Safety Bubble - Once activated invulnerable bubble surround the poor logi.

So most of the community has fallen head over heels for the newest equipment. I think they are kinda lame, but that's just my opinion. But it got me wondering what other awesomely stupid things to fill our equipment slots.

Mind to the reader I would like to see this game go role specific and these equipment are thought of in such a universe.

Heavy Equipment (yes my universe also has an equipment slot. Everyone needs to know the feeling of a well placed slot.)
- Portable Cover - Throw down a hive and a 5k shield pops up the size of the 3 box cluster. Cover anytime in the harsh environment that is open field. Also handy for the local AV guy!

Assaults (2 slots of fullness for our favorite sons)
-Limited High Jump Pack - A jetpack of sorts to easily change tactical advantage. Or just simply jump from a cloak attack, and bring the rain down. It could even be a nano hive jump pad allowing multiple allies to jump to higher levels. Beats the broken ladders.

Logi(Now please remember this is fiction)
Safety Bubble - Once activated invulnerable bubble surround the poor logi. For combat pickups that don't suck for everyone involved. The bubble could house the said logi and one Light/medium suit. As long as they move like a three legged race.

Of course all of these stupid equipments would need short timers and long cool down or 1 per slot. But this should be true of the cloaks as well.
If there were more crazy sci-fi options I might find the cloak thing not so stupid.

Instead of a high jump pack, I want teleportation grenades.

Basically you throw them and they teleport you where they land (after about a sec of settling).

They'd be balanced because they take some time to arc and activate, useful for scaling buildings/ infiltrating, and balanced again because of difficulty of use (imagine throwing them in the redline or an acid bath).

So most of the community has fallen head over heels for the newest equipment. I think they are kinda lame, but that's just my opinion. But it got me wondering what other awesomely stupid things to fill our equipment slots.

Mind to the reader I would like to see this game go role specific and these equipment are thought of in such a universe.

Heavy Equipment (yes my universe also has an equipment slot. Everyone needs to know the feeling of a well placed slot.)
- Portable Cover - Throw down a hive and a 5k shield pops up the size of the 3 box cluster. Cover anytime in the harsh environment that is open field. Also handy for the local AV guy!

Assaults (2 slots of fullness for our favorite sons)
-Limited High Jump Pack - A jetpack of sorts to easily change tactical advantage. Or just simply jump from a cloak attack, and bring the rain down. It could even be a nano hive jump pad allowing multiple allies to jump to higher levels. Beats the broken ladders.

Logi(Now please remember this is fiction)
Safety Bubble - Once activated invulnerable bubble surround the poor logi. For combat pickups that don't suck for everyone involved. The bubble could house the said logi and one Light/medium suit. As long as they move like a three legged race.

Of course all of these stupid equipments would need short timers and long cool down or 1 per slot. But this should be true of the cloaks as well.
If there were more crazy sci-fi options I might find the cloak thing not so stupid.

Got to admit, the portable cover is one of the dumbest ideas I've heard, yet it's genius! It'll fit perfectly into DUST.

So most of the community has fallen head over heels for the newest equipment. I think they are kinda lame, but that's just my opinion. But it got me wondering what other awesomely stupid things to fill our equipment slots.

Mind to the reader I would like to see this game go role specific and these equipment are thought of in such a universe.

Heavy Equipment (yes my universe also has an equipment slot. Everyone needs to know the feeling of a well placed slot.)
- Portable Cover - Throw down a hive and a 5k shield pops up the size of the 3 box cluster. Cover anytime in the harsh environment that is open field. Also handy for the local AV guy!

Assaults (2 slots of fullness for our favorite sons)
-Limited High Jump Pack - A jetpack of sorts to easily change tactical advantage. Or just simply jump from a cloak attack, and bring the rain down. It could even be a nano hive jump pad allowing multiple allies to jump to higher levels. Beats the broken ladders.

Logi(Now please remember this is fiction)
Safety Bubble - Once activated invulnerable bubble surround the poor logi. For combat pickups that don't suck for everyone involved. The bubble could house the said logi and one Light/medium suit. As long as they move like a three legged race.

Of course all of these stupid equipments would need short timers and long cool down or 1 per slot. But this should be true of the cloaks as well.
If there were more crazy sci-fi options I might find the cloak thing not so stupid.

Grappling hook gun. Plasma-powered rollerblades. Proximity Flux Mines (or maybe with laser trip wires). ECM jammers and what not. Rep Tool variant that derepairs enemies and Nanite Injector that overloads systems of injected enemies and screws with them in various ways.

You know they're planning on putting a "bubble shield" which fills the roles of portable cover and the invulnerability bubble thing but doesn't do either one too ridiculously, right?

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I'm a fan of adding jump packs - NOT jetpacks - but they would EITHER have to come with a "no fall damage while equipped" effect, or you'd have to jump high enough to get inertia dampening as you fall, otherwise they're pretty bad.

And proper jetpacks would be ridiculously awkward as equipment, and I can't think of anywhere else you'd fit one that would work better, unless they give MTACs jump jets.

Trap Nano hives that when thrown down turn red to us, blue to the enemy, but deplete ammo reserves when the enemy steps over them instead of giving them ammo.

Shield Bubbles are in the Works, deployed like a nanohive allows you to rez and rep nearby enemies without that damn sniper getting everyone 25 times.
No Jump Jets EVER, nor Jump pads, or any jump anything.
Deployable cover is regularly discussed but not nearly as powerful you have suggested.

Also considered, deployable
Light Turrets
Drones
Sensor Arrays
TacNet Scramblers
Tether Beacons

yeah rep tool variant!! cuz i'm always trying to rep a raspberry to death.