Hmm. I did that last night. I was sneaking up on a convoy when I accidentally hit the enter key while trying to increase time compression. I figured that it was gone and was hoping to not have any negative side effects from it (there were 4 matsuki destroyers around and I did not want to meet them). Well, I continued to sneak up behind the merchants to get lined up for a kill when I see a message telling me that a torpedo impacted. I was surprised since this was several minutes after it should have hit any of the merchants. Turns out that it critically hit one of the destroyers on the far side of the convoy. Made for an interesting mission I thought. Most lucky shot ever. lol. BTW. I plan to use those shortcut key edits... thanks for the code.

~F~

It is to me, thanks :)

Saaay... Can anyone tell me which command in the .cfg file is the "estimate range at current speed" order (as in SH3)? It should be somewhere in the Navigation Officer section, but I can't seem to find it... :-?
Thanks!

There has to be a key somewhere!
 

Has anyone found the key that wipes out the TDC contents and fires a torpedo where my periscope in looking (automatically switching from bow or stern tubes according to the direction)???? I've been looking for that one for some time and am going to give some IJN destroyers a rough time when I find it.

Found this by accident. Center your sub on the navigation map by pressing Ctrl and clicking the left mouse button at the same time. Helps when you're just wanting to follow along.

???

There is no such key.

Shameless hucksterism!
 

Just about every change you lust for is already and has been in Trigger Maru. Maybe I should just host the keyboard layout that I use, containing the whole TM keyboard scheme plus shift-i for CE Identify Target. TM has had ctrl-enter for fire torpedoes since May when I first tried it. You RFB guys should really be nice to Ducimus and use his whole keyboard scheme. You should also look at some of his control key assignments, which are more similar to SH3 than SH4, but have the incredibly necessary attack map mapped to the F6 key. That alone puts me in the TM camp. Thank you for listening to this shameless hucksterism. You will now be returned to your regular programming.:up:

I recently found a useful command (albeit not a keyboard command), try using the mouse scroll wheel while in the Sonarstation, you can use it to 'aim' your sonar (ping) very accurately. Very useful when making a bad-weather 'sonar-only' attack.


greetz,

@Lantis

For those of you keeping track at home, the command is CMD_Report_time_to_turn in the Navigation Officer section. Which does not immediately jump out at me as the command you'd issue for an estimated range at current speed, but there you have it.

:up:

A Little History Lesson
 

A little history lesson to all you keymap impaired Captains.:D

CCIP posted the first mod for SH4 on SubSim namely " setkey mod"
which mapped the keymap to SH-3 The same day we preorder Capt's got our grubby mitts on it.:D

It also included new keys for most if not all functions you've posted and a few more. All are shown on F-1 key.

This keymap is also used on TM.

We can all thank CCIP for makeing SH4 easier and better from day one. :up:

Reminds me of "The Bedford Incident"
 

Movie with Sidney Poitier.
Near the end of the movie the US Destroyer Captain says..."If they fire one, we'll fire one...."

Weapons station responds "Fire One!" and fires off a subroc (tactical nuke, I think.)

The Soviet Sub responds with their own tactical nuke torpedo and both the Destroyer and Sub are vaporized...end of movie.

The Bedford Incident.

A great B/W Cold War movie.

JCC

Well since this has been reserectued all I have to say is LOL... :rotfl:

Cant belive this one went un noticed.

These keys
 

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I have always used these keys for these functions both in SH3 & SH4. They aren't so marked on the pullout reference cards listing the key functions which come with the game though.

steinbeck

somehow i managed to miss that one, i dunno how, but i got version 1.0 and it never happened to me (yes, i tried)