Is there still a PPB bug or is it just me?

[ScoobGwyn]

I have noticed while playing recently that the PPB's are going right through PHASED shields as well as Normal shields. I know this was a problem in the past, but thought it was fixed. I'm playing the Devnull mod with 1.78. Has anyone else seen this, or is it just me?

[Taera]

there is a problem with NSP and PPB combination IIRC. And in this case, occassinaly there's the problem with every type of weapon following the "skips" ability -- they receive the 'skips' ability of the previous weapon when fired. only one weapon though.

[ScoobGwyn]

Hmmm...didn't know that. In this case though, the enemy ships in question had only PPB's as weapons on board, nothing else...

Thanks for the info though.

[Baron Munchausen]

First of all, are ALL of the shields on the ships being hit 'phased'? If even ONE 'normal' shield generator is present then all shields are treated as 'normal' until that normal generator is destroyed. To put it another way, shields are like engine bonuses. You only get the 'bonus' (phased) if all of them are of the same type.

If this is not the problem, then you might be seeing a known 'feature' of the damage allocation system. When some component of a ship is partially damaged, the damage is not stored 'on' the component itself but in a special variable and just a pointer to the component is used to keep track of it. When different 'types' of damage occur in succession during combat they can be 'transfered' around. Hitting a ship with normal weapons and then with 'skips armor' weapons will transfer the damage from the armor into the interior components of the ship, for example. And damage can even be transfered from the shields to the ship with something like the Null-space Cannon that skips both armor and shields. What other weapons are on these PPB equipped ships?

[ScoobGwyn]

Thanks for the info Baron. The problem was having a normal shield producing component with a phased shield on the same ship.