That's normal. The stopwatch time is just an educated guess on the time it would take for the torpedo to hit the target.

Yes, the patch is cumulative.

By the way, welcome to SUBSIM :up:


RDP

A little frustrated
 

Capt. D
 

1. Did you load 1.4 over any mods? Any mods you had with 1.3 have to be disabled prior to patching. I think I saw a similar post somewhere in the sea of posts here, try a search using the word "gauges" or "gages". The dive plane graphics glitch has not been fixed from what I can tell. They'll work fine up to a point and then they go strange.

2. If memory serves, SD radar is air-search radar. There is no screen for air contacts despite the fact that the radar station is accessible it is only for surface-contact radar. This is not so much a bug as a large oversight by the devs. When you finally get SJ radar then you'll see what I mean.

3. The Pacific was warmer than the Atlantic so short sleeves were worn longer, LOL. I haven't really seen this yet, I know they'll switch to wet-weather gear once it starts raining. In SH3, you had to change the crews around before they'd put on their foul-weather gear.

4. The compass. That is an excellent point, you are correct. I've never understood why the compass rose help tool is 180 degrees out of whack. Perhaps one of the sub gurus can explain that one. I've wanted to use it to get a proper bearing etc but as it's upside down and can't be manipulated in any way, I find it next to useless. Now if the rose could be rotated in any way while using it, it would be even more handy but that's just wishful thinking on my part.
:hmm:

No mods have ever been used since I first installed SH4 and began to play the sim.. I then loaded 1.2 then 1.3 and finally 1.4 as they became available. So until 1.4 was loaded all graphics within the sub were visable.

As far as SD radar - it was my understanding that it too had a scope but never to the extent of the SJ especially when it (SJ) moved to a PIP type indicator. I remember from SH1 that both radars had scopes.

You are right on:up: when it comes to the rose compass having the ability to rotate. Then the navagation map and the combat map stations would really be true to what actually was available and would truly be usefull. Now they are just short of being another "picture" we see - though the combat map does show some usefull information.

Well guess I will wait and see what becomes of all the comments within this and other threads regarding some issues with 1.4. You would think that the devs would have played the sim for a time now and would have made note and corrected some of these most obivous concerns.:damn: If a 1.5 is ever in the picture we can then only hope.....

However thanks for the input tomoose and Happy Holidays to you and yours!

Happy Hunting to all :ping:

Dunno why I never posted this before, but it's always been there.

I move some of my deck watch to damage control routinely before I go to GQ.

If you look at the top green bar that shows their total ability/skill/whatever, you'll notice it is low. irst I thought it was cause I moved some out. If you then move the men around within the deck watch, it rises. I mean vertically, but in the same columns. Move the compartment leader up one, then back where he was, and magically, they are more skilled.

This is a known bug in 1.4. There is a mod that fixes it.

Both radar screens (the A-Scope and PPI) are for the SJ radar. If it's not installed they won't work. The SD radar only manifests itself when a crew member tells you that there is a radar contact. There is no screen to look at.

The compass is oriented like that so it can be used to measure absolute bearing when you draw lines from your sub. For example, turn on the compass, then select the ruler and draw a line from the center of your sub to an imaginary target NE of your sub. As you move the line to the northeast and place it over the imaginary target, you will see the line passes throught the 45 degree marking on the bottom left of the compass circle. This is telling you that the imaginary target is at absolute bearing 45 degrees.

Yeah, but..
 

Powerthighs,
I get what you're saying but wouldn't the same thing be accomplished by drawing those same lines and laying the compass rose, right-side-up ('zero' to the top), centered over your sub? You would still get the true bearing where the line intersects the compass graduated markings (i.e. the line would pass through the top, right 45 degree marking).:hmm:

Either way this would only handy for manual navigation. I don't see a use for it other than that.

Just make it playable
 

FIX THE BSOD's every 10 mins. That would be where I would start. From all the "fixes" to a Format. It's still junk. And it's a shame too, during those ten minutes it looks good. Had since day one and no good.....:down: :nope:

Yes, you could draw the line first and then use the compass to see what the line's true bearing is, adjusting it if necessary. Where the inverted compass helps is when you are drawing a line at a specific true bearing from your sub, say 47 degrees. You place one end on your sub, then as you move the line outward you can place it exactly at 47 degrees before you click it down. Otherwise you would have to make a best guess with the line, pull out the compass, and adjust the line to cross 47 degrees.

I hate to whine and complain but this seemed to be the place to issue it. Ever noticed when sometimes a ship is on fire the smoke drifts opposite to the flag's wind direction?:hmm:

DJ
 

LOL, yup you're not the first to mention it. It's just one of those quality control things (like the ship collision sound) that the devs let slip by and we are stuck with.
On the subject of quality control or "quality assurance" etc, I just finished Call of Duty 4 and was watching the credits scroll by while watching the cool background video and I noticed they (Electronic Arts) had over 60 people in their "Quality Assurance testers" section! Somehow I don't think SHIV used that many, if any LOL.;)

Old bug, still there:

SJ-1 radar dish seen from the front:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...004227_468.jpg

And then from the back:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...004246_093.jpg

Hey, Tomoose CoD4 is the best game of 2007 IMHO.:cool:

(Sorry, bit off topic).