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Originally Posted by 2DarkWolf2
Greetings,
I've been playing Fotrsu for a few weeks now and have had a couple instances of getting damaged while underwater by seemingly nothing.
The first time I had crashed dived after an aircraft contact and once down to 165 feet I reduced speed and continued on my way with time compression. Maybe 20 minutes in game time later I suddenly received damage and there was an explosion right on top of me. I figured because after diving I continued on the same heading that I was on while on the surface that the enemy continued to attack along my last known heading and got lucky. So I started changing course after crash diving 45-90 degrees (depending on the direction the enemy aircraft was approaching) and holding that heading for awhile before continuing on my original course. This worked for me for several patrols but I just had a second incident that has me scratching my head.
I was running on the surface just before dawn and detected an aircraft. I crashed dived and did my little doe see doe then continued on. As it was so close to first light I decided to just stay down and start my days submerged patrol early. I engaged time compression and about 4 hours after I dived while still at 165 feet I was knocked out of TC with "We're taking damage!", "This damaged!", "That damaged!". I went to the external camera right away and again there was a big explosion right on top of me. I have no idea the cause of the damage though, there were no vessels around, I saw no aircraft (nothing on radar after I emergency surfaced) and I was not in a mined area.
Is this some kind of glitch I am encountering or is there some other explanation? This second incident happened off the coast of japan in january 1944 if that makes any difference.
DW
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I can only provide anecdotal info since I kept no records of when it happened to me, but it does happen, exactly as described above. Out of the blue, while at 165 feet depth for several hours, usually using a high TC to pass the time more quickly, I will get calls of damage occurring, usually to the AA guns and sometimes the periscopes and/or deck gun. Upon surfacing immediately, or using the F12 key to look around, there is nothing apparent. No mines below in any direction, no aircraft in sight or on radar, no ships, no nothing. This post won't help the investigation, if there is one, but it does serve to confirm that 2DarkWolf2 and I are not nuts!
The key may be the higher TC. I don't think I've ever had it happen at 1x time unless I was slow to order a crash dive upon detecting an incoming plane. It is after running a TC of say 1024 for 4 hours or so that it happens, not on the initial dive.
Next time it happens (and it will based on my experience) I'll capture the data.