| Page Contents Current As of Patch: | 2022-01-26 |
| Hardlight Barrier | |||
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| Deploys a chest-high hardlight barrier which protects from incoming fire until it expires or is destroyed. Only one barricade may be active at a time. This barrier can co-exist alongside a deployed Reserve Hardlight Barrier. | |||
| Costs | |||
| Cert Cost: | 1,000 
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| DC Cost: | 699 
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| General Info | |||
| Empire: |   
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| Can Use: | 
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| Weapon Type: | Deployable | ||
| Data Sources? | |||
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| Census LF API source: | Hardlight Barrier API Data | ||
The Hardlight Barrier is a deployable ability available to the Engineer. It is unlocked through purchase with Certification Points or Daybreak Cash.
Hardlight barriers are chest-height energy barricades that can be deployed almost anywhere, giving the engineer access to a portable 'hard' cover option. Unlike the engineer's other deployables, hardlight barriers are fully immune to small arms and melee type damage, and instead can only be damaged with higher caliber weaponry and explosives.
Hardlight barriers will fully prevent damage from passing through, they will block bullets and the area-of-effect damage from explosions, and are high enough to cover crouching infantry—though their head may still be vulnerable to precise fire.
Hardlight barriers will only disappear when destroyed, if another barrier is placed, or if the engineer changes classes/continent. Thus, though they share the same slot as other abilities, hardlight barriers can be placed alongside the engineer's other deployables if the engineer changes loadout while the barrier remains alive.
Reserve Hardlight Barrier[]
| Reserve Hardlight Barrier | |||
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| Deploys a chest-high hardlight barrier which protects from incoming fire until it expires or is destroyed. Only one barricade may be active at a time. | |||
| Costs | |||
| Cert Cost: | 500
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| DC Cost: | Unavailable
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| General Info | |||
| Usable By: | 
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| Resource Cost: | 50 
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| Max Stock: | 2 | ||
The Reserve Hardlight Barrier is a utility slot deployable available to the Engineer and — through A.S.P. — the Heavy Assault. It is unlocked using Certification Points.
Though functionally identical when placed to the standard variant of the barrier, reserve hardlight barriers have two key differences (beside their loadout slot)—the user can only hold two at once, as opposed to the simple cooldown on the standard variant, and reserve hardlight barriers can be placed directly next to other hardlight barriers, whereas standard barriers have a minimum distance they must be placed from other barriers.
There is no difference between the Reserve Hardlight Barrier available to the Engineer, and that which is available to the Heavy Assault.
Certification[]
| Level | Cost | Description |
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| 1 | 500
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Deploys a chest-high hardlight barrier which protects from incoming fire until it expires or is destroyed. Only one barricade may be active at a time. |
Ribbon(s)[]
It is possible to earn ribbons while using Hardlight and Reserve Hardlight Barriers. Each ribbon is a standard award for achieving a set amount of draw fire assists with the barrier—which are earned by killing enemies who have hit a hardlight barrier (even if they did not deal any damage to it).
| Ribbon | Icon | Requirements |
| Draw fire Ribbon |  |
15 draw fire assists |
History[]
- November 20, 2017 Update
- Hardlight Barriers should no longer be able to be placed in front of spawn tubes.
- April 5, 2018 Update
- A new Utility Item, the Reserve Hardlight Barrier, has been added.
- Reserve Hardlight Barriers function similar to the standard Hardlight Barrier, except that you can only carry up to two before needing to resupply, and they cost 50 nanites a piece.
- Reserve Hardlight Barriers may be placed in close proximity to the Engineer's standard Hardlight Barriers.
- Engineer Turrets can no longer be stacked on top of Hardlight Barriers, and they are now more easy to climb over.
- A new Utility Item, the Reserve Hardlight Barrier, has been added.
- March 20, 2019 Update
- Tank cannon resistance (type 7) from 0 to -400
- HMG resistance (type 4) from 68 to 0
- C4 resistance (type 11) from 0 to -100
- Tank Mine resistance (type 9) from 0 to -50
- Infantry Rocket resistance (type 34) from 0 to -50
- A2G Warhead resistance (type 23) from 0 to -400
- Dev Note: We've done a once-over on the Hardlight Barrier's resistances to put it more in line with the amount of damage you'd expect a magical space wall to take from heavy ordnance.
- April 25, 2019 Update
- This item has received a new look.
See Also[]
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