Bloody watch crew will be the death of me!!

602Sqn_Puff · 03-16-10, 02:48 PM

Running the game without contacts..pick up a hydrophone contact and set a course to run it down. Stayed inside the boat and waited as I closed in TC mode..still not a shout from my wonderful watch crew...so I decide to x1 TC and pop up to the deck for a look. Well sod me if it wasn't 4 DD's and they promptly started to shell me..I had to dive deep and fast and just about got away with 84% hull, 87% battery, structural damage and starboard 85% diesel damage.

Is this a known bug?? if so, how do you get around it??

Widukind · 03-16-10, 03:16 PM

Yeah its known to me at least. I probed around the harbours of Englands Eastern coast since hydrophone and watch crew didnt notice **** out around the sea lanes. I went in surfaced since it was night, att 32 times the speed. Annoyed with no contacts i open the hatch intent on doind some spotting on my own. Well just 700 meters to my right is a patrolling destroyer. And 1500 meters away is another one steaming towards the direction of the harbour. My retarded watch crew must have been able to spot him way before. I order dive, launch a torpedo at the destroyer (whos watch apperantley is as blind as mine) 1 downed destroyer...but man he could have shredded me att that distance. Had i not gone up myself it would have been the end of that campaign. And 2 times i have responed against merchants on hydrophone, wondering why the hell my watch dont report when i plot a perfect intercept course i go to the conning tower and viola!! I am in the middle of the convoy.

.....gay!

robbo180265 · 03-16-10, 04:18 PM

It's happened to me too. At least two or three times I've been running TC and before I know it I'm under attack with not so much as a word from my watch crew.

Another bug today - surfaced and I have no watch crew at all, bridge all to myself. Thought to myself "ahh well they are useless anyway" then it dawned on me...... Can't give orders to anyone

sergei · 03-16-10, 04:20 PM

Has happened to me a few times, but only when I have forgotten to turn off travel mode.

robbo180265 · 03-16-10, 04:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sergei

Has happened to me a few times, but only when I have forgotten to turn off travel mode.

I should have specified this is WITHOUT travel mode

sergei · 03-16-10, 04:27 PM

Sorry.

Georg_Unterberg · 03-16-10, 05:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 602Sqn_Puff

Running the game without contacts..pick up a hydrophone contact and set a course to run it down. Stayed inside the boat and waited as I closed in TC mode..still not a shout from my wonderful watch crew...so I decide to x1 TC and pop up to the deck for a look. Well sod me if it wasn't 4 DD's and they promptly started to shell me..I had to dive deep and fast and just about got away with 84% hull, 87% battery, structural damage and starboard 85% diesel damage.

Is this a known bug?? if so, how do you get around it??

Same happened to me, but I remember that I reloaded just before and so the morale was down to zero. (I forgot to make a special meal then).

Maybe the lookout crew needs at least some morale percents to work properly??

03-16-10, 02:48 PM	#1
602Sqn_Puff Ensign Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Saltcoats, Ayrshire, Scotland Posts: 233 Downloads: 322 Uploads: 0	Bloody watch crew will be the death of me!! Running the game without contacts..pick up a hydrophone contact and set a course to run it down. Stayed inside the boat and waited as I closed in TC mode..still not a shout from my wonderful watch crew...so I decide to x1 TC and pop up to the deck for a look. Well sod me if it wasn't 4 DD's and they promptly started to shell me..I had to dive deep and fast and just about got away with 84% hull, 87% battery, structural damage and starboard 85% diesel damage. Is this a known bug?? if so, how do you get around it??

03-16-10, 03:16 PM	#2
Widukind Nub Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 3 Downloads: 36 Uploads: 0	Yeah its known to me at least. I probed around the harbours of Englands Eastern coast since hydrophone and watch crew didnt notice **** out around the sea lanes. I went in surfaced since it was night, att 32 times the speed. Annoyed with no contacts i open the hatch intent on doind some spotting on my own. Well just 700 meters to my right is a patrolling destroyer. And 1500 meters away is another one steaming towards the direction of the harbour. My retarded watch crew must have been able to spot him way before. I order dive, launch a torpedo at the destroyer (whos watch apperantley is as blind as mine) 1 downed destroyer...but man he could have shredded me att that distance. Had i not gone up myself it would have been the end of that campaign. And 2 times i have responed against merchants on hydrophone, wondering why the hell my watch dont report when i plot a perfect intercept course i go to the conning tower and viola!! I am in the middle of the convoy. .....gay!

03-16-10, 04:18 PM	#3
robbo180265 Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Brighton, England.Party capital of the south Posts: 2,255 Downloads: 126 Uploads: 0	It's happened to me too. At least two or three times I've been running TC and before I know it I'm under attack with not so much as a word from my watch crew. Another bug today - surfaced and I have no watch crew at all, bridge all to myself. Thought to myself "ahh well they are useless anyway" then it dawned on me...... Can't give orders to anyone

03-16-10, 04:20 PM	#4
sergei Sea Lord Join Date: May 2008 Location: London UK Posts: 1,788 Downloads: 405 Uploads: 29	Has happened to me a few times, but only when I have forgotten to turn off travel mode.

03-16-10, 04:27 PM	#6
sergei Sea Lord Join Date: May 2008 Location: London UK Posts: 1,788 Downloads: 405 Uploads: 29	Sorry.