Too many dids...

[Raven Morpheus]

Hello, me again...

Just come back again to SH4 after giving it a rest for a while (since November last year) and I'm having troubles again...

I've got the Real Environments mod (v5.0) and Game Fixes Only mod installed.


I'm not having problems hitting ships with torpedoes (well, when they're going nicely in a convoy line astern at least, when the convoy breaks up and starts circling, usually after the 1st ship is hit, is another barrel of fish) but I am getting a lot of duds.

For example I just did the sub school mission (to check my targeting) where you have to sink the (Mogami?) warship and all though I had 100% fish on target 50% of them were duds!! I watched using the free camera and the one's that are duds just bounced off the hull!!

I've tried firing at what I consider short range (800yds) on slow speed with contact detonators, I've tried magnetic detonators, and I've tried longer ranges with high speed - I've basically tried all combinations of speed/detonators. Nothing seems to work.

This was also happening yesterday in my campaign when I had a nice juicy big fat large convoy of about a half dozen merchant ships or more going at 9knots!


I've read that it's common for this to be the case as it was thus in real life, but is there a way to reduce the problem - I simply cannot believe US sub captains knew there was such a problem and just had to live with it (i.e. they didn't find some tactic/workaround whatever to deal with it)?!