Yep..my experience as well. I had one convoy attack that sent me back to SH3. Attacked with torps, got bored, and tried to get detected - ran flank with periscope up beside an escort...nothing. Surfaced, entered the stationary convoy - started deckguning them. Escorts ...went away! Like - they seemed to go out to the perimeter, and vanished from view. Anyway, I had like 10 or 15 minutes to light up the merchants. Then I see a boat moving fairly quickly - an escort. He was coming right at me. I lit him up with the deck gun and he went down without firing a shot. I then had another 5 minutes or so before the another escort showed up - same routine. By now the convoy of 15 or so is down to ~4 ships. I have my way. Another escort comes up. Charges me - doesn't fire a shot mind you, and rubs along side me. I continue to empty AP rounds into him and he goes down right beside me. No damage to my boat. I continue to finish off the rest of the convoy with the deck gun. It was unsatisfying to say the least. SH3 was all about fear of, and respect for, the superior firepower of the escorts. Pop your scope up too high, and you'll have a black swan bearing down on you and for god's sake, you'll dive. I'm astonished that they managed to _remove_ that part of the game during the development for SH4. I'm starting to wonder, maybe there's a boolean somewhere with an name like AI_Active, which is accidentally set to 0. If only we could find it...
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