Bugged torpedoes?

[acofm89]

Hello everyone. I seem to have a problem with my torpedoes. They always seems to pass behind whatever I want to shoot at. For the record I'm using auto-targeting and have TMO 2.5 installed. I've tried to offset the torpedo angle to campensate and I've tried to change the speed setting but nothing seems to work. Funny thing is it didn't seem to be like that from the beginning. On my first patrol I sunk a Japanese battleship from a distance of 3000 y no problem. Now I can't hit a merchant going 5 knots in a straight line even from a thousand yards. I think I'm on my fifth patrol now probably, and this problem seem to have arisen in the last couple of patrols. As I said, I didn't have it in the first place. Looking att the combat map I can see the torpedoes veering from their calculated trajectory. I've been forced to surface the boat and sink whatever merchants I've come across with my deckgun. Any ideas? Is this a bug, and if so is there anything that can be done about it?

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by acofm89

Hello everyone. I seem to have a problem with my torpedoes. They always seems to pass behind whatever I want to shoot at. For the record I'm using auto-targeting and have TMO 2.5 installed. I've tried to offset the torpedo angle to campensate and I've tried to change the speed setting but nothing seems to work. Funny thing is it didn't seem to be like that from the beginning. On my first patrol I sunk a Japanese battleship from a distance of 3000 y no problem. Now I can't hit a merchant going 5 knots in a straight line even from a thousand yards. I think I'm on my fifth patrol now probably, and this problem seem to have arisen in the last couple of patrols. As I said, I didn't have it in the first place. Looking att the combat map I can see the torpedoes veering from their calculated trajectory. I've been forced to surface the boat and sink whatever merchants I've come across with my deckgun. Any ideas? Is this a bug, and if so is there anything that can be done about it?

Don't compensate the torpedo angle....There's your problem.

If the Auto-Targeting says something, don't correct it. Don't mess with the Gyro Angle or anything. Try this out and see what happens.

[razark]

Are you opening the torpedo tube doors before firing? Failing to open the doors causes a delay before firing that will cause the torpedo to miss astern of the target.

Edit:
And welcome to Subsim!

[acofm89]

I've only tried to adjust the spread angle after I've already fired two or three torpedos and they've all passed behind the ship I'm firing at. I also thought I might have forgotten to open the tubes, but there are times I'm positive that I remembered to do it and it didn't seem too make any difference. One thing I did came to think about though was that I think all of the ship encounters when this has happened took place in the daytime. It's possible they simply saw my torpedoes and increased speed or something even if they didn't seem to react otherwise. They all kept going in a straight line basically

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by acofm89

I've only tried to adjust the spread angle after I've already fired two or three torpedos and they've all passed behind the ship I'm firing at. I also thought I might have forgotten to open the tubes, but there are times I'm positive that I remembered to do it and it didn't seem too make any difference. One thing I did came to think about though was that I think all of the ship encounters when this has happened took place in the daytime. It's possible they simply saw my torpedoes and increased speed or something even if they didn't seem to react otherwise. They all kept going in a straight line basically

They might have seen it.

What angle are you firing from? And what mods are you running?

[fireftr18]

Welcome aboard Subsim.

Sounds like you need to clean your sensors, wires and buttons. Clean out the inside of the TDC while you're at it. Get on that right away.

Apparently you're using auto targeting. You say you're making sure the torpedo doors are open. Are you "locking on" with the auto target? If you don't, then your "crew" won't make any changes and the gyro angle will remain the same. Lock on and your "crew" and the TDC will continue to update the information and you will probably get an accurate hit.