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SteamWake
03-14-10, 09:34 AM
Okay this was weird.

Running all stock except mighty fine crew mod.

I attacked a DD oustide some harbor and wow musta hit the powder magazine because he lit up like the fourth of july. I surfaced to admire my handy work and watched the ship sink.

Well then thats when I continued to watch when woosh from out of the sky comes falling the sunk battleship ! :o it hit the water with little splash bobbed once and immediatly sunk :88)

So glad i wasent underneath it :har:

I dident blow it up into the air I watched it sink and it was shallow water. Very strange.

Noren
03-14-10, 10:14 AM
U sunk a DD or a BB? Sounds like u mixed them up.

DD is destroyer

BB is battleship

Letum
03-14-10, 10:16 AM
I think he sunk a DD and then a flying BB dropped from the sky.

This is realistic.
Lancasters, Halifaxes and Short Sterlings where all modified to
drop lifeboats down to stranded crew.
Dropping battleships in the same way would be much easier
because it is far easier to drop a heavy thing like a battleship
than it is to drop a light thing like a lifeboat.
Heavy things are just easier to drop because gravity drags them down more.

Science!™

JU_88
03-14-10, 10:22 AM
I think he sunk a DD and then a flying BB dropped from the sky.

This is realistic.
Lancasters, Halifaxes and Short Sterlings where all modifies to
drop lifeboats down to stranded crew.
Dropping battleships in the same way would be much easier
because it is far easier to drop a heavy thing like a battleship
than it is to drop a light thing like a lifeboat.
Heavy things are just easier to drop because gravity drags them down more.

:arrgh!:

SabreHawk
03-14-10, 10:23 AM
I witnessed something similar on the training mission. On the way back to Kiel I stumbled upon a lone merchant, and I just wanted to see how the "salvo" shot worked. So I lined up on him, set the shot for salvo and fired.
Man, all four torps hit each in succesion, and that ship just went apart like I've never before seen in any previous sinkings in SH3.
Then just to see I went to external view and raced to the sinking, broke in half ship. Was in somewhat shallow water probably about 20-30m so it didnt take long to hit bottom. Well the stern half sank stern up, while the bow half landed on it's bottom.
But the stern half hit, then plunged right through the sea floor, and disappeared.
The fore half remained though, just lying there.

It's possible that thats what happened with yours, and by plunging through the sea floor, it then cycled back into the world from above.
Just a geuss.

utops
03-14-10, 10:44 AM
When you struck ship in shallow waters this is what happen. Some of ships do the barrel rolls,other dance like Fred Astaire or simply clip thru the bottom in seizure.

Noren
03-14-10, 10:50 AM
Science actually says that an object, heavy or light, accelerate with a constant speed towards earth (9,82m/s2). What matters is resistances and as a liftboat has a higher wind drag-ration to its weight compared to a BB, it will 'sink' slower than a BB.

I belive the buglist for the stock SH5 will defy reason. Luckily we are all beta-testers.

Gabucino
03-14-10, 10:50 AM
Seafloor clipping is commonplace. I wish I'd see one dropping from the sky though.

msxyz
03-14-10, 11:13 AM
Apparently, also liners and transports sometimes fall from the Heavens

Found this funny image a few days ago while browsing some other forum:
Notice that also lifeboats do fall, too (just to contradict that earlier post).

http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/867/bug2.jpg

SabreHawk
03-14-10, 11:16 AM
Seafloor clipping is commonplace. I wish I'd see one dropping from the sky though.

:D Yeah, and he didn't take a screenie of that? Dang'it.:nope:

OakGroove
03-14-10, 11:16 AM
It's perfectly normal. I see this every day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdno232K0ek

Looks like they licensed BI's "alternate reality" physics engine.

Diopos
03-14-10, 11:26 AM
Nothing unusual. The guy living in the flat above is also playing SH! :D




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Noren
03-14-10, 11:43 AM
Perhas an anomaly worty of beeing called an easter egg? :hmmm:

gimpy117
03-14-10, 11:45 AM
Its raining battleships! Hallelujah! :rotfl2:

bigboywooly
03-14-10, 12:35 PM
Dont beat my AI uboat
:har:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=164865

Nisgeis
03-14-10, 03:04 PM
Apparently, also liners and transports sometimes fall from the Heavens
<PIC SNIPPED>
Found this funny image a few days ago while browsing some other forum:
Notice that also lifeboats do fall, too (just to contradict that earlier post).



Yeah but in that pic it's only half a liner and a lifeboat weights more than half a liner, but not as much as a whole one.

SteamWake
03-14-10, 10:08 PM
I think he sunk a DD and then a flying BB dropped from the sky.

This is realistic.
Lancasters, Halifaxes and Short Sterlings where all modified to
drop lifeboats down to stranded crew.
Dropping battleships in the same way would be much easier
because it is far easier to drop a heavy thing like a battleship
than it is to drop a light thing like a lifeboat.
Heavy things are just easier to drop because gravity drags them down more.

Science!™


Thats one of the funniest things I have ever read on subsim ! :yeah:

molotof
03-15-10, 06:40 AM
So funny :har: Just wondering what comes in rain season, heavy tanker ?? carrier ?? or whales maybe ??