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Originally Posted by Chock
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You neglected to mention the depth they settled at. Detonation of an SLMM/mobile mine is a function of proximity, not noise levels or seeker cones. So naturally the deeper you plant them, the closer you have to get. (The Sov above was probably about 75yd away horizontally, 250 ft vertically.)
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That's the point, they don't settle at any depth, they stop and stay at the depth they are fired at. In the example I quoted, that was with my sub at a depth of 18, this being the depth they transited to the area at. Having done that they came to a halt at that depth, and stayed at that depth, the ship passed within approximately 30 feet laterally of it and the water was only 13m deep at that point anyway, so it most definitely was not 250 feet vertically nor 75 yards. I've watched it with 'Show Truth' on and repeated it a few times too, and frankly if it was any closer, it would have hit the thing, let alone set off a proximity fuse or magnetic anomaly field detector. I know what sets them off incidentally, I was merely describing the noise level to indicate just how close the thing was when it passed. Believe me, I would love it if they worked as in your pictures, but they don't when I use them, simple as that.
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Normal LW/Ami operation of for the mine to decend to just above the floor, as you can see in the pictures above. Normal stock behavior is for the weapon to overshoot its waypoint, stay at the launch depth, and eventually hover there and do nothing. So what you're describing perfectly matches stock DW activity.
I'll check to see if being in 13m of water screws with the Mobile Mine (I'm assuming that you're using a russian boat since you gave the depth in meters), but for the time being it really looks like your experience was without the mod enabled or with some other weirdness going on. LW/Ami mines have proved quite reliable as long as the floor isn't extremely sloped.
EDIT: WTF man? How could the mine have stayed at the launch depth of 18m and been planted in water 13m deep!!!!? If what you say is true, that mine was 5m underground!
EDIT 2: OK, no matter what depth you fire an SLMM from, it goes up to just below the surface. This means you don't need to worry about your launch depth; you can fire deep and the mine will be able to plant someplace shallower than you. So the firing from 18 into 13m shouldn't be a problem. Just got a successful hit on the same Sov in 80ft of water. Now for the Mobile Mine...