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Seminole
04-05-07, 08:09 AM
:oops: :oops: :oops:

....since I've been playing from the release day...but not quite 'cause I really would like to know.



Is there a hotkey or hotkey combination that will raise or lower the periscopes all the way?


When I need to raise or lower them I usually have much more important things to attend to than sit there, for what can seem like forever, with my finger holding down the INSERT/DELETE or the PAGE UP/PAGE DOWN keys.

Why just yesterday ,I popped up the scope to try and locate a sonar contact in heavy fog. Turned out the merchantman was being escorted by an undetected armed tug , at 300 meters, charging my boat with a hell of a bone in his teeth. A hotkey like I am looking for would have come in mighty handy just about then.

If these keys don't exist is there any way to possibly add such an assignment?

danlisa
04-05-07, 08:11 AM
Use CTRL in combination with the keys you listed above.:up:

Brag
04-05-07, 08:20 AM
Use CTRL in combination with the keys you listed above.:up:

:yep: :yep: :yep:

Seminole
04-05-07, 11:17 AM
Dang ...I tried that...as it seemed the logical combination, and I tried also in combination with ALT and Shift both but none worked for me. :-? Maybe I wasn't holding them down long enough to register.

Next time out I'll give it another try. If it does work then great and many thanks.

Seminole
04-05-07, 08:12 PM
Well that worked all right. :o Why it didn't before is anyone's guess.:lol: I know for a darned certainty I tried using that combo several times without effect.:damn:

Genferret
04-05-07, 08:29 PM
What's nice (and annoying at times too depending on if you hit them by accident) is you can do this from where-ever in your boat.

So I can be on the bridge and just before I give the order to dive hit the keys to raise the periscope and by the time we start our dive and I'm popped back into the control room I can click on the O-scope and it'll be fully up.

Same with putting it down again after an attack run and you prepare to go deep. Usually I pop back to the control room to start the dive and meanwhile hit that key combo quick to get the scope going down.

danurve
04-05-07, 10:04 PM
Works cool with the new sounds, of course a scope up full on auto might as well launch a signal flare if your near escorts.

Jimbuna
04-06-07, 09:54 AM
Well that worked all right. :o Why it didn't before is anyone's guess.:lol: I know for a darned certainty I tried using that combo several times without effect.:damn:

Just keep taking deep breaths and let the medicine kick in :lol: :up: