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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

[REQ] Mod request: Jettison debris in place of decoys

I'm not terribly disturbed about the inclusion of Pillenwaffers in US subs in SH4, but I don't care for it, either. It does not affect gameplay at all as long as I ignore it, and those are the kind of things I can live with. But it got me to thinking how cool it would be to mod this to resemble SH1 and the tactics seen in old sub movies where the skipper, under heavy attack, would order the crew to jettison debris (and sometimes a dead crewman, see Rub Silent, Run Deep). The Japanese would see the floating stuff and sometimes think the sub was destroyed and leave. In place of bubbling decoys, have some general purpose stuff; mattress, shirt, cork, oil, small food boxes, etc. And if the buoyancy characteristics can be made for the debris to float, even better. Use would need to be limited to once a day (24 hours) or so. The tricky part, would be to mod the effect the debris would have on enemy AI. Decoys as they exist in the game obviously have an effect on enemy AI; does it make them depth charge in the wrong area? Or does it make them give up and go away? If the latter, perfect. If the former, well, I can live with that as a substitute.

If this sounds dumb, ok, just ignore me, lol. If anyone wants to tackle this, let me know how I can help. I will get into stuff like this after the review is finished and I have more time to play SH4 for fun.

Cheers
Neal

I'm actually working on a mod for sh3 to simulate the water disturbance produced by deep charges (blinding the sensors for several minutes), I'm using a modified decoy, they fool the AI into thinking that the decoy is a sub, the tricky part is to disctract them enough to simulate the contact lost but not enough to make them drop charges on top of their own, resuming, the decoys can be tweaked to atract the AI but not enough to drop charges, and the bubbles they emit can be replaced by other objects, including debris and oil spots, so it's perfectly doable, the problem is to limit they use once a day, what can be done is like with any other weapon in the sim to have a finite amount aboard per patrol.

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