I don't understand..

[SteamWake]

The collision mechanics..

Last night I ran into an un-escorted convoy I managed to sink 6 of them with torps and guns the 7th was nearly down and slowed to 0 knots. Then of course I ran out of ammo. I even emptyed the AA gun into him from spitting range.

I then watched him bob around for a couple of hours with no change and finally got bored. I saved the game threw it into flank and aimed to T bone the stricken freighter.

I got my boat up to around 12 knots centered the rudder and gritted my teeth as I hoped for the worst ;)

BAM ! Screeeeeech klang... I hit him almost perfectly 90 degrees my bow into his starbord side.

The results? Nothing, nada, zero zip... Lots of noise my boat came to a shuddering stop his did not even roll. My bow slowly slid along his side untill we were pointing 180 degrees from one another. No damage to either ship.

I cursed a little and set sail for Kiel remembering the times I have been crushed and killed in the canal a number of times by the random merchant. :doh:

[tater]

Can't believe they didn't fix this. You get killed in shallows when a ship pushes you into LAND. It's the land that kills you.

This is just like SH4. It means that a less than trivial total redo of all ship and sub damage models needs to be done as it was for SH4.

Sad.

[Barso]

Who did the redo for SH4?

[tater]

It's in RFB. Observer and Luke did most all of it I think (sorry if I missed anyone from memory). There were also various stand-alone DM mods.

Since everything is connected, any DM changes involve all ships, all subs, and very likely all weapons. It's a mess to do.

[Barso]

I can only imagine how much of an undertaking it would be for SH5.
Who knows who would take it on but it obviously won't come in a patch.