Shield Punch augment does not work

There are many things that still dont work properly or not at all.  Hopefully sooner that later patch will fix all those issues.

Somebody should make a list so that devs can't help but trip over it daily.

Emailing support@stardock.com with the Tech name, the expected result and the real result will get it fixed pretty quickly.

The bug persists as of 1.6.1, but something changed. Still never ignores any amount of defenses, but any amount of the appropriate ignore stat forces attacks to deal 50% of the total attack as damage to defense, rather than randomly up to 50%, like a bad shield leech etc type augment. Values 1.0 and over are still completely ignoring the associated defense.

As of 1.7.1, it's still broken.

Out of curiosity (I posted a thread detailing the same bug in support about a week ago):

Did you write an email as ZubaZ suggested? (Otherwise I would be tempted to do so)

Five months ago I did. I just bump the thread every time a major update fails to fix it in an attempt to keep staff aware of the continuing bug.

I have the bad feeling they don't really want to address any combat related things :/

Their announcements concerning 1.8 and next years expansions are rather vague in that regard, too :/

Nah, the shield punch is really one of the best augments <if it works>. Currently it is not bypassing shields. 

So if I have 100 beam attack and I have the shield punch augument. I would expect 66 points of dmg to be applied {DIRECTLY TO THE HIT POINTS OF THE HULL} thus 'bypassing' existing shields.

This is my understanding of how it works and it reads exactly that. 'Beams will bypass 66% of shields but still do full damage. 

Again if my beam attack is an even 100, then I expect 66 to be applied directly to the hull. 

It is currently NOT working like this. 

Wow, they DID buff the numbers on both augments. If they worked right now, you'd be an idiot to use kinetic or missile at all.

I guess it's good for balance that they do literally nothing.

Well the end line missile augment is amazing as well making that cooldown amazing when combined with missile assister and rapid fire  missiles I got it down to .5 !!!

Who needs beams when you are spewing missiles out every second. 

Punch would allow you to trivially kill anything in the first salvo. No other weapons can do that no matter how many shenanigans you stack up.

With all beam attack speed boosters you get a weapon cooldown of 2.75 for beams. That's the time lowest time per ship kill you can achieve.

With missile attack boosters you can achieve 0.4 weapon cooldown for missiles, and you can kill a ship every 2 shots, thus 0.8 seconds. It's been like this since release afaik. (It also only costs two antimatter per ship as opposed to 3 or 4 elerium per ship and depending on techs you also achieve higher range with missiles).

Was there any word of a fix for the Shield Punch? I like beams only because they are graphically cooler looking than missiles. 

I think you can change them so they Glow, I say think because I have never checked in the battle viewer. after altering/adding new effects for Torpedo's in my Star Trek mod, something I should do tbh .

I know Photon Torpedo had additional Art that looks to me from reading the xml, it makes them glow and I based my art off it.

Nope, checked in game. No change here.

@exelsis
On a sidenote: did you also check values above 2.0? Would be kinda funny if this stat worked like an int...

So I can fix this in my XML using note pad but can this be fixed with note pad tweaks? (Talking about fixing shield punch to do exactly what its supposed to)... 

I would DEARLY love for the augment to work. So how can I fix it in my game?

Also there is NO need to have both shield leech and shield punch. It should be ONE or the OTHER but not both. 

Just to be clear here. I want to be sure I am understanding the mechanic. 

If my beams are 1000 exactly in strength. If I have the 'shield punch' augment on that vessel and I fire at a ship that has 100 shields and 600 hit points. I expect the beams to do 650 hit points directly to the ship thus destroying it in one salvo. 

Am I reading this wrong?

That's the function i'd prefer. The alternate interpretation is an N% chance of bypassing defenses with the entirety of the attack.

And no, you cannot fix it. The statistic itself is broken. Values below 1 do nothing, values 1 and above ignore 100% of defenses on every attack.

Yes. I tried something like 5.0 - no additional damage. It's just a binary statistic; ignore/interact with defenses.

Have you submitted a ticket on this? 

I would mod the shield punch to bypass 100% but then tie it to 2 Elerium per component to make up for it.  Can this be done? Its a half assed fix but achieves more or less the idea it is supposed to do. 

I did way back when.

If you want the augments to do something, just change the statistic to 1.0 - full shield bypass.

Ok, I may do just that. I will have to look at the resource cost. If I am going to bypass 100% of shields using that augment I am happy to pay a 2 or even 3 Elerium cost for it.

Happy days!