The Japanese Win Again

CptGlub · 04-30-17, 06:00 PM

Some pointless grousing. I know the game is years past being maintained and that complaining serves no purprose. But here it is anyway:

I've been depth charged a number of times. I'm finding it incredibly hard to believe that on a pitch black night a pair of destroyers can peel off a daisy chain that was roaring along at 34kts and somehow come and plop their butts down almost directly on top of me. I understand that there is a trail for them to follow to get started on my location but that only gives them the direction not the distance. For them to charge over and consistently stop and fish around within 700 yds of my position is unrealistic. Especially since my distance from impact could be anything from 500 to 8200 yards away. Thats 5 football fields or FOUR NAUTICAL MILES they have to choose from. Yet, somehow they consistently start their search just a stone's throw away every time.

Doesn't matter if I give them my short profile. Doesn't matter if I don't turn a screw after firing. They magically converge directly overhead and commence their unending loops until they sniff me out. Once they've painted me, it's all over. I can dance around down there for hours but they aren't going to give up with their never ending supply of depth charges until they've come up with a lucky shot.

Here's the clincher. The other day, all but one escort gave up. When the remaining escort was turned away from me, I hit the gas and kept trying to creep away from him. I was ultra conservative with short bursts and made sure to shut down engines way before i exited his blind spot. As I slowly started trying to vacate the area, I simply dragged him with me as his searching patterns were consistently drawn to me like a magnet.

Out in the open sea with nothing, absolutely nothing as reference points, and literally 360 degrees to choose from, the fact that they zero in on me without a sonar lock is ridiculous and quite honestly ruins the sim.

In clear the bridge, o'kane described being ON THE SURFACE in the middle of a japanese convoy. Now I'm not asking for that kind of playablility but it sure points out the difference between what was possible in RL and what is plainly impossible in the sim. Christ, my SCOPE gets spotted from a couple miles away. How am I supposed to make a surface run?

It's just incredibly frustrating. The sim has such potential and such fantastic moments and features that I keep coming back but every time the bugs and the inevitable death by depthcharge send me away crying in my beer again.

I'm not really looking for advice. I've read it all and tried it all. Just howling at the moon which is my nature.

Here endeth the rant.

I'll set it aside again and wait for the next obsessive surge that pulls me back in.

04-30-17, 06:00 PM	#1
CptGlub Mate Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 59 Downloads: 76 Uploads: 0	The Japanese Win Again Some pointless grousing. I know the game is years past being maintained and that complaining serves no purprose. But here it is anyway: I've been depth charged a number of times. I'm finding it incredibly hard to believe that on a pitch black night a pair of destroyers can peel off a daisy chain that was roaring along at 34kts and somehow come and plop their butts down almost directly on top of me. I understand that there is a trail for them to follow to get started on my location but that only gives them the direction not the distance. For them to charge over and consistently stop and fish around within 700 yds of my position is unrealistic. Especially since my distance from impact could be anything from 500 to 8200 yards away. Thats 5 football fields or FOUR NAUTICAL MILES they have to choose from. Yet, somehow they consistently start their search just a stone's throw away every time. Doesn't matter if I give them my short profile. Doesn't matter if I don't turn a screw after firing. They magically converge directly overhead and commence their unending loops until they sniff me out. Once they've painted me, it's all over. I can dance around down there for hours but they aren't going to give up with their never ending supply of depth charges until they've come up with a lucky shot. Here's the clincher. The other day, all but one escort gave up. When the remaining escort was turned away from me, I hit the gas and kept trying to creep away from him. I was ultra conservative with short bursts and made sure to shut down engines way before i exited his blind spot. As I slowly started trying to vacate the area, I simply dragged him with me as his searching patterns were consistently drawn to me like a magnet. Out in the open sea with nothing, absolutely nothing as reference points, and literally 360 degrees to choose from, the fact that they zero in on me without a sonar lock is ridiculous and quite honestly ruins the sim. In clear the bridge, o'kane described being ON THE SURFACE in the middle of a japanese convoy. Now I'm not asking for that kind of playablility but it sure points out the difference between what was possible in RL and what is plainly impossible in the sim. Christ, my SCOPE gets spotted from a couple miles away. How am I supposed to make a surface run? It's just incredibly frustrating. The sim has such potential and such fantastic moments and features that I keep coming back but every time the bugs and the inevitable death by depthcharge send me away crying in my beer again. I'm not really looking for advice. I've read it all and tried it all. Just howling at the moon which is my nature. Here endeth the rant. I'll set it aside again and wait for the next obsessive surge that pulls me back in.