Meatshields

[inclement weather]

Why are they so useless now?
They can't even stop you from dying from a grenade explosion.
They take like quarter of a lancer to clip to destroy.
Also most of the damage from guns aren't being absorbed by it, they just seem to damage you the same as if you didn't have one.

[MxcnPro12]

well i wont have the game for a while because I am poor

[DownLikeClown]

Why are they so useless now?
They can't even stop you from dying from a grenade explosion.
They take like quarter of a lancer to clip to destroy.
Also most of the damage from guns aren't being absorbed by it, they just seem to damage you the same as if you didn't have one.

If all of that is true, that truly upsets me. I always relied on a Meatshield to protect me if I was the last man standing. Now I guess there's really no point.

[Inertvirus]

Dude I don't think we played the same game, the meat shields definitely still do plenty, they aren't as broken as in gears 2 but they are very useful

[Painmaster212]

The meatshields do suck big time in Gears 3. Why bother picking it up cause its gone in 3 seconds,doesnt take the damage of bullets,you move slower and cant dodge anything and it no longer takes the frag or boomshot damage. Might as well just finish the kills and move on to the next 1 cause kicking them into to some1 will next be used to gain advantage.

My suggestion is to make them just like gears 2 because then smokes will get more use!

[inclement weather]

Dude I don't think we played the same game, the meat shields definitely still do plenty, they aren't as broken as in gears 2 but they are very useful

They're just so weak, although I wouldn't mind them falling apart so easily if they actually blocked some damage.

[Helluminatus]

well, I think that's the point. They wanted to speed up the pacing in the game, so rather than make a meatsheild a justification to stand out in the open, you make it a very temporary protection tool when going from one peice of cover to another, also make use of frag-tagging before hitting cover, it's really quite good ig you look at it from that angle.

[S Y N T A X]

I use them if I don't have time to execute and there's someone bout to gib me, just pick it up, they destroy it and I kill them..

Oooh one thing I love is how someone chainsawed my meatshield as soon as i picked him up, was awesome.

[eth-meth]

Well, everything seems to take more damage overall, so...

[NicodemusX0]

They work really well for protecting against the sawed off. And they let you pickup players nades and pistolk ammo. Very Very upgraded in my opinion. Because smokes are almost a weapon by themselves.

[Diu]

You must suck at using pistols if you think the meatshield is weak.

[Desert pengu1n]

i think they are fine, they absorb some damage and it makes the game faster without getting rid of them, also if you play capture the leader and you have the leader hostage all the damage inflicted goes to you, its supposed to

[Zaulik]

They're supposed to be used as a scape goat. If you're under heavy fire, pick up an enemy and back away into safety. It's not so much of an offensive tool anymore.