Improved Escorts

[Stew U-582]

Sorry this was ment to be in sh4 mod workshop



After playing many missions and finding it was rare to have an escort even drop a depth charge on me I decided to see if I could fix this matter.
By looking at some other mods and comparison of my GWX settings I came up with the following settings. It is verry simple to perform this mod only two files need to be changed. Sim.cfg and Sensors.cfg . They are both located in your SH4/Data/Cfg folders.
Firstly BACKUP the original files and put them somewhere safe.
open Sim.cfg with a text editor , I just used notepad.
replace the contents with the following lines and save.

[Mech]
Waves amplitude=0.2 ;[0,1] 0.2
Waves attenuation=0.75 ;>=0 0.75
[AI Cannons]
Max error angle=4 ;[deg]
Max fire range=9000 ;[m]
Max fire wait=12 ;[s]
[AI AA guns]
Max error angle=5 ;[deg]
Max fire range=1000 ;[m]
Max fire wait=7 ;[s]
[AI detection]
Lost contact time=30 ;[min]
[Visual]
Detection time=0.5 ;[s] min detection time.
Sensitivity=0.01 ;(0..1) at (sensitivity * max range)
factor=1.0 ;[>=0]
Light factor=1.75 ;[>=0]
Waves factor=1.0 ;[>=0]
Enemy surface factor=350 ;[m2]
Enemy speed factor=15 ;[kt]
Thermal Layer Signal Attenuation=1.0
[Radar]
Detection time=1 ;[s]
Sensitivity=0.01 ;(0..1)
Waves factor=1.0 ;[>=0]
Enemy surface factor=5.0 ;[m2]
Thermal Layer Signal Attenuation=1.0
[Hydrophone]
Detection time=1 ;[s]
Sensitivity=0.04 ;(0..1)
Height factor=0 ;[m]
Waves factor=0.5 ;[>=0]
Speed factor=20 ;[kt]
Noise factor=0.5 ;[>=0]
Thermal Layer Signal Attenuation=5.0 ;[>0],
[Sonar]
Detection time=10 ;[s]
Sensitivity=0.01 ;(0..1)
Waves factor=0.5 ;[>=0]
Speed factor=20 ;[kt]
Enemy surface factor=200 ;[m2]
Lose time=30 ;[s]
Thermal Layer Signal Attenuation=5.0 ;[>0],

Now replace the contents of sensors.cfg with,,

[SensorParameters]
; Sensors Detection Parameters
;Visual.
Visual range factor=0.2 ;[>=0]0.5
Visual fog factor=0.5 ;[>=0]1
Visual light factor=0.4 ;[>=0]0.8
Visual waves factor=0.2 ;[>=0]0.8
Visual speed factor=0 ;[>=0]
Visual aspect=0.9 ;[>=0]
Visual enemy speed=0.2 ;[>=0]
Visual noise factor=0 ;[>=0]
Visual sensor height factor=0.5 ;[>=0]
Visual already tracking modifier=600 ;[detection probability modifier], most accurate, once a contact is detected it will lose it very hard
Visual decay time=200 ;[>0] already tracking bonus decay, in seconds
Visual uses crew efficiency=false ;[true or false]
;Radar.
Radar range factor=1 ;[>=0]
Radar fog factor=0 ;[>=0]
Radar light factor=0 ;[>=0]
Radar waves factor=0 ;[>=0]
Radar speed factor=0 ;[>=0]
Radar aspect=1 ;[>=0]
Radar enemy speed=0 ;[>=0]
Radar noise factor=0 ;[>=0]
Radar sensor height factor=0 ;[>=0]
Radar already tracking modifier=10 ;[detection probability modifier]
Radar decay time=150 ;[>0] already tracking bonus decay, in seconds
Radar uses crew efficiency=false ;[true or false]
;Hydrophone
Hydrophone range factor=1 ;[>=0]
Hydrophone fog factor=0 ;[>=0]
Hydrophone light factor=0 ;[>=0]
Hydrophone waves factor=0.2 ;[>=0]
Hydrophone speed factor=0.5 ;[>=0]
Hydrophone enemy speed=0 ;[>=0]
Hydrophone aspect=0 ;[>=0]
Hydrophone noise factor=0.5 ;[>=0]
Hydrophone sensor height factor=0 ;[>=0]
Hydrophone already tracking modifier=20 ;[detection probability modifier]
Hydrophone decay time=150 ;[>0] already tracking bonus decay, in seconds
Hydrophone uses crew efficiency=true ;[true or false]
;Sonar active.
Sonar range factor=1 ;[>=0]
Sonar fog factor=0 ;[>=0]
Sonar light factor=0 ;[>=0]
Sonar waves factor=0 ;[>=0]
Sonar speed factor=0 ;[>=0]
Sonar aspect=1 ;[>=0]
Sonar enemy speed=0 ;[>=0]
Sonar noise factor=0 ;[>=0]
Sonar sensor height factor=0 ;[>=0]
Sonar already tracking modifier=20 ;[detection probability modifier]
Sonar decay time=150 ;[>0] already tracking bonus decay, in seconds
Sonar uses crew efficiency=true ;[true or false]
;Radar Warning
Radar Warning range factor=1 ;[>=0]
Radar Warning fog factor=0 ;[>=0]
Radar Warning light factor=0 ;[>=0]
Radar Warning waves factor=0 ;[>=0]
Radar Warning speed factor=0 ;[>=0]
Radar Warning aspect=0 ;[>=0]
Radar Warning enemy speed=0 ;[>=0]
Radar Warning noise factor=0 ;[>=0]
Radar Warning sensor height factor=0 ;[>=0]
Radar Warning already tracking modifier=2 ;[detection probability modifier]
Radar Warning decay time=30 ;[>0] already tracking bonus decay, in seconds
Radar Warning uses crew efficiency=true ;[true or false]
;Radio DF
Radio DF range factor=1 ;[>=0]
Radio DF fog factor=0 ;[>=0]
Radio DF light factor=0 ;[>=0]
Radio DF waves factor=0 ;[>=0]
Radio DF speed factor=0 ;[>=0]
Radio DF enemy aspect=0 ;[>=0]
Radio DF enemy speed=0 ;[>=0]
Radio DF noise factor=0 ;[>=0]
Radio DF sensor height factor=0 ;[>=0]
Radio DF already tracking modifier=2 ;[detection probability modifier]
Radio DF decay time=30 ;[>0] already tracking bonus decay, in seconds
Radio DF uses crew efficiency=false ;[true or false]


Now you should find the escorts a bit more challanging.
I just want to make it clear that I have changed these files to make the game perform to the level I like to play. In no means do these settings represent historical accuracy. I was just sick of playing Turky Shoot and the only way it seemed to get an escort to chase me was to deliberatly piss it off.
Anyway ive found these settings to my fancy and dont worry not every enemy ship will be down your throat its not that radical a change.

Hope this helps the people in so many posts Ive read complaining about poor AI

Stu