amen!

I must admit, this is fairly annoying. I'm in the midst of attempting my first patrol in an S Class boat. Reached my patrol area and loitered around enough to fulfill the patrol requirements, then set off in search of merchants.

I've found one, in rough weather. Below or at 55 feet it's perfectly clear on the hydrophone (or sonar or whatever). While manually listening at this station I order a change in depth to periscope depth. As soon as it crosses the depth at 55 feet the sounds cuts off suddenly.... as if the hydrophone's just been switched off. No tailing off or degredation in the sound... just a sudden abrupt cut-off.

The rough seas are a bit annoying too... feels like the Mid Atlantic.

I want to like this game, but they'd better get some more patching done soon, and not rely on the community to do the bulk of the work. Does anyone wish to step forward and admit they were part of the beta testing team?

What they should have done was look through the SHIII forums, and identify the individuals who spotted bugs and errors in that game, then sent them a beta of SH4. As it is at the moment I wonder if there was ANY external testing done at all.

I can get my sonar man to call out contacts at PD. Did it last night when a thick fog cut visibility down to 600' and I was waiting on a merchant to cross my stern. Maybe it's a bug that keeps the player from listening but the sonar man can.

an annoying bug.:damn:

Tried to look at the sensors cfg file, found a section called hydrophones but didn't see anything obvious dealing with the submarine's depth

Anyone else have an idea where this might be controlled?

IIRC it was located in sensors.dat in SH3, don't know if it's so in SH4. If so, you probably can edit the settings with the excellent mini tweaker by timetraveller.