Getting blasted in RSRD 5.75

Jten · 11-29-09, 02:04 AM

Just went from RSRD 4 to 5.75. New traffic seems much better but I use to be able to patrol submerged with scopes up with a fairly (actually too good IMO) success of spotting aircraft by scope and usually being safe if I could get below 100 feet. I would occasionally get blasted from unseen AC but it seemed reasonable.
Now I'm getting blasted from unspotted AC on a regular basis with bomb patterns that seem to be more like a hedgehog attack. The attacks while I'm shallow are not concerning me, you stay shallow in calm seas and you take your chances. But I have several times been around 160 to 200 (sometimes at standard or flank speed) and been ripped from bow to stern by an AC attack. Every compartment flooded. I know that at that depth you can still be spotted given conditions, I'm wondering about the strike accuracy. It's like every bomb/DC dropped hit dead on as soon as they hit the surface. Laser guided, even.
I can adjust to this if it is as designed but are the AC attacks now supposed more deadly, were the older AC attacks too weak compared to RL? Is RSRD slipping some TMO hot sauce into my coffee mug? I like what seems to be the new changes but it's like someone gave the Japanese ASROCs. Just wondering if some tweak has made AI AC omnipotent.

SH 1.5 + RFB 1.52 + RSRD 5.75
Porpoise Class Boat, no radars, Dec 41-Mar 42 time spans. (3 patrols, can't get past mid march without being blasted) Sing-luzon-Japan, Honshu, patrol areas.

Thanks for any consideration or feedback.

11-29-09, 02:04 AM	#1
Jten Mate Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Tennessee Posts: 55 Downloads: 102 Uploads: 0	Getting blasted in RSRD 5.75 Just went from RSRD 4 to 5.75. New traffic seems much better but I use to be able to patrol submerged with scopes up with a fairly (actually too good IMO) success of spotting aircraft by scope and usually being safe if I could get below 100 feet. I would occasionally get blasted from unseen AC but it seemed reasonable. Now I'm getting blasted from unspotted AC on a regular basis with bomb patterns that seem to be more like a hedgehog attack. The attacks while I'm shallow are not concerning me, you stay shallow in calm seas and you take your chances. But I have several times been around 160 to 200 (sometimes at standard or flank speed) and been ripped from bow to stern by an AC attack. Every compartment flooded. I know that at that depth you can still be spotted given conditions, I'm wondering about the strike accuracy. It's like every bomb/DC dropped hit dead on as soon as they hit the surface. Laser guided, even. I can adjust to this if it is as designed but are the AC attacks now supposed more deadly, were the older AC attacks too weak compared to RL? Is RSRD slipping some TMO hot sauce into my coffee mug? I like what seems to be the new changes but it's like someone gave the Japanese ASROCs. Just wondering if some tweak has made AI AC omnipotent. SH 1.5 + RFB 1.52 + RSRD 5.75 Porpoise Class Boat, no radars, Dec 41-Mar 42 time spans. (3 patrols, can't get past mid march without being blasted) Sing-luzon-Japan, Honshu, patrol areas. Thanks for any consideration or feedback.