Unable to recreate

Still getting the wierd torpedo loadout with the VIIB out of the 7th flotilla on sept 2, 1939.

I have verified that the UPCGE file matches the .sim file and the problem still persists.

You want to "define" werid loadout

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/8484/viibcn3.th.jpg

Might be already a known issue because it's just an eyecandy thingy and therefore not fixed yet.. anyway... found these little glitches on the VIIb (7th Flottilla, Kiel, 3rd of Sept '39).

Cheers and thnx for this mod :up:

Chose late 1944, VIIC and loaded it with all the heaviest flaks and propped it full of torpedoes, started mission and CTD. (It CTD`ed while loading) Earlier 1944 worked.

The same Effect with VIIb if i chosing the Reartube, the 2 Gyroangle Switch jumping between 210 till 150 degrees, if you compare it with a Compass Rose. Every Second 2 Jumps. I have deactivate Manual Targeting and no Target lock. Sorry i don´t know how to explain it correctly in English, cause i´m German. Maybe i write it in German and somebody can Translate it?

Also:

Ich gehe zur Angriffskarte um Torpedoeinstellungen vorzunehmen, habe allerdings noch kein Ziel aufgeschaltet. Wähle eines oder beide Rückwärtungen Torpedorohre, je nach Typ per Salve oder durch anklicken. Sobald ein hinteres Rohr ausgewählt wurde fangen die Regler für den "Gyroangel" an zu tanzen. Der linke springt immer von 210 bis 150 Grad, der andere im selben Takt. Wenn ich in der Commando Zentrale bin springen die beiden Anzeigen genauso.
Manuelle Zielbrechnung ist nicht aktiviert.
Mehr ist es eigentlich nicht, ich wundere mich halt nur über die "Tanzenden" Regler. :)

Und wo es grad so schön ist, wäre Super wenn man es einbauen könnte die durchquerung des Nord- Ostsee Kanales zu überspringen und Brunsbüttel als Startpunkt hat, wenn Kile der Heimathafen ist und man ausserhalb des Hafen starten möchte. Im Moment ist es sehr mühselig durch den Kanal zu kommen.

Schreib mal los

Another bug: 10th Flotilla still causing a CTD in 1943
Btw, how did you (or anyone else) get compressed air back into the game?
I crept up a convoy in my IX and inavertedly used up all my compressed air running at 1 knot for about an hour. When I had to evade, I had to use ahead full to keep depth and the escorts spotted and sank me
realistic, but how did this get into the game? It didnt work in SH3 nor in SH4, so why now suddenly?
Re the equipment of conning towers and such, this is second priority, but it still bugs me. How can I remove all that fancy radar?
Also, I'd suggest increasing the lethality of aircraft bombs/depth charges and increase the detection range of aircraft radar.
Sofar I've often had metox contact with planes that obviously didn't detect me.
And if they attacked I often had heavy damage, but never fatal damage. It seems still that japanese aircraft are more lethal than british, which is the wrong way around.

Also, where are the accoustic guided torpedoes??

What Flotilla ?
What date?
What weapons ( by name )

Exact date please

July 1943 career start

And what about the accoustics? I suppose you removed them for operation monsun, and forgot to put them back in...

Torpedo loadouts in beta 2 are from following documentation from the following site

http://www.uboatarchive.net/BDUKTB.htm


Permanent Order No. 40 Equipment with Torpedoes

http://www.uboatarchive.net/BDUKTB30323.htm


Serial Order No. 40. April 1944 issue.
Equipment with torpedoes.

http://www.uboatarchive.net/BDUKTB30350.htm


Current Order No. 60 of November 1944

http://www.uboatarchive.net/BDUOrder60.htm

Google "translation" give me a "strange" readout, but I think I have the idea.

Was this a beta 1 or beta 2 issue

Same crash bug with 6th Flottilla in July 1942.

Re the torpedoes, I don't get any guided torps when I start a career in 1944. Only normal and FAT/LUT.
These documents are really a good source, only they're not used in the game apparently, especially since the Type IX still carries electric torpedoes in deck containers, something that was technically not possible.
Also, the final conning tower of the VIIC still has no Radar warning reciever and every VIIC from 1943 has Radar. Do you have any documents to prove that every VIIC from 1943 on had radar? Radar should be a very expensive semi-experimental upgrad until early 45. And the early "Seetakt" adaptions did not work at all.
At least the final conning tower should have a RWR slot.
The only time I've sofar encountered the T-V as loadout was with a VIIC 41 in Sept 1944 in 11th Flottilla.
Incidentally, the VIIC 41 has a radar warning reciever (but still it has Radar by default).
AFAIK T-V should be available from late 1943 on all boats.

