Sub And Ship Displacement Bug In Gold Patch
Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:25 pm
I just got the game about a week ago. I'm doing the sub campaign for Germany first (don't know why, just started there after the patrols).
Anyway, I was having trouble with sub campaign #4, and in researching here, learned there was the gold patch. So I downloaded and installed it. I was able to complete #4 in the first try after the patch.
Anyway, played 5, nothing abnormal, and am now on #6. However, I cannot complete it. My sub jumps (like a hyperspace) at least once in every attempt, but in different ways. It's extremely odd.
It has happened even while I have periscope visual contact. Once, I popped up right in the wake of a DE (he was practically sitting in my forward tubes!), target scope right on his rearend, fired the torpedo, saw it hit the water between us, and BLAM, next frame I'm 10 kilometers south of the entire enemy convoy, including planes and escorts! Never saw the torp hit, think it didn't, cuz he came to hunt me down after I hyperjumped. I had to go to R range to see them, and interestingly, didn't have movement capability. Could hear the engines and had battery power, but couldn't get off 0 knots, pivot, dive or surface.
I've noticed the freighter's hyperspacing, too. When I say hyperspace, I don't mean the blip shifting a bit because you've lost/regained contact. I mean 8+ kilometers away from where they were when I just fired torps into them at < 2 km! The torps never hit, and next second the freighter is @8km from me, but other enemy ships are still where they were relatively.
I'm playing the US retail to Gold patch. Has anyone else noticed this, either in this mission or in others? I searched for it, but didn't come up with anything that sounded like this...
Anyway, I was having trouble with sub campaign #4, and in researching here, learned there was the gold patch. So I downloaded and installed it. I was able to complete #4 in the first try after the patch.
Anyway, played 5, nothing abnormal, and am now on #6. However, I cannot complete it. My sub jumps (like a hyperspace) at least once in every attempt, but in different ways. It's extremely odd.
It has happened even while I have periscope visual contact. Once, I popped up right in the wake of a DE (he was practically sitting in my forward tubes!), target scope right on his rearend, fired the torpedo, saw it hit the water between us, and BLAM, next frame I'm 10 kilometers south of the entire enemy convoy, including planes and escorts! Never saw the torp hit, think it didn't, cuz he came to hunt me down after I hyperjumped. I had to go to R range to see them, and interestingly, didn't have movement capability. Could hear the engines and had battery power, but couldn't get off 0 knots, pivot, dive or surface.
I've noticed the freighter's hyperspacing, too. When I say hyperspace, I don't mean the blip shifting a bit because you've lost/regained contact. I mean 8+ kilometers away from where they were when I just fired torps into them at < 2 km! The torps never hit, and next second the freighter is @8km from me, but other enemy ships are still where they were relatively.
I'm playing the US retail to Gold patch. Has anyone else noticed this, either in this mission or in others? I searched for it, but didn't come up with anything that sounded like this...