ship identification

[killzuo]

Hi guys,

I just started my first patrol today and i had a question.

When i spotted a ship in the distance i looked through my periscope hoping to get a look at the ship. But i could not find the information on the boat eg tonnage, range, speed that used to be on the periscope screen back in SH3.

Is there any way of finding out the tonnage of the boat without having to get close enough in order to manually identify the merchant?

Thanks in advance.

[Tobus]

Hi guys,

I just started my first patrol today and i had a question.

When i spotted a ship in the distance i looked through my periscope hoping to get a look at the ship. But i could not find the information on the boat eg tonnage, range, speed that used to be on the periscope screen back in SH3.

Is there any way of finding out the tonnage of the boat without having to get close enough in order to manually identify the merchant?

Thanks in advance.

Nope. You have to use the recognition manual ('N' key), or you can turn manual aiming off in you difficulty settings. Then you get an ID just by pointing the scope at the ship.

[walsh2509]

I use the lock fire system (73% all gameplay boxes ticked except manual targetting and map contacts) but I noticed when I looked at the ship manual (I know what type it is by as you say pointing the scope at a ship) but when the lock goes yellow and even onto green, you no longer get the little boxes appearing on the ship rec/manaul.

The ones that in SH3 you can click to pick what part of the ship you want to hit, but even in 1.0 and 1.1 the boxes appeared you could not click them, you could click the mouse over them but nothing happened, now the boxes don't appear in 1.02.

[Quillan]

I've got the same realism settings Walsh has, and the one thing I miss from SH3 is that once the ship is positively ID'd, clicking the button for the recognition manual doesn't open it to the proper page. I find it frustrating, if I forget some piece of data (like draft) and want to double check it, I now have to page all the way through the book to find the listing again.