I've dumped quite a lot of certs into the Adreno shield, but I don't see its strength in practice. Too many times I've had a standup firefight vs 2 other people, gunned them both down, then looked at my shield to see that it's dead empty. Great, now I have to go sit in timeout for my heroics. Does this actually work? Does it not recharge when it's empty? When it's down and you kill someone, does it come back on automatically?
You gain back 20% your shield each kill at max rank, full shield blocks 640 damage, so you gain 128 damage blocking per kill. 128 damage is nothing, the next bullet that hits you and its down again... AS gives you that 1-2 extra bullet tankiness over NMG in a 2v1, and that can be life or death.. You get your 20% bump after killing the second guy, but by the time you hit F to turn it off, it is mostly drained. If you are not seeing that 20% bump on your last guy killed, maybe they broke AS again.. It wouldn't be the first time it lost its charge on kill ability.. watch your gameplay in slow motion to check. Keep in mind you can tank way more damage with resit shield than AS, but you will shoot medikits like a heroin addict.
What's probably happening is that you're taking an extra bullet or two after the last guy dies, and the shield that just recharged is used up blocking those shots. I suppose it could also be server problems, sort of like the bug that makes medkits revert.
Oh no, you gained 700 health, took fire from 2 people, killed them both, survived, and took no damage, sadly your shield is gone, such imbalance, shield very UP.
He neve said anything about balance issues *********. OP: I've noticed this too. In fact I thought it was broken so much that I let it drain, killed someone without activating it to see if it would fill up. It didn't refill from kills. Only refilled by the default recharge. I'll have to look through some footage to get an exact answer. But from my observations it didn't seem to refill from kills.
Adren shield really shines in smaller fights where you get the jump on enemies. You can keep your shield fully charged if you kill enough people that end up charging in - I've been able to do it a few times but it's hard.
I got AS to rank 4 and it seems underwhelming... I can get some kill streaks going but I don't think it fits my style overall.
It is not worth it unless it is maxed...This is my basic view of it: It works, its just that the players with higher ping can shoot bullets after they are dead, so they waste your recharge... Looks like this (Feb 12th 2015): If I didn't slow it 1/4 speed I wouldn't even notice that it charged the shield at all, it goes up and down in a split second.. In game when playing, it felt like it didn't charge, but in reality it saved me from a kill trade with a lagger.
That's a very interesting piece of footage, thanks for sharing. I guess that probably describes what I am experiencing. Now my question is, if you kill someone after your shield has gone down completely and is on CD, it will gain some extra power, but does it turn back on automatically, or do I have to press F to turn it on again?
I just deleted all of yesterdays when I got done making that video, so I have none to check. I press F so much sometimes I do burn that 20% of recharge by pressing F to turn it off and turn it on by mistake.. Lets just say I can't play engineer without first changing the ability keybinding...