Castle class is extremely smokey

[twistking]

The castle class boats produce a large amount of smoke. For me it seems excessive for two relatively small diesel engines from the 80s.

In fact, i would have expected them to have no visible smoke at all when cruising.

I think the Leander-class were oil-fired, so smoke seems reasonable. In DCS the castle-class however produces thicker smoke than the leander-class, which just seems wrong.

Is this the right place to report problems with the assets, or should these go in the main dcs bug section to object bugs?

[Northstar98]

Agreed, though to be honest it goes for pretty much all of them:

Here's an image of Leeds Castle underway, I can't see any smoke at all:

Here a small amount of smoke is visible:

 

While the Leanders are indeed oil fired, they don't seem to produce visible smoke either (here is Ariadne):

Here's Achilles:

 

The Invincible-class is COGAG, again very little smoke:

Though depending on weather conditions/throttle settings, it can appear more smoky (but not the thick black stuff we see in DCS, EDIT: This might be running diesel generators as the ship appears stopped):

Here are images showing it underway, though again, you can find images where the smoke is either far less visible or not visible at all.

Edited June 28, 2024 by Northstar98
Updated

[twistking]

Hot Take: Since in DCS the smoke cannot change depending on state of the vessel (anchoring, accelerating, cruising, full speed), it may be best to make it more like the other ships in DCS (can't remember if the diesel and gas turbine powered ships don't smoke at all or only smoke very faintly) and leave the dark smoke for the Kuznetzov...

Holy Cow!

Edited August 5, 2022 by twistking