August 29, 20214 yr Playing an IOPG battleset, just had one of my subs fire a torpedo at a DD, instead the 2 ADCAPs killed my second LA. Harpoon weirdness....
September 15, 20214 yr The game wouldn't be the same without a little weirdness. Volleys of air-launched harpoons have a tedious predilection to head for targets that have already been blasted to matchwood. However, Donaldseadog's latest iteration of Tool Box has a neat feature that, if you catch them in time, allows you to reassign errant missiles back to their intended (or even a completely different) target. I've only used it once to redirect a torpedo and it worked. I'm not sure how that would pan out for an unintentional blue-on-blue engagement though. As I'm sure you know, back in the day, there was an iteration of the game where air-to-air missiles (phoenix was a particular villain for obvious reasons) had a tendency to go for the 'next target down range'. That rather spoiled the fun if the Tomcats fired a volley at a fighter escort to a bomber formation while the Bugs went ahead going after the bombers which would be minus the escort after the Tomcats had done their work. However, If the Bug went in on the same, or similar axis of approach, as the Phoenix volley it was not good news. I suppose it was a 'realistic' feature but I wasn't too sad when it vanished from the following iterations of the game. Which IOPG battleset/sceanario were you playing when the ADCAPs went rogue?
September 15, 20214 yr If you're reporting what you think might be odd behaviour, especially anything that might eventually be classified as a bug, it would be helpful if you could use a subject title that concisely and accurately describes the issue. For ease of reference and search later. Thanks in advance.
September 15, 20214 yr Ah! I fear I might have unwittingly mislead you. I was merely musing on the errant behaviour of your pair of ADCAP torpedoes and, leading on from that, how blue-on-blue occurrences are (in the game) a rarity these days. When I mentioned "Bug" in my previous message I was actually referring to the F/A-18 Hornet rather than a glitch in the game play. Apologies for the misunderstanding!
September 17, 20214 yr Author On 9/15/2021 at 7:54 AM, CV32 said: If you're reporting what you think might be odd behaviour, especially anything that might eventually be classified as a bug, it would be helpful if you could use a subject title that concisely and accurately describes the issue. For ease of reference and search later. Thanks in advance. Not really reporting, just something I'd never seen before. The subs were 10 miles apart and the ship I was shooting at was a decent amount of off bearing from my LA that I just didn't think of fratricide. Now I know. No biggie, Brad, just a head scratcher
September 17, 20214 yr 3 hours ago, Byron said: Not really reporting, just something I'd never seen before. The subs were 10 miles apart and the ship I was shooting at was a decent amount of off bearing from my LA that I just didn't think of fratricide. Now I know. No biggie, Brad, just a head scratcher I understand; its just helpful to have thread titles that are descriptive, and can be easily referenced or searched when curious behaviour leads to something else. It has been happened during HCE development more times than I can remember.
September 18, 20214 yr On 8/29/2021 at 2:49 PM, Byron said: Playing an IOPG battleset, just had one of my subs fire a torpedo at a DD, instead the 2 ADCAPs killed my second LA. Harpoon weirdness.... Do you happen to recall if the DD remained a localized contact (no uncertainty zone diamond lines)? Fratricide is purposely allowed for AAMs, torpedos have a bit more advanced modelling that are dependent upon the situation (whether still being wire guided to an exactly detected target for instance).
September 18, 20214 yr Author 21 hours ago, TonyE said: Do you happen to recall if the DD remained a localized contact (no uncertainty zone diamond lines)? Fratricide is purposely allowed for AAMs, torpedos have a bit more advanced modelling that are dependent upon the situation (whether still being wire guided to an exactly detected target for instance). I get a chance, I'll write a scenario and see if I can get it to do it again. Honestly, I rarely get two subs in a position to make an attack from the same same bearing and within 10 miles of each other. It was in the Gulf of Oman where it opens out to the Indian Ocean and a Red CSG was coming out.
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