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Originally Posted by weldstress
Hi All, I am a long time Lurker. However I feel like I need to say something here. I have been playing Sub Sims since Silent Service. So I have some background in this area. Mr. AVGWarhawke. From what I can gather you are a very reasonable person who obviously knows his stuff and loves Sub Sims. I do respect your point of view. I did agree that the game is playable. I also agreed about the Radar, I considered that the biggest issue in the game, everything else could be worked around. After playing for many days and weeks however I now believe that the weakest part of the game is the Japanese AI. I have experimented with this over and over. Yes sometimes they do the right thing but mostly they do not. Example - I set up in front of a convoy with 4 Escorts. Submerged, Scope up. Lead Destoyer passed by within 600 Yards. Never saw me. Put 3 torps into a freighter, waited, never moved. Left the Scope up. The Destroyer behind me made a run at me. But for some reason stopeed dead and ignored me. Convoy now has slowed to 2 knots or stopped completely. I reload, Shoot again. Hit another merchant. Still no reaction from the escorts or the merchants. This scenario has been repeated many times. I have lost all fear of the Japanese navy thus ruining any feeling of accomplishment. I have addressed this to you because you seem to be having so much fun with this sim. I was wondering if you have not experienced this behaviour and if not I'm wondering why
Sorry for the long post
Al
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Actually I read on this forum that this is a bug with the convoy and this conveyed from a developer as I understand it. Yes the AI need some work for sure. Then again, I have seen some tha react very well. I had two ships that turned tail and attempted to run for it after I surfaced. Not to mention they blasted me with cannons. I do like the mixed bag of good and dumb DD. You never know what you are going to get. The good DD sometimes are precise with DC and you know it. Sometimes they are so dumb it is almost comical. So yes, I have had the stopping convoy when in all reality they should be zigging and zagging like mad!!!! I believe this might be modible so I'm going after the major fixes that the deves need to handle. Mostly the radar at this point.
As far as having a blast with this game....yes I am! Last night I discovered resupply ships hanging out in coves. I'm slowly figuring out how to work the missions so there are no repeats. As I progress in my career(I'm in Dec of 42 right now), I want to see if escorts become more aggressive or if their radar is present and working. Currently, with exception of IL2, this is the only game on my hard drive. I have not played IL2 since this game was released. So yep, really having fun with it.