First Post: Enemy escort AI just....giving up? Just sitting there?

[Sulaco]

Hello guys! Been a long time player since the SH3 days of 2004 (2005?)

Anyway, love the series, bought SH4 launch day, but just recently rediscovered it with all the mods.

I am using:

TMO 2.5
Improved Stock Environment V3
RSRDC_v18_v500
RSRDC_V5xx_Patch1



So here's the deal.

After installing and playing TMO for the first time, I was really taken aback by how aggressive and TOUGH the enemy AI was. I had to rethink my strategy completely from vanilla SH4, as if they even got a whiff of me, they just pursued like there was no tomorrow.

I then downloaded RSRDC, for a more realistic, better fleshed out campaign. While I love the campaign changes I've noticed a disturbing trend.

After attacking an enemy convoy or task force, if running silent, at 1/3rd power, after the torpedoes impact the targets and its clear there's a sub in the area, the escorts barely do ANYTHNG. If there are 3 destroyers, one might lazily meander at about 8-12 kts, one maybe a little slower, and sometimes one will just SIT THERE entirely. 00 kts.
This of course makes evasion child's play. I dive to 400 and slink away, without the slightest fear of a destroyer even catching wind of me.

Has anyone else experienced this? If it helps, I'm playing on "NORMAL" difficulty. Should I up the difficulty? I did NOT notice this with just TMO at all, but now with RSRDC and patches, its been an issue on 3 separate encounters.

(PS Encounters are happening in a Balao in late 1943)


Cliffs Notes/TLR

--Escorts super aggressive and accurate in TMO 2.5
--Install RSRDC (w/patches)
--Escorts now are lazy...often barely attempt to find me, sometimes just sit there literally not moving.
--Is this a RSRDC issue? Patch? Or maybe just my "Normal" difficulty?


Thanks guys!!