Error regarding Ion Passive in shields Flight Academy?

[Lecic]

Criss says that ion effect reduces the strength of your blocks. However, this isn't in the configs, and a quick ingame test by myself seems to disagree. Can another player or someone who does balancing (Lancake, Bench?) confirm or deny this?

 

[CyberTao]

I believe Criss might be speaking of the old, original plans for Ion, which made blocks squishier, however that has since been removed afaik.

 

[Criss]

I am using information that Andy checked for me. If it is not a feature than only schema would know.

 

[Az14el]

I've heard both stated "officially", personal tests show that Ion & EMP passives do not increase block damage taken.
Malus' are only active on offensive effects to the best of my knowledge :/

 

[Sven_The_Slayer]

I don't remember this ever actually being a thing. It doesn't even really make sense, armor buffs don't make your shields weaker and even if there was a debuff to armor/hull you can simply turn off ion when your shields fail to negate the debuff.

 

[PriZm]

we had the same discussion about ion passive and block damage malus a few days ago. MrFurb said, it never actually had a malus, the ingame text description seems to be wrong.

 

[Lancake]

You guys figured it out on your own but I may as well confirm it.
Ion defensive effect never made your blocks take more damage. The item description is indeed incorrect.

Probably some old left over from back when effects got introduced (version 0.15).