Can anybody give me some advice on using these AA’s? When I played the campaign and got to use the thruster pack agaist those hunters I thought, “Damn, I can’t wait to try this out on live!” Only to find that its distance is greatly shortened so that the time that it takes the camera to pan out and then back in renders it useless. And then with the light shield, unless I have a buddy on comms whom I know has my back and will stay with me, all its good for is making the enemy have to use an extra grenade or two. I have really tried to give these AA’s a chance but I just don’t see the advantage of them, and by the looks of it not many other people do either. I see people using these two the least out of all the others.
Anyways, I’m looking for any of your thoughts or tips.
Cheers!
I find the thrusterpack almost useless unless fighting hunters, as for the hard light shield I use it the most. I usually pull it out when being fired from at a distance and keep it out until I walk around cover to get safe.
I also find it useful when I’m being shot from behind as I turn around and whip it out quickly and wait for the enemy to empty their clip into it then attack them back.
Thrusters: You nailed it on the head. They are weak beyond the point of useful. You will hear a few people claim they’ve had their lives saved by them, but I spent an hour in forge with them on unlimited having a buddy try and splatter me with cars, throw grenades at me, etc. I found that simply strafing is EXACTLY as effective, if not better. Same speed, same distance covered, plus you get to shoot. I hope they boost this AA soon.
Hardlight Shield: Basically all I use it for is a “last resort” cover to find better cover. Or, in capture the flag, I pair this with Mobility. Sprint for downed flags that are covered with baddies, throw up my shield, and push till I touch the flag so I can reset the timer.
Really to be honest I’ve mainly used the hard light shield as my AA and I do find it handy but only in certain situations. It’s really good at blocking grenade blasts while in battle, or blocking plasma grenades incoming, or blocking melee attacks. But too be honest up close in a cqb style it’s not very helpful unless u have a teammate nearby like u mentioned. But from a long range battle it gives u the chance to back off and get behind other cover to recharge ur shields and live to fight another day. Otherwise ur other option is using it till the enemy has to reload and then u can drop the shield and try attacking.
Maybe other guys can give better tips on how to use it; and as for the thruster pack I haven’t used it in MM.
> Thrusters: You nailed it on the head. They are weak beyond the point of useful. You will hear a few people claim they’ve had their lives saved by them, but I spent an hour in forge with them on unlimited having a buddy try and splatter me with cars, throw grenades at me, etc. I found that simply strafing is EXACTLY as effective, if not better. Same speed, same distance covered, plus you get to shoot. I hope they boost this AA soon.
Ive made threads and posts saying exactly this and have been mocked constantly for it.
you do not know what you are talking about you all say that thruster pack is useless it has a lot of good uses if someone is at the top of a lift and you know they are going to nade the top when you go up start to go up then thrust to the left or right to give you and extra sec for the nade. also instead of just falling from the top level to the bottom level of a map thrust of the ledge and it will not give you that sec of not being able to shot. so i would say that thruster along side of the jetpack and the broken invis are the best aa’s out there
> you do not know what you are talking about you all say that thruster pack is useless it has a lot of good uses if someone is at the top of a lift and you know they are going to nade the top when you go up start to go up then thrust to the left or right to give you and extra sec for the nade. also instead of just falling from the top level to the bottom level of a map thrust of the ledge and it will not give you that sec of not being able to shot. so i would say that thruster along side of the jetpack and the broken invis are the best aa’s out there
I’ve seen videos of the lift and ledge tricks being done and honestly I can’t justify using the TP for those two situations when the other AA’s give you so much more. As for the the jetpack I don’t use it because I feel like it makes you a sitting duck while you move in a nice predictable arc through the air. And I don’t know what you’r talking about when you say that the active cammo is broken. It seems to work fine to me.
It seems like I’m on the same page as everyone else as far as the thruster pack goes. As for the light shield, I guess it would be more useful if I used it in large maps and objective based game types.