swuboo
01-10-07, 02:40 AM
Let me preface this by saying that I hope no one takes this as a slight against GWX. I don't know whether the problems were present in stock or not, as I only got the game just before GWX came out and have thus only slightly played vanilla. Even if GWX introduced them, please interpret this post as a desire that the GWX fix them than as condemnation. All hail GWX.
But--- I am playing GWX, and these two problems are here.
Both are largely concerned with destroyer behavior while the sub is at periscope depth. I wouldn't normally try to avoid destroyers while at such depth, but in some instances they've snuck up on me, or I've been in very, very shallow water.
In the first problem, the destroyer does an attack run, and attempts to DC me. He (hopefully) misses, but has set the fuse on the DC so shallow that he blows up his own DC rack. I have seen this at least a dozen times, and in three, the DD sank itself. In all the others, the DC racks were blown, rendering the DD able only to hurl shells and MG fire at my periscope, which have yet to hit significantly.
In the second, a DD comes straight down my throat. I don't get out of his way in time for one reason or another; usually he's got no DC rack from blowing himself up, or I simply failed to notice while sweating over a tanker. The DD hits, and wham... I start to reel and... the game crashes. Our courses are in this case usually pretty close to parallel, but in opposite directions. I have experienced this about ten times, and can at this point predict when a collision will cause it.
It's entirely possible that the second issue is unique to me--- perhaps some portion of my hardware chokes up on the canting of my sub that far. Or maybe the physics calculations don't agree with AMD dual core procs.
The first however--- could it be considered for a future patch that DD's will not DC at such shallow depths that they endanger themselves? It's a bit silly if all the escorts for a convoy have gimped themselves, unable to do a thing to stop you from torpedoing the entire convoy, reloading at your leisure. This has happened to me, on a convoy with two Flowers, a C&D, and a Hunt I.
But--- I am playing GWX, and these two problems are here.
Both are largely concerned with destroyer behavior while the sub is at periscope depth. I wouldn't normally try to avoid destroyers while at such depth, but in some instances they've snuck up on me, or I've been in very, very shallow water.
In the first problem, the destroyer does an attack run, and attempts to DC me. He (hopefully) misses, but has set the fuse on the DC so shallow that he blows up his own DC rack. I have seen this at least a dozen times, and in three, the DD sank itself. In all the others, the DC racks were blown, rendering the DD able only to hurl shells and MG fire at my periscope, which have yet to hit significantly.
In the second, a DD comes straight down my throat. I don't get out of his way in time for one reason or another; usually he's got no DC rack from blowing himself up, or I simply failed to notice while sweating over a tanker. The DD hits, and wham... I start to reel and... the game crashes. Our courses are in this case usually pretty close to parallel, but in opposite directions. I have experienced this about ten times, and can at this point predict when a collision will cause it.
It's entirely possible that the second issue is unique to me--- perhaps some portion of my hardware chokes up on the canting of my sub that far. Or maybe the physics calculations don't agree with AMD dual core procs.
The first however--- could it be considered for a future patch that DD's will not DC at such shallow depths that they endanger themselves? It's a bit silly if all the escorts for a convoy have gimped themselves, unable to do a thing to stop you from torpedoing the entire convoy, reloading at your leisure. This has happened to me, on a convoy with two Flowers, a C&D, and a Hunt I.