less effective depth charges ?

[tater]

Doh! LOL, my bad, DIE Slowly.

Someone should hit me on the head a few times

tater

[Trout]

Wow, I have the exact opposite problem. I'm in 1944 of a campaign and I've not even been depth charged ONCE. Maybe its a bug on my system? It makes the game rather boring.....

Trout

Originally Posted by Beery

I'm using this mod and it's great! The stock DCs were purest fantasy so this is an essential mod from my standpoint. As 9th_cow says, if the Japanese had the vanilla SH4 DCs in the real war and if they'd found a way to drop them on US cities, a couple of them dropped on Washington and New York would have ended the war in 1941.

Redwine, I'm thinking of reducing the DC effectiveness all the way back to really realistic levels because the Japanese are still killing me with alarming frequency. Are there any drawbacks to doing this that you've perhaps noticed while testing?

Also, when we worked on SH3 the assumption was always that the deadly range was only up to the minimum radius, and that the maximum radius was for decreasing levels of damage. Did you find out that this isn't the case and that the deadly range is indeed variable and random between the minimum and maximum radii?

[Redwine]

Originally Posted by tater

Thought I'd revive this not to derail the other thread.

My one observation (using the DC changes in sink slowly 133) is that the DDs seem to blow themselves up a lot more, possibly related to the sink rate. Has anyone else seen this?

tater

This happens into stock too, the reduced rate of sink, and the reduced depth precision can rise up the effect of this issue.

But, the reduced radius must minimize it...

I note, this happens often when more than a DD is in attack run over you, then the DD reduce speed to avoid a colission, and then the own depth charge cause damage.

I remember too many time ago i made a test mission with a single DD, and this not happens often.

Can you test on your installation, into a single mission against a single DD ?