i used the time on the testserver to get some infos on the gate shield diffuser and put it in my harasser assault buggy. My testdrive on amerish went well at the normal gates on the road and ended at Tumas Tech Plant. i turn on the shield and ran trough the shield at the North side where the VHC terminal is. when i want do drive out at the side shield i get stuck on both sides. i turned of one generator but it did not help. Still can't get out. then i try my luck on Esamir Eisa Tech Plant. Like before i can cross the shield at the VHC terminal but i can cross the side shields, too. now where is the error? Tumas or Eisa? ok, tested the mao tech plant on indar and get the same shield behavior as on esamir. The shield at tumas must be kind of broken.
I've never used it myself, and I hardly ever see anyone using it. Ever. The one time I've seen it was some dude in a sundy that was all pipmed out with decals, undercarriage lights and music playing over the voicechat. All the while he/she was spamming the gate diffuser and driving around doing nothing useful. It was pretty funny.
last time i used it on the sunderer i couldn't get past the first shield at an AMP station and got r***d.... GG, so many bugs
What level of the diffuser are you using? Just curious... wanted to see if I can re-produce what you experienced. On my sundy on the LIVE servers, I've always ran with Diffuser 2 (when the diffuser is equipped) and have never had an issue getting through a shield. For best results, start the diffuser before you get to the shield. On occasion, I've ran into issues when I slam into the shield and then pop the diffuser... not to mention that breaks your momentum and you lose precious seconds on a timed ability that's relatively short.
Sometimes it works sometimes it doesnt (tho it seems mostly it does) im not sure if its just a glitch or shield specific. On the topic of GSD's, 8 seconds (level one) will get you from an Amp stations outer shield, through to the facility building shields. So why bother leveling more than the 1st level GSD? (and this is using a slower sunderer) flash ur lights after you've used the GSD for a light show hehe.
i used the level 4 - maximum defuser - i should have tryed with the other lvls - but there are 2 chars left.
My outifts has max crashed techplants VIA Gate Diffuser before. They mostly use it to break up the camps on the doorways to let our soldiers in. But really, the loss of spawn points is pretty stupid compared to what Gate Diffuser does. Either it needs a buff or work in a whole new way.
that may have been me how else do we get people in to the damn thing? i sat at a tech plant after pulling one, pulled up to shields honked lights flashing diffuser no one gets in. i wait 5 minutes of doing this said **** it drove in solo inside the main room switched to my bulldogs and killed at least a squad with just the one gun before i got c4ed/tank mined but unless you have a great outfit no one will ever get in to them as far as using them i think there is a min speed you have to travelling at for it to work, i usually drive at the gate full speed and hit it 1-2 seconds before i hit the shield. never had problems using it like that (i only have rank 1, others might have bugs) the problem with the diffuser isn't the diffuser its self its the fact that there are so few gate shields and they are so easy to take down the diffusers don't really have an incentive to be used compared to an AMS
to sad they removed everything that may need a specialist. High level hacker doesn't matter, ant runs and much more. but yes the ams is much more worth them the ability to run trough a shield, thats why i think about kill it on the harasser. the other options like proximity radar and fire suppression are not that interesting, ir smoke is almost useless since everyone use the new rocket launchers. There is only the speed-boost left. i think the harasser is already hard to handle but it may be useful. lets skill both
If you want to get people into your sunderer, buy a horn. Its like something from Narnia, a couple of honks and you get 11 people with you. Best SC I ever spent!
proximity shouting honk isnt so bad either and saves you $6, the horns imho are something that should have been there from day one (more so than headlights ffs) hiding them behind a paywall was greed at its worst
Best tool in the world to capture an Amp Station. Now it's definitely less useful as they implemented the no-deploy zone.
It's useful when it works, and your in a situation where you can use it. I've done a few max rushes using Shield Gate Diffuser. No one expects it, which is why it works.
