ALmost new to SH4, and an "embarassment of riches"

Catfish · 11-27-09, 10:27 AM

Hello,

"embarassment of riches" was the title of a mission in the Dos sim "Silent Service II", so to say the SH series version Nr. 0

You were stuck between two fleets with one flattop in both of them.

Now that is almost exactly what happens to me in SH IV, i am in my Porpoise boat, in the southern entrance to the Sulu sea heading north towards Philippine or better Luzon, when south of me the whole japanese Navy (or so it seems) steams up behind me. Maybe they got that going just to kill me ?

Soon I am almost between two rows of BIG battleships, and unfortunately there are 2 destroyers that run ahead of this armada. And they get me every time.

I am runnng silent, make only 1 1/2 knots, tail pointed at the upcoming fleet, and what happens next is without ever raising the telescope, or course, or speeding up, one of the destroyers suddenly changes course and gets right and directly at me, no mm right or left, drops its charges, dead. I am running the game at 97 percent, only exterior camera on, for those wonderful graphics.

From all i have read a sub at Periscope Depth, and running silent and slow, is virtually undetectable at all by active sonar, and unhearable, for any destroyer (just out of its detection cone) - and those are japanese ones, not british, and in 1942.
Or have you some hints as to survive this situation at all, maybe even without attacking (i never get so far as to actually launch a torpedo, manual targetting is no problem for me otherwise) - it does not matter how deep i am, PD or even below a thermal layer at appx. 200 feet one of the dest. gets me every time, in the first run, and not a bit deviating from the very center of my boat course-wise. They often change course again when they are almost above me, just to hit me at the very center.

Now while i know a game is certainly more fun when it's harder to play i think this is just not very close to reality.

I had hoped that with the graphics, some of this "Uber" destroyer capabilities of SH3 also may have changed, but this is even worse than in SH 3.

I am still playing the game with only the 1.4 patch, and no mod at all. What would you advise, mod-wise, to maybe change this behaviour or make the whole sim better in other ways ?

The Trigger Maru mod ?
Or the Fleet Boat one ?
Any other ?

Thanks and greetings,
Catfish

11-27-09, 10:27 AM	#1
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 17,766 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	ALmost new to SH4, and an "embarassment of riches" Hello, "embarassment of riches" was the title of a mission in the Dos sim "Silent Service II", so to say the SH series version Nr. 0 You were stuck between two fleets with one flattop in both of them. Now that is almost exactly what happens to me in SH IV, i am in my Porpoise boat, in the southern entrance to the Sulu sea heading north towards Philippine or better Luzon, when south of me the whole japanese Navy (or so it seems) steams up behind me. Maybe they got that going just to kill me ? Soon I am almost between two rows of BIG battleships, and unfortunately there are 2 destroyers that run ahead of this armada. And they get me every time. I am runnng silent, make only 1 1/2 knots, tail pointed at the upcoming fleet, and what happens next is without ever raising the telescope, or course, or speeding up, one of the destroyers suddenly changes course and gets right and directly at me, no mm right or left, drops its charges, dead. I am running the game at 97 percent, only exterior camera on, for those wonderful graphics. From all i have read a sub at Periscope Depth, and running silent and slow, is virtually undetectable at all by active sonar, and unhearable, for any destroyer (just out of its detection cone) - and those are japanese ones, not british, and in 1942. Or have you some hints as to survive this situation at all, maybe even without attacking (i never get so far as to actually launch a torpedo, manual targetting is no problem for me otherwise) - it does not matter how deep i am, PD or even below a thermal layer at appx. 200 feet one of the dest. gets me every time, in the first run, and not a bit deviating from the very center of my boat course-wise. They often change course again when they are almost above me, just to hit me at the very center. Now while i know a game is certainly more fun when it's harder to play i think this is just not very close to reality. I had hoped that with the graphics, some of this "Uber" destroyer capabilities of SH3 also may have changed, but this is even worse than in SH 3. I am still playing the game with only the 1.4 patch, and no mod at all. What would you advise, mod-wise, to maybe change this behaviour or make the whole sim better in other ways ? The Trigger Maru mod ? Or the Fleet Boat one ? Any other ? Thanks and greetings, Catfish