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Subject: Overshield vs. Sword Elites
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I was playing T & R last night and was approaching the control room section so I decided to test a theory. I typically do not use the overshields, but since I was dropping down to the hangar floor to re-arm and search for the stray plasma grenade or two I decided to take it into the upcoming battle.

I got up to the doors to the control room for the ship and decided rather than stealth attack I would run right up to the sword elite on the platform and see what would happen if I let him whack me with his nice shiny sword. Normally I would die, horribly, and I did not know what effect the overshield would have. I figured since there is a checkpoint right before that if he killed my butt I would just start over from the CP. Lo and behold, the strike he landed right in my face just eliminated most of the overshield. I popped a plasma in his face and did not bother moving so that the blast or a second sword strike would finish my little experiment and I could go back to playing normally.

I have played long enough to have been able to figure out that the shield would protect me for one strike, but it was fun to finally not fall down dead from one blow from those silver screaming elites!

  • 01.19.2010 10:59 AM PDT