I cant report contacts ?!
 

Maybe I just dont know how.

Ive tried having them selected on nav map

Ive tried having them "locked" in periscope.

Ive tried having them in the binocs

Ive tried having them in the UZO

I hit the "report contacts" button and nothing happens.

Hmm im getting the same steam tried a few diffrent things including restarting my game it may be yet another bug fire it on the 1.2 bug patch list:up:

Are you underwater?:ping:

Oh yea I made sure I was surfaced too :p forgot that part.

I can file mission reports just fine.

Are all messages or sent messages selected when you go to check if the contact had been sent?

I checked the "sent messages" page. Only the patrol reports went through.

I've noticed that when I make contact with a convoy, my crew have to spot at least 2 merchants before I can send a contact report. Just 1 merchant or spotting the escorts won't do.

And by the time my blind crew spots 2 merchants, I end up very close to the escorts! A couple of times I ordered a dive and kept pressing the send contact button and the message went through just before the antenna went underwater!

And that was with patch 1.1. I don't think I sent a contact report since 1.2!

Booo :down:

I dunno, after completing a patrol in the Celebes last night I got a radio msg stating the Japs were invading Borneo, and all units in the area should assist. My orders were to patrol off Borneo, which I did.

Within a day, I ran on a Jap task force of about 4 cruisers and 8 or so destroyers, and following several miles behind (???) about 8 merchantmen.

I radioed off a contact report, and within minutes I got new orders to engage the task force I'd just reported.

Strange that it works for me, but don't work for you...

DH

This is correct. Single contacts they could not give a hoot about. If you see a convoy your watch needs to say ship spotted 2-3 times meaning the have spotted individual ships in a convoy. Send you report and get your atta'boy;)

However, I don't believe a message is recorded in "sent messages" which is a problem and likely a bug.

Is this true ? Maybe Ive been sending the reports all along.

No this is not true. My sent contact reports show up in the "sent messages" screen just fine.

Do you have to be surfaced and in visual sight of a convoy/task force in order to send? Because if I see either, especially a bunch of warships, I'm not going to be standing around on the surface, I'm going dive and either evade or engage. In fact, I'm probably going to dive when I see them on radar, way before I have a visual, so I can try to ID them from the screw sounds with passive sonar.

My impression is that, in real-life, most contact messages were sent after either an unsuccessful pursuit (the convoy got away) or a successful evasion, when the sub surfaced once again in the clear. Can you do this in SH4, since by that time you would no longer be "in contact" (although the info would presumably interest Subcom)?

Another question: Does sending a contact report run any risk of giving away your presence and/or location? The last thing I want to do when I'm "in contact" is say "Hey, look, over here! Please commence zig-zagging and depth charge runs!"

Yes, but it only increases the chance of airstrikes I believe.