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Symmasolan 08-31-2020 08:43 PM
Shield Release
 

The Shield system has finally been completed and released!~
The free shield that everyone voted for is being given away for free at the stall east of the Emerald Saloon.
https://i.imgur.com/X6X5URd.png

"So what does a shield even do?" you might be asking. Two things.
A shield is a fancy melee weapon, but with the functionality you'd expect of a shield- blocking.

"... Alright, so what does blocking do?"
That depends what you're doing with your shield at the moment you would be taking damage!
Each shield has two blocking amounts:
Passive mitigation, which reduces damage taken just for having a shield item equipped
Active mitigation, for when you're actively using your shield to block.

"How do I block?"
When you equip a shield, a small hotkey specific to shields will show up above your shooting control.
By default, when equipped the blocking action will be off.
https://i.imgur.com/e3L39mj.png
Tapping the hotkey will toggle the block function, making your next melee attack in to a block instead.
https://i.imgur.com/5kDSF3v.png
Using your block will freeze you in place for a very short time, but reduce the damage you take by a significant amount!

TL;DR? Here's a quick recording displaying how a shield works.
( Apologies for whack quality. The GIF is skipping a few visible game frames :[ )
https://i.imgur.com/7Io8n36.gif

People more interested can open the spoiler for a tiny number breakdown of the Iron Heart shield's stats, and how much it's reducing damage taken in the video.

Spoiler

The Iron Heart (the free giveaway shield) is a middle of the road shield. Moderately slow compared to a melee weapon so as to force someone to consider whether they'd go defensive or not.
All damage taken on West is rounded, using the rule of "if < .5, round down. otherwise, round up."

The blocking stats for Iron Heart are as follows:

Passive Mitigation: 10%
Active Mitigation: 35%
As a refresher, a .45 Rifle deals 15 damage per bullet.
When taking damage from a .45 Rifle, this is what the new damage taken looks like when using the Iron Heart:

Passive: -13 HP
Active: -9 HP
As a side note, blocking has no cooldown. However, no shield (now or ever) will be able to block 100% of damage taken.
Another important piece of info is that the damage reduction of shields does not take effect in events.


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On behalf of the Ol' West Team, I'd like to thank everyone who was patient enough to wait for this to finally get released.
We ran in to quite a few technical issues along the way, and this certainly isn't the original design we had in mind when we started work.
That said, we're far more than happy with the final product and glad to finally get it in to the hands of players!

We hope you all enjoy smashing your enemies and leading the charge with your friends at your back!


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