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[Silvair]

I mean I understand the lore difference, and its illustrated well enough with the Tech Armor and Barrier powers, but what's the actual gameplay difference between a blue or purple bar over the health? I've never been able to tell.


And as a side note, rapid fire weapons are supposed to overload shields faster in lore but doesn't sem to be the case in game.

[Salarian Master Race]

and why is Overload so effective vs Barriers

 

and why don't armored player kits have Armor (krogan turian batarian etc you know all the ones that cant dodge because they supposedly have heavy armor)

[HeroicMass]

Your main game play difference is that Geth Prime death explosions will not deplete your barriers whereas they will take away your shields.

[Miniditka77]

Duh.  Shields are blue and barriers are purple.

[The NightMan Cometh]

What's the difference? That the owner of said Shields/Barriers are walking around Dead and don't know it yet.

[Indoctornated]

Tech powers & tech burst combos own shields. Biotic powers & combos own Barrier. Why Biotics own Collectors.

[Loufi]

Barriers are vulnerable to biotic powers, shields not so much. Barriers and shields are both vulnerable to some tech powers like Overload and Energy Drain.  

[Olivia Wilde]

Some things do more damage to shields than they do to barriers or Vice Versa

 

Banshee Warp balls seem to do more damage to the Justicar's Barrier than they do to the FQE's shields for one example

 

edit thought OP meant on the player character not enemies

[justinman114]

Biotics don't work well on shields but work great on barriers.  If you are talking about the player character, I'm not sure there is a difference.

[Indoctornated]

^^^ All of you! Bow down to my ninja'd!

[Learn To Love Yourself]

I'm not a linguistics expert or anything, but I think Shields refers to policemen, and Barriers refers to grave diggers.  Are there any etymologists in the house?

[Indoctornated]

^ No, but I can still add to this. So I was right. Shields are the most evilest thing in the ME3mp universe. 

[Shinobu]

What's the difference between a knight and a baker?

[Quarian Master Race]

there really isn't one in this game except for colour of the bar. Unless it's an enemy, where biotics work well against the purple one but do hardly anything to the blue one, while tech powers do about the same to both (another reason why Tech is the Master Race).

The rapid fire weapons being better vs shields only applied in ME2, where most automatic weapons and shotguns got a large damage modifier against shields and barriers (1.35x damage was typical for SMG's and Shotties and 1.25x for AR's IIRC). ME2 in general was the game that introduced most of the differences in mechanics betweeen shield/barrier. In ME1 they were both represented by the same coloured bars and were functionally indistinguishable.

[Indoctornated]

What's the difference between a knight and a baker?

 

Oh, I like where this is going now! 

 

... Something, something on topic ME3mp shields are evil. 

[Quarian Master Race]

and why is Overload so effective vs Barriers

because tech users are more intelligent and refined.

[Salarian Master Race]

and why would anyone take incendiary ammo when they already have incinerate as a power, that's redundant

[Cyonan]

From a mechanic standpoint, there isn't much difference between enemy barrier and shields other than the damage modifiers of a few abilities that are primarily biotic ones.

 

Rapid fire weapons being more effective against shields was something in Mass Effect 2, but they removed it in 3.

 

As far as your personal shields/barriers go, the only difference is the colour of the bar.

[Salarian Master Race]

And the Asari all go "Shields down" when they don't have Shields they have Barriers

 

I twitch just thinking about it

[Shinobu]

Oh, I like where this is going now! 

 

... Something, something on topic ME3mp shields are evil. 

 

A knight darts into the foe, and a baker... makes bread.

 

I miss the "use SMGs to take out shields" mechanic of ME2 sometimes, but then I get over it.

[Excella Gionne]

Shields and Barriers are like Quarian bum bums. Once it's exhausted, it's easier to penetrate. Drill rounds are recommended

[Silvair]

Shields and Barriers are like Quarian bum bums. Once it's exhausted, it's easier to penetrate. Drill rounds are recommended

Also like quarian bumbums, once barriers/shields are penetrated, they die.

[Silvershroud]

What I don't understand is why biotics don't use both. 

 

"Hey there, I'm a biotic.    To prove my awesomeness, I will use my mind to project a barrier over myself, exhausting myself in the process rather than using a readily available standard issue shield instead." 

 

Wouldn't it make more sense to use the shield, and just throw up a barrier for extra protection when needed?

 

 

 

Err, on topic, and mechanics related rather than lore...

 

Yeah, the only difference seems to be that shields protect from biotics (and concussive shot) better than the biotic users themselves can.  Meanwhile, barriers provide better protection against exploding geth. But not Atlas or Turrets.

[Salarian Master Race]

What I don't understand is why biotics don't use both. 

 

"Hey there, I'm a biotic.    To prove my awesomeness, I will use my mind to project a barrier over myself, exhausting myself in the process rather than using a readily available standard issue shield instead." 

 

Wouldn't it make more sense to use the shield, and just throw up a barrier for extra protection when needed?

 

 

 

Because if a kit could pop up shields at will that would be too op

 

right

[The NightMan Cometh]

KroGuard doesn't care what the F is the difference between Shields/Barriers..2 Tha MOON with you Alice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!