Flagship bug?

[Fireclaw27]

Well, I was doing a run in the kestrel, on the iPad edition, and had got to the flagship fight. I had just jumped to the flagship, and stage 1 was starting, when I saw the flagship had only THREE shields, not four. I fought the flagship, and my burst laser 2 took down it's shields, allowing me to hit it with a pike beam, so it wasn't just visual. I defeated stage 1, and the same thing happened with the other two stages. Also, not sure if relevant, but none of the ships I saw in that run had four shields either. Does anyone know anything about this?
Note: I did manage to get a screen shot of the flagship with three shields and a undamaged shield system, but I'm not sure how to post it, so any help with that would be good.

[Leylite]

If you're playing on Easy mode with Advanced content off, the Flagship will only have three shields. This was introduced in the AE update.

That would also explain you finding no enemy ships with 4 shields; I'm pretty sure they can still spawn on Easy mode but they are surprisingly rare.

If you ever want to post a screenshot to any web forum, there are plenty of image sharing websites; I highly recommend www.imgur.com.

[Fireclaw27]

Ok, thanks, I normally play AE, so I had never seen a 3-shielded flagship before.