Speaking of, had a bug report and some feedback.
So, w/r/t Nexerelin support, during the "tutorial" invasion at least, it appears that the Cataphract Strike option is available even without a Fenris in the fleet. I haven't had a chance to try a full invasion without one just yet, so I'm not sure if the bug is omnipresent. But it's definitely there in that circumstance - I was able to repeat it across multiple saves.
For feedback, I have to say that I'm... definitely not a fan of the Valkazard's defense fleet on non-Valk starts being as big as it is now, because in the end? The reward isn't worth the effort.
Like, make no mistake, I'm a huge fan of the Valkazard, it's one of my favorite mod superfrigates (well, essentially-frigate) and its start is the exact flavor of start I love, but it isn't so impactful that it needs to be locked behind a 300+ DP fleet of Redacted. At that point, you've essentially assembled your end-game fleet already and are mostly picking it up as a vanity item, which especially given that there appear(?) to be plans to attach a bit of a Questline™ to it, doesn't feel especially rewarding or impactful. Remember that the Planetary Shield colony item, a huge power multiplier for colonies, is guarded by only about 100-150 DP of ships, albeit one that's guaranteed to be a nasty Redacted capital. If anything, I feel like that's where the sweet spot for Valkazard acquisition would/should be; guarded by a Big Nasty Thing to make jetting over immediately to pick it up a dicey proposition at best, but not so huge and powerful a force that you can only contemplate going for it in the late game.
Still, this is all just from where I sit, and I don't have any idea what your long-term plans are or anything; this might all be part of an intended larger plan! But as the mod exists right now, in the moment, it doesn't feel great.
Avanitia pinged me about the huge DP fleet guarding valk a while ago, I think I lowered the amount in dev for now, but i'll probably end changing how you can acquire it if you don't start w/ valk.
Thanks for the report about the fenris ability bug. more than likely, im checking for ships with cataphract hullmod and skipping the check for fenris somehow. Maybe I can preserve the behavior but buff the ability if you have Fenris present.
For a small progress report, i've been implementing a bunch of stuff Selkie (co-author of
Iron Shell) has given me. It's taken a bit longer than I would have liked since i've had to split my attention between modding and a few other things, but most implementation is complete, and i'm currently doing a bit of testing before I let it loose to a wider audience for more feedback. Hopefully, this shouldn't take much longer. Currently, there are 4 new destroyers (technicaly, one is a skin of an existing mech, tho) that will be added. In the meantime, somoene showed me this cool fanart of valkazard made by Government-Monkey on reddit. cheers
I've been having a problem for the past two versions where the einhander (p) flames out while phased and the ship still takes damage from incoming fire. Quite annoying, really.
weird, ill look into it when i get a chacne
This is basically the dev build, with what is hopefully the portrait fix + dealing with another bug that may potentially appear in the future