RFB How to tell when a ship is mortally hit

Sniper297 · 04-15-15, 12:09 PM

Answer in this game is when the credit for sinking the ship shows up in your tonnage list, not before. I've had cruisers listing 25 degrees with the entire bow/stern or even the whole main deck underwater, fires everywhere, creaking groaning screeching collapsing bulkhead noises, sit there for 48 hours and nothing changes. One of the glaring faults of this game is that in real life and sub simulators from other companies (Microprose Silent Service for example) you got partial credit for damaging targets you were unable to sink.

In this game nada, fire 12 fish into YAMATO and leave her DIW and half sunk, zero credit at all, you might as well have saved the torpedoes for another target. In real life you'd get a medal since even if she was towed back to port she would be out of the war for as long as it took to repair the damage, sometimes a year or more.

That's why I won't use mods with realistic sinking physics, the way the game is programmed there's no point in attacking anything unless it goes down.

04-15-15, 12:09 PM	#4
Sniper297 The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Philadelphia Shipyard Brig Posts: 1,386 Downloads: 160 Uploads: 19	Answer in this game is when the credit for sinking the ship shows up in your tonnage list, not before. I've had cruisers listing 25 degrees with the entire bow/stern or even the whole main deck underwater, fires everywhere, creaking groaning screeching collapsing bulkhead noises, sit there for 48 hours and nothing changes. One of the glaring faults of this game is that in real life and sub simulators from other companies (Microprose Silent Service for example) you got partial credit for damaging targets you were unable to sink. In this game nada, fire 12 fish into YAMATO and leave her DIW and half sunk, zero credit at all, you might as well have saved the torpedoes for another target. In real life you'd get a medal since even if she was towed back to port she would be out of the war for as long as it took to repair the damage, sometimes a year or more. That's why I won't use mods with realistic sinking physics, the way the game is programmed there's no point in attacking anything unless it goes down.