shield bug?

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Drakna
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shield bug?

Post by Drakna »

this may actually be a feature of some beam weapons i am not sure. but it seems against some of the beam weapons shields dont block any damage. i have 4 of those IR laser beams and shields dont seem to matter to them. this goes the same for alot of the turret mounted weapons on cap ships. i take hull damage despite my shields appearing to not have taken any damage
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Post by Dyskord »

I think there are weapons that have "phase damage" which goes straight through shields.
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Post by Drakna »

ah so thats what phase damage is
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Post by jackS »

Dyskord wrote:I think there are weapons that have "phase damage" which goes straight through shields.
And you would be entirely correct to think so :)

Actually, many of the new weapons have at least some shield-penetrating damage, but most of them only do a small fraction of their damage as shield piercing. Laser-type weapons (not to be confused with the "Laser" weapon which clearly states that it's not a LASER), on the other hand, are notable in that they do the majority of their damage in a shield piercing fashion.
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Post by Drakna »

*nods* or basically all thier damage in a shield piercing manner. IE my FS IR laser range of 22.5 Km does 529 MJ phase damage but only actually does some 226 MJ damage
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