From the 1.1 patch notes for Empire Earth III:
Modern era submarines no longer shoot torpedoes at airplanes
From the 1.1 patch notes for Empire Earth III:
Modern era submarines no longer shoot torpedoes at airplanes
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Perhaps the QA department was French?
http://www.dcn.fr/us/offre/equipements/airdefense.html
Granted, it’s not a torpedo but it does get launched from the torp tubes. ;)
Why, my grandfather was a ball-turret gunner on a submarine in WWII!
Or perhaps they were the same QA team that did the USS Vincennes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
How about torpedos that hit ferris wheels? Now that would be cool to put in the game.
Modern era subs? Yeah, they phased out anti-air torpedoes shortly after the Renaissance.
The question of course, is not whether SAMs on subs is practical but whether the game was supposed to have them. Apparently it wasn’t.
Is that a bug or a bug fix?
That falls under the heading of “We never even thought to test that.” They probably didn’t test whether submarines could torpedo soldiers, either. Although maybe they did. In the heat of a clickfest, no telling what might happen. ;)
I’m on a fast-track to becoming an internal beta-tester at work. Sadly, I don’t work in a games company.