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So, you and your squad are off on a mission. You've got armour, guns, grenades, etc. - everything you need. But there's a catch - on this mission, there is likely to be little cover. What do you do? Take some of your own with you, of course! Deployable Cover can be anything from an energy barrier that deflects bullets to a big pavise that can be planted into the ground to protect you from arrow volleys. Often, the deployable cover won't be as durable as natural cover, eventually getting destroyed after it is shot enough (though, in the case of an energy shield, it may reactivate after a short time). It will, however, last indefinitely if it is left alone. If you carry the cover with you whilst making use of it, then it's closer to a shield. |
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Engineers in Star Trek Online (player characters and NPC Bridge Officers) can deploy Cover Shields, person-sized Beehive Barriers that protect a small firing position, or Force Field Domes that cover a larger area and prevent enemies from entering it. | |
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StarCraft: Zerg Defiler can cast a spell that creates a cloud of smog, rendering all direct ranged attacks useless against units under it, including your own. | |
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Every Homeworld game has something that's supposed to work this way. The original game's Defence Field Frigates were an out-and-out Useless Useful Shipnote The defence field effect only really protected the ship itself, which could be worked around except for the fact that the game averts 2DSpace and the AI is bright enough to exploit this fact. Worse yet, two of the four kinds of attack in the whole game flat-out ignore the shield.. Cataclysm introduced Sentinel fighters that worked a bit like the Planet Defensors referenced in the Gundam Wing entry on a smaller scale, and were slightly more useful. Homeworld 2 introduced a new Defence Field Frigate that corrected most of the original's deficiencies, but had a short duration and a long cooldown period. | |
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In Borderlands 3, one of Zane's Action Skills is a hologram barrier that can be deployed to protect him and his allies as well as amplify damage by shooting through it. He can also make the barrier surround him so that he can reap the benefits while still being mobile. | |
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The sequel featured laser barriers you could set up by placing special portable posts. It played vital role in several defensive scenarios. | |
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In Rainbow Six Siege, A common gadget for all members of the defending team (and defenders in general) is the Deployable Shield, which provides a small amount of cover just enough for a player to crouch behind. Some also use it as an obstacle by putting it inside a doorway, having just enough space to fully block the door, forcing the enemies to either, leave it alone and try another route, leap through it or even outright destroy it. Year Four's operative Goyo carries an explosive version of this shield called the Volcán Shield. Which has a fuel canister that allows it to function as an explosive Booby Trap. | |
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The Block ability in S4 League. | |
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In the first game, Borderlands, the Soldier's turret features an energy shield, as well as shooting things. | |
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Borderlands 2 has the Commando with a turret, which can create a shield with the right talent. | |
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Eldar guardians in Dawn of War 2 may deploy energy shields. | |
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Dragon Age: Inquisition introduces a new wall-of-ice spell that allows you to protect yourself and divide enemies. | |
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Global Agenda features this in standard and Limit Break formats for the Robotics class. | |
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In Regalia: Of Men and Monarchs, Levant has a skill called "The Last in Line" that spawns a short line of Hard Light shields that block enemy movement. | |
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Space Ghost episode "The Looters". Brak's ray shelter can generate an Impregnashield (a rectangular force field) in front of it. | |
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Engineers in Stronghold are capable to create cheap and expandable shields that can be deployed in the battlefield to protect other units from enemy fire. | |
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Warframe: Grineer Mooks like to deploy inflatable "blunts" which do nothing but provide cover. They're effectively immune to gunfire, but they can be easily popped with a melee weapon. They also slowly lose health over time. The Corpus units on Jupiter and the Orb Vallis can deploy vector shields, energy barriers that are taller and narrower than the Grineer blunts but are otherwise functionally identical. The Volt Warframe's Electric Shield ability creates a barrier of electricity that blocks all projectiles and strengthens allied gunfire that passes through it. He can optionally pick the barrier up and move it around. A more down to earth variant is Atlas' Bulwark rock walls, which he can summon out of the ground. In a pinch, he can also turn it into a boulder and send it rolling forward to crush enemies. Frost is a variation; his Snow Globe surrounds a sphere-shaped area around him, blocking enemy damage as long as the ice's health bar lasts. This makes him a popular defensive Warframe as he can safeguard objectives or block choke points. Gara's Mass