Ok Fatshark we tried out having the shielded guys from Vermintide no one liked and we decided (i asked everybody) we don’t like them so we can get rid of them now. Thanks! (Please ask next time before slipping it in)
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i liked them
i like them
there is no “we”,
I like em and thats all i care about 
VT2 handles shield enemies better, you can spend stamina to open them up, you can smash some of the shields very quickly, and you have access to weapons like flails which ignore shields. DT continues being inferior in that regard. Tide games in general don’t mesh with shield enemies because of limited control over your weapon attack angles / direction etc. Havoc screws with Bulwark attack recovery timings too, which makes it hard to dodge and jab against them, especially with certain “difficulty” modifiers.
Maybe you don’t like them, yet there are other players and myself that enjoy their inclusion into the game
On melee skitarii they’re basically just hit sponges so far, so it remains to be seen if I really like them.
There are tons of attack properties that ignore shields, and some that break them and deal full damage like they don’t exist. Maybe they should have given a more substantial change to the weapons that have those properties, but that’s definitely not the case here.
Though we should get flails now, like g’damn do shields ever make a case for flail weapons.