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[Random Username]

Hi there,

I just joined and am really enjoying the beta. Great work guys.

I don't know if you've thought of this but shield mitigation might be a problem with the covenant.
To my knowledge once their shields are down covenant ships aren't much more resistant to damage than UNSC ships.
Shield mitigation however still takes a percentage off the damage dealt even when the shields are down something I don't think covenant shield would do.

You may have already thought of and dealt with this but just in case I thought I would bring it up.

[Emberblaque]

Hi there,

I just joined and am really enjoying the beta. Great work guys.

I don't know if you've thought of this but shield mitigation might be a problem with the covenant.
To my knowledge once their shields are down covenant ships aren't much more resistant to damage than UNSC ships.
Shield mitigation however still takes a percentage off the damage dealt even when the shields are down something I don't think covenant shield would do.

You may have already thought of and dealt with this but just in case I thought I would bring it up.

To my knowledge there is always some shield mitigation, and we can't change that. Thanks for the feedback, though.

Welcome to the forums.

[Zero]

Can't you just set the mitigation % to zero?

[Random Username]

You could also give UNSC ships all 1 shield point. That wouldn't really effect combat in and of itself but would apply mitigation to everyone.

[Defender0]

To my knowledge there is always some shield mitigation, and we can't change that. Thanks for the feedback, though.

Ember, when we played that game last weekend, none of my ships (to those that dont know, i played forerunner) had any shield mitigation until i researched all culture and shield upgrades, which gave them a static 10% mitigation in my culture and a static 4% outside my culture. So, it appears that the forerunners, as well as the covenant, have 0% shield mitigation (except if research upgrades this)

[Emberblaque]

To be honest with both of you I'm not an authority, it's just something that I remember the 7DS guys talking about awhile back. Wish SpardaSon would chime in, but he never posts on these forums.

[Defender0]

To be honest with both of you I'm not an authority

not a problem, i was just putting in my two cents

[sloosecannon]

Mitigation is gone, AFAIK.

And yes, mitigation functions that way, and yes, that's why we removed it.

[Defender0]

i still think there should be SOME mitigation, but it should work like it does in SOGE, where its a static number that can be upgraded with fleet buffs/research/culture. That, or the vanilla system, with a much smaller max mitigation percentage.

[Emberblaque]

And yes, mitigation functions that way, and yes, that's why we removed it.

Functions what way?

[Aunt Gruntie]

Shield mitigation however still takes a percentage off the damage dealt even when the shields are down something I don't think covenant shield would do.

[Unikraken]

The only mitigation in game currently is the stuff that comes from research, which I'm fine with as I see it as shield hardening research. We removed normal mitigation entirely.

[Defender0]

The only mitigation in game currently is the stuff that comes from research, which I'm fine with as I see it as shield hardening research. We removed normal mitigation entirely.

will there be research that gives the covenant/forerunners static shield mitigation? currently, the forerunners have it due to the advent shield research tech tree, but the covenant do not.

[Unikraken]

Possibly. We're not really discussing the Forerunners right now. As you can imagine our bread and butter is UNSC vs Covenant and that's where our focus is right now.

[Defender0]

Possibly. We're not really discussing the Forerunners right now. As you can imagine our bread and butter is UNSC vs Covenant and that's where our focus is right now.

I understand perfectly, curiosity just got the better of me lol