Vitrify allows her to form an expanding ring of glass walls as a secondary effect of its crowd-controlling ability. It's a little less effective as a defense than Frost's Snow Globe, as her glass walls are open on the top, but she can easily shatter them to power up her other abilities to obscene levels (in the millions of damage per second if you have enough time and energy to set it up). |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Tower shields can be planted, meaning the user sacrifices all actions and the shield's usual bonus to Armor Class and takes full cover (untargetable, although enemies can certainly aim for the shield) instead. Many spells create or temporarily summon cover, such as in the form of walls of ice, stone, iron, or pure magic. Some have secondary effects like damaging enemies who try to breach them or being able to be tipped over onto an enemy's head. |
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A few characters in Overwatch have different versions of this: Mei's Ice Wall ability lays down a solid chunk of ice that blocks both incoming and outgoing fire. Reinhardt's Barrier Field is a mobile shield that can absorb a great deal of punishment as long as the player holds down the button to activate it. However, he can't attack and use the barrier at the same time. Winston's Barrier Projector lays down a temporary shield bubble that protects from all angles, though it has a limited duration and resilience. Orisa can throw down a stationary force field wall that protects her and her comrades from one direction. This was until Overwatch 2, which reworked her kit into a more offensive one and removed her shield. Sigma has his Experimental Barrier, a floating version of Reinhardt's that functions a bit differently. The player can hold down the button to move the shield forward in whatever direction they're facing, and then press the button again to retrieve it. 2's newcomer Ramattra has one too, however it only stays up for a few seconds after deploying it. It's usually used to create space for your team or provide quick cover from an active enemy Ultimate, rather than just putting it in one place for an extended period of time. |
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Transistor: The power of Cheerleaders. They generate protective shields around their target. The 2.0 version also makes its targets invincible, and 3.0 shields itself as well. | |
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GDI riflemen in Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars can build foxholes, which are basically Garrisonable Structures though this cost some cash and takes a while to build, and if you leave them empty, the enemy can use them too. | |
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In Nectaris, Triggers are somewhat like a form of deployable cover, despite looking like land mines and acting like units for most purposes, though they can neither move or attack once deployed. | |
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The Borderlands series: In the first game, Borderlands, the Soldier's turret features an energy shield, as well as shooting things. Borderlands 2 has the Commando with a turret, which can create a shield with the right talent. In Borderlands 3, one of Zane's Action Skills is a hologram barrier that can be deployed to protect him and his allies as well as amplify damage by shooting through it. He can also make the barrier surround him so that he can reap the benefits while still being mobile. |
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Halo: This piece of equipment in Halo 3 is the Trope Namer. You just tossed it out and it would throw up a shield that you could shoot through while blocking your enemies' shots. 3 also had the Bubble Shield, a form of deployable cover that created a sphere of protection 4m in diameter to wherever it was tossed. It could be walked through, but anything thrown or fired at it was unable to penetrate, even your own shots. Halo: Reach included it as an armor ability, making it smaller and able to heal any anyone inside it. |
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Cerberus in Mass Effect 3 deploys similiar shields, though they can be easily disabled by shooting the generator. In Multiplayer, the Geth Prime character class eventually brought back the energy shields from the first game, which is especially useful given that the Prime is one of the biggest playable characters and incapable of crouching behind cover. |
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The Geth in Mass Effect seem to be fond of deploying hexagonal energy shields in areas with little cover. The Collectors in Mass Effect 2 also deploy shields, circular but still with a glowing hexagonal pattern in them. Similarly, in the collector base mission, one of your party must create a Biotic shield to repel seekers and maintain it during the fight. Cerberus in Mass Effect 3 deploys similiar shields, though they can be easily disabled by shooting the generator. In Multiplayer, the Geth Prime character class eventually brought back the energy shields from the first game, which is especially useful given that the Prime is one of the biggest playable characters and incapable of crouching behind cover. |
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Rebuild World: Sheryl's gang uses portable Deflector Shields barriers, originally to barricade their Home Base, but after they Took a Level in Badass into Men of Sherwood territory, they use these on the sides of flat bed trucks for a contract clearing a road of The Swarm of huge monsters, as well as presumably during The Siege. They take advantage of their mobile nature to swap out barriers as they take damage. | |
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Planet Defensors in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing can be deployed to form a Deflector Shield. | |
