Hi,
I made some small tests and it seems to me that the mod is not fully working as intended. It would be great if someone could try to confirm my findings to figure out whether it's a problem with my installation or with the mod.
I took a single Black Swan without any ASDIC and put it in the campaign SRC file. Then I started a campaign and closed to 1000m to the Black Swan without being detected (with silent running the Black Swan does not detect you). I increased my speed to full ahead and the Black Swan started to attack me. After the first depth charges, I turned on silent running again (became 'invisible' again), and started my stop watch. Exactly after the 'Lost contact time' in sim.cfg the Black Swan stopped searching although I set the lifetime of the 'Bold' to 10min and the last depth charges exploded only 3min before (I set the lost contact time to 10min, too).
From testing a real bold with noise I know that the Black Swan reacts to the noise setting.
After turning on the bubbles in the mod, I saw that they vanish quite quickly, although the bubbles from a 'real' bold stay for the whole lifetime of the bold.
My suspicion is that the lifetime of the 'depth-charge' bold is somehow determined by the lifetime of the effect in particles.dat that spawns the bold
Anyway, it would be great if someone else could confirm these findings and if true, I hope we can improve this excellent work from TDW!
Cheers, LGN1