sonar woes

[Joe S]

Is there a trick or a mod to get the sonar operator to do his job? I had a situation with an escort ahead of a transport at about 20 deg bearing within 3500 yds. I wanted the sonar to track the nearest object which would have been the escort, to determine when it had crossed my bow and to determine if I had been detected. The sonar operator was only focused on another escort at a bearing of about 120 deg which was about 7,000 yds away and I could not get a bearing on any of the closer ships. I tried all the buttons on the menu and nothing helped. I would also like to be able to specify if I want merchants or warships tracked. Is there a fix for this problem? Thanks!

[Rockin Robbins]

There is none that I know of. That is one of the biggest bothers in the whole game. You should be able to order the sonar operator to track the ship you want.

[SteamWake]

Yep.

Only way is to do it yourself.

[skookum]

How do you manually track a contact of your choice in SH4? I don't see a bearing selector on the hydrophone console.

[Diopos]

What do you mean no "bearing selector"? You can "mouse_click" on the sonar "dial" at the bearing you want to "listen" or you use the lever beneath the sonar dials to "sweep". What version are you playing?

[kylania]

As Diopos said you can click on the bearing circle in the 3D sonar room to move the bearing of the sonar or use the HOME and END keys.

[skookum]

The Home and End keys work, but when I click on the handle my cursor disappears and my view changes to mouse control.

[Diopos]

Extremely sorry! The lever is cosmetic! Mouse_click the sonar dial! If you have a "wheel" on your mouse you can "sweep" with that too.

[SteamWake]

Extremely sorry! The lever is cosmetic! Mouse_click the sonar dial! If you have a "wheel" on your mouse you can "sweep" with that too.

Well I'll be dammed, learn something new all the time :hmm:

Never really liked the home/end key control too mushy. Ill have to try the wheel! Thanks !