Post by cheatereater on Feb 6, 2024 7:37:17 GMT -6
I have a more nebulous "bug" to report, in that in my ongoing game I think there are some problems with ASMs. I have been using ASMs for several years in two different wars, and in combat with the enemy I have noticed a distinct lack of effect from ASMs. They routinely report hits that do not occur when checking post-battle logs, far in excess of what might be expected. In my latest battle, I had a half dozen carriers launch ASM and bomb strikes throughout a long battle, and took the time to record the total reported bomb vs missile hits and the final hits recorded in ship details/logs. Both methods had similar accuracy, with about 20% of attacks reporting a hit (51/224 for bombs, 19/93 for ASMs). However, the "error" in that of course some hits are actually misses or duds or whatever was vastly different: 13% for the bombs and an astounding 63% for the missiles. To get to the bottom of it, I've been doing a bunch of fleet exercises to check ASM accuracy versus different targets, and the error in reported vs actual hits. A table of the results so far (total is # attacks, reported hits are from the pilots in combat, log hits are from ship details afterwards):
It's clear that the error rate is vastly different in an exercise; out of ~600 total ASM attacks, the hit rate is 27%, not massively higher than the result from the battle, but the error rate is only 14% on average, massively lower. The maximum is less than 50% for the destroyers alone, dropping down to ~10% for larger ships. This is massively different from the battle. I am suspicious that this is not a battle-related effect, but some bug in the game where hits are not being applied correctly. Could this be related to the errors that pop up when sorting bombs hits in ship details after combat, as I reported here? This issue does not appear all the time in battle, and it didn't appear in any of the exercises. Something to keep an eye on maybe.
It's clear that the error rate is vastly different in an exercise; out of ~600 total ASM attacks, the hit rate is 27%, not massively higher than the result from the battle, but the error rate is only 14% on average, massively lower. The maximum is less than 50% for the destroyers alone, dropping down to ~10% for larger ships. This is massively different from the battle. I am suspicious that this is not a battle-related effect, but some bug in the game where hits are not being applied correctly. Could this be related to the errors that pop up when sorting bombs hits in ship details after combat, as I reported here? This issue does not appear all the time in battle, and it didn't appear in any of the exercises. Something to keep an eye on maybe.
