Riot Shield please?

[hool10]

A Riot Shield would be a perfect new melee weapon added to L4D 2. There is riot police and they are bulletproof, so just have riot shields laying around.

Abilities:
Can bash a group of zombies.
Can deflect Spitter globs.

Disadvantages:
Not able to use a gun as it's a melee item.
Back exposed.

 

[FISHY CRACKERS]

It's a good idea, but a disadvantage should never be something that you have even without the weapon, as you can tell, your back is always exposed.

 

[Pi Mu Rho]

Corner camping?

 

[hool10]

Well your team would have to cover your back and it would be great during gauntlet events and panic events.

 

[Lobster]

The spitter is supposed to stop corner camping, it seems a bit silly to give the player a way to imediately counteract it, and if you arnt using it for that, it would be a bit dull running round with a shield, when you could be using a weapon, I mean in the panic events, the one side of protection its gonna give you doesnt seem like much of a trade off for losing ur weapons.

Linking a weapon to the Riot Cops isnt a bad idea though, maybe a Baton, or maybe they could (rarely) be used to drop an item into the world, you kill one and he drops a Grenade or somthing like that.

 

[Eejit]

I want one of those diving knives that makes things explode. Zombie gibs!!