Torpedos will not fire! What?

[Sniper297]

Yeah, after running some tests with manual targeting and automatic I found that the automatic open subroutine has a serious flaw - the gyro angle is locked at the moment of firing, so any delay means the firing solution is wrong. If you're aiming at the forward mast of a 500 foot long ship with the outer door open it will hit about where you aim it, if the outer door has to open automatically it will hit near the after mast. Aim at middle of target and it will miss astern every time.

I pretty much make my own mods, so after discovering that I used Silent 3ditor to edit the \Submarine\NSS_(subtype)\NSS_(subtype).sim files to change 13:wpn_SubTorpedoSys from Auto Open = true to Auto Open = False, and quickly got in the habit of hitting Q-W-Q-W repeat for as many fish I intended to fire, at least a couple of minutes before the actual "final bearing and shoot" time. Get more hits, waste fewer torpedoes.

[propbeanie]

Ya gotta be careful letting yer wick stay wet that long though... Too long in that salt water and it won't go "boom"!

I'm sorry - won't happen again... 'till next time.

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by Sniper297

Yeah, after running some tests with manual targeting and automatic I found that the automatic open subroutine has a serious flaw - the gyro angle is locked at the moment of firing, so any delay means the firing solution is wrong. If you're aiming at the forward mast of a 500 foot long ship with the outer door open it will hit about where you aim it, if the outer door has to open automatically it will hit near the after mast. Aim at middle of target and it will miss astern every time.

That's not a flaw, that's the way the torpedoes work. The gyro angle is calculated for the instant the fire button is pressed. In the real sub you could launch a torpedo with the outer door closed, but that would be the last time you would do it.......or anything else for that matter. You and 80 of your best buddies would be dead.