Alastair Foster

> I picked up two power ups: Power Drain just empties your shield.
> Useful. Almost as useless is the bubble shield. The first problem is it
> only stops bullets coming in, not people, so if you use it in the heat
> of a battle then someone can still sneak up behind you and **** you
> over the head. The second problem is that it takes about two seconds
> from you dropping it for it to deploy, and you have to be within about
> a foot of it to be caught in the radius and protected. So basically you
> have to stand still for two seconds, which usually means death in any
> scenario where you'd feel compelled to use it.
>

Power Drain removes the shields of everyone around it. Meaning enemies
are pretty much 1shot.

The bubble shield has some very good tactical uses from what i have
seen. It can be used in doorways to stop incoming fire (you can just
stand behind it), in desperate situations it can provide a safe place
to reload, you can use it to recover your shield, if a sniper is
pinning you down you can just pop in it, you can take out turrets with
it (cover the turret with a bubble, although why you would want to i
dunno i am making these up as i go along!), you can hide the flag
carrier in it and defend him especially useful if he is nearly dead,
trap an enemy in there with a grenade!!, and loads more inventive uses
that no doubt the community will come up with. Its only been 6 hours!

One use i have found for it is that it attracts enemies like bait. On
high ground going into the path of the turret popping a shield and
seeing the turret guy constantly shoot me in vain, whilst the rest of
his team run towards me in order to melee me. Leaving the defences
wide open =)