@@nuclearjanitors also increases endurance and boosts mental stability and longevity on extended missions. Also serves as a calming agent during high intensity combat periods
A Lasgun hitting a Holtzman shield does not only destroy the target but also the gunner, because both shield and lasgun explode in a massive nuclear reaction. And that's the main reason they stopped using lasguns.
They're not personal shields, the generators are too big. Examples of personal shields in 40k include conversion fields, refractor fields, and reductor fields. If we stretch the definition of shield there's also the displacer field.
Ok guys I like most your videos but wtf? You compared Holtzman shield and kinetic barier against a whole Mjoulnir armor and Katarn suit. Not realy fair now is it?
“The few victories that humanity did win were all carried out by the Spartan-IIs.” *Admiral Cole, Admiral Whitcomb, Vice Admiral Stanforth, Captain Keyes, and Alpha and Beta companies want to know your location.*
The plating was about to fail, there's viscosity throughout the gel layer. Optics? Totally fried, and lets not even talk about the power supply. You know how expensive this gear is, son?
@@hartianx1698 Well it was all obsolete anyway. Your new suit's a Mark VI, just came up from Songnam this morning. Try and take it easy till you get used to the upgrades. Okay, let's test your targeting, first thing. Please look at the top light.
DarkBooger That’s it. Now the bottom one. Okay. Everything checks out. Standby, I’m gonna offline the inhibitors. Move around a little. Get a feel for it. When you’re ready, come meet me by the Zapper.
The shields in Borderlands are pretty good. They're cheap enough that you can buy them from vending machines and so simple to use that every other psycho on Pandora has one. Plus by the end of the game they're so strong that lower level enemies can't even hurt you and you can survive going up against giant kaiju and building sized mechs.
Probably the largest leap in tech that would be required besides the shields is the power source. If we had micro fusion reactors we could probably make atleast mark 4 which didn't have shields.
the command and control systems need some work too. there can be a personell bottleneck when your bad ass armor can only be worn by mega roided trans humans. I think MJOLNIR is the most potent armor on this list but the clone commando armor is the most practical since any soldier can wear it.
When talking about the personal shields in Dune, you said that their vibrations were what attracted sandworms. While they can be attracted by vibrations, the specific presence of a Holtzmann field drives worms into a berserk rage, attracting many more than something like a thumper. Thus, suspensors will also attract worms as well as shields, as seen in the first chapter of Dune: House Harkonnen.
I remember reading that too in some of the novels, the repulsors and shield emitters had a high sub-sonic frequency they emitted when active. And sand being almost as conductive with sound as water in a way just drove everything within 3k nuts. Hence it was almost safer to use mechs or even wheeled vehicles since they could stop in their tracks and the worms would eventually loose interest, or try to get to the nearest rock outcropping to wait it out since the worms couldn't burrow through that. Or even traveling on foot, fremen had a system in place much like Tusken Dune Raiders. March in single file and in step to limit the vibrations emitted from walking in the desert.
@@Grounders10 Not to my knowledge, there are sarlac pits but they are stationary. They mainly marched in single file and in step to better hide their numbers, so that any would be retaliation might find themselves either facing a small group to a massive raiding party if they were to try to track them down. This also made it easier for people to lose their tracks if winds blew over and covered them. In mass or even walking in pairs there was a higher probability to find some hint, single file had the potential to be covered over with wind and storms. So any natural way of tracking would be null and void and would require some kind of tech to look for any signs of said tracks. That would mean tracking pheromones, possibly biological signals like blood, or some kind of radiation of some sort. Thermals would be next to useless unless it was the middle of the night with the suns down since the sand would be hot enough to mask any thermal readings of a foot print. If you saw the Mandalorain series there is a perfect example of this shown in an episode. I won't go into details as to not spoil it, but suffice to say the reasoning is justifiable.
The sound of a Mjolnir shield recharging is superb. You can almost feel the energy dispensed by the generators to rebuild and recharge the personal shield. Also, the in-built alert of shield loss feels grounded in reality, you must know you are no longer safe, you must go and take cover! In the same time, I like how Mass Effect shields react to incoming projectiles (they look like they ionize the air around them to disperse the sudden energy burst) and the effect of the shield recharging itself completely (the blue line rising up from the feet like saying: OK, now you're completely safe, again).
@@gameseeker6307 I can see that. Between limited runs, experimental technology, and incredibly rare materials for said experimental technology, the price would have ballooned quite quickly.
