With Stikalus subverters Vasari players can actually get their Phase missile bypass chance up to 50%.  Witht he advent's mitigation, even 30% bypass can very easily kill ships while their shields are topped off.  

Just did a game today, and a guy complained that his hull was taking damage, while his shields where full. He was fighting against a TEC. Might be a random global issue, not necessary related to vasari.

I played several games as advent rebel against tec and advent players, and my ships were taking hull damage while having full or near full shields. I think it might be the culture research that causes this, but i dont know.

Just did some testing.  2 bugs actually:

#1).  The phase missile blocking techs are actually making ALL enemy weapons have a chance of bypassing advent shields- not just phase missiles.  And presumably they are increasing the chance of phase missiles bypassing shields

#2).  These techs are applying their "bonus" to phase missile blocking even when not in advent culture.

The result is as soon as you research these techs, you passively give all enemy weapons a shield bypass chance at all times.

Or scrambling fast and making mistakes because the forum denizens are screaming "THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING!"

you might not have 100% phase blocking.  That shield pact doesn't make you immune.

Watch it, that sounds like something I'd say.

And yes Volt is seems that way...

Yep, my bad on this. I've uploaded a fix as a mod that resolves several reported issues:

+ Energetic Pulse Charging tech now includes FlashBeams.
+ Enemy ships now properly lose the Destabilize buff when a Vasari starbase phase jumps away.
+ Advent culture techs now properly give a phase block bonus.
+ Fixes changed weapon types for Destabilization ability.

Grab it from: https://www.stardock.cachefly.net/brian/103_Fixes.zip

You'll want to unzip this into:

C:\Users\username\Documents\My Games\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\Mods-Rebellion v1.03

And then activate the mod in-game. As this is a holiday week here, it's the best I can do on short notice. Sorry gang!

Good patch release Yarlen.

So can this be put into a shield research item instead of through a pact?  7DS will love you and I'll post nice things for a change if we can do this so the Empire won't have to have a passive research boosted ability that gives them their impenetrable shields through a buff like "Adaptive Shields"

MaxNumResearchLevels 4
priority 1.000000
researchBoolModifiers 0
researchFloatModifiers 1
researchModifier
    modifierType "ChanceToIgnoreShieldsAsDamageTarget"
    baseValue 0.800000
    perLevelValue 0.05000

will be trying it myself in a moment.

Yeah, just tested this modification to Researchsubject_ShieldTech1.entity to see if 7DS can give Empire their Impentrable Shields through research instead of through ability (modded adaptive shield buff) in ability 4 slot (which dev.exe hates)

MaxNumResearchLevels 4
priority 1.000000
researchBoolModifiers 0
researchFloatModifiers 3
researchModifier
    modifierType "ShieldPointsMaxAdjustment"
    baseValue 0.000000
    perLevelValue 0.050000
researchModifier
    modifierType "ShieldPointsRegenAdjustment"
    baseValue 0.000000
    perLevelValue 0.050000
researchModifier
    modifierType "ChanceToIgnoreShieldsAsDamageTarget"
    baseValue 0.000000
    perLevelValue -0.250000

**

Works nicely.  Should be able to give Empire base -85% and -5% per (3) research levels.  Interesting addition to Advent Culture -phase weapon blocking.  I'd've thought it'd be part of their shield research tbh, but nice way to make culture more useful for Advent vs Vasari.  It'd be nice for the TEC to have research like this, albeit at 3.5% per (2) research levels for 7% phase blocking.  Not much, but shows some adaptation after fighting Vasari so much.

Now can there be culture armor, hull regen, weapon range, max linear velocity and other nifty culture effects?

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/427745

yeah, just tested and posted to modding section so others can share the fun.