Is this a bug??

[ddiplock]

Ok so, was tasked to sneak into Manila Harbour and photograph enemy carriers. Great says I, chance to nail some enemy flattops at anchor.

Snuck my way in past loads of destroyers and was approaching a couple of Escort carriers sitting at anchor.

I'd been stopping my engines and making like a hole in the water whenever a destroyer came close.

And yet it seems, even with your engines off if a destroyer gets TOO close (and sods law one of them did come too close), they somehow instantly know you are there. That cannot be right surely, is it a flaw in the game?

Doesn't take a genious to work out what happend to the USS Seawolf in the shallows of Manila Harbour!!! :(

[WernherVonTrapp]

You didn't say, so I'll ask.
Were you rigged for silent running?

[Daniel Prates]

Ok so, was tasked to sneak into Manila Harbour and photograph enemy carriers. Great says I, chance to nail some enemy flattops at anchor.

Snuck my way in past loads of destroyers and was approaching a couple of Escort carriers sitting at anchor.

I'd been stopping my engines and making like a hole in the water whenever a destroyer came close.

And yet it seems, even with your engines off if a destroyer gets TOO close (and sods law one of them did come too close), they somehow instantly know you are there. That cannot be right surely, is it a flaw in the game?

Doesn't take a genious to work out what happend to the USS Seawolf in the shallows of Manila Harbour!!! :(

Looks like, basically, that he saw you, pure and simple. Submerged subs are visible from a short distance, even if submerged. TMO trims the graphics in such a manner that you can see that for yourself.

Check out this picture:

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr74/cbleyte/submarine_submerged_visible.jpg

[Jude]

Went to the harbor and patrolled the entire bay, and I could not find and carriers.

Can anyone help?

[Anthony W.]

Went to the harbor and patrolled the entire bay, and I could not find and carriers.

Can anyone help?

Only in certain missions

[Daniel Prates]

Anyways, if you run around the pacific for a while, you're bound to run into some carriers! :03:

[TorpX]

Ok so, was tasked to sneak into Manila Harbour and photograph enemy carriers. Great says I, chance to nail some enemy flattops at anchor.

Snuck my way in past loads of destroyers and was approaching a couple of Escort carriers sitting at anchor.

I'd been stopping my engines and making like a hole in the water whenever a destroyer came close.

And yet it seems, even with your engines off if a destroyer gets TOO close (and sods law one of them did come too close), they somehow instantly know you are there. That cannot be right surely, is it a flaw in the game?

Doesn't take a genious to work out what happend to the USS Seawolf in the shallows of Manila Harbour!!! :(

Have you ever read what Ducimus posted about DD sensors?
I doubt that they saw you. Their capabilities are a simplification, which leads to odd results.

[razark]

Anyways, if you run around the pacific for a while, you're bound to run into some carriers! :03:
Lies!

I've been playing this game since it came out, and the Japanese carriers are as fictional as the Flying Dutchman or the Yamato. There's no such ships in this game. :nope:

[Armistead]

Lies!

I've been playing this game since it came out, and the Japanese carriers are as fictional as the Flying Dutchman or the Yamato. There's no such ships in this game. :nope:

Fictional Flying Dutchman....

http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/uu235/Armistead1424/SH4Img2011-07-30_221652_172.jpg

My guess it's only in stock, RSRD nerfed it, but you can add it back.

[razark]

Fictional Flying Dutchman....

My guess it's only in stock, RSRD nerfed it, but you can add it back.
What's with the screenshot of the empty ocean?




Honestly, in all the years the game has been out, I've never seen it. Stock, TMO, RSRD, never seen it. I've sunk the one battleship I've seen. I spotted a couple of carriers once. I even got sunk by a sub recently. But I've never seen the Flying Dutchman.

[Daniel Prates]

Lies!

I've been playing this game since it came out, and the Japanese carriers are as fictional as the Flying Dutchman or the Yamato. There's no such ships in this game. :nope:

haha!

"The only thing worse than not finding a CV, is finding a CV" (Cpt. Oscar Wilde).

[Anthony W.]

What's with the screenshot of the empty ocean?




Honestly, in all the years the game has been out, I've never seen it. Stock, TMO, RSRD, never seen it. I've sunk the one battleship I've seen. I spotted a couple of carriers once. I even got sunk by a sub recently. But I've never seen the Flying Dutchman.

Try getting stuck in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. Intense. I sank the Yamato, even tho it took 10 well spaced torpedoes.

[Sailor Steve]

Awesome! :rock:

And it sounds about right. Yamato and Musashi both took a lot more than that, but it could have been overkill, and ten might have done it.

[Armistead]

What's with the screenshot of the empty ocean?




