Some questions about SH5 + TWOS

[Kill3rCat]

Hi. I've been playing SH5 + TWOS (full realism) for a couple months now, and have often referred to these forums whenever I've had an issue or question, although I hadn't made an account until now. Just wanted to say some of you have been incredibly helpful to me, without knowing it, and wanted to voice my appreciation to those of you who are active on these forums.



Now, to the topic of this post; I have some questions, and thought I'd put it to these forums since I couldn't find the answers using the search function.



1) So, after experiencing some issues, I did a complete reinstall of SH5 and TWOS. I later found out this was unnecessary, but it doesn't matter so much. However, I noticed there were some changes, namely differences in UI, and crew mechanics. One specific example are the weps officer's abilities such as 'preheat torpedo' being replaced with an ability that make the crew work harder, and an ability for transferring torpedo from external reserves. Was TWOS updated, or was my previous or current installation of TWOS faulty and features are missing? I could perhaps answer this question myself, were it not for the fact that I've never played SH5 vanilla.

I'm not particularly a fan of the whole crew 'upgrade' system as a whole, as it feels a tad gamey, but I'd still like to understand the change.



2) Bearing to contact with Hydrophone. So, for various purposes, not least the four bearings method, it is very important to know the exact bearing to a hydrophone contact. With my previous installation, it was possible to click 'send information to TDC', and as a convenient side-effect, my hydrophone operator would handily shout out 'contact, merchant, bearing 146!' or some such. With my current installation of SH5 + TWOS, that button no longer exists. Also, the hydrophone operator cannot be relied upon to yell out his contact reports on his own at the precise timings required by four bearings. Manually operating the hydrophone station, I tried:

a) Going to the left and right boundary on the hydrophone of where the target was audible, and calculating the average to get the correct bearing to contact.

b) Listening for when the target was loudest, and using that bearing.

However, both methods failed to produce accurate results, perhaps due to my own inexperience, imprecision of the hydrophone, or a mixture of both. I was wondering, what methods do you chaps use to get an accurate bearing to a hydrophone contact? In all of the four bearings guides, it's just assumed that you know the exact bearing to the target.



Thanks in advance.