Had a coupla strange things happen in multi that i thouhgt i should share.
For the most part, I consider them to be the kind of things that are simply a part of internet gameplay.
in one case my mk 48 locked on to a russian torpedo, hit it,and "sank it" !
it showed up as a dead platform on my map for a few minutes and as a kill on my scoreboard. verified in replay. no idea what happened - but in general i initially expected acoustic torps to lock on to other torps alot more anyway. have not been able to reproduce said occurrence.
next torp oddity - fired a klub at a "player1" who was also under attack from "player 2". my torp landed very close to my tma and was clearly tracking sumthing but i heard an explosion - saw dead sub on my map realizing player 2 had sunk player 1, i went back to sonar station to check on another contact. no more than 10 seconds later i heard another explosion on "master2" flipped to map screen saw my torp was gone and patted myself on the back for at least having placed my missile "spot on" (assumed i hit cm) despite another player geting kill. heres the thing, somehow, on my results screen at least , it showed ME as having sunk player 1. thankfully i saw the dead platform b4 my torp exploded knew dang well this another players kill and it was not a stat match of any kind. lotsa frikkin argument potential in that rarity. in replay my torp clearly hit the already dead sub . very rare for torp to hit a dead platform in dw - they seem to be progged to suddenly go magical and pass thru.
again, no idea what happened. will not bother trying to reproduce said occurrence.
next "oddity" turned out to be nothing at all. a player was complaining heavily that sumthing funny was goin on and he was takin names and numbers gonna put the replay under a microscope and send it to all his buddies and he was gonna expose this to the WORLD by gum ! this all because his towed array was washing out "too soon" in his opinion. after putting everyone VERY ill at ease and kinda making them answer to his "find the cheater" detective crap for some 30 min during the game, said knucklehead suddenly realized he had been looking at his hull array the entire time - o gee OOPS .
yeah i got an oops for ya right here buddyboy.
last oddity is real and unfortunately not conjecture.
unnamed player has been hosting mission that i presume he is writing. having played 2 or 3 of these incoming missions and seeing that several people calmly and
PRIVATELY concurred (as did i) that "sumthing funny WAS goin on" the host and/or his teammate seemed to sink other players ridiculously quickly. so someone decided to open the mission and have a look. i then opened it in the editor as well to simply confirm what another player was telling me. turned out there was a number of contact triggers with attack scripts written in for the sub the host had chosen and for whomever ended up being his fortuitous but unwitting accomplice sub. basically the instant the host/unwitting teammate got a specific contact on sonar there sub auto fired missile torps sinking the contact more or less immediately.
mets game starts soon
L8R