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00lewnor

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Torpedos spinning wildly
« on: May 15, 2016, 11:22:59 AM »

Prety much what it says in the title, I'll fire a torpedo at something and it decides it wants to spin in circles instead of going in a straight line. Observed primarily with guided atropos torpedoes but that’s probably because I’ve spent most of my time using them, I’m fairly sure I’ve seen it with unguided hammer torpedoes as well (if anything worse as they don’t have guidance to try to stop the spinning and hit something).

Off the top of my head I would suggest it occurs either when firing at point blank range or when the firing ship is moving perpendicular to the torpedo’s firing vector; I’ll try to remember get a screenshot when I next see it.
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Re: Torpedos spinning wildly
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2016, 11:32:29 AM »

Prety much what it says in the title, I'll fire a torpedo at something and it decides it wants to spin in circles instead of going in a straight line. Observed primarily with guided atropos torpedoes but that’s probably because I’ve spent most of my time using them, I’m fairly sure I’ve seen it with unguided hammer torpedoes as well (if anything worse as they don’t have guidance to try to stop the spinning and hit something).

Off the top of my head I would suggest it occurs either when firing at point blank range or when the firing ship is moving perpendicular to the torpedo’s firing vector; I’ll try to remember get a screenshot when I next see it.

Most likely it is because torps now have arming timers and if they strike the enemy before the timer is up then they bounce off and spin.
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Re: Torpedos spinning wildly
« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2016, 11:40:49 AM »

Ohhh! That’s probably it. Looks like I have to un-learn some muscle memory (although it may have saved my afflictor from point blank ship detonations a few times so I suppose it’s not all bad).
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