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Originally Posted by KineticDiplomat
Ouch. I end up shooting contact fused to avoid the detonations, and then having to always shoot slow speed to prevent the pins from crushing too often, and then setting the depth to five feet because they like to run deep at the worst times.
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Ah yea, the work arounds. So I run my "TorpedoUpdateV3" mod that is in the downloads section created a few years ago for TMO to portray the torpedo issues in a more accurate manner since by default they are linked to wave height, so in calm seas, you get few if any premature explosions and felt this was nonsense and was reflected in the obscenely high tonnage scores skippers turning in patrols.
Always had an issue with how the magnetic feature was portrayed as if were an easy thing to turn it off. Was not as simple as flipping a switch on the tdc panel. In fact until mid 43 in SubPac and Jan 44 for SubSoWesPac it was against orders to deactivate influence feastures. many skippers resorted to leaving port with them armed, then then having torpedo crews deactivate the magnetic exploders. They returned to port with fish left, reactivated the features. This is when duds first became apparent but once everyone deactivated them and could honestly report the duds in patrol reports, the firing pin issue was figured out.
My mod provides for erratic and unexpected explosions. One patrol may have few or no prematures, next will have many or somewhere in between. That helps create the conditions to really test the player.
I did leave the speed reduction in but made it less effective than standard torpedo settings in game, it reduced duds too much.All about the angle at which the torpedo impacts the hull of the target, such as in real life.
I did not give away specifics as want the challenge to remain, we have so much hindsight. On flip side, I created a "perfect torpedo mod" where torpedoes work as they did in theory, as if they had been tested. Fun to play around with if want a change.