Honestly, in all the years the game has been out, I've never seen it. Stock, TMO, RSRD, never seen it. I've sunk the one battleship I've seen. I spotted a couple of carriers once. I even got sunk by a sub recently. But I've never seen the Flying Dutchman.


It's in stock for sure, in the Luzon area, not sure if TMO nerfed it as he made some traffic changes, RSRD did for sure.

If you want to see it, use the ME and and create a single and add it to traffic, it's listed under the Netherlands as a BB named "What is this" or dis, first one listed

[razark]

If you want to see it, use the ME and and create a single and add it to traffic
But that would be cheating.

Maybe one of these days I'll get to see it.

[TorpX]

But that would be cheating.

Maybe one of these days I'll get to see it.

Don't feel bad, I've never seen it either. :)

[Armistead]

But that would be cheating.

Maybe one of these days I'll get to see it.

Just saying if you use RSRD, you'll never see it, was a stock thing. So if you want to see it, you can add it back in to traffic or just create a mission to see it.

[Armistead]

Ok so, was tasked to sneak into Manila Harbour and photograph enemy carriers. Great says I, chance to nail some enemy flattops at anchor.

Snuck my way in past loads of destroyers and was approaching a couple of Escort carriers sitting at anchor.

I'd been stopping my engines and making like a hole in the water whenever a destroyer came close.

And yet it seems, even with your engines off if a destroyer gets TOO close (and sods law one of them did come too close), they somehow instantly know you are there. That cannot be right surely, is it a flaw in the game?

Doesn't take a genious to work out what happend to the USS Seawolf in the shallows of Manila Harbour!!! :(

They probably hit you with sonar, did you hear them pinging? The sonar is basically always on, even if you don't hear it. You will only hear it if you get within the sonar cone, being shallow and you said one got close, that seems possible. DD's can also listen if stationary and you have other sound factors other than engines they can hear. Silent running cuts the enemies hydrophone values down, not off, so even engaged your sub has some sub signature.

What I'm not sure of is can the enemy listen why they're engaged and if their speed effects sonar. Sometimes with TMO sure seems like it as they sometimes come towards you obviously searching, but you're not being pinged or near the sonar cone. However, it's always been stated they can only ping or listen. Heck, I'll start another topic and see if I can ever get someone to answer, ain't asked in a long time.

[razark]

Just saying if you use RSRD, you'll never see it, was a stock thing. So if you want to see it, you can add it back in to traffic or just create a mission to see it.
I don't really care if I see it or not. I've never really been one to worry about hunting down easter eggs, so if I see it, I see it, if not, oh well. Personally, I think there's other things the devs could have spent time on...

[Daniel Prates]

I never saw the flying dutchman too. Only via screenshots here in the forum.

Quite frankly, it was quite a stupid thing from the programmers part, to include such an easter egg in the game. Ghost ships. Huh!

[TorpX]

Personally, I think there's other things the devs could have spent time on...

You said it, man! :yep:

[WernherVonTrapp]

But that would be cheating.

Maybe one of these days I'll get to see it.Not if the ship doesn't exist to begin with.
http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-merv/groucho.gif Deny, deny, deny.:03:

[Daniel Prates]

Hey Trapp, what is that? Groucho Marx Smiley?

[fisherstoys1]

This is where I got the monster.

"Well it's Oct. 24 early morning and my stake out has worked.
On my radar I pick up dd and behind I see a rather large fleet.
Location, 121.50 by 12.40 N time is 8:02 AM.
As I work my way the air attacks begin at 9:02 and before you know it there is large, and I mean large number of downed air crew.
By the time the lead dds have passed I come up from 52 meters and there is my dream target. Yamato, she took six hits suffered internal explosions."
:DL

[WernherVonTrapp]

Hey Trapp, what is that? Groucho Marx Smiley?Pretty neat, huh?:D I can also get Laurel & Hardy and The Three Stooges.
http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-merv/stooges.gif
http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-char167.gif
http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-merv/chaplin.gif

Oh yeah, Charlie Chaplin too.

[Sailor Steve]

Thank you! Now I have them too! :D

[Daniel Prates]

Pretty neat, huh?:D I can also get Laurel & Hardy and The Three Stooges.
http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-merv/stooges.gif
http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-char167.gif
http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-merv/chaplin.gif

Oh yeah, Charlie Chaplin too.


haha! Sweet.

[Daniel Prates]

Oh and BTW, who is this guy?

:|\\

Is he Dizzy Gillespie holding a joint?

[WernherVonTrapp]

Oh and BTW, who is this guy?

:|\\

Is he Dizzy Gillespie holding a joint?That's no joint. That's a fatty.:D:03: