Shielding CS:S

[B_Strike]

no no no no, don't remove the shield...the shield was such a good new addition to CS, it freshened the game up and gave it a more tactic feel to it...it only makes sense to have a shield in this kind of game....besides, not everyones uses it....In my honest opinion, I would much rather lose the awp, the awp is terrible, so unbalanced and cheap...at least balance it to make harder or something

[S7OK3]

meh i wouldnt be missing it tbh

[MikeJ]

The shield didn't add any tactics at all, i'm at a hotel on dialup so i'm not going to list the billion problems with the shield, but it should go, period. And this is coming from someone who had played sinse beta 5, and i haven't turned my back to any addition or feature added or removed since. Never whined, never signed a petition, never bitched on forums. My motto has always been that change is what keeps counter-strike going but the shield just interrupts a basic constant in the game and has to go. Not to mention the new exploits that pop up for it every 5 seconds, and the fact that a bunch of servers and leagues already ban it..

[UsernameGL]

A person with a shield isn't too hard to kill, nothing to complain about

also, I barely see it used



Keep it!

[phyzer23]

there is no point in the shield



it just gives cts a un-needed advantage



boot it

[Marked1]

A|ias9 wrote..

I never wanted a shield in CS and probably never will. Valve seems to care too much about realism. They went and changed the zoom delay time of a gun we all knew and loved yet this ridiculous shield with random hit boxes stays in the game. The shield should have only covered the top half of your body to begin with. The way it is now is garbage. A shield is just frustrating to shoot at if not one bullet can penetrate it. The shield was put in the game for whiners and pussies(call them the forever-noobs). Real players don't hide behind a shield. If you see someone with a shield in a pub chances are it's been jacked or someone who's afraid of dying bought it.



The shield requires too little skill for a game that used to demand a lot...Take it out!

... have you ever used the shield?... This is the comment opie is talking about (dude ur so right opie!!!) now when i go to servers (i have a large ammount of fav's but i do random pubs a lot.) and I play i don't see the shield much or one person uses it or the team is co operating and they work togther (awww sweet when it happs right?) and when sum 1 uses it no one complains and when u kill a shielder as a T almost evry1 i've seen do it immedatily nabs the shield cause it's a fun and intersting 'weapon' ... now if you could actully play the game and then base your decisions after playing the game in several aspects that would be great!...

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Make it breakable..



Don't know why it was made. Or the famas and galil for that matter.

efficient wrote..

We should keep it. If you don't like it, you can always disable it in the servers.

Exactly..

[Gav_in]

well yeah we should keep but u can ban from servers and get another server that has the shield well its really cheating i know but im not the one who made it up and stuff but really the police force really use it if its that occasion!!!

[snafu]

I'd say keep it. It adds to the gameplay [when used properly]. Perhaps give it a damage counter like normal armor, to stop Shield/deagle whores. When the counter hits 0, the shield is useless. This seems more realistic to me.

[Marked1]

Yes give it an armor count and make it break of ish in several predefined sections... but i'd still love to see my idea!....

[raymondmcneill]

The shield can give an edge to a CS team thats getting AWP'd stupid on maps like 'seige' and 'milita' without it, the entire CS team get wiped out before they can even get a clear shot in. I suck using the shield, so i believe its a genuine skill. it also engourages the use of pistols. However, I feel the user speed should be slowed down to match the speed of rifle users - its a large peice of metal you're carrying about, not a bit of cardboard.



Keep the shield, it balances out the game.

[Antilles]

What are you waiting for? Get it the hell out of here!

[ingolifs]

keep it, but iron out the problems. we can wait.

[I2o[G]uE TacT-X]

I rarely see the shield used. I do realize the shield's hit boxes are unreliable. I don't think it should be taken out, made more expensive, or made weaker. Sure it's unrealistic, but so is a lot of other elements in CS. Like others have said, you can always disable the shield on the server. I'd rather have a molotov cocktail or something. I'd sure like to see more of the weapons that were in the Gearbox build of CZ put into CS:S. ;]

[raymondmcneill]

secondary - to the people that say the shield cant stop AWP bullets...in reality, the AK bullet is more powerful than a sniper bullet, s sniper fires a simaler calabre to a normal rilfe - thats what it is; a normal rifle. get over yourselfs thinking that a sniper is more powerful. it take a SERIOUS peice of kit to do more damage. Its a lump of steel FFS, of COURSE it can stop a rilfe bullet.