[John Pancoast]

Originally Posted by Huno41

i tried stiebler weather mod with the Hsie fixes and it solved my problem, once my save loaded it started raining a lot and very bad visibility with high winds, i was then searching for a convoy from a BDU report, and then my WO reports 2 cargo ships at near range they were at around 1-2km away from me, i quickly submerged as i noticed i was in the middle of the convoy i tried to get away from it then a ship noticed me as i got too close to it but luckily the destroyers did not find me. the weather started to clear so i got around 14km distance from the convoy and surfaced to get ahead of them and get into position to fire a few torps, i got around 3km from the convoy and fired 2 salvos of 2 torps. on the first shot i managed to hit one torp so i changed my position and fired another 2 torpedos and managed to hit both, but then when i looked there was a light thing on the sky and it lit my position and they found my position (if someone could explain to me how these work i'd appreciate) i quickly went on ahead flank and dived to 90 meters then activated silent running and changed speed to 2 knots, 2 destroyers then came and started throwing a bunch of depth charges everywhere luckily i managed to escape, i've never been in a tense situation like that in any game

By "light thing" do you mean a flare ? If so, that is normal convoy behavior when attacked.