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Originally Posted by propbeanie
They do not have the capability to dive in SH4. If you encountered the Ko-Hyoteki midget sub, those things "push" themselves under, as they attempt to give you chase. Rather scary. One of the fellows that used to broadcast his SH4 play encountered one in FotRSU off Tsugaru Strait in the bay, and as he approached, the sub turned toward him and charged like a bull. The speed of the boat seemed to push it under to about 20-30 foot, and it kept circling the player's boat, trying to gain a shooting solution. The midget eventually kept pushing itself down and down and ... then it was gone... We somewhat fixed its damage zon file in FotRSU, but the goofy thing will still bounce off the docks and go flying through the air when you hit it with a torpedo yourself... btw, the Lifeboat does the same thing. crazy.
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I figured. Seems sub was damaged by the imoluse from the torpedo detonation and likely caused compartments to flood, thus the "dive" but since no actual torpedo impact, game did not register a hit thus no credit.
I have encountered the midget sub as well. Given that sub, the sen toku in stock and fact in mission edito you can set its depth to submerged, believe devs planned to add AI subs but in end omitted it, big omission though. Would have added a lot to game to be sailing along and then like how a plane is reported, "periscope spotted" and have to make moves to avoid torpedoes.
I have yet to encounter the AI subs in FOTRS. Really want to add torpedo firing AI subs to TMO.
I have reworked the sub layers in TMO. Every IJN submarine lost to US subs is represented at historical time and location of loss as well as depart dates. They do "dive" by hitting last waypoint then respawn elsewhere. Those sunk due to Ultra messages to us subs afloat, have included the messages to show up and alert the player.
Also included some random subs traveling about for random encounters, but remain rare to find one.
Still cant get them to show up on SJ radar display(do they show up and reported by crew in FOTRS) but added radar to them in later war, so much how Batfish found her three subs sunk in feb 45, player can be alerted. Also most crew rating is set to vet or elite so are not easy targets.