Please Fix the Damage Model!!!

03-22-07, 09:15 PM

Arrrrgh!!! in the middle of a convoy and I get hits galore but no sinkings.
two fish in a small merchant should sink it(if not slow it down)

Come on Ubi I've only got a limited amount of torps and the reload time
is a killer.

Please Fix!!!

Liszt_ · 03-22-07, 09:50 PM

magnetic or contact torpedo exposion settings? default on a tube I believe is magnetic and it is not nearly as reliable as contact from what I've read.

03-22-07, 10:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Liszt_

magnetic or contact torpedo exposion settings? default on a tube I believe is magnetic and it is not nearly as reliable as contact from what I've read.

Just contacts for now(I will try magnetic) its strange I sank a cruiser with two torps but merchants need three or more torps to take down.

SteamWake · 03-22-07, 10:16 PM

Being a sub driver can ... at times... be an aggrivating experience.

castorp345 · 03-22-07, 10:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by boatfull

hits galore but no sinkings

these'd be mark 14's?

P_Funk · 03-22-07, 10:48 PM

Hey weren't the American torpedoes in the first 2 years of the war so supremely defective that they often failed to go off and also ran deeper than the settings said? Is that fact modeled by SH4?

I believe I read that there was an instance where one boat had collectively fired around 70 torpedo hits and only one had gone off, the rest not detonating.

spinkick · 03-23-07, 12:44 AM

honestly. when i see the torps hit the merchants, there are no holes in the hull like the destroyers. Anyone else notice this?

CCIP · 03-23-07, 12:45 AM

I personally find the ships far too easy to sink, and failures too rare.

I'm spoiled by NYGM, perhaps :p

03-23-07, 01:00 AM

The different types of torpedo failures can be modded in the Torpedoes_US.sim file. Failures such as premature, dud, deviation, circle runner chance, gyro problems chance,and depth keeping problems chance values can be changed. Anyone? Anyone?

NefariousKoel · 03-23-07, 01:13 AM

I've had much success using only Contact on them.

Perhaps part of the problem is that the contact/contact& influence setting will reset itself to it's default Contact&Influence setting if you don't fire fast enough.

I have had quite a few default to that just before I hit the fire button. The influence detonators on the stinkin things almost always blow up on their own before getting very close to the target. Way too touchy those magnetic detonators.

TheSatyr · 03-23-07, 01:32 AM

I wonder if they modeled in "low order detonations"? For those who don't know what that is,it's when the primer charge goes off and doesn't set off the torpex. That was another of the many problems MKIV torps had in contact mode.

Not enough explosive power to damage the target,but I imagine it scared the crap out of the crew on the target.

fullmetaledges · 03-23-07, 02:09 AM

I've noticed the same, warships taking 2 fish at the max and cargo's just taking hit after hit

03-22-07, 09:15 PM	#1
boatfull Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Please Fix the Damage Model!!! Arrrrgh!!! in the middle of a convoy and I get hits galore but no sinkings. two fish in a small merchant should sink it(if not slow it down) Come on Ubi I've only got a limited amount of torps and the reload time is a killer. Please Fix!!!

03-22-07, 10:48 PM	#6
P_Funk Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Canada, eh? Posts: 2,537 Downloads: 129 Uploads: 0	Hey weren't the American torpedoes in the first 2 years of the war so supremely defective that they often failed to go off and also ran deeper than the settings said? Is that fact modeled by SH4? I believe I read that there was an instance where one boat had collectively fired around 70 torpedo hits and only one had gone off, the rest not detonating. __________________

03-23-07, 12:45 AM	#8
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	I personally find the ships far too easy to sink, and failures too rare. I'm spoiled by NYGM, perhaps :p __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

03-23-07, 01:13 AM	#10
NefariousKoel Ace of the Deep Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: No-good Missouri scum Posts: 1,223 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	I've had much success using only Contact on them. Perhaps part of the problem is that the contact/contact& influence setting will reset itself to it's default Contact&Influence setting if you don't fire fast enough. I have had quite a few default to that just before I hit the fire button. The influence detonators on the stinkin things almost always blow up on their own before getting very close to the target. Way too touchy those magnetic detonators. __________________ "When Gary told me he had found Jesus, I thought, Yahoo! We're rich! But it turned out to be something different." - Jack Handey

03-22-07, 09:50 PM	#2
Liszt_ Bosun Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 67 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	magnetic or contact torpedo exposion settings? default on a tube I believe is magnetic and it is not nearly as reliable as contact from what I've read.

03-22-07, 10:16 PM	#4
SteamWake Rear Admiral Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 13,224 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Being a sub driver can ... at times... be an aggrivating experience.

03-23-07, 12:44 AM	#7
spinkick Nub Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 3 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	honestly. when i see the torps hit the merchants, there are no holes in the hull like the destroyers. Anyone else notice this?

03-23-07, 01:00 AM	#9
nvdrifter Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	The different types of torpedo failures can be modded in the Torpedoes_US.sim file. Failures such as premature, dud, deviation, circle runner chance, gyro problems chance,and depth keeping problems chance values can be changed. Anyone? Anyone?

03-23-07, 01:32 AM	#11
TheSatyr Captain Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 545 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I wonder if they modeled in "low order detonations"? For those who don't know what that is,it's when the primer charge goes off and doesn't set off the torpex. That was another of the many problems MKIV torps had in contact mode. Not enough explosive power to damage the target,but I imagine it scared the crap out of the crew on the target.

03-23-07, 02:09 AM	#12
fullmetaledges Chief Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Utah Posts: 314 Downloads: 120 Uploads: 0	I've noticed the same, warships taking 2 fish at the max and cargo's just taking hit after hit