"Passing Thermal Layer" loop bug

TwinStackPete379 · 08-28-09, 09:46 AM

Last night i had to fix the deck gun bug using note pad and deleting compartment 7 and moving compartment 8 to 7's former postion. Immediately following this, the "thermal layer" bug appeared. my very first save was from the office screen so this is what i did, and it's now gone.
If I went into mission from office, there was no bug. So, i dove thru the layer, got the "layer" message to annaounce normally. At depth i then saved below the thermal layer. i reloaded immediately to check if the loop was running; it wasn't. I then surfaced, resaved, reloaded to check, and now everything is fine.
The thing i find interesting, is that i have never heard the loop before but have read about it. All it took to trigger it in my case was to copy and paste in a saved game file and there it was.

AVGWarhawk · 08-28-09, 10:07 AM

Normally this happens when you save at or near port when you starting your mission. It goes away after a while if you continue to play and does not return after that unless of course you save once again while in port or around it starting your next mission.

man.......run on sentences.

SteamWake · 08-28-09, 11:22 AM

As Hawk said its a known issue usually caused by a corrupt (or edited) save game file.

It generally will work itself out.

"Rudder Rudder"

Rockin Robbins · 08-28-09, 01:40 PM

The planesman position is haunted, causing the repeated remark.

TwinStackPete379 · 08-29-09, 08:49 AM

Ok now i take it back, everything is not fine,

. Now i have apparently lost my torpedo wakes. this is very bad. I tried using torps without it, but seeing how i'm still trying to master the manual targeting it's useful to have them so i can make corrections when i reload an encounter after I bollocks it up (yes gentlemen, my training wheels are still on, it's only been twenty days). is this another noted effect of modifying a save file?

TwinStackPete379 · 08-29-09, 09:27 AM

ok, ok, i take that last one back. i'm using the mark 18 torps which apparently don't have a wake. Forgot that i loaded them up...oops

08-28-09, 09:46 AM	#1
TwinStackPete379 Gunner Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: In my chair playing SHIV Posts: 99 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	"Passing Thermal Layer" loop bug Last night i had to fix the deck gun bug using note pad and deleting compartment 7 and moving compartment 8 to 7's former postion. Immediately following this, the "thermal layer" bug appeared. my very first save was from the office screen so this is what i did, and it's now gone. If I went into mission from office, there was no bug. So, i dove thru the layer, got the "layer" message to annaounce normally. At depth i then saved below the thermal layer. i reloaded immediately to check if the loop was running; it wasn't. I then surfaced, resaved, reloaded to check, and now everything is fine. The thing i find interesting, is that i have never heard the loop before but have read about it. All it took to trigger it in my case was to copy and paste in a saved game file and there it was.

08-28-09, 10:07 AM	#2
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,253 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Normally this happens when you save at or near port when you starting your mission. It goes away after a while if you continue to play and does not return after that unless of course you save once again while in port or around it starting your next mission. man.......run on sentences. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

08-28-09, 11:22 AM	#3
SteamWake Rear Admiral Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 13,224 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	As Hawk said its a known issue usually caused by a corrupt (or edited) save game file. It generally will work itself out. "Rudder Rudder" __________________ Follow the progress of Mr. Mulligan : http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=147648

08-28-09, 01:40 PM	#4
Rockin Robbins Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: DeLand, FL Posts: 8,900 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 52	The planesman position is haunted, causing the repeated remark. __________________ Sub Skipper's Bag of Tricks, Slightly Subnuclear Mk 14 & Cutie, Slightly Subnuclear Deck Gun, EZPlot 2.0, TMOPlot, TMOKeys, SH4CMS

08-29-09, 08:49 AM	#5
TwinStackPete379 Gunner Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: In my chair playing SHIV Posts: 99 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	Ok now i take it back, everything is not fine, . Now i have apparently lost my torpedo wakes. this is very bad. I tried using torps without it, but seeing how i'm still trying to master the manual targeting it's useful to have them so i can make corrections when i reload an encounter after I bollocks it up (yes gentlemen, my training wheels are still on, it's only been twenty days). is this another noted effect of modifying a save file? Last edited by TwinStackPete379; 08-29-09 at 09:28 AM.

08-29-09, 09:27 AM	#6
TwinStackPete379 Gunner Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: In my chair playing SHIV Posts: 99 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	ok, ok, i take that last one back. i'm using the mark 18 torps which apparently don't have a wake. Forgot that i loaded them up...oops