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The Realistic Combat damage model ignores damage modification skills and hullmods, both of which I mean for Realistic Combat to replace with its own. If you see otherwise, then please tell me.
254486 [Thread-3] ERROR com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatMain - java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
at listeners.DamageModel.modifyDamageTaken(DamageModel.java:196)
at com.fs.starfarer.api.combat.listeners.CombatListenerUtil.modifyDamageTaken(CombatListenerUtil.java:68)
at com.fs.starfarer.api.combat.listeners.CombatListenerUtil.modifyDamageTaken(CombatListenerUtil.java:60)
at com.fs.starfarer.combat.entities.Ship.applyDamage(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.combat.E.super.A.o00000(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.combat.E.oOOO.super(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.combat.E.oOOO.super(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatEngine.advanceInner(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatEngine.advance(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatState.traverse(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.state.AppDriver.begin(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatMain.main(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher.o00000(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)Beam weapons are currently extremely overpowered, far outmatching other weapon types to the point where a ship with a large beam can wipe out entire fleets before they even get into engagement range
I see energy weapon, ballistic, and and missile mastery skills have very different effects now. It appears that a skill like energy weapons mastery does not properly apply the CR gain to officers. Not sure about the others.
https://imgur.com/a/ZGStXfm
In this screenshot, you see that the medusa is still capped at base CR despite the officer having EWM and the medusa having 7 energy hardpoints. Even if this was fixed, these skills have been significantly nerfed due to no longer having an Elite modifier which stinks.
"+10% combat readiness if trained for every weapon type mountable on this ship". The Medusa also has 2 universal mounts; therefore, all three weapon types are mountable; therefore, the officer needs training for all three types of weapons to gain 10% combat readiness. I wonder if you just missed the universal mounts or if the text was not clear. Please tell me.
I'd talk to Liral about it, for Realistic Combat, DCR is simply rendering the damages reported to it. So if something is missing, it's probably not reported.
Nice mod! Playing with it a bit and noticed my aurora instantly fills up the flux bar occasionally. Turns out it rapid fires its heavy blaster sometimes, while on autopilot. I can reproduce this by running a simulation, setting the ship to target the enemy ship, then unpausing. The autopilot rapid fires the heavy blaster and fully fills up its flux, to 99%. I have definitely noticed this happening on other ship with a heavy blaster. Not sure if this is a heavy blaster specific issue or if other weapons will also rapid fire. Hope this helps, thanks.
Image of reproducing bug: https://imgur.com/aFas1PX
In regards to overfluxing, I use Advanced Gunnery Control mod, which lets you give your ships AIs ground rules on how to operate its weapons!
Thank you for the update. With version 1.20.3, I'm still getting the same issue with the heavy blaster on the aurora (and fury) on autopilot. It does appear other weapons suffer from the same bug. The Mule (P) Standard Combat Freighter I ran simulation tests against also shoots it's flux up to 99% at the start of the engagement, before any weapon impacts. Hope this helps and thank you for the quick response.
D: It's still there? It didn't happen when I tested before release, so I doubt I can reproduce it now. I am trying to think of a cause but cannot imagine one. I may need your help fixing this bug.