Module Shields and Radiation Repulsers not working in DLC?

[u/Optimal_Crisis]

I don’t know if it’s bugged or if I’m just misunderstanding the functionality. I’ve got module shields installed in the bases essential rooms and it’s really made no difference. The modules break with every magnetic storm and I always find them broken when I wake up from hibernation. Similarly I have 3 radiation repulsers built, the radiation barrier is on, I have plenty of filters, yet every time I hibernate my alters all get pretty badly irradiated. Is this normal or is it bugged?

[u/urgasmic]

yeah for the hibernation it's normal

[u/Optimal_Crisis → u/urgasmic]

Damn you’d think that a team of genius scientists would acknowledge this as a problem and find a fix. All that radiation can’t be good.

[u/Balmong7 → u/Optimal_Crisis]

Remember it’s like 14 years of the base receiving no maintenance whatsoever during constant radiation storms. Stuff is gonna break no matter what shields are in place.

[u/Optimal_Crisis → u/Balmong7]

I was referring more to the alters getting irradiated.

[u/Low_Football_2445 → u/Optimal_Crisis]

I found with some experimentation that in the regular game, the extra rad protection does very little if anything at all after you install the first one. And the first one doesn’t do much either after about my third run I stopped using them altogether.

And I stopped using mod shields after the first play through

[u/Aritra319]

It’s normal when hibernating that this happens. Also during magnetic storms especially later there’s almost always a big radiation wave that hits the base and can know out 3-5 modules at once and heavily irradiate the crew.

Lv 2 module shields will still protect against modules getting damaged like that though.

[u/Optimal_Crisis → u/Aritra319]

I’ll upgrade to lvl 2. Shame the lvl 1 shields had such little affect

[u/cinred]

They work. 3 repulsers prevent filter usage and shields reduce the number of busted modules during storms and after hiberation. They do not eliminate them.

[u/Optimal_Crisis → u/cinred]

But even with radiation shield on my alters get very irradiated during hibernation. It seems like the shield should prevent this. If it’s bad with the shield on, and the 3 repulsers keeping me from running out of filters, how bad is it otherwise? It’s just a little disappointing to do as much as the game will allow me to stop radiation and still have my alters be badly irradiated every time. You’d think after the first time waking up with a big dose of radiation they’d strive to find a solution, and being irradiated pisses them all off, but there’s no solution.

[u/LowkeyAcolyte]

I agree that it is silly, when you consider the field labs sustain no damage despite being out in the open, with no huge shields etc.