MANA turret gets a shield

[VelRa]

Originally Posted by Shogun

now this is great news! shields for the mana turrets are a good adittion.

will engineers be able to pump up the shield? maybe it shrinks when it looses hitpoints, and a fully pumped shield will even cover up the head of the gunner?

Shield the head at the expense of the overall integrity of the shield? Sounds like a good sidegrade.

[Xyntech]

Originally Posted by Toppopia

I was about to post that, and i noticed the worst part, no protection for the head. NO!!!! Now i can be sniped spam from everything...

And did anyone notice the nice laser sight on the gun? Too bad it looks like its off centre. Oh well, laser sights for the win!!

It does provide a little head protection off to the sides of the front (which looks to be a little more than the NC version had).

At least a sniper would have to be pretty much straight in front of the turret to get the shot, giving the gunner a better chance of actually seeing and shooting the sniper, as opposed to the sniper being 45 degrees off center and still getting a head shot.

I would still like to see some head protected variants, but now that we know that snipers are 2 shot kills on most classes, I'm not quite as worried.

[MacXXcaM]

Wonder if the shield will have some crazy effect when shooting against it like the polygons lighting up for a second and fading out again....