Ditching....

[Kodiak2]

Small whine here.........c'mon AH!  Hitting the beach at VERY low speed causes death??  I think not!    

[ 10-24-2001: Message edited by: Kodiak2 ]

[Ripsnort]

Agreed, should just bump up to beach without dying, and be stuck if approach is too fast.

[JV44]

Hello...

On the other side when beached a PT in front of airport or City I be sure the shallow water is full of nasty mines, so maybe its realistic to blow up???
 

Jv44 (Andreas)

[Kodiak2]

Well, here's the main problem.  The night I wrote this I had more or less tried to get my boat as close to my base/vh as possible in order to avoid this MADDENING ditching BS.  I apparantly got too close---which resulted in instant death which is also BS.  I can only see this happening if I had been going very fast.  It's bad enough that when you get into a gv, drive over from the vh right smack into the middle of your own field to defend it, the game thinks you have to drive it all the way back to the vh in order to avoid "ditching".  This really ticks me off because it affects your score.  So just how the hell am I supposed to know where to park my pt to avoid "ditching" it?  What about when you spawn from a CV group?  Tonight I tried getting very close to the vh (as close to it as possible without beaching)and the dam game said I had "crashed".  This was again BS because I was not moving---it won't let you exit unless you are stopped!  So anyway, AH really needs to take a look at their "ditching" parameters and make them a bit more realistic.  

[john9001]

i don't know about a PT , but if you park your GV on a runway , taxiway, or in a hanger you can "land succesfully" just like a plane

[Don]

Not really John9001:

I got a ditch last night when I drove back to a hangar after my ammo ran out in an Ostie. I drove into the hangar and shut the engine off and went to the tower; I got a message that I had ditched.

[ 10-24-2001: Message edited by: Don ]