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Old 01-29-08, 09:41 AM   #3102
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So would it be possible to fix this "bug"?
Actually I don't think that can be regarded as a bug, and maybe not even a missing feature in this game. If I recall correctly the main reason the sonar ping is reflected by the sub is not the hull itself but rather the air inside it. The bottom is not made of air so it wont cloak the sub much.
Actually there are several accounts of submarines using the bottom to very good effect, most notably the US S-36, which lay on the bottom on three separate ocassions, all three times baffling the enemy's active sonar.
Absolutely correct, in RL terms, however.......As said on so many occasions previously......the parameters imposed upon us ingame do not model or reflect this.
The limitations placed upon us by the game engine dictate.....we have what we have.
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