GWX Aircraft: Too dangrous!

[bigboywooly]

Well all scripted aircraft in GWX either have a last waypoint over land or exit on last waypoint - and the only scripted air are for historic missions or attacks on players bases
Apart from some neutral patrols which begin and end over land before looping

Aircraft that spawn from airbases do so at a height of 500m and do not have waypoints

And the aircraft flying into the water\land or pinwheeling into the water isnt a GWX effect but a stock one

Sometimes wonder if anybody lately played stock before installing GWX

[Sailor Steve]

In stock you got attacked by so many aircraft, who could tell if they ran into each other, got shot down or crashed on their own?

[Jimbuna]

I remember vanilla shortly after it;s release and wondering if the 20 or so aircraft swooping down on me where the remnants of some 1000 bomber raid :hmm:

[bigboywooly]

Once shot down 20+ Swordfish in the channel in 39
One after the other they came like Lemmings

And not a scratch on the boat

[Dantenoc]

I agree that planes should be something to be feared, and that intentionaly fighting it out with attacking bombers should be discouraged. However, to date my experience with GWX (1.02) has been that I don't even get a chance to yell "crash dive" to my crew. I try to play at TCx64 when in english controled waters, and I still get surprised by the enemy planes in the silliest of ways. My crew just don't spot them untill AFTER they've made their first run over my boat. This is all in early war ('39, '40), with the watch tower bar all filled up in green, regardless of weather or day and night condition.

Because of this I play the game as if I was driving a true submarine, staying submerged for all of the day, and surfacing for 3 or 4 hours at night to recharge batteries. It gives me a lot of advantages to play like this (more sonar contacts and longer patrol ranges exploiting the weak "create free energy out of nothing through the batteries" game bug) but it's hardly historicaly accurate.

Let's hope this issue is resolved in the next patch , and we all still yell "crash dive" as soon as we see an airplane... just as long as we get the chance to see the airplane to begin with.

[poor sailor]

Originally Posted by Dantenoc

I agree that planes should be something to be feared, and that intentionaly fighting it out with attacking bombers should be discouraged. However, to date my experience with GWX (1.02) has been that I don't even get a chance to yell "crash dive" to my crew. I try to play at TCx64 when in english controled waters, and I still get surprised by the enemy planes in the silliest of ways. My crew just don't spot them untill AFTER they've made their first run over my boat. This is all in early war ('39, '40), with the watch tower bar all filled up in green, regardless of weather or day and night condition.

Because of this I play the game as if I was driving a true submarine, staying submerged for all of the day, and surfacing for 3 or 4 hours at night to recharge batteries. It gives me a lot of advantages to play like this (more sonar contacts and longer patrol ranges exploiting the weak "create free energy out of nothing through the batteries" game bug) but it's hardly historicaly accurate.

Let's hope this issue is resolved in the next patch , and we all still yell "crash dive" as soon as we see an airplane... just as long as we get the chance to see the airplane to begin with.

For me situations with planes works very well. I using GWX v.1.02 but also use the mod by Ducimus "AI sensors from NYGM". When my crew tells me "Aircraft spotted" I have enough time to crash dive normal and prevent the attack on me. Maybe I have been long with NYGM, but very like their sensors in game and now have it in GWX.Thanks to Ducimus for this addition!

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by bigboywooly

Once shot down 20+ Swordfish in the channel in 39
One after the other they came like Lemmings

And not a scratch on the boat

Well I once shot down 21+ and had the crew add an extra coat of varnish on the hull whist I was buisy doing it ....j/k :rotfl:

[kiwikapitan]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Well I once shot down 21+ and had the crew add an extra coat of varnish on the hull whist I was buisy doing it ....j/k :rotfl:

Hrumph try doing that with the full LRT 1.32 mod by NVdrifter. You will die FAST!

[bigboywooly]

That was in stock Kiwi
Where the aircraft are useless at best