Tesla shield mechanics

Apart from the usual shielding up of tesla shield, blocking up direct cannons hit and stopping a tesla stun, I'm curious about the mortar blocking mechanics of the tesla shield. I'm aware that it blocks the direct hit when shielded up in the centre, but why are we getting hit when we are near the radius of the impact. Do we get less damage after we shield up or do we get the same damage regardless of we shield up. This data will help me making a strategy on a mortar match when using tesla shield as the cooldown is fairly high. Any other tesla shield function sharing that we may or may not know is welcomed....

 

The damage outside the center of drop point is splash damage. So even if the shield is up you get the damage anyway. It's the shockwave from the point of explosion that does the damage and not the actual shell.

 

that is splash damage...

I'm pretty sure its the same damage Tesla shields are just meant to block projectiles and direct damage... when you are blocking a mortar shot you are stoping the mortar shell from hitting the water and damaging you and your team... if the shell hits the water you are going to take the same amount of damage with the shield as you would without I think, I never used Tesla shield but I'm pretty sure this is how it works...

Well, a weakness of the Tesla shield is that if an unfriend goes inside your shield they can damage you and still do full damage with the shield up...

 

Tesla shield is very weak at rare- 280 hitpoints at start with a rare mortar doing more damage than that anyway lol

 

Tesla shield should give you stun resistance upon being broken or when unfriends try to pass through, they are stunned for 3 seconds

Also it doesn't matter if you have a shield up or not, you will still recieve the same amount of damage from a mortar

 

They can also stun you twice if they stun with both from the inside then break your shield or vice versa

 

You sure about that?,Thats a good sign tho

 

Its not hard to test tho. Have someone with a tesla shield that has more hp than you sniper shot in a custom battle. Have them put up the shield while you fire 10-20 times.

 

Yea,I feel the same way.Mk6 speeders and enforcer make the darn sniper useless

 

I hit mk 6 a few days ago, Now running double tesla shield Enforcer. I can tell you when my shield is broken I know it was a big hit.
Both my sheilds hp are around 950, so I use em more for a run and save.
As far a splash damage, Yea. Mortars, can still get hit by torpedos and their splash. And Mines still are a constant threat.
Only a direct block will save you from any damage.
If you are taking damage and know your shield will pop soon, hit the Overboost for right before contact, Let the shield break, and your still boosted. Then run.

 

The game has pretty well made physics and are based on those so let me explain it this way :
Tesla shield protects you from 'Airborne' Projectiles.
what are airborne projectiles? - mortars, cannons, carronade, grenade, missiles, flare guns, firebombs. (Why these? cause their projectiles go over the waves and hover above, not stay or go with the surface level)
Rest everything you have which are NOT airborne:
mines - single spot surface level contact weapon
napalm - circular area surface level flare weapon
torps - wave surface level weapon, go along surface level
All of the three types of weapons above do damage to a player even if he has tesla shield on. Also all of these are on surface level, so tesla shield does not or cannot block anything from the surface level.
For example, If you take this into account, torps can go through tesla shields and so shield is completely ineffective against them. (one way to beat those enforcers with dual shields)
Following this knowledge, we know that mortars do splash damage within a radius from the center of hit and splash damage travels through the surface (not airborne) like torps. This splash damage is what the others have been saying too. Only way to avoid it is to rush past to the center of mortar fire and get the hit on your shield.

 

I'm pretty sure Sniper and other weapons may crit normally against Tesla Shield (and break it).

Napalm always breaks TS and stuns, no matter which level it is.
You can (and should) protect weak friendlies with your TS.

 

Thank you guys for the reply. So what I have gathered from all this information is that it is useless to open the Tesla shield if one is not near the center of the mortar shell drop, splash damage is going to get you regardless of one shield up or not. Equal level Sniper may/ may not break the shield (need more testing). You can get Tesla stunned even when you are stunned from breaking of Tesla shield ( two completely different stuns), timer varies, wonder why. Are rare tesla shield viable up in nightmare cos I have seen some pretty high speeder with rare Tesla shield in upper nightmares and the game is hell bent on not giving me epic Tesla shield and over boost.... Sad.... RNG rite.. What can one do...

 

Rare max tesla shield has 1177 hp.
It almost always breaks on the first hit, but if you get yourself into a tight spot taking one less hit is a very good thing.

 

I’ve heard my sniper crit on a tesla shield before

 

1)----->The benefit is even more than that,the best weapon to hit a fast moving speeder aka sniper does not crit(i think its a true rumor,however i would be glad if someone clears it out)

2)----->Cross hair turns grey,similar to when your shot is being blocked by obstacles.This often confuses the person targeting you thinking his shot will go to waste,however that might not occur more often in nightmare!