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Originally Posted by DICY
I played the PQ-17 mission twice last night with somewhat mixed results. My first try was the one I had issues with, though I'm not sure how big these issues actually are.
The first thing I noticed was that as the escorts approached they appeared to be getting attacked by something, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out by what. It looked like they were dropping Depth Charges at first, but they didn't change course at all and some of the explosions were going off in front of the ships. I couldn't see anything around that might be attacking them (planes/ships), and these certainly weren't explosions caused by another U-Boat. I doubt this has anything to do with your AI but I didn't want to leave it unmentioned.
The second thing I saw that I think is a bit more of a problem; I got in front of the escorts, went to about 140 meters to let them pass over me, than went to periscope depth when they were past me. However, when I attacked the merchants none of the escorts seemed to care at all. No course change, nobody coming to look for me, they just kept on going as if nothing had happened. I didn't expect them to be able to find me, but I at least would have thought they'd try. I was able to attack the convoy two more times without any response from the escorts, at which point I surfaced and the mission ended. Again, I don't know if this is actually an AI issue or has more to do with the mission script.
On the second playthrough I wanted to be sure the escorts knew I was there so when they were passing by me I kicked the engines on to make sure they heard me. The result was pretty devastating. I had 7 or 8 ships above me, all taking turns dropping depth charges, and was able to spot the director, sitting there calmly with his light fixed on my position. It took them about 20 minutes to sink me (at 160 meters the whole time), and I don't see any way that I could have gotten away from them. Having given them a much better fix on my location initially than you ever would under normal circumstances it seems about right that I wouldn't have been able to survive the encounter.
Seems like a huge improvement so far, they're very aggressive and effective at pinning you down. My only real concern is with their apparent disinterest at the convoy getting attacked the first time around.
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Yes I noticed the Ships depth charging when I first spotted them also, I just put it down to it being a scripted mission and they were expecting an attack
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Also one thing I noticed last night testing. One of the Destroyers was sailing backwards over my position depthcharging, preventing others doing there run.
Haven't tried it in game yet to see the results.