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Nub
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Hi,
I'm new to SH4. At least I just started playing for real after patch 1.3 came out recently (I was frustrated with the bugs in 1.1 and 1.2 and shelved the game). The other night I was on my first mission of my career (1941 Porpoise class sub out of Pearl Harbour). Sent to Osaka harbour on photo recon. After I finished the photo recon I decided to torpedo some docked merchant vessels. I was unable to sink or visibly damage any ships (no holes in the hull). I even put 4 torpedos into one ship. I tried over and over again reloading the saved game. No luck. Very frustrating. Has anyone else experienced this? I have run into many annoying bugs in 1.3 but this one makes me want to give up on the game again. This game is all about firing torpedoes at ships after all. I have torpedoed several Japanese vessels at sea and either sunk them or visibly damaged them. Rob |
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Swabbie
![]() Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Cedar Park, Tx.
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The only ship I'm aware of that can't be sunk is one of the i-400 class japanese subs. Try setting your torps to detonate on contact instead of magnetic and see if that fixes the problem.
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Planesman
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I've not been able to successfully sink a ship docked at port since 1.3, either. I used up my last 6 torpedoes on a Large Composite Freighter in a harbor the other day -- it burned but would not sink, and no credit.
I haven't tried too many harbor raids, so it could just be bad luck I guess. It definitely does seem much more difficult to sink docked ships, though. nomad_delta |
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The Old Man
![]() Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: The Shifting, Whispering Sands, NM
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Roll back ship.sim files to 1.02
The devs may have nuked the ship.sim files inpatch 1.03,because photo recon was a secret mission,not a turkey shoot. Although war is hell,all those fat tankers are tempting targets. Someone will mod this for arcade players,for sure.:rotfl:
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Navy Seal
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Location: New Mexico, USA
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Ace of the Deep
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Note that even if you manage to get a ship sinking in harbor, sometimes they will come to rest on the bottom while their superstructure is still above.
I've had what looked to be kills in shallow water, but got no credit for them when they couldn't sink below the surface.
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Mate
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I think it appears to be a game problem.
SH3 also had problems registering ships sunk in shallow waters and harbours. |
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Gunner
![]() Join Date: Jul 2007
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Yesterday, I've sunk 2 light modern composite cargo in a Japanese harbor. The kills registered as expected.
And yes, it was after completion of a recon mission in the very same harbor :-) But after that, I ran away carefully because even a single ennemy DD in swallow waters is no good... Patch 1.3, of course. @oilburner: the contact/marnetic+contact switch does not work. We're stuck with magnetic+contact. But after some date in 1943 (forgot when), magnetic mode is removed: only contact mode is active. We can't influence this date, except by editing game files. We have no way to get the switch working, I've read. |
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