Flak Missiles useless?

[Pixy]

The vanilla flak missile seems completely useless. I have not had it once inflict any damage whatsoever despite looking like a direct hit. I even brute forced a test against a ship with no decoys and 600 flak missiles and... no damage. What's up with that?

[Echo]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/476530/discussions/1/3193618785994749011/ point 1.

There are two ways to mitigate this bug:

1. increase the parallel component of the intercept speed enough that the flak fragments can travel the distance given by the sum of the detonator hard range plus however much you want the fragments to penetrate an enemy ship (e.g. its diameter) in the time span of an engine tick (1/30 s, or 33.(3) ms), possibly using the launching ship itself as a first stage;
   
2. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2231511355

[Pixy]

Interesting...
My custom flak missile don't seem to have this issue. I wonder what's up with the vanilla ones to make this such a notable problem

Thanks for the advice though

[Echo]

Either your custom flak missiles have a lower hard range, or you're making them approach enemy ships faster. IIRC 2 km/s is enough for vanilla flak missiles to deal dmage.