@@gameseeker6307 Oh definitely, but you can already see with the spartan-IV's how they're beginning to be able to mass produce suits at more cost effective rates. The prototypes (first Mk.V) would be insanely expensive, with most of the expense going to R&D costs. Future generations already have the technology, so it's just streamlining and optimizing it, plus the cost of materials. Would love to see how they looked in a hundred years.
Mark Jones spartan 4s are actually in super weaker armor and when i say weaker i mean it and there were thousands of spartan 3s and about 5k spartan 4s
@@gameseeker6307 that's largely thanks to their ability to house a smart AI. Artificial intelligence infrastructure is so incredibly expensive that the UNSC could only afford to install them on the flag ships of some of their fleets. that feature combined with the shield tech made a single suit of gen 5 Mjolnir armor value in the same neighborhood as a frigate. it's stated that the Spartan II project cost as much as a full battlegroup which would include numerous cruisers, frigates, destroyers and possibly a carrier. For context, there were only 33 Spartan IIs that received Mjolnir armor.
Honorary human status is but rarely afforded to non-humans, but Garrus definitely qualifies. Not only does he fight to protect human lives, but he offers great inspirational pep talks to Sheppard.
The best personal shield is the *Rey Shield.* A form of _plot armour_ introduced in The Force Awakens, it also works offensively - in fact many fans have found it somewhat offensive.
A old sci-fi franchise that never got the film treatment, *Issac Asimov's Foundation* series, contains some seriously powerful personal shields [HBO may be working on a adaption]. In fact it may be the sci fi origins of the personal force shield. It's an atomic shield that's worn as a belt and surrounds the wearer with a faint glow that is hard to notice at first. It can however stop a atomic blaster at point blank range. And to give you the idea of the power of a atomic blaster, it can disintegrate the upper half of a human and create a hole in the wall behind it in one shot - which the atomic shield wearing character did after the Empire official shot him on Trantor - a planet that makes Corescant look rural.
@@smallmoe maybe, in lore it even does that. of course we never see it because nothing in the trek universe does kinetic damage except the odd battlith (or similar). picard in the holodeck fired miniature force fields at the borg that looked like bullets. frankly the lack of kinetic weapons in trek is a whole weakness in their infantry.
@@jamoecw There is the TR116b from the DS9 series but I don't remember if it ever saw use against the borg. I agree, you really can't go wrong with a good slugthrower.
Na man it's all about that Grey Knight Terminator armor with rosarius and iron halo. Chief could wail on that all day until he gets tired of running around, comes in for the melee and get bitch slapped so hard Khorne pops a massive chain axe boner
Guy #1: "Quick quick, reverse the polarity!" Guy #2: "Why are you trying to break my shield while simultaneously killing me? Why would you even suggest that?" Guy #1: "But...but PLOT armor!"
The Personal shield emitter from Stargate Atlantis. It basically make you immune to everything while active, can be controlled with your mind, and comes in two forms (One that anyone can use when activated, and one that imprints on the first user_
Minor side effect that it can't be turned off in the user feels any sense of danger. In a unknown place, surrounded by bad guys, have fun eating anything.
The strongest, toughest and meaniest of sields, is actually used by an enemy I will never forget that epic bossfight yes, I'm looking at you marauder shields, oh final boss of Mass Effect
I really liked the personal protection shield from Stargate: Atlantis. Yeah, you could suffocate if you were buried alive or submerged under water but aside from that you were invincible.
Though to be fair the Imperium does quite a nice spectrum of non-Void Shield personal energy shield technologies too, such as Conversion and Displacement fields.
Simple answer-> gameplay reasons. Lore answer-> No idea, if anything I feel like we should've been able to freaking blind an entire mountain-side with our flashlights considering we've got a nuclear reactor in our armor haha.
The shield might be an energy field with no di-electric, but if the flashlight battery is just a chemical battery, you have to wait longer to avoid exploding batteries. It should have just been on a circuit for continuous power, but... *mutters something about the government, and the lowest bidder*
Well, no, the shields in Mass Effect DID protect against energy weapons, it just did better against kinetic attacks, there are many times in game when the shields protect you against energy damage, often very very intense energy damage.
