Redstone's Diffusion Shields Mod

The_Bloodnaught

The mod is nice and all, but mainly the last 3 tiers of the shields are extremely weak for the amount of energy they need…

LeftHandofGod

The_Bloodnaught What are you talking about? I can't even find anything that can crack them!

CaptainRedstone

The_Bloodnaught I have to agree with LeftHandofGod. The tier 3 shields are incredibly strong. I think the tier with the least improvement would be 5

RedAndCosmoteer Tier 3 shields struggle with DSLs, but tier 4 can sustain them for a descent time, while tiers 5 and up practically ignore them

The_Bloodnaught The biggest shields, IE tiers 6 & 7, take a truly absurd amount of power, which is essentially impossible to supply in vanilla. If you do more testing, you will probably find that those shields will die in about the same amount of time from one crescent wrath, to a hundred. Tier 7's total shield health value is an obscene 1,000,000,000, making it nearly impossible to dent, much less destroy. Even EB has serious trouble with tier 7s if you can power them

Also, thank you everyone for over 500 downloads!! I am pleasantly surprised at how popular this mod has become.

RedAndCosmoteer

LeftHandofGod Does the star wars death star laser punch through the shield?

The_Bloodnaught

LeftHandofGod i tested the biggest shield against the cresent ship (The vanilla one) and it took down the shields at almost the same speed it would take out a vanilla shield. though that was a little while ago, maybe its fixed already. i dunno

LeftHandofGod

....never tested it on tier 7, but it shrugged off a solid minute of missile fire, so I'll say no.

Lafiel

From the designer: No, the DS laser cannot penetrate any kind of shields (may change with future update) but it's destructive force will still destroy anything close to the hit point. So indirectly yes.

Ultranova

CaptainRedstone Tier 7's total shield health value is an obscene 1,000,000,000

Insert absurd amount of Rebel Beam Lasers

RedAndCosmoteer

CaptainRedstone O_O
Those are goood shields

RedAndCosmoteer

Ultranova

Insert absurd amount of Rebel Beam Lasers

Insert one diffusion t7 shield to counter

CaptainRedstone

Ultranova You would need quite a few rebel beam lasers my friend. In fact, I am not sure you could even get enough of them, because of their small range and their need to be on the surface of a ship

Ultranova

CaptainRedstone with the new debuff, you'd need tons of them to do anything to a tier 5 shield, much less a tier 6 or 7. Although, there's the rebel electro turret which does an even larger amount of shield damage. I haven't tested it, but it should work on the tier 6 and 7 shields.

CaptainRedstone

Ultranova You might be surprised 😉

Ultranova

CaptainRedstone It's easy to spam Electro Turrets boi

CaptainRedstone

Ultranova But would electro turrets even be able to hurt the shield?
Dangit, that gives me an idea... A shield that physically takes no damage, but can only be turned on for 10 seconds, and has like a 30 second cooldown

Catelyn

is it physically possible to keep a tier 7 shield on?
like, seriuously!

CaptainRedstone

Catelyn It has been done with other mods before... If you want to power them with just this mod active, then simply turn them off until the ship enters a battle. They won't be sustained, but will start at full power, and therefore last a little while

LukaszLutek

CaptainRedstone I used them with mod adding diffrent sized reactors... I coudn't use them with the biggest one. What mod should be able to power them?

Catelyn

LukaszLutek drones++ large drone cores

LukaszLutek

Catelyn Yea right cores...