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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
How is the hydrophone operator going to hear anything if the boat is surfaced?  |
No, but then again you don't have to be surfaced to see a target. Submarines have these things called periscopes.
One niggle about "realistic sound travel time" was that it was it didn't change the HYDROPHONE BEARING like it does in real life. You see a moving sound source will be heard "where it was" instead of "where it is" thus the bearing to a ship's center not only has to reflect the fact the propellers are in the back of the craft but also that the ship is no longer in the same position it was by the time the sound reaches the hydrophone. Real TDC (at least in fleet boats) accounts for this bearing delay but the hydrophone operator would not hear "lightspeed" sound.
SH4 got these effects wrong, the actual bearing and the hydrophone bearing were "lightspeed" as well as any changes in sound (say the DD RPMs up) were instantaneous to the hydrophone operator. Let's hope SH5 doesn't get this wrong as well.