For the mass effect shield section you should have separated it into two categories because there are shields and barriers in mass effect there not the same thing just sayin
Of the 4 mentioned in this video I personally prefer the kinetic barriers. The Mjolnir shields do beat out kinetic barriers in terms of raw defensive strength, I'm not denying that. But I would prefer kinetic barriers because of one thing. They are more user friendly. In the books when the Master Chief first uses them in a combat sim he complains that the shields on the bottom of his boots make it feel like he's trying to walk on ice and the shields on his hands feel like when he's trying to hold something it's covered in oil, it's slippery and difficult to handle. His solution is to weaken the shield power in those areas. It works but makes those spots vulnerable. Kinetic barriers don't suffer from that drawback. They work by detecting incoming threats via a virtual intelligence and intercepting them with a mass effect field. Better still they are adaptable. In ME2 you can get what's called a "Shield Harness" that increases shield strength by 10%. It's basically just a belt with a built in kinetic barrier generator. Mjolinr systems are still somewhat new in the Halo universe where as if you read the lore kinetic barriers have been around for a long time. any tech that's new will always have kinks and bugs to iron out. Plus defensive tech is always designed based on what threats it's facing. Take IRL Kevlar vest and ballistic plates for example. Good against bullets and shrapnel, bad against swords and large blades. my point is Kinetic barriers are more widely usable then Mjolinr, not has hazardous and personal deflector shields, and not as quarky as the shields from Dune. But that's just my opinion.
You missed a few personal shields. For instance Star Trek had a few examples of personal shields. The most basic wasn't for combat but exploration and was seen mostly in the cartoon. The other is in Star Trek online. Also there are more too. Make a sequel for this video please. So much more out there.
Honorable mention for the Sentients shields of the Warfreme universe. A shield that assimilates the technology that attacks it making it not only evolve, but also makes other Sentients technologies more advanced in the process.
I can't help but wonder the difference between dune shields and other shields... What would happen to a dune ship and shields should they meet and fire their las guns at say a star wars ship shields and quad laser cannon? Would both blow up because of the dune las gun, or would the dune ships shields explode alone because of laser bolts? OR would both essentially nullify each other? I could only really guess at what would happen with holts man shields vs other shields and weapons. What is the best guesses?? Edit: side note..... what would happen if some dune worms or the little dune trout worms ended up (dropped off) on the desert planet in star wars Tatooine ?? would they get eaten, or terraform the planet completely into a new spice planet dune 2? There was a lot of meat eaters in Tatooine... so i wonder what would eat and what would get eaten after some time.
The clone commandos were more independent not aggressive. They were also trained with their squad from birth. Dam clone lives would suck with the speeded up lives.
Toss up between Mjolnir shields and Katarn shields. The fast recharge of the Mjolnir and high toughness of it is good, while being able to tank a railgun on steroids from point blank range is a point towards Katarn shields.
Only really great if you are the 5th person to be hit. The fact that you often need multiple hits before they adapt to a new or slightly modified weapons fire disqualifies it as a personal shield in my opinion. Of course loosing a couple of drones is not really a problem for the Borg but for a person that is concerned with self preservation not so great.
@@victorselve8349 hell that's the stormtrooper/ cloner trooper doctrine. There is always more to take your place. The Borg Queens and the Collective really push the needs of the many, out way the needs of the few. I think the war with Species 8472 lost sectors of cubes.... that has got to be in the billions or trillions
@@tomcat124us yes. And would you want to be a Strom trooper? No. If I'm talking my personal protection there are simply better options (Also last time I kept track of canon storm trooper armor would often reduce blaster hits to non lethal knockouts although I'm no sure if that still holds true in the Disney canon)
I prefure 40K's Convershion Field generator. It converts and disperses Kenetic and energey impacts across its surfaceand converts soild projectiles into heat and light, the harder you hit it the more affective it is. the one draw back to the field is that since kenetic rounds are vaporised in the contact resulting in a photonic flash and shockwave. so when the shield is hit by a mass driver round the indevidule is turned into a masive flash bang grenade.
phantasy star online had shileds, so did xenosaga, as did warframe and so many others..... but not a bad list, just..... expected a bit more variety. the Dune part was a great addition to your usual star wars, halo, mass effect list.
Dude, we could spend all week talking about all the sci-fi MMORPGs' energy shields. Hell, why don't we bring up all the Power Ranger ones while we're at it?? -_-
The best energy shields in science fiction are Alteran shields in the Stargate series. Regular old shields conk out when they've absorbed enough damage to overwhelm them, and this includes Goa'uld and Asgard shields. Alteran shields stay up so long as they're fed power. Even better, Alteran ship shields (excluding cityship shields, as those did double duty in retaining a breathable atmosphere) are conformal shields as opposed to bubble shields, so they don't suffer from the problem of blocking shots that would otherwise have missed if the shield hadn't gotten in the way. Alteran personal shields have all the advantages of their upsized counterparts, but they also do full inertial cancellation. You could fall off the top of a skyscraper and land on your head and the shield would tank the entire impact with no harm coming to you (beyond the probable heart attack from panicking over falling from such a height). Also Mass Effect shouldn't be on the list because its energy shields aren't energy shields, they're kinetic barriers. That's not just a difference of wording, Mass Effect's kinetic barriers can't stop energy at all, because it's right there in the name, they're kinetic barriers, they only stop kinetic impacts, and the faster those kinetic impacts, the less capable the barriers get. It's why Reaper beam weapons, despite not being true energy weapons (but relativistic kinetic weapons), cut through kinetic barriers like they weren't even there.
