Weirdest bug I have seen

mark4x5 · 08-14-06, 12:43 AM

I want to begin this thread by saying that this is the one of the most fun games I have every played on a cumputer and it is also the most!!!! frustrating.

Well to begin my story I was traveling into Curacao to hopefully bust up some tankers and it all started about 85km from the harbor i get the message from the watch that a warship is spotted, and thought to myself, I have reached the outer picket destroyers, I ran up thet UZO to take a quick look before deciding to submerge or run. The speed reading on the destroyer is 0 knots, very odd :hmm: . I make an X on my nave map and begin a submerged approach just to see what he does. He does nothing just sits there at 0 knots

. I thought well OK tordedo him and he goes up in a huge explosion.

I surface to recharge batterys and get a topedo down out of external stores (As a side note I have traveled all the way from Lorent without firing a shot, seeing a single ship, or geting a radar, or signal contact all at TC256). I approach the port and find a clemson destroyer and an armed merchant as inner guards, they are acting normally. I torpedo the Clemson (magnetic shot under the stack) and he carries on like nothing happened

, when he comes around again (he was still running his square

) I hit him with an impact topedo under the aft gun mount and he slowly floods and sinks as the trawler searches and depth charges my decoy. I wait a bit and the trawler continues his square and take him out with a magnetic shot under te stack (continued his square while he sank:hmm: ).

I'm thinking great I have the harbor to myself at this point. I get a line on a large tanker and fire two impact shots at it with a 4m depth setting. The torpedos travel to within 300m of the tanker and blow up (WTF)

. My first thought is sub net so I back off and go around to the outside of the port where a medium tanker is sitting and send two torpedoes toward him set 2m deep, and the same thing happens

, the torpedoes blow up at 300m from the tanker (WTF). I am a little po'ed at this point.

I decided to try to go back to the large tanker and try to get a differnt angle on her and I got to within 400m and I get the mesage that I am taking damage. Hull integrety down to 99% and the forward crew quarters are yellow. NO screeching metal sound from a sub net and the bottom reads 410m below me. So I backed up and now am taking damage in the rear of the boat, got that fixed, and got off what ever I was hung up on and traved to the other end of the harbor where two small tankers where sitting, singled torpedos ran straight an true to each target hiting them under the stack.

At this point it truely gets wierd, I get a sonar contact, a merchant medium speed closing, get the scope up just in time to see a medium and a small tanker come into view and then just disappear compleatly, litterally vanished before my eyes:hmm: .

Sorry to be so long winded but this was the crazyest thing that I have had happen so far, mystery forcefields and ghost ships that vanish before my eyes.

As a side note I was in this harbor before in a NYGM career and none of this happened. Current career is GW. O'well I am off to reload and begin this patrol from scratch again. I welcome all your comments.

Mooncatt · 08-14-06, 02:47 AM

yes i have had this on a couple of occasions only happens in ports too, and its NOT sub nets, i think i read a message i got once from BDU saying that the magnetic torps are malfuctioning and i was to use impact torps instead although i cant remember what date it was, so i put it down to this tbh

enaceo · 08-14-06, 05:33 AM

Had the same thing happen to me with the ships vannishing.I once was close to a task-force and detected a DD with my scope.I then used the hydrophones to see where the other ships were,if they were there,but I couldn't find any.When i looked to find the DD again,it was gone.And previously it was really close,something like 4k meters.Never experienced the problem with torpedoes though.

Dowly · 08-14-06, 07:27 AM

The vanishing ships happens because they reach their last waypoint and they get deleted. You can find this in stock, RuB, TGW, NYGM, "place any other mods here".

Cant really say anything about the Curacaoa, havent been there. I need to take a look on it.

VonHelsching · 08-14-06, 08:24 AM

I´ve experienced also this torpedo problem and used the free cam to check out what was happening: The depth inside harbor varied between 4m and 12m, and the torpedos were hitting the seabed in a spot between me and my target

SteamWake · 08-14-06, 11:30 AM

Well there were torpedo malfunctions both in real life and in the game.

