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Originally Posted by Bothersome
Well, Sometimes you HAVE to fight airplanes. The water is too shallow to dive away from them. Your best shot it to shoot them down. But after many flak hits and two twin 20mm guns going on a circling duck... Something should fall out of the sky and not just fly off like nothing happened. It didn't take but one of those for me to un-install that mod. It's like the sub is made of aluminum and plastic and the plane is made of 15/16" steel plating... The sub takes massive damage from the slightest spit wads, yet the plane doesn't even start smoking. Something is backwards here. I need more realism, not artificially harder.
Ducimus should fix the DD acceleration and fix the planes back to real damage and capabilities. Then it would be a great mod. He shouldn't try to tell the player how to be a good captain. Just make it as real as possible. Leave the what to do to us.
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Again, Ducimas did nothing to change the acceleration from stock. The fast stops and starts are part of the stock game. Some have tried to change them with some effect, but there is so much involved and so many factors that domino that it effects so many settings that many of the supermod makers haven't included these fixes. I've never found the speeds to be that big of an issue. It's a little fast, but I have no problem hitting at whatever I aim for.
The goal of TMO with planes is to try to force the reality that never in war did skippers stay up and fight them. The biggest complaint with stock planes was if you were doing a surface attack, tracking or an end around on a TF and planes came a calling, who cared, no need to dive, just a few blast and down they go. In real war, if a skipper saw a plane, he dived. With TMO, you see planes, you're forced to deal with them as real skippers did. In war, seldom did subs shoot planes down, even when they shot at them they seldom took one out. I only know of one case a sub shot down a plane. TMO actually makes it closer to reality than not. Stock was an arcade game where you didn't have to worry about planes. TMO makes you fear planes as skippers in real war did...sort of...still rather easy.
I have no problem shooting planes down. Why he made them a lil stonger, a direct hit from a 40 will easily down one. With the extra gun mount, I carry two 40's and one 20, with my best gunners, they have no problem shooting them down..almost too easy. When they hit you with machine gun fire, it would normally do a lot of damage, but in game it does little unless you get hit over and over, course bombs can do major damage, so I don't risk it unless I think it's worth it.