Merchants have too many hitpoints?

Yak · 03-14-10, 07:27 AM

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Upgrade the torpedoman's Warhead Specialist and Preheat abilities to max and you won't need more than two eels (and maybe a few deck gun rounds) to sink any merchant.

And you'll need the Morale Mod since the morale system is extremely broken. :P

You're kidding right?

Mud · 03-14-10, 07:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Yak

You're kidding right?

I´m affraid not, I didn´t upgrade my torpedo man yet.
It feels like cheating and far from realistic.

Mud

Noren · 03-14-10, 07:43 AM

Naw, he's not. Upgrades make your torpedoes a lot more potent. Its really laugable, extra range I coulde comply with but explosive powah? noooo....

Its a shame we dont get beautiful under-keel shoots anymore. Those kind of shockwaves could rip up anything from underneath, now thats physics at play in the real world!

reaper7 · 03-14-10, 07:50 AM

Have you tried the critical hits Torpedo mod yet. I usuall yonly require a single torp to take down merchants as the flooding mechanism appears to work properly in the mod. Merchants health bar may me half full but fire and flooding usually end up sinking them.

szultz · 03-14-10, 07:55 AM

Upgrading torpedomans abilities changes also torpedoes speed which besides being unrealistic breaks torpedo targeting, as game does not compensate for speed increase in calculations, in manual targeting mode or in auto.
I recommend using torpedo critical hits mod instead (can be found in mods section), if you want bigger booms. It also fixes flooding somewhat, because flooding isn't triggered unless damage is high enough.

utops · 03-14-10, 08:12 AM

Sinking mechanics are broken i saw only once when merch sunk by flooding. I turn on health bars to take a closer look in to this and this looks like flood bar decrase only for couple second then stop. GWX SM should be ported to Sh5 (except passager/cargo

)i really liked how GWX ships can be sunken by flooding in time a day or two sometimes longer. Not to mention in SH5 cripled ships can mantain speed and steam without propeller.

03-14-10, 07:43 AM	#3
Noren 中国水兵 Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 284 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Naw, he's not. Upgrades make your torpedoes a lot more potent. Its really laugable, extra range I coulde comply with but explosive powah? noooo.... Its a shame we dont get beautiful under-keel shoots anymore. Those kind of shockwaves could rip up anything from underneath, now thats physics at play in the real world!

03-14-10, 07:50 AM	#4
reaper7 sim2reality Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: AM 82 Posts: 2,280 Downloads: 258 Uploads: 30	Have you tried the critical hits Torpedo mod yet. I usuall yonly require a single torp to take down merchants as the flooding mechanism appears to work properly in the mod. Merchants health bar may me half full but fire and flooding usually end up sinking them.

03-14-10, 07:55 AM	#5
szultz Swabbie Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 12 Downloads: 28 Uploads: 0	Upgrading torpedomans abilities changes also torpedoes speed which besides being unrealistic breaks torpedo targeting, as game does not compensate for speed increase in calculations, in manual targeting mode or in auto. I recommend using torpedo critical hits mod instead (can be found in mods section), if you want bigger booms. It also fixes flooding somewhat, because flooding isn't triggered unless damage is high enough.

03-14-10, 08:12 AM	#6
utops Planesman Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Gdańsk,Poland Posts: 197 Downloads: 202 Uploads: 0	Sinking mechanics are broken i saw only once when merch sunk by flooding. I turn on health bars to take a closer look in to this and this looks like flood bar decrase only for couple second then stop. GWX SM should be ported to Sh5 (except passager/cargo )i really liked how GWX ships can be sunken by flooding in time a day or two sometimes longer. Not to mention in SH5 cripled ships can mantain speed and steam without propeller.