User blog comment:A Lonely Nomad/New Black Ops updates, super awesome!/@comment-66.176.175.70-20101209090723/@comment-150.199.20.130-20101209165340

blast shield reduced explosive damage by 1.4 and danger close increased explosive radius by 1.4 which means that all that blast shield just counteracted danger close, which almost every noobtuber had. blast shield is useless, perhaps if IW changed it to the same effect as flak jacket more people would use it. i personaly think they should make flak jacket insted of painkiller, if you got 2 deaths flak jacket would last the rest of that life.