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Starcraft II ups the ante with sentries, the premiere defensive units of the Protoss. Their standard defense, the force field can be used to prevent melee units from getting up close and to keep ranged units out of attack range when you pair them up with Colossi. Their secondary defense the guardian shield reduces incoming damage to great effect since it does so over a wide area. | |
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Champions supplement Gadgets! The Force Wall Generator was a device which, when placed on the ground and activated, would create an energy shield to block incoming fire. | |
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The Division had a waist-high deployable cover. | |
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In at least the third Ratchet and Clank game you can buy deployable cover. | |
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Command & Conquer series: In Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, the Allied GI units can deploy sandbags which gives them increased damage resistance and also allows them to deploy their machine guns, but this renders them immobile. The Guadian GI in the expansion can do the same, using metal plates instead and deploying a missile launcher. This increases their damage resistance but also protects them from being turned into roadkill by vehicles. How they get sandbags and metal plates anybody's guess* although for Guardian GI's sort-of explain it with their slower movement speed, most likely they actually have to lug around the metal plates alongside their flak armor and worse, how they set them up in less than a second. . GDI riflemen in Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars can build foxholes, which are basically Garrisonable Structures though this cost some cash and takes a while to build, and if you leave them empty, the enemy can use them too. |
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The Herculoids: Episode "The Time Creatures". The title opponents could press a button on their helmets and create a force field barrier in front of them. Episode "Invasion of the Electroid Men''. The title creatures could create an energy wall as a movable barrier. |
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Most defensive plants in Plants vs. Zombies and Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time are these as the player can plant them down for defending their easily-killed offensive plants. These often lack an attack but forces most zombies to eat them and therfore halting their advance. Of course, there are certain zombies who can One-Hit Kill them. The Wall-Nut acts as basic cover with good health. The Tall-Nut has even more health than the Wall-Nut, and it also prevents zombies from vaulting over it. In the sequel, it prevents zombies from flying over it or being launched over it. The Garlic has less health than Wall-Nut, but it diverts zombies to other lanes. The Pumpkin protects any plant it's planted on from non-lobbed attacks. The Infi-Nut has less health than the Wall-Nut, but if the hologram is left alone or killed, the projector will regenerate it to full health. Its Plant Food powerup produces a column-wide force field that blocks zombies on all lanes and can even withstand One-Hit Kill attacks. The Pea-Nut is a combination of this and an attacker, firing peas at zombies while providing defense. The Sweet Potato combines being this trope along with Draw Aggro, attracting zombies from adjacent lanes and forcing them to eat it. The Chard Guard has less health than a Wall-Nut, but can also Knock Back groups of zombies that approach it. It can only use the knockback ability three times, however. The Endurian acts as one while damaging any zombies that attack it thanks to its spikes. The Red Stinger is one when placed on the right side of the lawn, though since he costs three times as much as a Wall-nut and has less than half the health of one, this isn't really all that useful. The Primal Wall-Nut is similar to a Wall-Nut, except it costs more Sun, has a far faster recharge time, and best of all, can even withstand certain zombie attacks that would destroy most other defensive Plants in one hit. The Explode-O-Nut acts as a Wall-Nut with less health, but when it's killed, it will explode in a 3x3 area and One-Hit Kill most zombies. The Hot Date acts like a Sweet Potato, drawing zombies from adjacent lanes and forcing them to eat it, but once it's fully eaten it will also explode into a lane of flames that One-Hit Kill most normal zombies it affects. The Holly Barrier's a more traditional example. Like Endurian, it has good durability and it hurts zombies attacking it. It also can launch a berry at a targeted tile that knocks back zombies, and if the tile doesn't have a plant or obstacle it'll leave a spiked barrier that also damages zombies attacking it. Plants Vs Zombies 2 also contains a Zombie that uses this. The Tomb Raiser zombie will throw a bone on a random tile, creating an unplantable tomb that takes damage from and blocks straight shots. |
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Plants vs. Zombies: Heroes introduces more plants that play this role. Wall-Nut, Pea-Nut, Garlic, and Sweet Potato also return. The Water Chestnut has slightly more health than Wall-Nut, and can be placed in the water. The Mirror-Nut has the same amount of health as a Wall-Nut, and it damages the zombie hero whenever a nut plant receives damage. The Poppin' Poppies create three Deployable Covers, in the form of Lil' Buddies. Each Lil' Buddy is a One-Hit-Point Wonder, but will heal the plant hero for 2 HP each when spawned, for a total of 6 HP. The Prickly Pear has slightly less health than Wall-Nut, but when it takes damage, it deals 4 damage to a zombie in its lane, if there is one. |
