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Health Packs and Shield Recharges


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I'm just wondering, does it bother anyone else that when you pick up a health pack, in addition to your health instantly being fully restored your shields start coming back up too? I just noticed it today in a game of DMRs, I had blue health and was thus unable to pick up a health kit, and was shot through the head after four seconds without shields, despite being sat right beneath a health kit. Later on, I was killed again when someone I'd been shooting was able to get around a corner 2 or so seconds ahead of me and use a health kit, thus meaning he had more shields and so was able to finish me off when I got around said corner and resumed firing. So my question is, why have Bungie implemented a system that seemingly actively rewards health damage over covering once shields are down in the middle of a fight? Does everyone feel that this is an acceptable gameplay mechanic? Should players with damaged health be forced to wait until their shields would normally start coming back up (i.e. 5 seconds after last point of damage received) before they do so, or should players on blue health also be able to pick up health kits and immediately start recharging their shields?

 

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I'm just wondering, does it bother anyone else that when you pick up a health pack, in addition to your health instantly being fully restored your shields start coming back up too? I just noticed it today in a game of DMRs, I had blue health and was thus unable to pick up a health kit, and was shot through the head after four seconds without shields, despite being sat right beneath a health kit. Later on, I was killed again when someone I'd been shooting was able to get around a corner 2 or so seconds ahead of me and use a health kit, thus meaning he had more shields and so was able to finish me off when I got around said corner and resumed firing. So my question is, why have Bungie implemented a system that seemingly actively rewards health damage over covering once shields are down in the middle of a fight? Does everyone feel that this is an acceptable gameplay mechanic? Should players with damaged health be forced to wait until their shields would normally start coming back up (i.e. 5 seconds after last point of damage received) before they do so, or should players on blue health also be able to pick up health kits and immediately start recharging their shields?

 

Opinions, anyone?

i agree its annying as hell

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Smarter person wins. They're using the environment to their advantage. If you knew the map well enough, you would know one was there and it wouldn't be smart to go around the corner. Try and get him to come out or wait for your shields to respawn or just find another target.

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Smarter person wins. They're using the environment to their advantage. If you knew the map well enough, you would know one was there and it wouldn't be smart to go around the corner. Try and get him to come out or wait for your shields to respawn or just find another target.

 

But surely that's just situational factors rather than the actual gameplay mechanic?

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Smarter person wins. They're using the environment to their advantage. If you knew the map well enough, you would know one was there and it wouldn't be smart to go around the corner. Try and get him to come out or wait for your shields to respawn or just find another target.

Agreed. The health pack is like a power weapon cause it gives someone's shields and health back

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