DD’s with Dimensional Pockets

[Stoli]

Do the DD’s in GWX have some sort of magic dimensional pocket that they pull DC’s from? I’ve had an escort dropping ash cans on me for over three hours. I stopped counting them at around 120.


Side-Note: 115m down (2m off the bottom) I'm using the wiggle waggle, waggle wiggle method but still can't shake this mother. I'm pretty sure he is using the extrenal cam on me.


Stoli
U-1
AM53 - Following Large Convoy

[SleightOfHand]

I'm pretty sure that someone counted the depth charges in a config file and came up with ~220 or so for your average destroyer.

[danlisa]

Originally Posted by Stoli

Side-Note: 115m down (2m off the bottom) I'm using the wiggle waggle, waggle wiggle method but still can't shake this mother. I'm pretty sure he is using the extrenal cam on me.

The wiggle waggle method is for throwing off the escorts before they find you & at 115m, I'm affraid that you are not below the escorts sensor range. He's always going to find you unless you can go deeper or loose him @ 1kt + 5-10 degrees rudder.

Be patient because @ 1kt, you might think they still have you but infact you're slipping away. If they're pinging, they're looking.

[Brag]

Originally Posted by danlisa

The wiggle waggle method is for throwing off the escorts before they find you & at 115m, I'm affraid that you are not below the escorts sensor range. He's always going to find you unless you can go deeper or loose him @ 1kt + 5-10 degrees rudder.

Be patient because @ 1kt, you might think they still have you but infact you're slipping away. If they're pinging, they're looking.

Absolutely right, the wiggle-waggle confuses the DDs initial search and sends them off to depth charge elswhere.

[robj250]

Originally Posted by Stoli

Do the DD’s in GWX have some sort of magic dimensional pocket that they pull DC’s from? I’ve had an escort dropping ash cans on me for over three hours. I stopped counting them at around 120.


Side-Note: 115m down (2m off the bottom) I'm using the wiggle waggle, waggle wiggle method but still can't shake this mother. I'm pretty sure he is using the extrenal cam on me.


Stoli
U-1
AM53 - Following Large Convoy

Here is some information regarding depth charged.

http://www.enemybeneath.com/dc/depthcharge.htm

So, the 120 that you counted would not be far off in the number of depth charges they carried.

Rob

[robj250]

One thing that is NOT modelled in SH3 or GWX is:

U-boats were was able to detect engine and cavitation noises of pursuer's propellers and the splashing of their depth charges.

[Sailor Steve]

Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1922-1945 says that early British escorts might have as few as 40 depth charges, but later destroyers were carrying up to 170.

[dcb]

Originally Posted by robj250

One thing that is NOT modelled in SH3 or GWX is:

U-boats were was able to detect engine and cavitation noises of pursuer's propellers and the splashing of their depth charges.

I think splashes are in SH3, and also GWX, as this looks like a hardcoded behavior. I often get from the SO the message "Depth charges in the water" and seconds after, I hear the explosions. About cavitation... I don't know, never heard.

[Jimbuna]

Stick to one knot and after he's passed over you, try to turn in the opposite direction he does therefore making as much distance as possible betwwen you both

[Eightbit]

I've got my own issue with a dd here. Frustrated me so much I had to cheat to see what he was doing. it's january 1940 and from the external cam he picks me up on asdic from 90 degrees off his mid-section. Only 70m depth here and he has given up depth charging me. Just constantly doing attack runs. I've tried everything to lose him but nothing works. I'm running flank speed now on an 11hour course to deeper water just so i can dive out of his range hopefully. Pretty sad I hope this isn't what every engagement will be like.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by dcb

I think splashes are in SH3, and also GWX, as this looks like a hardcoded behavior. I often get from the SO the message "Depth charges in the water" and seconds after, I hear the explosions. About cavitation... I don't know, never heard.

I don't know which sound GWX uses for the "Depth charges!" file. When I did my version of the 'Das Boot Sound Mod' I used their "Wasserbomben!" file, but I also did and alternate file for when I got tired of that one. I dumped the report, but made the spashes louder, so that's all I hear. It's pretty cool.

[Stoli]

DD's in GWX have driven me to NEVER attack in shallow water, it's just not worth the pounding you get. Deep Sea's here I come.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Stoli

DD's in GWX have driven me to NEVER attack in shallow water, it's just not worth the pounding you get. Deep Sea's here I come.

Sound ethics kaleun

[Brag]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Sound ethics kaleun

Did I hear someone say, Stay out of shallow water? :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Regarding propellor cavitation... I can hear DD's pass overhead from within the sub all too well.

When listening to the Hydrophone... you can also hear the DC splashes.

One thing that might be nice is to maybe make new Ogg files for the voices... with distant splashes followed by "Wasserbomben!"

(as long as they aren't all the same voice type... There are nine voice types in SH3 ranging from Mickey Mouse to The Incredible Hulk.)