Yes, that was the shield, you can upgrade either the size or the duration increase drastically, enough for reviving someone and clearing the area around it. It is probably the best support tool in the entire game. The zipline is slow to set up but can be used multiple times by multiple people at the same time, and it is rather slow, but if set up at an angle you can slide down much faster if you press W

Don't underestimate the firepower the gunner can bring, he can be slower then scout but he can clear the rooms and corridors he passes much faster and efficiently, making them safer for when you need to pass trough them again during extraction. Also don't underestimate the advantage a ziplane can carry in a fight, you will be focused much more from enemy that can hit you while in the air, but anything else will be completely unable to hit you. and you as a gunner have the best tool for staying alive: the shield

Usually people like this are just leeching of other people's work while actively making it harder

Corporate love the smell of free exposure and advertising

One garbage man work is more useful and important than 100 CEOs, policemans and politicians

If they lobby against it that means it's working

If they lobby against it that means it's working

Be kind to the people around you, the elite want you to be alone and to hurt others so that it's impossible to fight against them and their exploitative system

Can you explain this for a non American?

You're not wrong, but in this context it has been clearly used to make people think it's an anctial intelligence, and there's much disinformation about it. Before not many people believed that a sorting algorithm or the machine learning used in medicine were self aware, but now many tools and user interfaces seem to push that idea

I mean, there's a reason the (incorrect) term being pushed for those things is AI instead of LLM; to make people believe they are somewhat aware and nobody is truly responsible for the mistakes they make instead of being a tool in the hand of the government and corporations to push agendas and limit accountability

Remember that in the fight against the system, excluding any category is helping the system win