Allen, post Return of the Jedi Purge Troopers have shields that block energy, physical ballistic projectiles, lightsabers, and even force powers. The only way to get through the shields was with Ion Disruptor weapons and the effects were not permanent.
2:40 Stopped equipping with lasguns... I would make a fuckload of remotely operrated drones armed with those to fuck everyones day. Unless i want one certain place to remain intact. I wouldn't use it there but still try to make them piss their pants. Oh! And small, flat landmines exploding when you step on them! That would fuck up the guy. Imagine one stepping on a piece of floor that than clicked and exploded directing entirety of it's force INSIDE of the shield. I would NOT want to have a shield than. I could live without a leg but going squish inside of the shield becouse of the way the explosion would "echo" would be... just ouchie. Add a penetrator or a few for those fuckers in some heavier armor and voila. We are golden. 9:20 Well... No. Those use both magnetic acceleration to accelerate it AND mass effect to make object behave as if it had smaller mass. The only adventage it has is that it moves stupid fast, so we calculate the damage and penetration using fluid mechanics and that is quite a force multiplier. The thing is those are tiny, little and short grains (not even DARTS) of metal that behave as if it was lighter. It fucks over any calculations becouse we don't know how much energy they do have becouse we do not know if they behave as if their mass was 1/2 1/5 or 1/100000. We don't even get to see how their armor fares against conventionall shit. And cutscenes do not help. AT ALL!!!!! The wounds look like anything we could produce with good ol' slugthrowers and they follow the same good ol' movie logic of "armor does not protect". So fuck me i guess and anyone who cares for details. Am i right? 10:25 You remember the Mk7 or Mk8 armour from 40k? Yeah. Those are a thing. Other ones exist too and they are much easier and cheaper to make than a fucking DESTROYER! Not all of them but we are not talking about super-artificer-cataphracti-armor optimized for parkour. Yes, I am salty about the merry jumping in DoW III. How did you know?
Ad Holtzman Shields. That is BS, because the average speed of air molecules is 500m/s. Even the dumbest of viewers should know, that this is significantly more than supersonic. Slow moving arrows won’t even make it past 100m/s so the air molecules move much faster, and not blocking them would not block even most 357 magnum rounds.
The Warhammer 40k personal shields are by the best shields. They are powered by pure "fuck you, can't touch this" from the Warp (basically hell), as well as faith in the almighty God Emperor.
Ya current Primaris shields take multiple tank and missle shots. Custodes shields have taken starship weapons so gigatons. Ya I love Halo but I would take a Custodes shield 100% of the time and even a Primaris shield over a Spartans but it would be next.
The way mass effect kinetic barriers worked was a soldier's hardsuit was covered in small immiters. If these immiters detected an object heading towards them above a cirtain velocity, they would then activate a series of rotating energy fields(called mass effect fields) which would collide with the object, stopping it in in its tracks or deflecting it Like mentioned in the video kinetic barriers only block projectiles not toxins, radiation or extreams of temperature. They relied on armor for that. Projectiles are not completely useless against barriers however. Too many hard, fast shots at once could overwhelm the suits power core, causing the shields to temporarily shut down The actual armor its self consisted of 3 layers. The first was a cellular type of material, the second consisted of multiple sheets of ablative ceramic in places that didn't require maneuverability. Due to high mass compaction, this armor was a hell of a lot harder than steel but also much lighter. These sheets were also designed boil away when heated, this meant that if the armor was hit by an energy based weapon, instead of absorbing the impact, it dispersed the heat over a larger area and ultimately reduce the damage. The third was the kinetic-barrier
Not a lot of people know about the Katarn Class Troopers, you would think the more visible reference you would have used was the Droideka seeing as it was in the Films.
Where is the vortex shield? It doubles as an offensive weapon. I guess because you could say it isn't a P.E.S. because it is equipped to a titan not a pilot
Noticed that some of those shields had a better or worse attempt to put some science behind the tech, whereas others are just... energy fields. Shame! Shame! Shame!
I'm a childhood Halo fan, but the commandos shields are pretty damn cool man. Of course I also may be bias due to both of the shields being fairly similar lol.
