ish with keeping each others backs with the colonists, keeping tight for melee attackers and shooting a melee person in the back of the head when hes about to crack your buddies skull in. The possibilities.

[Siberianhamster]

I anticipate that this will be useful to make it through sniper fire to a position. So EMP grenadiers and shotgunners can make their range.

I think the idea is the shield removes the choice of a ranged weapon. Otherwise you could just make an inpenetrable wall of shielded m-24s or m-16s.

[tommonius]

huzzah! cyber samurai for everyone, I have been making melee weapons and spending all my hard earned blood money on power armour and had a crack team of high level melee fighters. even with armour I did struggle to get them into stabbing range, but now like a light from the heavens Tynan granted my psychotic colonists a mighty boon.

Praise Lord Tynan ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ

[wdnz]

Reminds me of the Goa'uld personal shield from Stargate SG-1.

Pretty neat!