reported La Combattante IIa produces an excessive amount of smoke

[Northstar98]

Hi everyone,

With the newly working and updated ship smoke, the Type 148 Tiger (La Combattante IIa) now produces an excessive amount of smoke, leading to it being far more visible than it should be at a distance.

IRL, the overwhelming majority of images found online show little to negligible/no smoke. I've only found images of Iranian Kaman-class (which is similar to the Type 148 Tiger/La Combattante IIa but is not what we have in-game) vessels producing visible smoke.

The 2 following screenshots show a Type 148 Tiger, in default weather (apart from a 12 knot wind), at 20 knots:

 

I'll include screenshots of various Type 148 Tiger/La Combattante IIa/Kaman/La Combattante II vessels in the spoiler below for reference, none of them however show anything as visible, or as dense and opaque as what's seen above:

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La Combattante IIa, P72 Ypoploiarchos Votsis, underway, at speed, no visible smoke:

 

La Combattante IIa, P77 Plotarchis Sakipis, underway, at speed, no visible smoke:

 

Type 148 Tiger, P6154 Elster, underway, slow, no visible smoke:

 

The vessels closest to the smoke produced in-game, are Iranian Kaman-class vessels, though even there it's far too dense and opaque (and these images all show the vessel stopped or moving very slowly):

 

However, again, you can find examples of these ships producing little to no smoke, particularly when they're moving at speed:

 

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Edited July 13, 2024 by Northstar98
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[Flappie]

It's reported, thank you.

[Flappie]

I found this video which demonstrates this ship smokes quite a bit when immobile. But as soon as it gains speed, the smoke stays low and becomes transparent. I've sent it to devs.

 

I also sent them this one, which shows no apparent smoke (except at 0:28, but it's barely visible):

 

Edited July 20, 2024 by Flappie

[Northstar98]

On 7/20/2024 at 10:10 AM, Flappie said:

I found this video which demonstrates this ship smokes quite a bit when immobile. But as soon as it gains speed, the smoke stays low and becomes transparent. I've sent it to devs.

 

I also sent them this one, which shows no apparent smoke (except at 0:28, but it's barely visible):

 

 

Yeah - when starting up or at low power settings it's common to see smoke - low temperatures, poor atomisation, less complete combustion (for instance due to lower boost pressure from the turbochargers at low engine RPM (and the Type 148/La Combattante IIa's engines are turbocharged)).

However, even the first video I'd argue that the smoke isn't as dense compared to in-game, where it drastically increases how visible the ship is compared to real life. Also, seeing as the current smoke system doesn't factor for engine power settings, whether the engines are warm or cold, or how well maintained they are and in the majority of circumstances we don't have ships pulling out of port and are instead at sea, personally, removing the smoke almost entirely would be more accurate here.

Edited July 25, 2024 by Northstar98