Crafting duel shields

[Waldi]

With the coming of engineers i was just wondering if we would be getting the ability to run with duel shields to combat the current meta of stealth rails. I know this would pull an enormous amount of power and leave very little left for weapons but would be needed for dangerous cargo runs.
Would they be feasible?

 

[AeonPrime]

Not sure what to think about that... On NPC ships I would say no, since the AI will get an overhaul in 2.1. Giving them access to dual shields just makes PVE even more grindy than it currently is.

Player dual shields would need to be carefully balanced, skilled PVP players should still be able to ambush and defeat people when they have the weapons advantage and better piloting skills in general.

Since Frontier takes their time with updates I don't think this would be viable, Playing 4 months after the integration with absurd shield balance would ruin every bit of PVP left in the game.

The only thing I could think of that would make for better gameplay is switching between Bi-Weave and normal shields. Bi weave for general NPC combat and Normal shields for PVP or vice versa, depending on your preferences.

You still would have to carry both shield types, but only 1 can be active at any time.

 

[Cliffson]

I'm surprised they limited shields to one per ship to be honest instead of letting them stack, okay it was broken as anything in Frontier: elite2 but, with the power mechanics, most ships would only feasable have one a few would have two at the expense of energy hungry weapons/ thrusters/sensors etc, and only the most parinoid traders in the big ships would run 3.

I'd have preferred that to SCBs to be honest.

Anyway I guess we'll have to see, it seems like anything can happen in the engineers!