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Tackywheat1

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Bug?
« on: August 31, 2019, 12:13:57 PM »
I was going around destroying tri tach stations/star fortresses when I realized that the stations tachyon lances were barely scratching my shrikes shield (I was bored of piloting my Paragon). Is this a bug?
edit: I'm on easy mode (first playthrough) but 25% damage reduction doesn't account for it basically doing 0 flux
edit 2: not sure if this is a bug so not posting there
« Last Edit: August 31, 2019, 12:20:49 PM by Tackywheat1 »
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Wyvern

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Re: Bug?
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2019, 12:44:03 PM »
Beam weapons - including the Tachyon Lance - do "soft flux".  Soft flux - from incoming beam weapons, your own weapons firing, and your shields' maintenance costs - can be dissipated while shields are up, while hard flux - from incoming non-beam hits - can only be dissipated while shields are down.  In other words, if your flux dissipation is high enough, you can simply ignore those lance hits.

(Well, okay, if your hard flux level is high, the Tachyon Lance in particular has a shield-piercing EMP effect.  But that only triggers if your hard flux level is high.)

Between that and the damage reduction for playing on easy mode, this seems like it's probably not a bug.
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Re: Bug?
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2019, 04:32:02 PM »
Quote from: Wyvern on August 31, 2019, 12:44:03 PM
Beam weapons - including the Tachyon Lance - do "soft flux".  Soft flux - from incoming beam weapons, your own weapons firing, and your shields' maintenance costs - can be dissipated while shields are up, while hard flux - from incoming non-beam hits - can only be dissipated while shields are down.  In other words, if your flux dissipation is high enough, you can simply ignore those lance hits.

(Well, okay, if your hard flux level is high, the Tachyon Lance in particular has a shield-piercing EMP effect.  But that only triggers if your hard flux level is high.)

Between that and the damage reduction for playing on easy mode, this seems like it's probably not a bug.
I know how the tachyon lance works. (I have quad tach lance Paragon after all). I was wondering why my shrike easily shrugged it off rather than generating soft flux. (The flux bar literally did not change).
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