Ghost ship and haunted forts

[Paladinus]

Some interesting screenshots from Jutland
Two french forts visible in the middle of The Chanel

Ghost ship AMC Flying Dutch

 

[Slider6]

I've been around the forts on the coast, but not in the middle of channel? Never seen the AMC like that. Are these graphic issues or are they consistent?

 

[Paladinus]

The ship started looking as it should after a few minutes (after the light had changed, I guess)
The forts were visible, but acted as they were not there (notice the distance shown at the bottom of the picture; over 1000 km).

 

[Slider6]

Hmm..weird. I've had graphic issues during tactical in the channel, but I figured it was my card (couldn't be Jutland). Nothing like this though.

 

[saddletank]

Generally these 'skeleton' ship graphics show up when your video card is struggling to do the work its being asked to do.

I can't make out many details in the forts pic though. Were these not real then/enemy AI did not shoot from/to them?

Again it might be a graphic issue with video memory. Use F5 to check your framerate and/or just knock one of the demanding graphic sliders down a notch.

 

[Paladinus]

Framerate was ok.
About the forts - AI did not shoot at them (the upper picture shows, they're not visible to the ships in the background), at the bottom of the screenshots there's a distance to these forts shown - about 1500 km! (so it cannot be french coast?!) and, as you can see, pointing the mouse cursor at them shows the info-box... I guess they're location coordinates might be out of range (outside the main map?).

However these were one-time issues, so not really serious thing that needs urgent investigation I think.
(and the forts issue was before the latest series of Jutland updates)
BTW: Is there any way to damage enemy forts/coastal batteries?

 

[saddletank]

Yes, you can shoot at forts and coast guns with ships but it is a very one-sided battle since you need a direct hit on the gun to damage it and hitting the area around it can't "sink" it like hitting non-vital parts of a ship does.

Throughout history ships bombarding forts and land guns has generally been a bad idea. The game reflects that. Best tactic is to steer clear!

If you can replicate these ghost forts in another battle in that campaign I'd still suggest sending in a ticket plus the gamelog and a saved game. My best guess is it is a graphic anomaly but if its repeatable that's more serious.

 

[bill44]

I got the same thing.

 

[Paladinus]

I can see it's the same fort (Fort de l' lle Pelee).
This one, I think:

It should be located near Cherbourg harbour, but is not...

 

[saddletank]

I'm not sure the game uses different models for the sea forts. I think it may be a generic one. Then again they were mostly built for the same military function and were governed by the same general principals of structure so similarities will be there.

 

[Paladinus]

Saddletank wake up!
It has the same name in the info-box ;P (on mine and bill44's screenshots)

 

[saddletank]

LOL, the screenshots are so small and blurred I can't read the writing!