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Originally Posted by Jagdfalke
Ok, i trie to explain with my poor english 
If i start in Midway mid 1943 in a Balao Class, i see a green light between 178 & 182 degrees and hear the own Sound.
But i canīt hear the Fishing Boat or other ships in the Harbour, if i aim with the sonar on them. If i activate the "contact on map" i see a grey line on the map, but donīt hear the target and see no green light.
Then i tried to hunt ships at the marshall Islands, some ships i can hear on the sonar, but many cargo ships not 
I will try the next tour with map contacts on and test.
I played with a fresh sh4 1.5 and copy the 0.63 mod files in. Do i need the 0.62 files before |
Excellent report!
While we weren't "scientific" about experiments, nor for an explanation previously, CapnScurvy has discovered that certain ships will "disappear" to sonar if their speed falls roughly below half of their rated speed. Certain ships - but not all. Not only that, but some ships go silent to sonar when they're traveling above that halfway speed mark. In other words, a fishing vessel might be rated for 12 knots, but it is only doing 3 knots in the shallows as the crew "fishes". You'll not hear that boat. Or, for example, a certain Destroyer (DD) can do 38 knots, but it disappears when it goes below 20 knots (for example, as an escort), but another doesn't "disappear" until going slower than 10 knots. Other vessels never disappear. It depends upon the source of the vessel, whether a Stock ship, or a modded ship, etc. This issue has been worked on and improved, though I don't know if CapnScurvy wants to call it "solved", coming for the next release. It is a strange issue, sort of like the AI Visual detection CapnScurvy is working on now...