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scandium · 03-20-06, 05:00 PM

Voted 'no hover' but with reservations. Biggest being visions of cruising with 64x TC at 150 metres to put some more distance away from DDs, then getting a sonar contact from a nearby merchant that drops me to 8x but not noticing right away, its the straw that breaks my electric crew's back and before I can react to "the not enough crew in electric compartment" my now still uboat has plunged to crush depth.

Okay so I have an over-active imagination but TC is one of the things this game handles really poorly: like surface cruising in 1941 in medium fog and the next thing I know I'm at 8x TC with "we're taking damage sir" scrolling and in the time it takes to drop to 1x & get to the bridge I see a flower corvette (of all things) has come out of the fog and opened up on my type IXc badly enough to almost sink it... it was only luck that it was a slow flower corvette and not a fast DD.

Thanks to the awesome guy who made SH3C these types of incidents haven't happened since (cuz of the ability to force it to 1x when encountering hostiles) but the default TC "feature" is like Russian Roulette with "no hover" a second potential bullet.

03-20-06, 05:00 PM	#21
scandium Ace of the Deep Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,098 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Voted 'no hover' but with reservations. Biggest being visions of cruising with 64x TC at 150 metres to put some more distance away from DDs, then getting a sonar contact from a nearby merchant that drops me to 8x but not noticing right away, its the straw that breaks my electric crew's back and before I can react to "the not enough crew in electric compartment" my now still uboat has plunged to crush depth. Okay so I have an over-active imagination but TC is one of the things this game handles really poorly: like surface cruising in 1941 in medium fog and the next thing I know I'm at 8x TC with "we're taking damage sir" scrolling and in the time it takes to drop to 1x & get to the bridge I see a flower corvette (of all things) has come out of the fog and opened up on my type IXc badly enough to almost sink it... it was only luck that it was a slow flower corvette and not a fast DD. Thanks to the awesome guy who made SH3C these types of incidents haven't happened since (cuz of the ability to force it to 1x when encountering hostiles) but the default TC "feature" is like Russian Roulette with "no hover" a second potential bullet.