Limit Riot shields

[Butterrobber202]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary): Basically Riot shields are tough as crap for a alien to get past unless the marine is cramped in maintence, so basically I want riot shields limited to standards and only 2 of them, because riot shields block EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING but facehuggers, bullets,spit,and even the almighty pounce.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole): Less all riot shield squads aliens die to.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc):Limit riot shields to standards and only 2

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it):Rid of the ones in the armory, then move 2 to the standard armory.

[MrGabol100]

So they just block Pounce and spit, because bullets are not an alien problem... Heheh, No. -1

Btw, they do not always block pounce.

[Butterrobber202]

So they just block Pounce and spit, because bullets are not an alien problem... Heheh, No. -1

Btw, they do not always block pounce.

Give me the chance of not blocking it, I've SPAMMED the pounce button before and was unable to down the marine, I said bullets more or less to stress they could be used by greifers.

[MrGabol100]

That's stupid, of course it didn't work, if he has it on his active hand he has more change or I don't know what, so, because you can't go trough one shielded man doesn't mean it's unbalanced, the man on a shield can only get a saw, handgun or SMG, and if he uses the M41A or shotgun he's exploiting, so, there's no problem with it, the shield has been around since a long while, and it's really balanced, the chance to stop spit is also kind of low, and blocking things is like... The main damned purpose of the crap, why would a nerf make sense?

[Butterrobber202]

Really think about it, You are referring to a single marine. I want them nerfed because of SQUADS of riot shielded marines, plus I'm not asking for a nerf for the riot shields ( well,kinda, not their use I want to nerf) I just want to decrease their amount.

[TopHatPenguin]

The only nerf i can see is maybe limiting how many there are .. because currently only medics or engineers use them to great effect due to carrying helpful items on them...

[Pillow]

there are actually not a huge amount of them actually, there are only like what two in each squad armory? and the two in the general armory. So here are not that many at all.

[MrJJJ]

-1
First is:
Not a lot of them grab it because they will be limited to weapons which they can't use efficiently, you will also get banned/warned for abusing the one-handed rifle exploit
Second is:
The fun fact with the shielders, is that they are there to remind aliens that the pounce abuse and spit spamming won't always work, do you even imagine how hard is it to kill aliens that are tier-2 and above?

[apophis775]

Riot shield,s have like, a 30% chance to block runner pounce, and a 10% chance to block warrior pounce. No reason to nerf or limit them. They are already fairly useless most of the time.