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Originally Posted by The General
It may not be immediately apparent TDW, because the trailing Escort stays just out visual range, so you can only pick him up on Sonar. If you have your 'no surface sonar mod' activated then you won't see him unless you submerge for a while. The game slows down during TC, which is an indicator that this has occured and he's become 'attached'. It takes a save/reload to shake him off.
I restarted the campaign yesterday, and this anomally occured during OHII's Scapa Flow mission. After sailing through Kiel Canal, passing closely by Hegoland, with TC engaged, I found that the game slowed (stuttering during only x1024 TC) for 100 miles into open water. I went to x1 TC, submerged to check sonar, and sure enough there he was; a friendly Escort, following me at roughly 10 - 20 km.
I don't expect you to spend any time specifically looking for this event, I just wanted to make you aware of it. It's kind of a big immersion killer. All the best.
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This happened to me two times in a row. First was really irritating, I was being depth charged for a while but then seemed to lose the destroyer. But it was still circling behind me, doing really small circles and still steadily following me (i was going 1 knots, silent running). When I changed course, so did the destroyer. Wasn't sure if this was a bug because after several hours the destroyer left. But I could see that it was still following me, just keeping 7 kilometers distance. I saved the game and loaded it again to get rid of the bug, but it didn't go away!
The destroyer changed course and was now 12 kilometers from me. I continued my course back to base, and the destroyer was escorting me back to Germany! I could see it in the distance, not following behind but cruising right in front of me! So days passed and I finally started to approach coast. I sent a contact report from the destroyer, and soon the planes came. But the destroyer shot them down and suddenly "awoke" and was charging towards me. After few hours of depth charging, the destroyer finally gave up and left back to England....
Second case was today when a whole task force of destroyers started to follow me, keeping 20 kilometers distance. Saving and loading fixed this issue.
Maybe it was just bad luck, but it seemed that this behaviour is more common now, could some mod increase the possibility? It was a interesting find to see that the destroyer could "wake up" from the following mode, when planes attacked it, could this mechanic be used somehow to fix this issue? Like the General said, it is a big immersion killer.