Ok im mad/sad

[Zukeenee]

It's not something that someone like Cannon can just "fix". From what little I understand, it'll take more than a bit of FLHook magic to make explosives work on large ships properly.

The issue has something to do with the fact that in order for any explosive weapon to do shield damage, the blast radius of the explosive has to cover a certain hardpoint on the ship when it explodes. I've been told that this specific hardpoint or whatever is located at the front-end of most ships (No, not the shield generator. That's in the very center of a lot of capships, anyway, so it's sometimes impossible to hit). If you want to use Paralyzers on a GB, try sub-targeting something near the front of that GB. When the missile impacts on the front of the ship, hopefully the blast radius will cover whatever point it has to hit to do shield damage.

On small ships, the blast radius of most missiles is enough to completely cover the entire vessel, so the missile's explosion hits that special point and does shield damage. On GBs, Transports, and larger ships, aim for the front.

I also hear that this is something that might be fixed in 4.86, and explosives will do proper shield damage wherever they hit. I'm crossing my fingers.

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