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The Instant Wall in Amorphous+. It protects you from most Glooples except Grinders (but it breaks their shell), Void Eaters, and a few others. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: The "Fish of Fury" tactic was a much-hated but technically legal maneuver for Tau players where Glass Cannon Fire Warriors could be deployed behind their Devilfish transport, and because the Devilfish is a Hover Tank, it allowed the Fire Warriors to shoot enemies behind the tank while preventing said enemies from shooting the Fire Warriors (or if they did shoot back, anti-infantry weapons don't do much against vehicles). | |
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Splatoon has the sub-weapon Splash Wall, which is basically a pair of windshield wipers on a rig set up to spray a wall of ink to block enemy fire. They have limited duration and durability, but immediately splat anyone trying to go through them. | |
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The Warhammer Siege Rules allow archer units to carry pavises. The newest edition's common magic item list includes 'Fozzick's Folding Fortress,' which allows you to put up an entire watchtower in your deployment zone. |
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Gao soldiers in the Deathworlders equip Shield Sticks: high tech rods that create a Deflector Shield. Medics throw them up to protect patients. | |
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In Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, the Allied GI units can deploy sandbags which gives them increased damage resistance and also allows them to deploy their machine guns, but this renders them immobile. The Guadian GI in the expansion can do the same, using metal plates instead and deploying a missile launcher. This increases their damage resistance but also protects them from being turned into roadkill by vehicles. How they get sandbags and metal plates anybody's guess* although for Guardian GI's sort-of explain it with their slower movement speed, most likely they actually have to lug around the metal plates alongside their flak armor and worse, how they set them up in less than a second. . | |
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This piece of equipment in Halo 3 is the Trope Namer. You just tossed it out and it would throw up a shield that you could shoot through while blocking your enemies' shots. | |
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Squad's main feature is the setting up of Forward Operating Bases to defend or attack enemy bases. This requires a Squad Leader to start a deployable cover and the non-leader roles to dig it with shovels to build it. | |
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Girders in Worms can be deployed absolutely anywhere on the map and sort of magically spring into existence, and can be used for a certain degree of cover wherever it is needed. | |
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The gameplay of Fracture was built around the Entrencher, a device which in theory could raise and lower the ground to create cover and foxholes as needed. It didn't work well enough to make up for otherwise bland gameplay and story writing. | |
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The Auger's secondary fire in the Resistance series places a short-lived, man-sized wall of energy in front of the user, which is impervious to everything except Auger shots. | |
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GURPS High-Tech (a book of real-world tech) details "explosives blankets" which SWAT officers can use to protect themselves from attack. | |
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Unreal featured a forcefield item that could be activated to seal off a doorway or provide cover in a gunfight. The sequel featured laser barriers you could set up by placing special portable posts. It played vital role in several defensive scenarios. |
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GURPS: GURPS High-Tech (a book of real-world tech) details "explosives blankets" which SWAT officers can use to protect themselves from attack. GURPS Ultra-Tech (a book of science fiction tech) has various portable force screen generators. |
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Rust lets players instantly plop down full-health structures on any unused terrain, so it is very common to ambush a player, only for them to deploy cover and heal. There are structures clearly meant to be cover, like waist-high barricades, but the walls used to ring compounds are also popular, and scrappy players will use whatever they've scavenged, like repair benches and water barrels. | |
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The Locusts in Gears of War have bombs that make pillars of earth shoot up from the ground, which they then use as cover. Gears of War 2 introduces a shield that can be made into this. Gears of War 3 will have Silverbacks, mech suits that can turn their legs into cover at the cost of not being able to move while they do it. |
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World Trigger has the escudo, a trigger that allows the user to create barriers from trion. Unlike the usual shield trigger, the escudo becomes a physical object, and is created by rising from some surface, rather than manifesting in the air. | |
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GURPS Ultra-Tech (a book of science fiction tech) has various portable force screen generators. | |
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Princess Kushana uses a creeping barrage in the Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind manga to cover a cavalry charge that wrecks the enemy's artillery, buying time to relieve her besieged soldiers. | |
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