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I am not sure if this is a bug or is intended, but shields do not cooperate in the Power Armor (I am using a power armor mkII)
If you look at your armor while you get attacked you can see that shields get unpowered and powered one at a time, this make me think that the power of the 2 or 3 Portable fusion reactors is useless as shields consume one at a time and not all together, this means that if you put more shields you get stacked shield but not stacked shield regeneration, making it useless

So is this feature intended or not? if it is intended i think that you definitely should change that as it makes having more portable fusion reactors useless, else please fix it, and let all shields consume they're charge at the same time and recharge at the same time, meaning more shields regeneration that are definitely needed against Giant Biters and Giant Spitters or against Worm Villages (Villages that are generated with more giant worms than actual Spawners and can one shot you with full shields!)

Thank you for reading
~Atty

PS: You should add better armors like an MKIII Power Armor with more inventory slots (40) and a bigger grid (12 by 12 perhaps)

Thanks for the report,

However this isn't a bug, so i'm moving it to ideas and suggestions.

You wish for shield health to be depleted in parallel, rather than in series

This is not entirely accurate. Once a shield is depleted, the next one drains, resulting in that one starting to recharge as well. Hence, as more and more shields are depleted, the energy drain and recharge rate increases proportionally. With a battery, you can observe it not draining until you take enough shield damage, given that your generators cannot fully cover all of the shields, only some of them.


My Modular Armor mod does cause shields to synchronize charges. I still am not sure if it is truely an improvement however.

Not sure if this doesn't belong more to Balancing, than Suggestion... I will leave it here for now.