Boomshields and You!

In earlier versions of GOW2, the locust horde could not kick down boomshields. This was a bug that was exploited by gamers since you could plant a shield backwards in a doorway and it would never get kicked down. A patch to GOW2 fixed that bug, but many people still think planting them the opposite way will protect them.

Planting shields backwards will NOT prevent them from getting kicked down. Always assume they will get kicked down sooner or later.

I ran across a cool yet not so cool glitch a few weeks ago on Day One. You can plant a shield on the balcony above the arcade so that it faces the street in a space that does not have a short wall for protection. You can actually climb over the shield and jump to the street below from the balcony. This is cool if you are getting rushed by the horde and need to escape. Unfortunately for me, I landed on top of a truck below and was stuck on the truck for a few rounds until I died. Morale to the story, don’t jump off a balcony onto a truck when a escaping the horde.