So not sure if its just arcade but been playing naval a little trying japan out and for some reason I can not target AI ships at all even while getting hammered by an emden and killed in the end(This is in arcade btw) Has something even changed because you use to be able to
The detection range, which gives you the chance of gaining or maintaining lock, is just absurdly short for them to prevent Encounter maps from being over in the first five minutes. You can still hook them, you just have to get really close first.
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Ahh thanks for that :)
There is nothing about range. It’s cause of any obstacle between you and convoy ships aka “bots with no names”, they had different aiming - 8+km cargo ship shooting 20mm guns at planes and t22 destroyers hitting battleships over 20km while their guns could fire 15km max. They also had different damage model you almost never could kill them with oneshot in ammo. So you can’t target them over any obstacles it’s in the game for years.
At least devs accepted some bug of this nonsens called convoy bots. Community Bug Reporting System
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So I was in another arcade game in my renown(Battlecruiser) and it was a little weird as I was 20km away from a cargo ship and was able to lock and sink it within a couple minutes yet when I was in my destroyer around 5-8km at a guess I still wasnt able to lock them but could lock the player either side at the same range as the cargo ship?? feels like something weird is going on there
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This is because of a dump locking mechanic.
If there is any land between you and a bot, you cant lock them.
Even if that land is a sand bar sitting 0.5m above sea level, you cant lock the bot.
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