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Originally Posted by propbeanie
S-Boats are at Manila only to start the war. The others were in the process of being rebuilt and readied for Alaska, since it was assumed there wouldn't be much up there. There were not that many of the S class active at the beginning of the war, due to their "liabilities", and the ones at Manila were scheduled to come back to San Diego when the war started. Those deemed even somewhat reliable were pressed into service. What cracks me up, and is hard to "mod", is the failure rate, where an S-boat would come out of re-fit between patrols and having had some repairs would be test dived at the beginning of the patrol, and fail in one way or another... Imagine the fellows in the S-boat at Pearl later in the war, doing training for sub crews and for DD ASW practice, working with a DD, and they went down for a dive to do a practice run on the DD, and that was the last they were heard from... 
Yeah, on that... I could well imagine... any how, will note that about reports & not having to be fully surfaced to send 1 off...
On the modeling of malfunctions & such... know that with the use of Cmdr, that that was an option that could be selected. Just a shame, that jcones, didn't do 1 for SH4.. which would have been nice addition there.  Will see of giving it 1 more go, in an S class sub.. & see how it goes.... will still check & se if it is available with a Midway or Pearl start... if not then the Philippines it is...
In reality, torp tracks were not that easy to see. Kind of like periscopes, in that you had to practice being able to "see" them, without raising false alarms constantly. Imagine a torp coming out of the sun reflecting on the water... night time, dusk or dawn, etc., especially if you had another ship "screening" your sight. So what we accomplished there, was about what we wanted. However, we did want some prosecution of the ASW effort after that, and for it to be stronger than what we got...  sigh... "simulations"...
We do want anyone seeing those little "blobs" near the top of their screens to report in please. Had you noticed it in previous versions? What boat? Daytime? Interior? Exterior? What kind of vid card? what kind of cpu? How much TC do you use? etc. Anything else you think might be important?  |
If am recalling it right, the torps, went right by a DD, then a merchie, before slamming into the lead BB, which was 1 of 4 I had targeted (2 torps @ each of the BB's( set for 1 under the keel, the other for side impact, 1 each (set for under the keel on both of these targets) at the cruiser & Tanker...) but was the last set of them I had fired off... don't recall about the others I had sent off if they passed by any ships before slamming into the trailing BB... or not... much less the Cruiser I targeted, or the Tanker, for that matter... I guess the only reason, I recall much about the lead BB, is .. as I mentioned, it was targeted with the last set of torps I sent off... & if IIRC it was closer to Me than the other BB, Cruiser & Tanker was. That was some time back, so in a way, I guess you could say it was a moot point, but still relevant in that the escorts did NOT react at all, until after that BB (the lead 1, if I recall it right) went under aka sank. Then they were like hornets looking for the disturber of the nest... but never came close to finding Me... despite having 1 nearly on top of Me.
Go figure...
As for the 'blob's, can tell you.. I didn't use any TC when I checked with the Nav training & saw those there... I'll keep a look out for them, with setting up other careers with other classes & making note if they show up or not... as a side note, I generally don't go much past 256 TC, every once in a blue moon.. I may inadvertently hit 512. I try to keep TC use down in the low numbers, if at all possible. I'll check with TC being just 1x & see if it is there when i get loaded to where i am 'on' the boat... aka finished loading up...
I do have the fps through nvidia control, set to lock that down to 30... though I can't remember what setting it is in the in game/sim settings to not have to activate when that is set like that... I wanna say I think it is vsync, but... am NOT going to swear to that, 100%....
M. M.
