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Originally Posted by scrapser
I read in the inclusions list that shell power has been increased 33%.
I then increased time compression and waited for an hour of game time and still the ship didn't sink.
Next thing...occasionally I use the free camera topside to watch some particular event. I've noticed with GW that the camera scroll rate is extremely slow. Is this to be expected? Can it be adjusted?
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I think the damage from shells was
reduced to 33% of original but the amount of ammo was increased because of this "realism" change.
The reason your boat didn't sink is because GW uses the NYGM damage mod. In the stock game ships have x number of hit points, say 400. If you hit it with five 80pt shots from your deck gun you break the 400 hit points and the ship sinks. Hits from anywhere count.
In GW/NYGM damage has been changed to be zone based and you sink by flooding. In otherwords if you hit the bridge, cargo or above deck things you are doing hit point damage to the boat, but you won't sink it like that. You need to hit MULTIPLE below waterline zones on the boat in order to have it sink. Hit points have almost no direct impact in GW as it did in vanilla SH3.
So in a GW patrol if you see a ship stopped and listing to the bow, start shooting in the middle or stern below the waterline to force flooding in those compartments then I should sink.
EDIT: Actually, I just noticed that Teddy Bear explained the NYGM/GW damage mod in another post today:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=97860 You can read that for more info form the mod devs themselves.
As for the camera thing I noticed that too at first and hated it! No one was able to tell me why it was happening, nor how to fix it. After playing a while though, I believe it has to do with graphical upgrades in the mod, especially if you have anti-aliasing turned on. At times the speed seems normal, but if there's a lot of waves or graphics on the screen it's unuseably slow. About the only fix for it would be to use the shift-arrow keys to speed it up too slow. Be sure to disable Shift-Keys Windows accessability crap before doing so though.