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treblesum81 · 06-11-10, 02:17 PM

I understand that TMO is supposed to make things more difficult, and I really like the mod (part of the reason I would go back to 1.9 rather than something else), but I really think that the thermal layer effect got reduced too much somehow. I'm really serious when I say that no matter how deep I dive and no matter how silently I'm sitting there, the enemy DD's are able to detect me, PING me, and drop DC's on my decks. Now, again, I don't expect it to be a walk in the park... I don't even expect that they shouldn't be able to detect me at those depths, but they should not be able to accurately ping a submarine 200ft below the thermal layer and put DC's on it as if it was at periscope depth... After all, it was Ducimus himself who described in his "Uber AI Explained" post that the thermal layer will protect a sub against active (and passive) sonar.

Again, I like the mod, I just think this one feature might have gone a little awry. If I'm wrong, I can also accept that, even if it means I won't use this version.

EDIT: Out of curiosity, which file(s) control to the thermal layer characteristics so I can change them myself should I want to?

06-11-10, 02:17 PM	#14
treblesum81 Frogman Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 308 Downloads: 71 Uploads: 0	I understand that TMO is supposed to make things more difficult, and I really like the mod (part of the reason I would go back to 1.9 rather than something else), but I really think that the thermal layer effect got reduced too much somehow. I'm really serious when I say that no matter how deep I dive and no matter how silently I'm sitting there, the enemy DD's are able to detect me, PING me, and drop DC's on my decks. Now, again, I don't expect it to be a walk in the park... I don't even expect that they shouldn't be able to detect me at those depths, but they should not be able to accurately ping a submarine 200ft below the thermal layer and put DC's on it as if it was at periscope depth... After all, it was Ducimus himself who described in his "Uber AI Explained" post that the thermal layer will protect a sub against active (and passive) sonar. Again, I like the mod, I just think this one feature might have gone a little awry. If I'm wrong, I can also accept that, even if it means I won't use this version. EDIT: Out of curiosity, which file(s) control to the thermal layer characteristics so I can change them myself should I want to?