changing tdc bearing with the periscope?

[fullmetaledges]

Hey I couldn't figure out how to change the tdc's bearing to target with the periscope, I tried it with the target locked and unlocked, the only way I was able to move the position keeper toward the stern of the ship was to use my hydrophones and send that bearing to the tdc. How to do change the tdc's target bearing using the scope crosshairs?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v20/nailbomb/keeper.jpg

[Liszt_]

Doesn't sending a stadimeter update (through the scope) give a provide a bearing update to the TDC as well?

[fullmetaledges]

not sure, on a real periscope there would be a mark button you would push but as far as the game is concerned im stumped, anyone know?

[akdavis]

Use the send button on the stadimeter control to update bearing. If you don't want to change range, don't use the stadimeter itself, just hit the send button.

[Rip]

I thought the white button that turns red when you click it on the PK would constantly send bearing updates to the TDC?

[Hitman]

I thought the white button that turns red when you click it on the PK would constantly send bearing updates to the TDC?


No! That button activates or deactivates the "Position Keeper", and when activated, what it does is exactly the opposite! The position keeper makes the TDC independent from your inputs until you purposely send new data to the TDC. What the position keeper does is start a "simulation" of how the target behaves according to what you had input in the moment of activating it. For example: You set a target to be a 3000 yards, bearing 45 (Stadimeter+Scope), course 270 (Angle on the Bow setting), speed 8 (Speed setting) and then hit the PK button: Now the TDC will display in the attack map the white "X" you see in the image above, which represents how a target that would fit those inputs would evolve. If you had made wrong inputs, it's the difference between that "projected" course the TDC displays and what you actually see what allows you to correct it. And you correct it by taking new bearings, AOBs, speeds, etc. and sending them again to the TDC.

Hope that clarifies it a bit:up: