Destroyers sink themelves, RFB

KpnKardif · 03-28-11, 04:09 AM

Ahoy, captains! I've been searching these forums for an answer to this for a while now, but haven't been able to come up with much in the way of a fix. Here's my problem:

Notice how low in the water they're riding? Yeah, not my doing. These two guys were escorting a couple of troop transports about 500 miles south of Honshu, along with three other DD's. I was feeling brave and still had some eels left, and I spotted them early enough to set up a decent shot. Put two into the lead transport and dove to 300 feet at flank speed, aiming to pass underneath the ship I had just disabled. One of the escorts managed to get one depth charge run on me before I got under the transport. He got close, but not enough to do any damage. After this is when things get weird. I went ahead 1/3 and silent running when I approached the dying transport, and it seems that the escorts lost me as I passed underneath. So rather than search, they just seem to pick a spot and start dropping charges where they think I might be, which was nowhere even close. They also must have been either going quite slow or setting them at very shallow depths, thus sinking themselves.

If this were the only time this happened, I wouldn't be posting. This sort of thing seems to happen with every convoy I encounter. I'll line up a shot and dive, I get a couple hits, the escorts come looking for me, drop charges nowhere near my current location, and end up doing themselves in. If this happened occasionally, I'd be ok with it. It shouldn't be every escort I encounter, though. Are there any mods out there that can do something about it? I've been playing RFB, does TMO have the same problem? I love this game, but this is killing my immersion.

03-28-11, 04:09 AM	#1
KpnKardif Swabbie Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 13 Downloads: 88 Uploads: 0	Destroyers sink themelves, RFB Ahoy, captains! I've been searching these forums for an answer to this for a while now, but haven't been able to come up with much in the way of a fix. Here's my problem: Notice how low in the water they're riding? Yeah, not my doing. These two guys were escorting a couple of troop transports about 500 miles south of Honshu, along with three other DD's. I was feeling brave and still had some eels left, and I spotted them early enough to set up a decent shot. Put two into the lead transport and dove to 300 feet at flank speed, aiming to pass underneath the ship I had just disabled. One of the escorts managed to get one depth charge run on me before I got under the transport. He got close, but not enough to do any damage. After this is when things get weird. I went ahead 1/3 and silent running when I approached the dying transport, and it seems that the escorts lost me as I passed underneath. So rather than search, they just seem to pick a spot and start dropping charges where they think I might be, which was nowhere even close. They also must have been either going quite slow or setting them at very shallow depths, thus sinking themselves. If this were the only time this happened, I wouldn't be posting. This sort of thing seems to happen with every convoy I encounter. I'll line up a shot and dive, I get a couple hits, the escorts come looking for me, drop charges nowhere near my current location, and end up doing themselves in. If this happened occasionally, I'd be ok with it. It shouldn't be every escort I encounter, though. Are there any mods out there that can do something about it? I've been playing RFB, does TMO have the same problem? I love this game, but this is killing my immersion.