Similar experience here. Is the vengeance drone's beam currently (Apr 2023) supposed to be even remotely compatible with Defense Shields or Energy Shields? I've been tanking the beam no problem with Defense Shields for a while a couple of days ago, then the next day it keeps carving through 9 million shield points like it's hot butter, regardless of modulation/enhancement/shunting/whatever. Worse yet, it's unreliable. Sometimes I just keep tanking it with nary a flinch, the other times the reloads of the same file I just get cored.

Likewise it chews through a million or so shield points of Energy Shields.

So, what the hell? You even recommend shields in the very mod description, yet the two shield mods that there are work highly unreliably vs. the beam. So, what's the damn point in recommending it in the first place if it's not working even remotely predictably?

If it's supposed to be able to be tanked, at least make it reliable. Either that, or remove the pointless comment about shields in the mod description and outright state it's not supposed to be tankable and that a different approach should be taken. Because that kind of desinformation only produces preventable bug reports.

Also, it wouldn't make this look like a total rectum gamemaster ROCKS FALL EVERYBODY DIES move who can't even obey his own damn game rules.