Rain Gear

vindex · 05-03-07, 03:28 AM

It started raining and I noticed my watch all had raincoats on. Saved and reloaded later, still raining but no raincoats. This particular oddity is strikingly similar to the bow planes issue. Save while submerged, when it loads it doesn't know how to set the bow planes properly. Save while raining, when it loads it doesn't know how to dress the watch properly. It's like the trigger (dive -> deploy bow planes; starts raining -> put on raincoats) is missing when you load an existing condition.

Fish40 · 05-03-07, 04:34 PM

That sounds like the problem that SH3 has. You could save a game during rain, with your crew in raingear, but when you reload the save, the rain is still happening, but the crew is without the raingear. You need to drag them inside, then repost them so they will be wearing the raingear again.

panthercules · 05-19-07, 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Fish40

That sounds like the problem that SH3 has. You could save a game during rain, with your crew in raingear, but when you reload the save, the rain is still happening, but the crew is without the raingear. You need to drag them inside, then repost them so they will be wearing the raingear again.

Seems to be worse than the problem SH3 had though - just ran into this myself - last night the guys had their rain gear on, then I saved and fired it up again today - no rain gear. I tried dragging the watch guys into the damage control and back - no rain gear. I tried diving, ran all night, surfaced after dawn - still raining, but no rain gear. Tried Battle Stations - no rain gear. I'm waiting for a shift/watch change - hoping maybe the next guys will have a little more sense and be wearing their rain gear when they come on watch. With 15m/s winds and driving rain in mid December near Formosa, it just doesn't seem right to see these guys up there in their shirtsleeves.

NefariousKoel · 05-19-07, 04:46 PM

I've seen all my watch crew but the one closest to me on the bridge wearing rain gear in a huge downpour. I guess he was the stubborn one.

panthercules · 05-19-07, 05:40 PM

Aha - never mind - it is a different same problem as we had in SH3 - I noticed when I asked for a weather report that, although the graphic shows it raining heavily, the NA is reporting no precipitation - so, the game doesn't think it's raining (although it's displaying the rain graphic) and therefore doesn't think the watch crew need their rain gear. I used to see this fairly often in SH3.

On a related point, I guess that maybe the American subs ride higher than the German U-boats did, so even at these wind speeds you don't get the waves crashing over the crew on the US boats like you did in the U-boats, which may explain why the SH4 crew only dons their gear when the game thinks it's raining, and not in high winds like in SH3.

-Pv- · 05-21-07, 01:18 AM

The rain gear is a little hit and miss. Some 3D characters don't get updated immediately while on the surface.
When this happens I dive just to the point where the crew is forced off the deck and then surface. This forces the crew to update their textures. This has fixed them not wearing raincoats for me twice. If it's still raining when the next watch crew cycles, they will probably all be wearing the coats.

More often than not though, I've seen my crew with the gear on when it's actually raining.
-Pv-

NefariousKoel · 05-21-07, 02:20 AM

Time to lecture the crew on wearing 'Jimmy Hats'.

05-19-07, 04:46 PM	#4
NefariousKoel Ace of the Deep Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: No-good Missouri scum Posts: 1,223 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	I've seen all my watch crew but the one closest to me on the bridge wearing rain gear in a huge downpour. I guess he was the stubborn one. __________________ "When Gary told me he had found Jesus, I thought, Yahoo! We're rich! But it turned out to be something different." - Jack Handey

05-19-07, 05:40 PM	#5
panthercules The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,336 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	Aha - never mind - it is a different same problem as we had in SH3 - I noticed when I asked for a weather report that, although the graphic shows it raining heavily, the NA is reporting no precipitation - so, the game doesn't think it's raining (although it's displaying the rain graphic) and therefore doesn't think the watch crew need their rain gear. I used to see this fairly often in SH3. On a related point, I guess that maybe the American subs ride higher than the German U-boats did, so even at these wind speeds you don't get the waves crashing over the crew on the US boats like you did in the U-boats, which may explain why the SH4 crew only dons their gear when the game thinks it's raining, and not in high winds like in SH3. __________________

05-21-07, 02:20 AM	#7
NefariousKoel Ace of the Deep Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: No-good Missouri scum Posts: 1,223 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	Time to lecture the crew on wearing 'Jimmy Hats'. __________________ "When Gary told me he had found Jesus, I thought, Yahoo! We're rich! But it turned out to be something different." - Jack Handey

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05-03-07, 03:28 AM	#1
vindex Planesman Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 192 Downloads: 17 Uploads: 0	It started raining and I noticed my watch all had raincoats on. Saved and reloaded later, still raining but no raincoats. This particular oddity is strikingly similar to the bow planes issue. Save while submerged, when it loads it doesn't know how to set the bow planes properly. Save while raining, when it loads it doesn't know how to dress the watch properly. It's like the trigger (dive -> deploy bow planes; starts raining -> put on raincoats) is missing when you load an existing condition.

05-03-07, 04:34 PM	#2
Fish40 The Old Man Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Yonkers, NY U.S.A. Posts: 1,507 Downloads: 154 Uploads: 0	That sounds like the problem that SH3 has. You could save a game during rain, with your crew in raingear, but when you reload the save, the rain is still happening, but the crew is without the raingear. You need to drag them inside, then repost them so they will be wearing the raingear again.

05-21-07, 01:18 AM	#6
-Pv- The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,434 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	The rain gear is a little hit and miss. Some 3D characters don't get updated immediately while on the surface. When this happens I dive just to the point where the crew is forced off the deck and then surface. This forces the crew to update their textures. This has fixed them not wearing raincoats for me twice. If it's still raining when the next watch crew cycles, they will probably all be wearing the coats. More often than not though, I've seen my crew with the gear on when it's actually raining. -Pv-