[Suggestion] Put more shield bridges on the maps

Discussion in 'PlanetSide 2 Gameplay Discussion' started by JarredGalaxy, May 4, 2023.

  1. JarredGalaxy

    Some may not realize but the Energy Bridge famously located at Heyoka Chemical Lab there are only 2 facilities in the game that have these, one being Heyoka Chemical Lab on Amerish and the other being Kestral Watch on Hossin.
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    The bridges work in a similar fashion to gateshields but instead of blocking the path the factions that don't control them fall through, and like gateshields they are able to bypassed with a Gateshield Defuser to get across. The ones at Heyoka Chem have terminals that can be hacked by any class to convert them over similar to the shielded Sunderer garages.
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    One of the shield bridges at Heyoka Chemical Lab that goes across some deadly water
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    One of the bridges at Kestral Watch which are linked to whoever controls the facility and help protect the spawn room.

    It is rather unfortunate that such an interesting feature is barely used in the game when there are tons of places and bridges in the game that could have these, Oshur in particular is a good potential continent for them with all the bridges between islands.

    Indar and Hossin also have some good potential areas for more of them with Indar having the canyons and ravines as well as quite a few bridges that could be replaced with one or have sections made into one. The bridge over the J908 Impact Site and the long bridge on the east side of The Crown along with the dual bridges at Indar Bay Point I think could be good locations to have some put in with hackable terminals. For Hossin I think maybe have 1 or 2 small ones put in at Gourney Dam as there are small bridges and catwalks there, 1 in place of one of the bridge at like the Mulac Tech Plant for better defense and perhaps one of the bridges at Mossridge Command and maybe 2 at Kessel's Crossing.

    There could also be areas redesign to have some put in on paths between facilities, adding in more could help in having fights on the roads as these would create new places for bridge combat and creating more uses for the GSD, not saying there has to be several added in just saying it be nice to see more than just 2 facilities with them and Kestral Watch doesn't really make good use of them and there is quite a bit of fun potential these have in them by helping with defending some bases, I find it crazy that these haven't been looked at more.

    Fun fact: There were also small versions of these in the old Hossin Interlink facilities that never got added to the game.
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  2. JarredGalaxy

    There are other possible areas, if anyone has an idea of a facility that should have one or where one should be on the maps it be interesting to hear.