Q re: Shield Disruptor
 

Recently I started playing some games in the later end of the research tree and after some experimenting am a little perplexed about the Shield Disruptor. Does anyone else find it a little strange that it would require the shields to be down in order to destroy the shield generators? I guess as an advacement of the shield depleter, I assumed that it would tunnel through the shields and specifically target the generators. Once the shields are down, what is the use of blowing away the shield generators?

Re: Q re: Shield Disruptor
 

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Re: Q re: Shield Disruptor
 

I don't know how you got that impression, but there are some quirks to the operation of these weapons:

- Shields can be over maximum; when you destroy a generator via disruptor or null-space, the shield max goes down but the current strength does not.
- Shields beyond maximum will drop to maximum on the next hit.
- Ion, Tachyon, & Disruptor damage is an all-or-nothing thing: If the damage you do is less than the component's hitpoints, it does nothing.

Perhaps your disruptor was too weak (level 1 disruptor? long range attack?), but once the shields were down, the "extra damage" you did when the shields collapsed was enough to take out a generator.
Extra/Leftover damage gets added onto the next attack, and is the same damage type as the next attack. So, you probably pulled 20 damage out of the armor and added it to the shield disruptor's attack.