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Originally Posted by TorpX
I have not made that many night surface attacks, but on at least two occasions when I did, I was spotted. Perhaps, what you describe is possible, under certain circumstances, but I don't think it is typical. It may be partly due to design limitations of the game. I have read of similer complaints to yours about SH 3, so maybe it is a problem of the game engine being oversimplified in this regard. Usually, people complain that it is too difficult to get close at night.
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After posting last night I decided to give RFB another go it seems from the few missions I played that the April patch seems to be the culprit. Sometimes I would be within a couple thousand yards of a destroyer during the day on the surface and it would not notice me. I think it may have something to do with fog not being rendered properly. I would see a clear day where the AI was being restricted by "the fog". If I reran the same mission without the patch I could see the fog and not the DD until we got close then he opened fire as he should. One other issue seemed to be the escorts had problems dealing with me if I was at periscope depth. I would agree with you that perhaps it is a stock game limitation but I haven't noticed such issues while playing TMO, plus the fact that I resolved one of the issues by simply not applying the April patch. But like I said I did like a lot of other things about it. I wish somebody would take up the reigns and finish it. If I had the skills I would definitely offer my help. Maybe when more people get updated hardware to properly play SH4 we will see more modders coming over to it. I think SH4 has a lot of things going for it for those that want some upgraded graphics and SH3 style gameplay but it seems all the modders are split between SH3 and 5 right now with a few lone exceptions spending time with 4(I wish whatever happened to put the kabosh on gwx4 never happened I'm sure that would have been excellent if it came to fruition). And Ducimus from what I've gathered from 2.5 is done with spending time with TMO(and I thank him for his excellent work that without I wouldn't even play sh4 anymore) so its starting to look like sh4 is at the end of the road as far as megamods go.