Why, Eichhörnchen sir, are you insinuating that silent5hunter is a nut, aka: "squirrel"? I do wholeheartedly agree.
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- We already know that you and I are both nutz... certifiably so - along with a bunch of other old fahrtz around here...
In the meantime, I did make me a SingleMission file for the area, and drove around back and forth across the line, kind of like a squirrel running about the yard, and I even drove on top of "the line" - like a squirrel on the phone line - and never did hear any strange sounds, other than what is already in my head ("be quiet back there!"). I did open the map sectors in the GWX Terrain Extractor (excellent stuff, btw), and sure enough, there's the lines at the bottom of a couple of segments. I'll have to get their designations later. Where the lighter color is, signifying shallow water isn't exactly where the "shallows" are though. The line shows, as suspected, just above the -2 Latitude line, and using a ping, we get "over 1000 feet, sir!" in the message box. However, if I drive the boat directly on top of the -2 Latitude, I'll get "We're in shallow waters, sir!" and after a ping "184 feet, sir!".
I do wonder though, since silent5hunter has the Steam SH4, if you (silent5hunter) are playing in the Steam "Stock" trim, which would be Silent Hunter 4: Wolves of the Pacific v1.3, or do you have what Steam calls the "UBoats Missions Add-on" with it, which is actually v1.5? I looked in my v1.3 install, and that line is in that version also (don't ask me why I still have that on the computer
). Version 1.3 had some egregious issues - better than v1.2, but it seemed to break more than it fixed... If you use the Steam app on your computer, and go into the Local Files, you can right-click on the "SH4.exe" file, choose "Properties" and then left-click on the "Details" tab, that will show the "Product Version" about the middle of the little window. Or, next time you start Silent Hunter 4, on the Main Menu, it'll have the version in the lower right of the screen. One last question silent5hunter: had you by chance, attempted to install a mod, that failed so you backed it off, and then are playing what you're presuming to be "Stock" again? We'll get into the reasons for that question later.