this sort of thing is particularly bad on vanilla model capital ships. the back 1/3 of the osiris is entirely immune to explosives the last time i checked, while the libdread isnt quite as severe, but still will just absorb explosions on the tail
been happening for years.
stranger still is a lot of ships will take explosions to the nose, and still take the shield damage
i dunno man.
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Vanilla bug, like Saronsen pointed out. It will get fixed once those ships are given new components in a future rework of their respective class. A small band aid is to subtarget the luxury liner's frontal gun, guiding the missiles there. On battleships, selecting one of the new dummy components on the front and back. There isn't an ideal solution sadly.
Closing for now as this isn't going away anytime soon.