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Originally Posted by DICY
The first thing I noticed was that as the escorts approached they appeared to be getting attacked by something, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out by what. It looked like they were dropping Depth Charges at first, but they didn't change course at all and some of the explosions were going off in front of the ships. I couldn't see anything around that might be attacking them (planes/ships), and these certainly weren't explosions caused by another U-Boat. I doubt this has anything to do with your AI but I didn't want to leave it unmentioned.
The second thing I saw that I think is a bit more of a problem; I got in front of the escorts, went to about 140 meters to let them pass over me, than went to periscope depth when they were past me. However, when I attacked the merchants none of the escorts seemed to care at all. No course change, nobody coming to look for me, they just kept on going as if nothing had happened. I didn't expect them to be able to find me, but I at least would have thought they'd try. I was able to attack the convoy two more times without any response from the escorts, at which point I surfaced and the mission ended. Again, I don't know if this is actually an AI issue or has more to do with the mission script.
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not sure about the first one.
Second one though is great feedback! Here's why that happened: in each 'group' of ships there is a commander. When that commander detects you he issues the tactics for the ships in his group to use. Once those tactics are set they don't end until it says so or an end is scripted into the tactic. So in your situation you were detected and the commander set the Plaster tactic. Initially they were coming to 'plaster' you but you evaded. The commander then switched the tactic to spiral seach. I have spiral search set for 60 mins. After 60mins the tactic automatically ends at which time the ships will regroup with the convoy and no tactic is set. I need to do something about this so that if you do evade and attack the convoy the commander will switch out of the spiral search tactic
