Enemy Ship Disappears After Loading

[Mallet]

I can't find any help on the matter. When I gain visual on a ship, I save the game so that when I mess up, I can reload the save and try again. (I'm new)
The problem is when I load up that save, the ship is gone. I know for certain I didn't lose contact as I had visual and was only a few hundred feet away. How can I stop this?

[fireftr18]

That's a new one for me. Have you had any problems with saving? Next time try saving in a new file.

[Mallet]

That's a new one for me. Have you had any problems with saving? Next time try saving in a new file.

Thanks for responding! I have not had issues with saving and have tried saving in multiple different files. One time I even crippled a ship with a torpedo, saved the game, loaded it, and the ship was gone. I'm baffled.

[magic452]

Welcome to the boat mate. :salute:

I had that issue a very long time ago. Playing stock V1.4 I think.
It happened one or two times, never really figured out what caused it but it seemed like the game saved 10 or 15 minutes earlier than it really was.
I was tracking a convoy and upon reloading a save it disappeared. What I did was just sit there and run up time compression and what do you know here comes my convoy.:06::06::06:

You didn't say what game you're playing but you need to be playing at least SH IV v1.4 It's best if you get V1.5 U Boat missions addition.
You can see what version you have in the lower right corner of the load screen.

Magic

[Webster]

as mentioned sometimes saves dont catch everything right up to the latest moment so its good to trail a ship for 5 or 10 minutes to avoid what happened. my guess is it was too close the the ship spawning and when reloaded it didnt respawn because that spawn wasnt saved