Big frustration

TorpedoMo · 04-28-09, 07:44 AM

Last weekend I was sunk in an convoy attack in a frustrating run of events.

Let me say what makes me so angry about this game:

I approach convoy from Sb side, position myself between the outer line of merchants and the outside escort. Closing in on the surface up to 1500m distance. Escort is coming up behind. Dive to PD, 2knots. I enter the convoy from the side while the escort is crossing my boat's aft in a distance 1000-1500m, WZB 90°. My boat is not detected.
As I cross the merchant entering the convoy, the DD is at WZB 140-150°. I slightly increase speed to 3kn and I get immediatly pinged by the escort.

Unfortunately the escort actually is NOT able to ping me in this angle but it does.

Anyway. DD is turning by putting up steam, pointing his nose up to my boat. Crash dive to 80m by running the convoy's course. Consistent pinging.Second Escort closing. Dive to 200m.
Within two hours I wasn't able to get rid of at least one escort for more than a minute. Depht of 200m+, Course -and Speedchangings and most of the time silent running and that within a convoy couldn't make it possible.
After two hours a total hit by a depht charge. The boat didn't even shake, so I have a look at the damage management and in the next second it's all over.

I think the behaviour and happenings are not that realistic...

One of the guys also played that convoy attack had to escape 3 escorts later and also couldn't manage to get rid of them. We canceled the game because we had the slightly feeling that its simply impossible. While beeing pursuited by the escorts, I felt like pulling bouy at the surface behind me.

By the way, the gametime was January 1940! Not the time you expect Hunter Killer DDs...

So we discussed the prob after the attack and thought about a bug in that mission. We had similiar experiences in former matches, but not that significant like this one. We thougt about changing some sensor.dat entries but we are too unexperienced in that job.

(Sh3+GWX2.1)

What's your opinion about that? Do you know some things to change?

Let me know.

04-28-09, 07:44 AM	#1
TorpedoMo Helmsman Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 108 Downloads: 115 Uploads: 0	Big frustration Last weekend I was sunk in an convoy attack in a frustrating run of events. Let me say what makes me so angry about this game: I approach convoy from Sb side, position myself between the outer line of merchants and the outside escort. Closing in on the surface up to 1500m distance. Escort is coming up behind. Dive to PD, 2knots. I enter the convoy from the side while the escort is crossing my boat's aft in a distance 1000-1500m, WZB 90°. My boat is not detected. As I cross the merchant entering the convoy, the DD is at WZB 140-150°. I slightly increase speed to 3kn and I get immediatly pinged by the escort. Unfortunately the escort actually is NOT able to ping me in this angle but it does. Anyway. DD is turning by putting up steam, pointing his nose up to my boat. Crash dive to 80m by running the convoy's course. Consistent pinging.Second Escort closing. Dive to 200m. Within two hours I wasn't able to get rid of at least one escort for more than a minute. Depht of 200m+, Course -and Speedchangings and most of the time silent running and that within a convoy couldn't make it possible. After two hours a total hit by a depht charge. The boat didn't even shake, so I have a look at the damage management and in the next second it's all over. I think the behaviour and happenings are not that realistic... One of the guys also played that convoy attack had to escape 3 escorts later and also couldn't manage to get rid of them. We canceled the game because we had the slightly feeling that its simply impossible. While beeing pursuited by the escorts, I felt like pulling bouy at the surface behind me. By the way, the gametime was January 1940! Not the time you expect Hunter Killer DDs... So we discussed the prob after the attack and thought about a bug in that mission. We had similiar experiences in former matches, but not that significant like this one. We thougt about changing some sensor.dat entries but we are too unexperienced in that job. (Sh3+GWX2.1) What's your opinion about that? Do you know some things to change? Let me know. Last edited by TorpedoMo; 04-28-09 at 07:59 AM.