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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
As in real life, torpedoes need to travel a distance of 250-300 meters before the pistols arm. Any closer, and as you've seen, they'll bounce off. Personally, I try to take my shots inside 2000 meters, and as close to a 000 degree gyroangle (the angle the torpedo needs to turn after it leaves the tubes) as possible.
I have all of the realism settings checked except for "Gods eye view off", "no external view" and "no weapons officer assistance". I figure I'm the captain, I shouldn't be the one worrying about plotting the ships on the map and I like to have a little backup on my torpedo solutions. I like the external view for screenshots, but I don't use it to cheat (often!) This puts me at a realism setting of 72% I think, which does influence your renown. The formula used for calculating renown earned per ship sunk is (ship's renown value) X (realism %)
You can't beat GWX 3.0 for a total overhaul of darn near every aspect of the game. It adds so much that I wouldn't consider playing without it. I run SH3 Commander for career management. I also like the Longer Repair Times mod. Having more realistic repair times adds to the tension of being damaged. I also have Rubini's rocket fix installed, as it makes the rockets on late war planes a lot more deadly, and reduces the reliability of the radar warning reciever, which I think mirrors reality a bit closer than always knowing when a plane is coming.
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2000m? I usually miss a target from that range. Does having a better weapons officer help? Or do you do your own targeting manually? I got frustrated with all my misses and now I save my torpedoes for point-blank range. It doesn't help that the first sub only carries 5 or so torpedoes.
Can you confirm that the realism setting affects your renown? I would crank it up more if I knew it did that.
GWX was one of the mods I was looking at. I think I'll try that one first. What does the career manager do exactly? For the realism mods, I think I'll wait till I get better at the game.
Thanks for your help.