I'm seeing something strange with AI in SS+. Enemy ships are far too eager to vent.
That was true in vanilla too, but never to this degree. Here are some examples:
* Almost always (90-ish % of the time), Wolf frigates armed with mining blasters will vent instantly after firing a shot, even if they're still at less than 50% flux and I'm right next to them with an antimatter blaster ready. They don't even attempt to retreat to a safe distance first, and they have a teleporter!
* Almost as often as above, frigates will vent a few seconds after taking an antimatter blaster hit, even if it only got their flux up to about 30% and there are other weapons pointed at them. The vast majority of my kills with a dual-AM blaster Afflictor rely on this - shoot a Wolf in the shield, wait for it to vent, shoot it again. There's nothing I could do against them otherwise, I just don't have the DPS to crack their shield nor the speed to get behind them, but they choose to expose themselves.
* Bigger ships do this to. I just slaughtered three destroyers (Sunder, Hammerhead and a Mule) plus a few frigates in a stock Tempest with no skills because they kept venting after I got their flux up to about 25% with absolutely no regard to their own safety. If they had just kept their shields up and kept firing I would have had a very hard time cracking them with my limited firepower.
I don't like to complain about AI, because I know how hard it is to get right and some faults will always be there, but when the vast majority of my kills in SS+ rely on the AI doing something suicidally stupid - and I don't have to go out of my way at all to make it do that - I think something's definitely wrong.
Beyond the standard package, the only mods I have installed are Templars, Imperium and Console Commands.
edit: I poked a Sunder around and paid more attention to what it does. I can reliably make it vent by shooting it for a few seconds to build up a small amount of flux (20% seems to be enough), backing up a little bit (couple ship lenghts) and stopping firing with the pulse laser. That makes it vent, despite the fact that the graviton beam is still on it, the terminator drone is still shooting it, and the pulse laser can be back in range in about two seconds so the threat level is still really high.