The Sleeping Flak Gunner Bug
You may have the best and even specialized flak gunner(s) this side of the Atlantic but you may experience having them do absolutely nothing behind the guns, while your UBoat take an aerial pounding. This is known as the "Sleeping Flak Gunner Bug" (Copyright 2005, Fishmachine). It's been in SH3 since the start and has yet to be corrected.
This bug occurs with many different conning tower/flak gun configurations and happens to different players randomly. Some people experience it all of the time and some never do.
Here are some methods players have reported to overcome the sleeping flak gunner bug:
- Toggle between your flak station(s) and the bridge by pressing a key combination such as <F><F4><G><F4><T><F4>. The sleeping flak gunner(s) AI will wake up after this manual manning of the guns and your return to the bridge. Sometimes it's enough to man one gun and then switch back to the bridge to awaken all of the gunners. Sometimes you've to go through them all.
- Man and fire the flak gun(s) at least for a couple of rounds and switch back to bridge. If you're in a real hurry, you may want to take down the planes yourself instead of dealing with this bug.
- View the target aircraft through your binoculars and hit the SPACEBAR on your keyboard. This assigns the target to the flak gun crew.
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