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Originally Posted by JohnBisMe
So, having gotten TM 1.5 running with help from the kind folk here, I have been trying to play all weekend so far, and I'm seeing LOTS of strange things...
1) Heavy cruiser sinks with 1 torpedo hit (maybe I'm lucky!)
2) 6 out of 10 destroyers that have attacked me have sunk themselves with their own depth charges (maybe I'm REALLY lucky!)
3) 50% of all the Betty Bombers that find me dive too low and lose control being hit by their own bomb blasts and crashing. (maybe I'm really REALLY lucky!)
4) Twice, about 4 hours of gametime into a patrol, I get a warning on a plane... I dutifully go to flank, dive, and throw the helm hard over, hoping to get below before he can get me, but then a bomb hits near the back of the sub and knocks the engines out which then, even after repairing, never start again. (maybe I'm really really UNlucky)
I've read about some of these problems in other threads, and have briefly scanned the UbiSoft boards. It seems these problems are not all that uncommon? I don't want to be a complainer or a quitter, but right now this game is feeling too frustrating to play. It's not that it's too hard (I -like- hard, I want to learn the hard way what not to do with my sub), parts are too easy when at least half the enemies coming after you manage to blow themselves up. It's just... there are too many weird, buggy things to ignore that constantly remind me I am playing a game and spoiling the immersion factor.
It seems these bugs hit people whether they've installed TM or not, so I'm hoping to have that confirmed, and I was wondering if any of you die hard subsimmers are having the same problems and how you cope with the crazyness... or are there just fixes out there that I don't know about? At this rate, I'm going to have to put SH4 on the shelf and wait for the next submarine simulation to come out and hope it's better.
LCdr I.M. Boggled
USS S-31 (SS-136)
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I have very seldom had these things happen too. But twice in my SH4 game play
I have had worse things happen. So twice I had to uninstall and reinstall it all over
again. Likely I had bad installs of something during those 2 episodes. Right now I
have the game running about as smooth as I can expect. Just using a few tweaks
I did myself and reduced reality % so I can get a feel for the game. It's slightly
easier now but I can crank the reality up anytime to make it harder. What I am waiting for is a good historical campaign layer fix to start my first campaign. I use
the patrols to practice and learn the game AI tactics while I wait.
1. CAs can be taken down with 1 torp if you hit them in the magazine.
2. The small Minekaze DD is famous for blowings its tail off (I don't use it)
3. I have only seen this once out of 50? times....
4. The type of plane makes a big difference (DON'T use high TC near Jap bases)
If I remember correctly, it was about 1 year into SH3 before I considered that
game to be up to par after installing some great mods for it...
JIM