Definitive torpedo depth/exploder status in 1.2

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Originally Posted by wstaub

And for Me I need it to be set to Contact only to get the Magnetic Detonation. This just goes to show that the game reacts differently for some people.

:hmm: Do you play imperial or metric? I really think there is a conversion in the game code that isn't being done from metric to imp. Why on earth would the depth dial go to 50 when playing metric?:hmm: I doubt any ship ever had a draft of 200 feet!

Seriously though, are you positive the torpedo went under the keel without touching at all? It's very dificult for me to tell sometimes with the camera view.

Also, has anyone seen a mag detonate when passing next to a ship? In my exp., influence only works when passing directly under a ship, while in real life physics a magnetic field extends in all directions ( like a circle around it) with strength evenly decreasing with distance. In other words, those 'near misses' due to a DD turning sharply or speeding up should still det the warhead and blow the screws off or the rudder or something. I've seen torps go right by a ship so close you could reach out and touch it if you were riding it but not detonate. Only if the exploder goes directly under the ship's keel will it magnetically detonate (that I've seen). Can anyone confirm/ disprove this?

Do the torps in the game have a top & bottom? I mean do they always come out the tubes in the same orientation, without any spinning or twisting? Could they only sense a mag field to the top and det., with fields to the sides/ bottom not det.? I hope someone can shed some light on this for me.