Kiel Canal Training Mission

[Slyder]

Unless you give us WASD control over the boat, this mission will be the last mission anyone plays in this game. Until then, none of my saved games will work with this official release and my boat is beached somewhere west of Alberdorf.

[SpaceBikerV]

Shift+right click is too hard?

Also, there’s a ”leave port” teleport button when you first approach the canal doors. You don’t need to navigate the canal manually

[Slyder]

Shift+Right Click is what caused this mess. Auto-plot doesn't work in the canal. I did not see a leave port button anywhere that would have helped.

[SpaceBikerV]

Originally posted by Slyder:

Shift+Right Click is what caused this mess. Auto-plot doesn't work in the canal. I did not see a leave port button anywhere that would have helped.

Try again next time you’re near the canal doors

Also, try a slower gear if you plan to go through small spaces

[Slyder]

There is a skip tutorial option. I guess I will just figure it out on my own. Game is still kinda rough around the edges.

[SpaceBikerV]

There’s always youtube and some steam guides, while old, still apply

[Shintai]

Considering how the incentive to use the canal is designed, how could they not have fixed this autoplot. It seems like they started from west towards east in the plotting and then stopped care halfway, hence it is a nightmare to sail.

Do not station yourself in Kiel.

[Tikigod]

Originally posted by Shintai:

Considering how the incentive to use the canal is designed, how could they not have fixed this autoplot. It seems like they started from west towards east in the plotting and then stopped care halfway, hence it is a nightmare to sail.

Do not station yourself in Kiel.

I've only travelled through it 5 times, but each time I've just set autocourse to a point on the other side beyond the canal and my IIA at the time navigated it fine.

Wonder what is causing people to have different experiences, unless they're doing something like auto-plotting part of the route along the canal, then auto-plotting another point of the canal and so forth.

And then I can understand why they'd have problems as they're telling the game to plot between their last end point and a new start point, and if they set those in weird problematic points the game will just follow the players instructions as best as it's able to, as the player has explicitly stated they want to go to very specific points along the canal regardless to turning angles and speed involved to achieve it.

[gothicform]

Can confirm autoplot does not work on the Kiel Canal. Grrr.,....

[Tikigod]

Originally posted by gothicform:

Can confirm autoplot does not work on the Kiel Canal. Grrr.,....

What boat are you finding it having a problem in?

With the Type IIa and IId I found the auto-navigation had no problems plotting routes anywhere, as long as I set the proper destination points at the end of such trails, and didn't try to "Fix the system" by setting multiple different points along the canal or other small narrow straits.... If I wanted to go through the Kiel Canal I'd just set a destination point beyond the other side of the canal and let the auto-route do it's thing, which it always did fine.

However with the VIIb, I'm starting to notice that the auto-route plotting isn't really able to wrap its head around the much wider turn angles of that boat due to it not being as nimble to turn as the type IIa/d.
If I'm wanting to do gradual angle adjustments over a distance of 1km or so, the auto-route plotting is fine, but once I start wanting more sharper turns across a shorter distance, the auto-route planned out just isn't able to wrap its head around the reality of how the VIIb will actually turn, and instead will just lay down a point that it will never be able to meet, causing my boat to start doing wider circles regardless to what might actually be in the way in its attempt to try to reach the actual destination point set out.

[Hidden Gunman]

I learnt my lesson driving the canal,boat ended up literally halfway up the bank. Took ages with reverse, left rudder right rudder to drag it off. I paid attention when the 'travel the canal' button came up after that shambles. At least half the good ship lollipop got her barnacles scraped off.