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Originally Posted by nodlew
... Still trying to master the Attack Disk in conjunction with the Range and AOB Finder (that thing needs a less generic name. That's not a name, that's a description--and an incomplete one. If you're going to call it that, OLC, you should call it the RANGE, AOB, AND SPEED FINDER. One could call it the Swiss Army Submarine Gadget). ...
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I'm glad to hear you are starting to get the hang of it. Another perverted soul!
The speed mark was not originally part of the functionality (in real life or by OLC). I just had a clever moment one day and figured out a way to abuse the thing because the scales of the stopwatch didn't totally match to my liking. (I was alot more nitpicker-ish in those days) I got my Kriegsmarine pocket knife out and carefully avoided the delicate optics. Well, I convinced OLC to add it in. So it doesn't really deserve to be called a 'speed finder'.
I too do hate the long name for it. But it fits the bill. It's a translation (using the terminology we are accustomed with in the game) of what that german
website page calls it: "Doppelbild-Entfernungs-und Zielkurswinkelschätzer" or translated: "double-image range and targetcourse-angle estimator". Since OLC (and Hitman and Joegrundman) couldn't get the dual image functionality simulated that part had to go. But the rest is as clear and descriptive as can be.