Shield Cell Bank problem

[Shadowed]

I really like the two B6 Shield Cell Banks on my combat Python, I will probably get 2 A6 Shield Cell Banks when I have enough cr for the A7 Power Plant. For the past few days, I have been using the Shield Cell Bank control hotkey on my controller to free up hardpoint groups. Whenever I pressed the button, it would fire one bank at a time, which was perfect. Now when I press the button the SCB's both fire, halving their ammo and just making a big waste.

I have tried remapping the control to my keyboard and my controller, and have tried firing them with hardpoints deployed and retracted.
I prefer to have the SCB's with weapons deployed but I doubt that has any issue with the problem. Why did this suddenly revert to the old way? Did I just teleport back in time?

The temporary fix is disabling one SCB in the modules. Having the key fire one SCB at a time should still be working! My Chaff Launchers still fire one at a time fortunately.

 

[Xodz]

I really like the two B6 Shield Cell Banks on my combat Python, I will probably get 2 A6 Shield Cell Banks when I have enough cr for the A7 Power Plant. For the past few days, I have been using the Shield Cell Bank control hotkey on my controller to free up hardpoint groups. Whenever I pressed the button, it would fire one bank at a time, which was perfect. Now when I press the button the SCB's both fire, halving their ammo and just making a big waste.

I have tried remapping the control to my keyboard and my controller, and have tried firing them with hardpoints deployed and retracted.
I prefer to have the SCB's with weapons deployed but I doubt that has any issue with the problem. Why did this suddenly revert to the old way? Did I just teleport back in time?

The temporary fix is disabling one SCB in the modules. Having the key fire one SCB at a time should still be working! My Chaff Launchers still fire one at a time fortunately.

Using the keybind to use shield cells has always used all of mine that were powered and had ammo at the time.

 

[Shadowed]

That is really weird. I know it was using 1 at a time previously because I kept glancing at the modules page.

 

[DidierDrbois]

It has always been like this and I quite understand as, unlike chaff, you can have multiple different cells. Just power only one at a time and you're good. No big deal, you won't ever need to machine-gun fire shield cells. Ideally, you shouldn't need to fire them at all.

 

[Morbad]

The SCB hotkey has always used all powered cells.

Several of my heavy combat loadouts take advantage of this because stacking cells and using them simultaneously is the only way to get a significant portion of shield recharge on the shield heavy ships.

No big deal, you won't ever need to machine-gun fire shield cells. Ideally, you shouldn't need to fire them at all.

Not all situations are ideal. I've been in fights in my FDL where I needed to burn eight B4 SCB charges (four twin charges) and four heatsinks in the span of 30 seconds to make sure a hostile CMDR, who was part of a three man wing, exploded while keeping my ship intact long enough to escape his buddies.