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Old 02-13-16, 05:42 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by geosub1978 View Post
The main problem with the DCs in the game is that they are set to explode at your depth which is not realistic, because it was (and still is more or less) impossible to determine the depth of the submarine. That's why they were set to explode with a depth pattern, unless it was known that the submarine was the previous moments at periscope depth and were set to shallow depth.
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I'm guessing that the time required to develop algorithms, as well as the CPU time required to give AI ships the ability to use realistic depth patterns in a real-time simulation was probably more than the computers of 10 years ago could handle.

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