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[Novos Exitium]

I have beef with the shield gate mechanic, infiltrators are useless now because the only good rifles are single shot, and take far too long to reload to kill something, by the time I can reload, my target has moved, or already been killed, or in the case of phantoms and nemesi, often times their shields are back up by the time I am sighted in for my 2nd shot... I should still be able to oneshot marauders and centurians with something as slow firing as the m98, not to mention the high price you pay for a miss or non headshot, I don't feel that the shield gate was a necessary change, and if it stays another change is needed, such as a faster reload time on single shot sniper rifles or something of the nature, perhaps giving the human infiltrators a shield draining ability. Also, without capacity upgrade, I can only kill 4 shielded enemies before having to go get more ammo, and thats provided I don't miss.
I don't even want to play my infiltrator class anymore between this, and hunter mode burning my retinas out(kind of pointless playing a lesser race infiltrator when you have geth).
And also, yes I realize salarians have energy drain, and it is a sufficient counter, but all the other infiltrators are worthless now. And ofc its one of like 2 race/class combinations I haven't unlocked yet...
Also for clarification I play on gold, except when I am levelling a class up, and on gold, the shield gate is a complete ****block. I would even be happy with only 25% damage going through, like on silver, cause I am pretty sure the m98 with extended barrel, cloak up etc. could still oneshot maurauders and centurians.

I'm sure there are others that feel the same way I do 

[idspisp0pd]

A few things:

- It sounds like you're talking about MP, this is the SP forum. Assuming you also mean SP, your reasoning doesn't make much sense, for these reasons:
- Most SP enemies are unshielded.
- The general consensus for "best" SP sniper rifle seems to be either the Black Widow or the N7 Valiant, neither of which are single-shot, so it's not accurate to say that "all the best ones are single-shot."
- You can get a shield draining ability, just take energy drain as your bonus power.
- If you can't/don't want to take ED as a bonus power, just use Garrus, EDI, Kaiden, or Tali, all of whom can strip shields. This also staggers enemies, making headshots even easier.

I can't speak to MP since I'm too cheap to pay for XBL lately, but in SP the shield gate is easily dealt with and didn't stop my infiltrator run from being the most fun out of all the classes.

[Novos Exitium]

I was speaking about MP, this forum says its for strategy and gameplay, so it seemed like the right place to me.

[idspisp0pd]

Yeah, I suppose it doesn't actually say it's SP only, but you're better off talking MP strategy/builds in the MP forum, since that's where those threads all seem to get posted. I only see SP-related stuff here, so if MP is your focus you probably won't get as good of a response here.

[Titus Thongger]

solution: use a black widow or a valiant. Snipers are powerful enough as it is and shield gating is to prevent them from roflstomping gold.

[frylock23]

Novos Exitium wrote...

I have beef with the shield gate mechanic, infiltrators are useless now because the only good rifles are single shot, and take far too long to reload to kill something, by the time I can reload, my target has moved, or already been killed, or in the case of phantoms and nemesi, often times their shields are back up by the time I am sighted in for my 2nd shot... I should still be able to oneshot marauders and centurians with something as slow firing as the m98, not to mention the high price you pay for a miss or non headshot, I don't feel that the shield gate was a necessary change, and if it stays another change is needed, such as a faster reload time on single shot sniper rifles or something of the nature, perhaps giving the human infiltrators a shield draining ability. Also, without capacity upgrade, I can only kill 4 shielded enemies before having to go get more ammo, and thats provided I don't miss.
I don't even want to play my infiltrator class anymore between this, and hunter mode burning my retinas out(kind of pointless playing a lesser race infiltrator when you have geth).
And also, yes I realize salarians have energy drain, and it is a sufficient counter, but all the other infiltrators are worthless now. And ofc its one of like 2 race/class combinations I haven't unlocked yet...
Also for clarification I play on gold, except when I am levelling a class up, and on gold, the shield gate is a complete ****block. I would even be happy with only 25% damage going through, like on silver, cause I am pretty sure the m98 with extended barrel, cloak up etc. could still oneshot maurauders and centurians.

I'm sure there are others that feel the same way I do 

Isn't that why this is a co-op game? If you have a regular group of teammates, then you find some who work to strip shields so you can take out the baddies.