The Mother of All Bugs

bill clarke · 10-06-05, 10:34 PM

Hi guys, well this ones a doozy, I was playing the Malta single mission. I had some success, 1 troopship, 1 T3 (but it didn't go down) and I think a C3. So I managed to evade the DD's and the convoy slipped away, seeing that I wasn't far from Malt I thought it might be fun to visit there. So I took a short cut through the narrow channel separating the islands, and there was a hunt class DD, so i dived and made the rest of the journey underwater. I evaded the the Dd's and trawlers patrolling out side the harbour entrance and made my way in, wow ! the harbour is an inverted Y shape, with numerous berthing stations that are narrow box shapes, there was a T3 anchored in one of them I fired a fish at it set to magnetic, as I felt it would be to steep an angle for impact, it hit and just skidded off and exploded before it hit the sea bed, another fish same result

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So I headed further in and found a Tribal and fired another fish at it set to impact, damm thing hit and bounced off, next one ran under the ship, third time lucky though.

By this time though my luck had well and truly run out 3 DD's were steaming in to the harbour, so I headed out putting on speed, one Dd headed for me I tried to manouvre but got plastered by depth charges, the next DD ran over the top of me and was heaed for the wall of the pier,

I thought now you are going to collide, I was looking forward to seeing what happened to him when he hit. Ok this is the bug, the DD hits the wall and keeps going straight through the wall and the warehouse on it and out the other side. This didn't help me one bit I had massive damage so I came to the surface and got hammered.

Any ideas on that DD going through solid matter ?

rik007 · 10-07-05, 12:40 AM

I do not think that this bug is enough for a 1.5 patch. It is a nice feature to keep your patrol intresting.

lifer · 10-07-05, 04:29 AM

In my games the exact opposite usually happens. Whenever I enter a harbor - which is at least once or twice during every career - I find burning and grounded DDs in the berthing stations. It looks like they detected me and ran into the harbor walls while trying to close in on me.

Maybe this is a bug too...

oRGy · 10-07-05, 01:10 PM

Yeah, I've seen this bug before as well.

Sort of compensates for the fact that their navigation routines ignore land.

10-06-05, 10:34 PM	#1
bill clarke Captain Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia Posts: 519 Downloads: 40 Uploads: 0	The Mother of All Bugs Hi guys, well this ones a doozy, I was playing the Malta single mission. I had some success, 1 troopship, 1 T3 (but it didn't go down) and I think a C3. So I managed to evade the DD's and the convoy slipped away, seeing that I wasn't far from Malt I thought it might be fun to visit there. So I took a short cut through the narrow channel separating the islands, and there was a hunt class DD, so i dived and made the rest of the journey underwater. I evaded the the Dd's and trawlers patrolling out side the harbour entrance and made my way in, wow ! the harbour is an inverted Y shape, with numerous berthing stations that are narrow box shapes, there was a T3 anchored in one of them I fired a fish at it set to magnetic, as I felt it would be to steep an angle for impact, it hit and just skidded off and exploded before it hit the sea bed, another fish same result . So I headed further in and found a Tribal and fired another fish at it set to impact, damm thing hit and bounced off, next one ran under the ship, third time lucky though. By this time though my luck had well and truly run out 3 DD's were steaming in to the harbour, so I headed out putting on speed, one Dd headed for me I tried to manouvre but got plastered by depth charges, the next DD ran over the top of me and was heaed for the wall of the pier, I thought now you are going to collide, I was looking forward to seeing what happened to him when he hit. Ok this is the bug, the DD hits the wall and keeps going straight through the wall and the warehouse on it and out the other side. This didn't help me one bit I had massive damage so I came to the surface and got hammered. Any ideas on that DD going through solid matter ?

10-07-05, 04:29 AM	#3
lifer Watch Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 26 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	In my games the exact opposite usually happens. Whenever I enter a harbor - which is at least once or twice during every career - I find burning and grounded DDs in the berthing stations. It looks like they detected me and ran into the harbor walls while trying to close in on me. Maybe this is a bug too... __________________ suicide is not a solution - but it remains an excellent option

10-07-05, 12:40 AM	#2
rik007 Grey Wolf Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Holland Posts: 785 Downloads: 122 Uploads: 0	I do not think that this bug is enough for a 1.5 patch. It is a nice feature to keep your patrol intresting.

10-07-05, 01:10 PM	#4
oRGy Crusty Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 648 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Yeah, I've seen this bug before as well. Sort of compensates for the fact that their navigation routines ignore land.