It was discussed at length at the games release and the concensus was that in most cases the malfunctions were in rough weather and a shallow shot and had to do with the torpedo "slamming" into waves (shrug).

Early in the war the magnetic pistols were notoriusly suspect (due to premature detonation) and in fact a missive was issued for the captians to use impact only.

I belive that torpedo malfunctions are modeled in the game and prehaps in any mods your using. It may also vary on the realisim setting.

Personally my number of "doink" shots (bounce off hull) increased once I installed GW.

mark4x5 · 08-14-06, 05:14 PM

I figured out my disappearing ship problem, I figured it was a last waypoint thing or somthing like it.

As far as the torpedoes go, all shots in the harbor where impact settings, the harbor is a deep water harbor when I ran up to the point that the torpedoes exploded and my sub hung up I was getting a depth reading of 410m. I just don't get it.

Not trying to blame any mod on this. it is just that I took shots from the same place while in a NYGM career and the torpedoes hit the mark no problem.

It was just weird, the whole patrol was weird. I had no contacts of any kind untill I saw ships in the harbor. That was first.

Mark

mheil · 08-15-06, 03:23 PM

ventured in to scapa flow during poor weather. Reconned the area found a troop carrier but no capital ships

. I plotted the merchant ships location and had to move away as the weather made visability so poor I was too close to fire. Well, I circled around to put some distance between us and It was getting late and the wife wanted to go to sleep. So, I had to save the game, submerged in a harbor... I've heard the horror stories and know I'm not supposed to do that but I took the risk. Loaded the save game last night and the poor weather had vanished! Blue skies, great visability

. Sank the troop ship now I'm heading out trying to escape. I was really hoping that poor weather would help out for this.

08-14-06, 12:43 AM	#1
mark4x5 Watch Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Lompoc CA Posts: 24 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Weirdest bug I have seen I want to begin this thread by saying that this is the one of the most fun games I have every played on a cumputer and it is also the most!!!! frustrating. Well to begin my story I was traveling into Curacao to hopefully bust up some tankers and it all started about 85km from the harbor i get the message from the watch that a warship is spotted, and thought to myself, I have reached the outer picket destroyers, I ran up thet UZO to take a quick look before deciding to submerge or run. The speed reading on the destroyer is 0 knots, very odd :hmm: . I make an X on my nave map and begin a submerged approach just to see what he does. He does nothing just sits there at 0 knots . I thought well OK tordedo him and he goes up in a huge explosion. I surface to recharge batterys and get a topedo down out of external stores (As a side note I have traveled all the way from Lorent without firing a shot, seeing a single ship, or geting a radar, or signal contact all at TC256). I approach the port and find a clemson destroyer and an armed merchant as inner guards, they are acting normally. I torpedo the Clemson (magnetic shot under the stack) and he carries on like nothing happened , when he comes around again (he was still running his square ) I hit him with an impact topedo under the aft gun mount and he slowly floods and sinks as the trawler searches and depth charges my decoy. I wait a bit and the trawler continues his square and take him out with a magnetic shot under te stack (continued his square while he sank:hmm: ). I'm thinking great I have the harbor to myself at this point. I get a line on a large tanker and fire two impact shots at it with a 4m depth setting. The torpedos travel to within 300m of the tanker and blow up (WTF) . My first thought is sub net so I back off and go around to the outside of the port where a medium tanker is sitting and send two torpedoes toward him set 2m deep, and the same thing happens , the torpedoes blow up at 300m from the tanker (WTF). I am a little po'ed at this point. I decided to try to go back to the large tanker and try to get a differnt angle on her and I got to within 400m and I get the mesage that I am taking damage. Hull integrety down to 99% and the forward crew quarters are yellow. NO screeching metal sound from a sub net and the bottom reads 410m below me. So I backed up and now am taking damage in the rear of the boat, got that fixed, and got off what ever I was hung up on and traved to the other end of the harbor where two small tankers where sitting, singled torpedos ran straight an true to each target hiting them under the stack. At this point it truely gets wierd, I get a sonar contact, a merchant medium speed closing, get the scope up just in time to see a medium and a small tanker come into view and then just disappear compleatly, litterally vanished before my eyes:hmm: . Sorry to be so long winded but this was the crazyest thing that I have had happen so far, mystery forcefields and ghost ships that vanish before my eyes. As a side note I was in this harbor before in a NYGM career and none of this happened. Current career is GW. O'well I am off to reload and begin this patrol from scratch again. I welcome all your comments.

