I forgot I had been waiting for a usable Jackal shield. I was imagining it being like a dual wield weapon pick up before (I had had this Idea before Reach so I didn’t think of it like an AA). Like the ammunition for it really being it’s health. But I remember this now. The Hardlight Shield is pretty much a jackal’s sheild in which you can’t fire from. Which is really cool right? I think so. I made a thread earlier about it replacing Armor Lock which I guess it is and I’m SOOOO glad for that. But it is more like the Jackal’s hand shield than Armor Lock. But in the spirituality of AA’s, it is replacing Armor Lock which is a really good thing.
Anything replacing Armour Lock is a bad thing. By replacing AL, it implies that it is similar to it. Nothing even remotely resembling AL can be good. AL only caused problems and did nothing good for Halo. It should disappear completely and nothing should ever replace it.
> Anything replacing Armour Lock is a bad thing. By replacing AL, it implies that it is similar to it. Nothing even remotely resembling AL can be good. AL only caused problems and did nothing good for Halo. It should disappear completely and nothing should ever replace it.
While this sounds extreme, I basically agree. Nothing good really comes out of slowing down the gameplay. If kill times were brokenly fast or something, I could see HLS being something good for the game, but kill times don’t need to be slowed down.
Not really, as you said you cant shoot with it, and it runs out of power a few seconds after use.
It’s taking it’s spot as a defense AA is what I mean, HLS is WAAAY better than Armor Lock. I agree that there should be nothing like Armor Lock, and the HLS isn’t like it. The HLS has basically been in Halo since the begining except the jackal’s were using them. Haha the HLS is the UNSC version of the jackal shield.
HLS shield is forerunner, not unsc.
> Not really, as you said you cant shoot with it, and it runs out of power a few seconds after use.
Yes I said it was LIKE it not EXACTLY LIKE it. Obviously it runs out it’s an AA, you could hypithetically shoot with it because the spartan does have a hand free but due to balancing you can’t. Really it is essentially the UNSC version of it, not the exact thing itsself.
> HLS shield is forerunner, not unsc.
My bad, but it is incorperated in UNSC tech seeing how it’s an AA in Spartan Armor.
> > HLS shield is forerunner, not unsc.
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> My bad, but it is incorperated in UNSC tech seeing how it’s an AA in Spartan Armor.
Spartan armor can apparently use foreign aa’s. It says that on the halo 4 info page.
Replaces armor lock: Yay. Can’t shoot past it: Eh. I like it a LOT and it could be a game changing element so the fact that you can’t shoot past it won’t deter me from using it. IF I use it…
> It’s taking it’s spot as a defense AA is what I mean, HLS is WAAAY better than Armor Lock. I agree that there should be nothing like Armor Lock, and the HLS isn’t like it. The HLS has basically been in Halo since the begining except the jackal’s were using them. Haha the HLS is the UNSC version of the jackal shield.
Ya, i know what you mean.
I hope it has at least some defense against vehicles. Not like armor lock, where vehicles are trashed on hitting it and you take no damage; something where you survive, but your shields break, you fly away, and you lose some health. But it’d only be useful against slow-moving or smaller vehicles: a mongoose at full speed couldn’t break it, for instance, but a wraith or warthog could easily take it down at full speed.
Lolololololol you should’ve just added “jackal shield” to your other thread and presto, you got the same -Yoink-.
PS. Don’t take my post seriously.
The HLS cant be broken, it lasts for a certain amount of time.