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Combat Extended [1.4]
Tay 2 Apr, 2020 @ 4:39pm
Ballistic shield ridiculously overpowered and extremely unrealistic
Just got raided by a single raider with a ballistic shield (no other pieces of armor) and frag grenades. So the raider charged at my 3 settlers and deflected my shots with the shield. Fair enough, so I started to surround the raider and engaged from the back and the side. But still the raider deflected all my bullets (even from behind!) all the while throwing dozens of grenades (the raider did not mind much getting hit by its own shrapnel).

After a while (the raider did not suffer a single wound) one of my settlers succumbed to one of the grenades and the raider immediately grabbed her to kidnap her. So I was thinking that finally the raider must lower the shield, because after all she carried my settler. Foolish me. When I chased her and shot the raider in the back the raider was still deflecting my rifle shots. Ridiculous. So finally I tried to melee the kidnapper from behind, but again I hear only clinks as my rifle blows get deflected by the raider, even while she carries my settler to the edge of the map.

So apparently the ballistic shield can deflect all kinds of attacks from all sides (even from behind). After the whole engagement the shield was only down to like 60%. I should build one of these myself since it would make my settlers virtually invulnerable. But I think I will instead uninstall the CE mod for now and maybe try again in a few months hoping that there will be some serious balancing.
Last edited by Tay; 2 Apr, 2020 @ 4:42pm
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LMAO!
Doc O´malley 6 Apr, 2020 @ 5:10am 
*cough* AP ammo? *cough*
Tay 8 Apr, 2020 @ 11:22am 
Sure, I believe by early mid game a ballistic shield can be defeated. But it was the second raid so I didn't have AP ammo yet. I actually continued playing CE as all other aspects of the mod seem solid so far (edit: I found other balancing issues).

I found a pretty good guide by ChozoNomad (link below) and he says that Ballistic shields are OP (he calls it OP AF "overpowered as ♥♥♥♥" as it blocks virtually everything) and you should get one asap.

(https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/d9p1p5/a_quickish_guide_to_combat_extended_tips_tricks/)
Last edited by Tay; 11 Apr, 2020 @ 5:47am
Dustin Echoes 24 Jan, 2021 @ 3:08pm 
Traps? Melee?
Dustin Echoes 24 Jan, 2021 @ 3:14pm 
ballistic shield adds a chance to block melee but doesn't always do that. Yeah, shooting in the back is not implemented yet, but as far as I understnd, it will be. I do agree they be kinda OP doe.
Dustin Echoes 24 Jan, 2021 @ 3:14pm 
Also you could've used stick bombs. Oneshot.
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