08-14-06, 02:47 AM	#2
Mooncatt Grey Wolf Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Keighley UK Posts: 938 Downloads: 78 Uploads: 0	yes i have had this on a couple of occasions only happens in ports too, and its NOT sub nets, i think i read a message i got once from BDU saying that the magnetic torps are malfuctioning and i was to use impact torps instead although i cant remember what date it was, so i put it down to this tbh __________________

08-14-06, 05:33 AM	#3
enaceo XO Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 401 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Had the same thing happen to me with the ships vannishing.I once was close to a task-force and detected a DD with my scope.I then used the hydrophones to see where the other ships were,if they were there,but I couldn't find any.When i looked to find the DD again,it was gone.And previously it was really close,something like 4k meters.Never experienced the problem with torpedoes though. __________________ Came back after a long time ...ahoy mates!

08-14-06, 08:24 AM	#5
VonHelsching Ace of the Deep Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Athens, Greece Posts: 1,025 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I´ve experienced also this torpedo problem and used the free cam to check out what was happening: The depth inside harbor varied between 4m and 12m, and the torpedos were hitting the seabed in a spot between me and my target __________________

08-14-06, 07:27 AM	#4
Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,052 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	The vanishing ships happens because they reach their last waypoint and they get deleted. You can find this in stock, RuB, TGW, NYGM, "place any other mods here". Cant really say anything about the Curacaoa, havent been there. I need to take a look on it.

08-14-06, 11:30 AM	#6
SteamWake Rear Admiral Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 13,224 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Well there were torpedo malfunctions both in real life and in the game. It was discussed at length at the games release and the concensus was that in most cases the malfunctions were in rough weather and a shallow shot and had to do with the torpedo "slamming" into waves (shrug). Early in the war the magnetic pistols were notoriusly suspect (due to premature detonation) and in fact a missive was issued for the captians to use impact only. I belive that torpedo malfunctions are modeled in the game and prehaps in any mods your using. It may also vary on the realisim setting. Personally my number of "doink" shots (bounce off hull) increased once I installed GW.

08-14-06, 05:14 PM	#7
mark4x5 Watch Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Lompoc CA Posts: 24 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I figured out my disappearing ship problem, I figured it was a last waypoint thing or somthing like it. As far as the torpedoes go, all shots in the harbor where impact settings, the harbor is a deep water harbor when I ran up to the point that the torpedoes exploded and my sub hung up I was getting a depth reading of 410m. I just don't get it. Not trying to blame any mod on this. it is just that I took shots from the same place while in a NYGM career and the torpedoes hit the mark no problem. It was just weird, the whole patrol was weird. I had no contacts of any kind untill I saw ships in the harbor. That was first. Mark

08-15-06, 03:23 PM	#8
mheil Loader Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 81 Downloads: 70 Uploads: 0	ventured in to scapa flow during poor weather. Reconned the area found a troop carrier but no capital ships . I plotted the merchant ships location and had to move away as the weather made visability so poor I was too close to fire. Well, I circled around to put some distance between us and It was getting late and the wife wanted to go to sleep. So, I had to save the game, submerged in a harbor... I've heard the horror stories and know I'm not supposed to do that but I took the risk. Loaded the save game last night and the poor weather had vanished! Blue skies, great visability . Sank the troop ship now I'm heading out trying to escape. I was really hoping that poor weather would help out for this.