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Originally Posted by Gaz360GT
I used the hydrophone whilst deep and found it to be an excellent tool for obtaining the bearing of other ships, but is there a way of getting their range whilst below periscope depth without giving away my position?
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Without active sonar-no. With active sonar-yes. But then you are going to probably have an escort heading your way since they will probably hear you pinging.
Like mookie said above, the lines will give you a rough idea. In fact they may be a little too accurate. You can plot a real general course over time using the lines which I don't think is very realistic. Not accurate enough for a solution, but it gives enough information to get a feel for the course of a ship.
With map contacts turned off(No God's eye view), I believe the lines are no longer there(don't know for sure-I play with map contacts turned on).
I'm currently playing around with SH4 and the RFB super mod makes the hydrophone contact lines dashes. That works a lot better realistically IMO. You can still see the direction on the map, but guesstimating range is a lot harder. The hydrophone operator still gives you his range estimates.
