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Originally Posted by EMAPhil
I'm surprised about the comments on useless escorts.
I have been shelled rammed and D/Cd by convoy escorts, sonar tracked and just tonight hunted by a pack of three after I had the temerity to sink one on a ramming run.
This is patch 2 unmodded played on normal. I almost wish I had your problems, I auto fire torpedos for now while I work on tactics. Never get time to set up a manual kill!!!
Phil
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This is not the first time I've heard something like this, and reading comments like these leaves me totally confused, because I'm one of those who experienced pretty dumb escorts kind of like, uhm, every time. So bad that when this would be the real world, that behaviour would go far beyond lack of crew experience and could only be explained with having downright mentally challenged / retarded people aboard those destroyers. Once I had the impression that one destroyer spotted my scope from pretty far out and came for me, but then he lost me again and continued sailing around lazily without seeming to have any idea of what to do next.
I'm now using Kakemann's Improved Escorts mod which helps a lot, and I'm sure Ducimus' Flavored to Taste mod is pretty much along the same lines as far as escort effectiveness is concerned. At this point, a Thanks to you guys!
But reading those occasional totally opposite comments from people who seem to use the stock version of the game makes me wonder if UBI didn't ship two different kind of batches. No sarcasm here, cause they indeed managed to do exactly that with the "Flaming Cliffs" Add-On for "Lock On - Modern Air Combat", where part of the *shipped* and *sold* Add-On DVDs were totally screwed and wouldn't even install properly. People could send them back and got re-issued a new one once this became known and acknowledged, but nonetheless, it happened, and it makes me wonder if not something along the same lines might have happened with SHIV.
On the other hand, which I hope is closer to the truth: What year are you in, Phil, when you experience those tougher escorts? Is it early, mid or late war? Cause some people suggested that while the escorts seem extraordinary dumb in early war, they become better later on.