How to Plant a Boomshield
Boomshields are not doubt the most important part of any strategy to beat the horde. By now you should know how to plant a boomshield, but if you don’t know how thats ok cause N3RDI3 has your back.
And now, for the magic AND mystery of planting a boomshield…
While holding the left trigger button, press the “X” button. This will make your character plant a shield.
Then you say, “BUT N3RDI3, SOMETIMES I JUST CAN’T PLANT IT!!!”
And then I say, thats because you are standing too close to an obstacle. Your character takes a step before planting a shield so you need to make sure you are back far enough from an obstacle to give your character room to take a lunge while planting the shield.
Then you say, “BUT N3RDI3, I’M NOT EVEN AROUND AN OBSTACLE AND I STILL CAN’T PLANT IT!!!”
And then I’m all… You are probably trying to plant it where an enemy/teammate was just killed. Sometimes walking back and forth will allow you to push a downed enemy out of the way so you can plant a shield. Sometimes there is just “gore” on the ground and you still can’t plant it. You can just hold it for a while until the gore goes away and you can try to plant it again, or you can find a clean patch of ground to put your boomshield in its home.
And then you’re like… “BUT N3RDI3, I JUST WANT TO DROP THE SHIELD. I STILL CAN’T PLANT IT AND I DON’T EVEN CARE AT THIS POINT. I JUST WANT TO THROW IT AWAY!!!”
And then I’m all like… If you can’t plant a boomshield and you don’t want to hold it anymore, switch to one of your other weapons. You will drop the boomshield.
Remember! Left Trigger + X