Still not fixed.

Still not fixed.

This partly explains why I have struggled against pirates, especially as vodyani where the first quest repeatedly destroys my ships tecked to counter them until I have overwhelming force... and a couple of pirates scared an arc quite a lot... And why the bar in my favour often seems to be wrong in practice!

Glad it's not a bug against the AI - but it would be good to be fixed.

Heads up, still not fixed.

I have the same issue, pirates seem to ignore all shields.

Just a bump to mention that this issue persists in the current preview build for 1.1.15 on Steam.

In my first game after the recent Galactic Statecraft update, I noticed that the defenses I put on my ships aren't reducing incoming damage. The shield bar in the scan view does not deplete when attacks hit my ships, and in the post battle report no damage is reported as having been reduced by either shields or armor.

This is only true for my ships. Enemy ships do enjoy reduced damage from defenses.

I have exactly the same bug (versus pirates recently)

Early in my current game, the battle report for my fleets when they fought against pirates exhibited very strange behavior.  There would be 'gaps' in my damage done report (as if the bars weren't stacking properly) and there would seemingly be no damage reduction reported on the pirate's damage done report.

That being said, as soon as my fleets were fighting AI empires, the battle reports all started working properly and do indeed show damage reduction being applied to the enemy damage and the gaps in the bars went away.  I wish I still had a save game from earlier before all the pirates were cleared from the galaxy so I could test it out and get a screenshot.

-HP

Yeah, I've tried various things such as using different races, unsubscribing from all mods (I didn't have any activated in the first place though) and reinstalling the game after erasing all traces of it from my PC. Nothing helped. The defenses just don't seem to work.

Sorry for bumping this, but can anyone tell me if shields currently actually work (in solo vs AI)?

If so, why i cant seem to find any evidence of it in the after battle report, or during the battle?

Thanks

I noticed the same thing in my game. No mention of any reduction of incomming damage in the post battle report.

Is it just a matter of the reduction not being reporterted correctly anymore, or are defenses not working?

Here is the save for that particular combat. It starts once you move the fleets.

B0xis Horatio combat.sav

They most certainly are not. Here is the ship design:

It has Basic Monohull Plating and Improved Plasmal Shields.

The combat report:

At 28% armor and missile damage only (10% armor penetration), there should be a reduction bar 25.2% the size of the damage bar.

Post a screenshot. Your defenses are probably too weak to register on the bar.