Make shields common, professionals have standards.

[Cnaym]

Add a bunch of directional energy shields to the armory, antag ships and cheaply in the uplink. Make them commonly used by everyone armed basicly

The idea is to make single handed weaponry be an alternative, not a downgrade, while allowing for more tactical decisions and less lethality during combat. It would change the hallway firefights without having to nerf the guns themself. Combat would still be pretty lethal for the unprepared but mowing down an antag squad by clicking faster could become a thing of the past.

Different shields could cover different amounts of the body with a chance to completly block hits -> TCFL tower shields with like 70-90% the normal versions with a 50%ish and maybe add weapon mounted shields that exclusively shield the head while deployed.

As for the first half it would be probably be little effort to add seeing how shields exist already.

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[Lmwevil]

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i'm pretty sure it's goon that has like shields that can project a barrier, a two handed shield to like help hold down a hallway or something could be a rad option

[Sparky_hotdog]

Given that two shields already exist in game (that I know of) this seems reasonable to me. Having different sizes with protection vs mobility or hand(s) free could be cool too, and anything that makes the combat system more versatile rather than adding more guns, guns, guns is good in my book.