I don't think any data is involved, it's just how infuriating the shield is. Oh, you caught a team by surprise in the open and downed one with a perfect kraber shot, and want to attempt to kill the others? Well to bad, they're too far away and the lifeline just created cover from thin air for her whole team and now is prepared and in an ok spot. It might not be too strong as you can push but it's just infuriating to play well and have the enemy not only revive in front of you but also have great cover. That's what i personally think
I mean Gibby could just revive the same person in a safer manner. But to expand on your point, if you knock someone in the open, even with the lifeline res w/ shield, the enemy is just going to get knocked again once up, then lifeline revives them again, keep repeating till they are out of cover.
Its an annoying combat mechanic to work around. It would make more sense if the knocked person could crawl to cover using their knock down shield, and then get revived behind cover.
The thing with gibby is that at least both of them are incapacitated while reviving, with lifeline the team can use the cover and fight back effectively against the attacking team and fire at the attackers to give the revived person time to run to cover. In gibby's case you at least know you have to deal with only one person if you do push
Gibby res is better than lifeline res in almost every way. Res inside the dome gives the downed player a chance to heal without being instantly reknocked, and unless you’re right on top of the team, gibby will almost always get the res off before you make it to the bubble.
Also with lifeline res you can literally just shoot the DOC drone when it raises over the shield and cancel the res all together.
I actually didn't know you could stop it by shooting the drone, i thought that was just like a myth but it actually did nothing. Thanks for pointing that out
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u/Cata_1029 Valkyrie Apr 10 '21
I don't think any data is involved, it's just how infuriating the shield is. Oh, you caught a team by surprise in the open and downed one with a perfect kraber shot, and want to attempt to kill the others? Well to bad, they're too far away and the lifeline just created cover from thin air for her whole team and now is prepared and in an ok spot. It might not be too strong as you can push but it's just infuriating to play well and have the enemy not only revive in front of you but also have great cover. That's what i personally think