Maybe it just wasn't meant to be

Aur0ra145 · 10-09-11, 05:46 PM

So after years of playing SH4 on and off. I finally decided it was time to give manual TDC a try.

So I turned everything up to full realism (except for the event camera) and loaded into the practice torpedo attack mission.

Everything is going fine, I line up the shot, set my spread and fire three torpedoes. I see the first two fire straight and true, then the third one just sorta veered off coarse. Meh, I made note of it, but focused on watching my torpedoes proceed toward the ship.

After a bit I decided that I should should actually try to find the third torpedoe. So I closed the event camera until it was tracking on the third torp. Behold, the stray torpedo was about to strike something, which just happened to be me.

Crash dive. Sadly, not in time. The torp struck my conning tower. Failed mission. Game over.

So yeah. I think I'm the most unlucky person in the world. A circle runner on the training mission! And at that. it was my first try with manual TDC.

White Owl · 10-09-11, 06:40 PM

Weird... the only circle runner I've yet seen was in the torpedo training mission. It missed me by about 5 feet.

Rockin Robbins · 10-10-11, 11:01 AM

I had my first circle runner on my very first test run of a brand new Dick O'Kane manual targeting exercise. I was checking out some really non-standard ways of running the TDC and wasn't sure what the result would be. I didn't even know there was such a thing as a circle runner in the game. It had never happened to me and never came up in a Subsim discussion that I knew of.

So I'm wondering what's going to happen when I input a bearing without a range, press the fire button and got my very first circle runner.

For awhile I thought it was the procedure and not just bad luck. After discussion with my partners in crime I ran the exercise again and it worked perfectly several times in a row.

So yeah, a circle runner really makes you think about the meaning of life, death the universe and everything!

Daniel Prates · 10-10-11, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by White Owl

It missed me by about 5 feet.

Maybe you changed course a little bit, or was it a sideways current? All circle-runners i've seen come right back at your tail.

White Owl · 10-10-11, 08:34 PM

Yes, I was trying to shoot while moving. Close call.

Bubblehead1980 · 10-11-11, 12:32 AM

I had one exploded close enough to conning tower in 1942 (Porpoise Class) it flooding the conning tower and destroyed the bulkhead.Evacuated crew to control room but boat never did perform the same due to the flooding(water wouldnt pump out)

Made it home though...

Daniel Prates · 10-11-11, 08:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980

Made it home though...

I always thought that our subs should be more fragile. Sometimes I come back with ridiculous amount of damage that, as I am sure, would mean "the end" for a RL sub.

10-09-11, 05:46 PM	#1
Aur0ra145 Sailor man Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 46 Downloads: 59 Uploads: 0	Maybe it just wasn't meant to be So after years of playing SH4 on and off. I finally decided it was time to give manual TDC a try. So I turned everything up to full realism (except for the event camera) and loaded into the practice torpedo attack mission. Everything is going fine, I line up the shot, set my spread and fire three torpedoes. I see the first two fire straight and true, then the third one just sorta veered off coarse. Meh, I made note of it, but focused on watching my torpedoes proceed toward the ship. After a bit I decided that I should should actually try to find the third torpedoe. So I closed the event camera until it was tracking on the third torp. Behold, the stray torpedo was about to strike something, which just happened to be me. Crash dive. Sadly, not in time. The torp struck my conning tower. Failed mission. Game over. So yeah. I think I'm the most unlucky person in the world. A circle runner on the training mission! And at that. it was my first try with manual TDC. __________________

10-09-11, 06:40 PM	#2
White Owl Loader Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 90 Downloads: 66 Uploads: 2	Weird... the only circle runner I've yet seen was in the torpedo training mission. It missed me by about 5 feet. __________________ "Ship?" he called. "Yup?" said the ship. "Do what I do." The ship thought about this for a few milliseconds and then, after double checking all the seals on its heavy duty bulkheads, it began slowly, inexorably, in the hazy blaze of its lights, to sink to the lowest depths.

10-10-11, 11:01 AM	#3
Rockin Robbins Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: DeLand, FL Posts: 8,900 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 52	I had my first circle runner on my very first test run of a brand new Dick O'Kane manual targeting exercise. I was checking out some really non-standard ways of running the TDC and wasn't sure what the result would be. I didn't even know there was such a thing as a circle runner in the game. It had never happened to me and never came up in a Subsim discussion that I knew of. So I'm wondering what's going to happen when I input a bearing without a range, press the fire button and got my very first circle runner. For awhile I thought it was the procedure and not just bad luck. After discussion with my partners in crime I ran the exercise again and it worked perfectly several times in a row. So yeah, a circle runner really makes you think about the meaning of life, death the universe and everything! __________________ Sub Skipper's Bag of Tricks, Slightly Subnuclear Mk 14 & Cutie, Slightly Subnuclear Deck Gun, EZPlot 2.0, TMOPlot, TMOKeys, SH4CMS

10-10-11, 08:34 PM	#5
White Owl Loader Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 90 Downloads: 66 Uploads: 2	Yes, I was trying to shoot while moving. Close call. __________________ "Ship?" he called. "Yup?" said the ship. "Do what I do." The ship thought about this for a few milliseconds and then, after double checking all the seals on its heavy duty bulkheads, it began slowly, inexorably, in the hazy blaze of its lights, to sink to the lowest depths.

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10-11-11, 12:32 AM	#6
Bubblehead1980 Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Florida USA Posts: 7,143 Downloads: 608 Uploads: 44	I had one exploded close enough to conning tower in 1942 (Porpoise Class) it flooding the conning tower and destroyed the bulkhead.Evacuated crew to control room but boat never did perform the same due to the flooding(water wouldnt pump out) Made it home though...