Mysterious damage explained...
 

I was crusing off the coast near daybreak just making time to our next mark when !

"Were taking damage sir !" Boom this damaged that damaged crew members hurt all hands do damage control !

I flip to exterior view to see what had damaged me. A plane ? no. A mine ? no. when ziiiip sploosh a shell nearly takes my head off.

"What tha ! whered that come from !" so I stayed outside surfaced to try to figure it out.... ziiipppp sploosh... It came from over there !

I grab the binocs and "flash" there it is ! Shore batteries ! ziiiip BOOOM ugh more damage.

They were nailing me from nearly a mile out ! I tried to steer the outside camera over to get a good look but there are some collision issues with land and the camera.

Long story short we submerged, got things repaired, and continued on.

Next time your taking mysterious un explained damage... look shoreward.

Had this happen entering a harbour. Caught me off guard at first.

RDP

Oh my gosh, and you tell me *that* is what people couldn't figure out and went crying "Mysterious Damage, Bug Bug!" into the forums?? I always wonder why I do not experience even a quarter of those so called "bugs" which make the game "unplayable".
Well, this is one of "them" I had never happen - I don't get close to *enemy coasts* surfaced unless I have to, because I would expect to have exactly that happen.

Frankly, I think we got a lot of eye-candy new guys here who might just not be up to deal with simulations.
Then we have people who thought this will be SHIII No.2 (Why is the interface changed ahhhhwhaa!!!)
And then we have people who simply like to rant over every single small personal annoyance they might experience with the game. Those are mostly bored people and kids.

Well.

This is very annoying because the stupid crew says, "We're taking damage sir!" instead of, "We're taking fire sir!" Which is what any smart crew would say. Maybe I just have a stupid crew...

I would go for a refund.

There are still many instances of damage being taken without cause.

Stop dancing around the issue.

Really? Tell me examples please, I'm interested, because I've never had "unexplained damage" happening to my boat.

OK.. let's keep the temperature down a bit.

But I would like to hear it, too.

JCC

Must be a full moon, there are a few of these posts tonight. Thread good, some of the posts, not so good.

RDP

Wow wth... Im just reporting some experiences not "dancing around an issue".

I took damage from an unexplained source. Found the unexplained source. Then releated my experience.

Good lord... Im going back to playing now... have a nice night.

SteamWake, my comment is aimed squarely at heartc, not you. I've had the same thing happen. Pity we can't fire back at them.

And heartc, I'm glad that you have a perfect, bug free install of SH4, really I am.
However, many of us do not, and your pollyanna like comments in threads of people asking for help, or pointing out issues, do nothing to make the situation for those of us that do indeed have problems any easier.

As to unexplained damage being taken my latest example was near the end of my last completed patrol. I was still WSW of Miday on my way back to Pearl. As it was late IRL I saved the game and went to bed. Next day I fire up SH4 and load the save. I'm on the surface at night, I order ahead slow and click on the map to make sure of my current heading and refresh my memory a bit as to my location. I start getting the "taking damage" calls from the crew. Huh? I'm between Wake and Midway, it's night, there are no ships or aircraft anywere, other than my boat. I go to the damage contol screen and see I have a damaged forward bulkhead, damaged forward battries, and flooding in the forward torpedo room. My forward torpedo crew are all wounded, half my damage control party is as well.

I go to externals and look at my boat from stem to stern, nothing. No objects in the water, no enemy presence of any kind, no ships to ram..nothing.

I exit the game at that point and reload the save and all is well after that.

I've had this happen more than a few times.

I have no reason to make any of this up, I want to have a good experience with SH4, but it grows increasing more difficult. I hope the 1.03 version fixes these problems.