LOST BdU TRANSMISSIONS (Frustration!!!)

[BankSixdeis]

Hello,

I am very much enjoying my time with this innovative game, but one aspect is frustrating me to my wits’ end and it involves an issue with lost radio transmissions, specifically while using the Dynamic Travel option.

I like Dynamic Travel myself — you can experience neat meteorological events in a cinematic, interesting, and less time consuming way…it makes a long journey seem somewhat less long, etc, etc, etc.

However —- 100 percent of the time — I am losing any and all radio transmissions I receive from BdU while in “Travel Mode” and I’m counting the number of frustrating encounters with this problem on two hands now.

I don’t know what else to do but seek out help here!

What am I doing wrong??

Thanks ahead of time.

[Dewgle]

Originally posted by crazydjcoop:

What am I doing wrong??

Stop playing on dynamic travel mode. It's a known issue.

[Dewgle]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/494840/discussions/search/?q=bdu+transmission&gidforum=352788917750179211&include_deleted=1

[BankSixdeis]

I appreciate this. I’m a little late to the party. Sad they haven’t figured out a fix to this :(

Originally posted by McDewgle:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/494840/discussions/search/?q=bdu+transmission&gidforum=352788917750179211&include_deleted=1

[Fate]

I've had Bdu transmissions just vanish in realistic, it just shows up for a second and then disappears.

So not entirely restricted to dynamic travel.

[Dewgle]

Originally posted by Fate:

I've had Bdu transmissions just vanish in realistic, it just shows up for a second and then disappears.

So not entirely restricted to dynamic travel.

This is not the same issue as OP is describing.

You are using the BDU Convoy Reports mod. If you do not decode transmissions generated by that mod in a timely fashion, they will disappear. This is normal. This is not a bug. That's just the way that mod was designed.

However vanilla transmissions from BDU for side missions such as 'find the missing u-boat' or 'sink this particular ship' give you much more time to decode before they disappear.

If you don't wish to miss out on a transmission from BDU, make sure you allow regular sailors to man the radio so you'll know when a transmission is being received and as soon as you hear the notification, immediately pause the game to so that the message does not expire.

[Red_Seven_]

Another problem sometimes is just bad timing on player's actions.
I missed a lot of BdU transmissions over a whole career, because I was just about to hit x6500 TC when an incoming transmission was received, but through the flow hit TC anyways and missed it before I could set it back to real time.

A feature like e.g. a necessary double-click for TC while receiving transmissions would be really helpful.

[Jim (VG)]

Originally posted by Fate:

I've had Bdu transmissions just vanish in realistic, it just shows up for a second and then disappears.

So not entirely restricted to dynamic travel.

I experienced this quite a few times too (in realistic time travel mode). Sometimes the game dropped out of high time compression to allow me to receive the BdU Convoy Reports message, sometimes it didn't.

Then I noticed a pattern:

If I set a course for my boat on the map, then my next click was the high time compression button, I would miss all the Convoy Report messages because the game didn't drop out of TC mode to allow me to get the message.

But if after setting a course on the map, I simply left-clicked an empty area on the map before starting high time compression, the game would drop out of TC mode when a Convoy Report message was transmitted, allowing me to receive it.

So the workaround is: if you set/change your course on the map, left-click on an empty map area before clicking a TC button.

[Fate]

Originally posted by McDewgle:

You are using the BDU Convoy Reports mod. If you do not decode transmissions generated by that mod in a timely fashion, they will disappear. This is normal. This is not a bug. That's just the way that mod was designed.

Nope. Vanilla. I don't use any mods.

[Tanker D18]

Originally posted by Red_Seven_:

Another problem sometimes is just bad timing on player's actions.
I missed a lot of BdU transmissions over a whole career, because I was just about to hit x6500 TC when an incoming transmission was received, but through the flow hit TC anyways and missed it before I could set it back to real time.

A feature like e.g. a necessary double-click for TC while receiving transmissions would be really helpful.

This has burned me so many times... I had to train myself to get my hands away from the mouse and keyboard when I hear the 'BdU transmission incoming' prompt because it'll drop you out of compression, but my problem is I think I have to do it myself and wind up going back into time compression and losing it!

[Team Triss]

Originally posted by Tanker D18:

Originally posted by Red_Seven_:

Another problem sometimes is just bad timing on player's actions.
I missed a lot of BdU transmissions over a whole career, because I was just about to hit x6500 TC when an incoming transmission was received, but through the flow hit TC anyways and missed it before I could set it back to real time.

A feature like e.g. a necessary double-click for TC while receiving transmissions would be really helpful.

This has burned me so many times... I had to train myself to get my hands away from the mouse and keyboard when I hear the 'BdU transmission incoming' prompt because it'll drop you out of compression, but my problem is I think I have to do it myself and wind up going back into time compression and losing it!

Could be worse. I wasn't thinking and went 1800x while submerged.

[Tanker D18]

Originally posted by LoR Team Triss:

Originally posted by Tanker D18:

This has burned me so many times... I had to train myself to get my hands away from the mouse and keyboard when I hear the 'BdU transmission incoming' prompt because it'll drop you out of compression, but my problem is I think I have to do it myself and wind up going back into time compression and losing it!

Could be worse. I wasn't thinking and went 1800x while submerged.

That usually isn't a problem until you're low on oxygen, I patrol around submerged all the time. That being said, I've knocked out half my crew doing that before too.