View Full Version : Bloody watch crew will be the death of me!!
602Sqn_Puff
03-16-10, 02:48 PM
Running the game without contacts..pick up a hydrophone contact and set a course to run it down. Stayed inside the boat and waited as I closed in TC mode..still not a shout from my wonderful watch crew...so I decide to x1 TC and pop up to the deck for a look. Well sod me if it wasn't 4 DD's and they promptly started to shell me..I had to dive deep and fast and just about got away with 84% hull, 87% battery, structural damage and starboard 85% diesel damage.
Is this a known bug?? if so, how do you get around it??
Widukind
03-16-10, 03:16 PM
Yeah its known to me at least. I probed around the harbours of Englands Eastern coast since hydrophone and watch crew didnt notice **** out around the sea lanes. I went in surfaced since it was night, att 32 times the speed. Annoyed with no contacts i open the hatch intent on doind some spotting on my own. Well just 700 meters to my right is a patrolling destroyer. And 1500 meters away is another one steaming towards the direction of the harbour. My retarded watch crew must have been able to spot him way before. I order dive, launch a torpedo at the destroyer (whos watch apperantley is as blind as mine) 1 downed destroyer...but man he could have shredded me att that distance. Had i not gone up myself it would have been the end of that campaign. And 2 times i have responed against merchants on hydrophone, wondering why the hell my watch dont report when i plot a perfect intercept course i go to the conning tower and viola!! I am in the middle of the convoy. :nope:.....gay!
robbo180265
03-16-10, 04:18 PM
It's happened to me too. At least two or three times I've been running TC and before I know it I'm under attack with not so much as a word from my watch crew.
Another bug today - surfaced and I have no watch crew at all, bridge all to myself. Thought to myself "ahh well they are useless anyway" then it dawned on me...... Can't give orders to anyone:damn:
Has happened to me a few times, but only when I have forgotten to turn off travel mode.
robbo180265
03-16-10, 04:22 PM
Has happened to me a few times, but only when I have forgotten to turn off travel mode.
I should have specified this is WITHOUT travel mode:damn:
robbo180265
03-16-10, 04:29 PM
No probs matey - like I said, my fault for not being specific:oops:
Gotcha Robbo.
Thought you were banging your head at me.
I guess you were banging your head at the game :DL
I have edited my main cfg TC settings.
I think the game defaults to 8 tc when spotting enemies.
I changed it to 1.
This seems to allow the 'Ship Spotted' speech file to play. Well, about 50% of the time anyway.
It still seems a bit buggy.
Plus it gives me a chance to spot I've dropped to 1 TC and investigate.
Might be worth a go.
The reason I mentioned the travel mode button first is because that's how I nearly got myself killed today!
robbo180265
03-16-10, 04:38 PM
I wil try that - thanks for the info:up:
robbo180265
03-16-10, 04:43 PM
Whats the path to that cfg file?
I'm having a little trouble finding it.
Just remembered, there's 2 of 'em.
One in the game directory, and one in the documents folder.
I didn't know which one to change, so I did both!
I have a feeling it reads the one in the documents folder, but I ain't sure.
Good luck.
EDIT: One where your SH5 exe is. Data/Cfg/Main.cfg
The other where your game saves are. Documents/SH5/Data/Cfg/main.cfg
I think. Let me just go and double check that for you. I'm not at my gaming rig at the moment.
Gimme 10 mins.
robbo180265
03-16-10, 04:52 PM
Cheers Sergei:yeah:
You found them? Good.
Don't thank me yet though, see if it works first :DL
Georg_Unterberg
03-16-10, 05:13 PM
Running the game without contacts..pick up a hydrophone contact and set a course to run it down. Stayed inside the boat and waited as I closed in TC mode..still not a shout from my wonderful watch crew...so I decide to x1 TC and pop up to the deck for a look. Well sod me if it wasn't 4 DD's and they promptly started to shell me..I had to dive deep and fast and just about got away with 84% hull, 87% battery, structural damage and starboard 85% diesel damage.
Is this a known bug?? if so, how do you get around it??
Same happened to me, but I remember that I reloaded just before and so the morale was down to zero. (I forgot to make a special meal then).
Maybe the lookout crew needs at least some morale percents to work properly??
Aqualung
03-16-10, 05:16 PM
I've given up on my watch crew and switched to playing with map contacts on - not my preferred mode, but better than having a Watch Crew that doesn't actually watch!
Irritatingly, however, I now find that after diving to avoid escorts and the like my Watch crew never bloody shuts up! :hmmm:
Kaleun: OK men, level her off and switch to silent running - we'll stay down here unti..
Dieter: WARSHIP BEARING 157!!!
Kaleun, slightly stunned: Er, thanks Dieter...well spotted from 75m down, by the way...anyway, we'll stay down here and double bac..
Dieter: WARSHIP BEARING 157!!
Kaleun: Dieter, what part of 'silent' running are you not getting here!! :damn:
...and so on....
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