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Bulkhead
03-16-10, 05:14 PM
Sorry if this have been covered in another thread, but i didnt find any. Where is the ping button to estimate the non-visual range? Is it modeled in the game at all?
SteamWake
03-16-10, 05:25 PM
It probably is in the code there somewhere check some of the keybind mods they might have it.
Sailor Steve
03-16-10, 05:50 PM
You can only ping for range if you have active sonar. U-boats certainly didn't have it in 1939. I'm not sure when they got it, but until then they couldn't ping a target's range. And by the time they had it there were plenty of escorts listening in.
SabreHawk
03-16-10, 05:54 PM
Yeah by the time they did have this, it was best not to use it. You do away with the only real advantage you have, stealth.
codmander
03-16-10, 06:04 PM
sh3 has one:up:
Hanomag
03-16-10, 06:06 PM
sh3 has one:up:

Natch.. :arrgh!:
Bulkhead
03-16-10, 06:52 PM
Ok, i am at the end of 1940 now. Thats why i wondered, i remember it from SH3. Its nice to have if a lonley merchant shows up though. A few years and maybe the snorkel also will be an option...
LukeFF
03-16-10, 11:57 PM
You can only ping for range if you have active sonar. U-boats certainly didn't have it in 1939. I'm not sure when they got it, but until then they couldn't ping a target's range. And by the time they had it there were plenty of escorts listening in.

The VIIC was originally designed to have active sonar (S-Gerät), but it wasn't ready at the time. IIRC it only came into use with the Type XXI.
SteamWake
03-17-10, 10:30 AM
Ok, i am at the end of 1940 now. Thats why i wondered, i remember it from SH3. Its nice to have if a lonley merchant shows up though. A few years and maybe the snorkel also will be an option...

A few more years and the war will be over ;)