Level 4 piloting on enemy ships?

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bhoolbela92
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Level 4 piloting on enemy ships?

Postby bhoolbela92 » Thu Nov 26, 2020 5:40 pm

So today marked, for the first time in over 2k hours of FTL, that I have personally encountered this (that I know of; if I have run into it before, I didn't notice it).

Hard mode run in Kestrel C, start of sector 5, vanilla AE. I'm rocking the Blast Laser II, starting ion stunner, and a Ion Blast II as my current weapon configuration.

A little bit into the fight, I get enough ions applied to fully drop enemy shields. All three laser bolts slam home into the previously undamaged cockpit, so naturally I've disabled... wait, WHAT?

Their piloting is still up!

How did this happen? Three rapid laser bolts should disable piloting on any ship in the game.

What was this? Level 4 piloting, similar to 4.5 or 5 shields on an enemy? A glitch? A Titanium Casing augment that didn't report a resist? It couldn't have possibly been enemy repairs, as the three shots hit much, much faster that even two max repair enemies could fix. Has this ever happened to any of you?

Whatever it was, I had to share, because I doubt I'll ever see it happen again.