Deployable Shields/Utility

Since the introduction of the extraction holdout phase, I’ve always wondered: What if we could make our own cover? As we get more objectives, I would expect some of them to ask us to defend a position for some amount of time, so it would be cool to see players get the ability to put down a one-time use shield for cover or have the ability to chock off doors. In turn, just so that players can’t simply chock off all doors and sit in peace and quiet, certain units (heavies?) can carry their own breaching charges and blow up doors (and players who aren’t careful!) Also given the propensity for the bots to throw grenades, I would expect turtling behind shields to be difficult. If that’s not the case, enemies can also target shields with grenades more often as a behavior as well.

Of course, this idea can extend to other concepts as well, the ammo crate is definitely a pretty popular pick.