Hound precept mods (Null Audit & Reflex Denial) and their interaction with gameplay

[ShadowFrost777]

While their gameplay with the new Bond mods has created an incredible new meta, I have come across some glaring issues with Hounds' precept mods in regular gameplay. 

I run Null Audit and Reflex Denial on my hound, and in theory they're very useful. However, as abilities they can be extremely intrusive into gameplay, and outright hinder you from killing enemies in certain circumstances. 

For example with Reflex Denial, it creates a 12m radius Mesa Shatter Shield around the hound. Sounds useful. However very annoyingly, when the hound is standing next to an enemy attacking it, the bubble eats my bullets and glaive :/

And with Null Audit, if the hound eats a cold eximus, it becomes a mobile snow globe that eats every and all shots. Very annoying. These wouldn't be that big of an issue if your hound didn't insist on running directly in front of you at every given chance. The snowglobe is also full brightness, making it difficult to A) differentiate from other cold eximus', and B) difficult to see thru and see what on earth you're aiming at. (Granted there are accessibility settings to fix this, but that shouldn't be necessary imo)

It's enough of an issue at this point that I'm ready to put the hound back into retirement and go back to my good old panzer, cuz at least he didn't actively hinder my gameplay.

But it's an easy fix, simply make all bullets/glaives/etc go right through the snowglobe or shatter shield, that way it doesn't get in the way. 

[CrownOfShadows]

Agreed. Very annoying.

They could also use a little bit more love in their mod department in general. Similar to Kubrows & Predasites, they are mostly just weaker/less useful versions of Vulpas and Kavats. I think there's great potential for making them anti-corpus specialists in particular. Maybe give them a mod to annihilate nullifier bubbles for example, or strip all shields from an enemy. You could in turn make Kubrows anti-grineer specialists and Predasites could be anti-infested/anti-corrupted specialists.