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Subject: halo shield system
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a three shot from a pistol will kill you and not take away any of your bars but a shotty will sometimes take off bars but not from your health. please explain.

  • 11.20.2005 7:21 PM PDT
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If you look at how much damage a pistol does you can figure out that the third shot will break his shield and damage the body. Lets just say a pistol round takes off 2 inches on your shield bar. There's 3 and 1/2 inches remaining. Do the math. After two shots you only have 1 and 1/2 inch of shields! The third shot will penetrate the shield and impact the most vulnerable spot on the body, the head. That's why you don't see bars being taken away. A shot to the head with a pistol is an instant kill.

shotty will sometimes take off bars but not from your health. please explain.
I lost you here. The long horizontal blue bar is the shield meter. The group of parallelograms below it represents your health. Bars and health is the same thing so please rephrase that.

  • 11.20.2005 8:27 PM PDT