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Old 04-24-15, 10:30 AM   #1
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the closer i get to a red square (enemy ship), it gets lighter, i can't find these ships; on 4th patrol of career mode; also, do i have to do that geometrical target solution deal ? or is there some auto-targeting facility ? thanks
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Old 04-24-15, 10:42 AM   #2
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If you are referring to distant contacts that pop up on the map, those are radio contacts. They only show the contact's position as of the time of the report (which you can find out by clicking on the contact), and they get lighter as they age. When you get a contact like this, you find it not by going to that spot on the map, but by figuring out where it will be by the time you can intercept it. Use the map plotting tools!

It's a dynamic campaign, so ships and convoys all over the world are moving all the time. Just because a contact was revealed to be in one spot doesn't mean it will stay there and wait for you to sink it

If you're talking about nearby map contacts, then is the same - a contact is solid colour only when you have direct visual on it, and as soon as you lose sight of it, it starts "aging" and getting lighter. Get closer or make periscope observations to update it.
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CCIP said it perfectly.

I used to make the mistake of assuming that the target contact location was where I had to go if I wanted to find it. Almost never did. Until I realized that yes, it's a radio report position, and I had to figure out approximately how fast it was going, how fast I could go to intercept. My odds of finding merchant ships had improved dramatically after that...
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If you are referring to distant contacts that pop up on the map, those are radio contacts. They only show the contact's position as of the time of the report (which you can find out by clicking on the contact), and they get lighter as they age. When you get a contact like this, you find it not by going to that spot on the map, but by figuring out where it will be by the time you can intercept it. Use the map plotting tools!

It's a dynamic campaign, so ships and convoys all over the world are moving all the time. Just because a contact was revealed to be in one spot doesn't mean it will stay there and wait for you to sink it

If you're talking about nearby map contacts, then is the same - a contact is solid colour only when you have direct visual on it, and as soon as you lose sight of it, it starts "aging" and getting lighter. Get closer or make periscope observations to update it.
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