llunak Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 A shield is not rendered and does not appear to be functional when the other hand is empty. Steps to reproduce: - Start a new game, place base. - Change the role of one soldier to 'Shield'. - Start ground mission. - The shield soldier will have shield in one hand and pistol in the other hand. Note that the soldier is rendered as having a shield. - Go to inventory and drop the pistol. Now the soldier is rendered as empty-handed, even though the control panel at the bottom shows that the soldier has the shield in one hand. - It appears that this is _not_ just a rendering problem, as I had a soldier single-shot by a plasma pistol (on veteran) despite having a shield and facing the alien (unless it is possible for an alien to manage this despite a shield, but I've never had this so far when having a shield equipped "correctly"). This may possibly be a duplicate of http://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php/7987-V20E2-Ground-Combat-Assault-Shield-does-not-appear-on-soldiers-in-Sentinel or http://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php/7987-V20E2-Ground-Combat-Assault-Shield-does-not-appear-on-soldiers-in-Sentinel , but the symptomps described there don't exactly match. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llunak Posted December 6, 2013 Author Share Posted December 6, 2013 I take it back, the shield does work even if not rendered, the soldier in the original test was just unlucky and got shot despite the shield. So this is just a rendering problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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