Hydrophone and Torps

Gezur(Arbeit) · 02-27-08, 04:58 PM

Well,

speaking about realism...everytime i shoot a torpedo i wonder, why the DDs dont react, the react immediately when i for example reload torps or just turn silent running off...but a 30 knots torpedos is not heared by the DDs? I cant believe this, because the Subs followed the torps with the hydrophone....

What did the DDs or FFs do in real life?

Thank you

Gezur(Arbeit) · 02-28-08, 01:00 PM

nobody?

Kptlt. Siegmann · 02-28-08, 01:23 PM

Yea I noticed that too. A few times I've sunk a charging DD/DE with a steam torp and they kept on coming right at me. You would think, especially if they were tracking me, that the hydrophone operator would hear the torpedo and the Captain would zigzag or something, or if nothing else, SEE the torpedo coming. I'm sure IRL Destroyers didn't present such easy targets when charging at a uboat that was at PD.

I believe, as stated by someone else on the boards, that it's just the way the AI is coded in the game.

Canovaro · 02-28-08, 01:40 PM

One of those sad but true things that can't be changed.

JCB · 03-01-08, 02:56 AM

Hmm. Yes, why shouldn´t they hear it? I bet the whine of a torpedo would make one hell of a show in the sonarman´s cabin on any DD

02-27-08, 04:58 PM	#1
Gezur(Arbeit) Soundman Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 149 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Hydrophone and Torps Well, speaking about realism...everytime i shoot a torpedo i wonder, why the DDs dont react, the react immediately when i for example reload torps or just turn silent running off...but a 30 knots torpedos is not heared by the DDs? I cant believe this, because the Subs followed the torps with the hydrophone.... What did the DDs or FFs do in real life? Thank you

02-28-08, 01:00 PM	#2
Gezur(Arbeit) Soundman Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 149 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	nobody?

02-28-08, 01:23 PM	#3
Kptlt. Siegmann Machinist's Mate Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Docked at Kiel Posts: 128 Downloads: 23 Uploads: 0	Yea I noticed that too. A few times I've sunk a charging DD/DE with a steam torp and they kept on coming right at me. You would think, especially if they were tracking me, that the hydrophone operator would hear the torpedo and the Captain would zigzag or something, or if nothing else, SEE the torpedo coming. I'm sure IRL Destroyers didn't present such easy targets when charging at a uboat that was at PD. I believe, as stated by someone else on the boards, that it's just the way the AI is coded in the game.

02-28-08, 01:40 PM	#4
Canovaro Ace of the Deep Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Netherlands Posts: 1,062 Downloads: 34 Uploads: 0	One of those sad but true things that can't be changed.

03-01-08, 02:56 AM	#5
JCB Watch Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 26 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Hmm. Yes, why shouldn´t they hear it? I bet the whine of a torpedo would make one hell of a show in the sonarman´s cabin on any DD