Saw this in Beta 2 only! Sorry for the "strange" readout, i thought Anteater would Translate. :D

Sorry, I saw it too late.

But I second that on Brunsbüttel instead of Kiel. As long as the "auto Kanal waypoint" of SH3 doesnt come back, navigating the NOK is simply a nuisance.
Since navigating the Kanal is done by a pilot, it is technically not even wrong :D
Just had another, more serious bug.
11th Flottilla, September 1944, VIIC41, crashed when loading the mission.

For both AntEater & W4chund , I got the message. My first priority are the CTD's the rest I will look into. Don't expect a "patch" in the next 5 minutes.

I don't
I just list everything I note. Actually I'd do some changes myself if I knew how. The file structure of SH4 has always been a mystery to me. In SH3 everything was in a few .cfg files but in SH4 there are dozens of files which all seem to do the same.
And the U-Boat addon made it even worse.

Whooooot, u can´t release a Patch all 5 Minutes after we reporting a Bug??? :D:D:D

Don´t Care, i´m not awaiting that u disregard ur Live and spending all ur Time to clear the Butch from the SH4 developors. Do like u want, notice the Reports from the Gamers and take the Time u needed. I´m know Programming is very difficult and Testers, like me, who can´t explain a bug exactly in ur Language are not easy to Handle. ;)
But i´m a One who can wait.

By the way, i startet a new Career in Feb. 1941, 7th Flt. Habour Nice. I were send to a Point SW of England to cut the US- GB Supply Line. On the half Way i found a very Large Convoy Heading from South to England. My Question, is it correct this Convoy has 3/4 Vessels of Neutral Countrys in it ( Greece, Panama, Argentinia, Spain)? There were only 6 of 20 Vessels from US and UK + 4 Escort Ships.

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By the way, i startet a new Career in Feb. 1941, 7th Flt. Habour Nice. I were send to a Point SW of England to cut the US- GB Supply Line. On the half Way i found a very Large Convoy Heading from South to England. My Question, is it correct this Convoy has 3/4 Vessels of Neutral Countrys in it ( Greece, Panama, Argentinia, Spain)? There were only 6 of 20 Vessels from US and UK + 4 Escort Ships.[/quote]

think it this way...

you can sail alone, be lighted and cross your fingers, or you can hitch yourself to a convoy.

another thing... what if you are a greek vessel hired to transport some cargo...its not only the flag you fly but what bussiness you are involved in...

think about it

Doenitz changed the ROE of the Uboat arm many times, and if a ship is in a declared war zone, he`s taking a risk, thats what calls for your judgement in wether to engage a ship flying a neutral flag or not...

you can consider that while Argentina and Panama dont have much of a navy they have signed a mutual defence agreement with the US, so firing on them can be bad for von Ribbentrop to explain, another is that Argentina has a population of Italian and German extraction and they are a bit pro Germany at the time (the Spee might have survived if it had gone to Buenos Aires instead of Montevideo)

so at the end it comes to your judgement, enjoy the game, we know a lot of things the Kaleuns of old didnt and the game engine is not omnipresent so we have to decide for ourselves a lot of things

This is a response to various bug reports from beta 2


Corrected


Corrected


Unable to recreate. Tried both the IXC & IXC/40




Currently FUMO30 Radar start showing up on 1 March 1943. This date is based on the following statement at U-Boat.net

FuMO 30

This was an improved version of the rotating mast version of FMG 41G (gU), with a direction finder added, ready in late 1942. It was built into all U-boats. However, it was easily disabled by depth charges or bombs, and the antennas corroded in the salt water. Commanders did not like to use it, because they feared that it gave away their position.

http://www.uboat.net/technical/radar.htm




The aircraft are currently are loaded with various airborne depth charges

http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WAMBR_ASW.htm

I will look into giving them a little bit bigger boom.


The T5 is now set for 1943-09-01 based on this statement from Uboat.net

The Zaunköning (Wren) came into service during the autumn of 1943

http://www.uboat.net/technical/torpedoes.htm



This was a "bug" in the "stock settings" of the UpgradePack.upc file



This will only happen if you have the periscope in the "default" position of 000 when you select the "aft torpedo tubes". If you move the periscope a few degrees left or right of 000 the "problems" goes away.


Corrected with ZeeWolf new Turms



Update “at sea” departure point for Kiel to the western exit of the Kiel canal at Brunsbüttel



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Beta 3 will release on Saturday