[Rich8]

Originally Posted by propbeanie

Almost all of the groups in FotRSU will zig-zag. You'll want to try to catch their base course, and possibly how often they zig to one side or the other. Also, the AI visual is strange. We've tried to adjust it for night surface attacks, and then the enemy AI can't see you in the daylight from 1800 yards. We've tried to adjust for periscope, and then they can't see the submarine on the surface. Things like that. The game does not want to cooperate. Things to do: "Shhhsh, be vehree vehree qwi-yet! Whuh huntin' ~wabbet~!" Use the knot gauge and set your speed to one knot. Use Silent Running, and come in below the thermal layer, if available. Minimal use of the scope, very short peeks. Get in as close as you can, trying to point your nose or tail at them, for minimum profile. Get past the escorts, and come up to PD, turning on the way up if needed, and start shootin'. Even still, the DD with a Task Force are more attentive, and they have the newer gear, especially if with the Kido Butai. It's best to find a single merchant with a green crew, more concerned with smoking a cigarette than with watching the boring water...

Lol thanks, I've had this suspicion but wasn't certain, hence my complaint. But what is really getting me is how their escorts are able to find me on silent running below a thermal layer and with my props stopped. They aren't running with active sonar. I haven't heard any active sonar pings in my game. My first patrol was from December 8th 1941. Went that entire patrol encountering two task forces, intercepted them at night and both times the destroyers just seem to know where I am. Granted the second engagement I noticed that at first they clearly didn't know I was around until they got with maybe 3-2kyd and got a whiff of my periscope. But my main issue is their efficiency at knowing where my sub is without any sort of active sonar apparatus.