Yea planes are a problem without contacts, be nice if we could get contacts off for ships and on for planes. I just found out the hard way.
Flash for TF coming through Nov early 45. I know this is both late war Ise's leaving Singy to home waters. Got it on radar and set up a perfect attack, medium fog, stormy skies, no rain, so can't see anything. Sitting there I keep getting contact updates. Course halfway paying attention, but here comes a plane and blows off the front of my sub, one of those where the whole front is gone, but just 22% damage. Course now the escorts are charging and planes dropping bombs that I can't see due to the fog, but I'm running away on the surface as I don't want DD's to trap me down.
The hardest thing I find about evading without contacts and cams is the tactic of hitting flank as the escort drop over doesn't always work late war as an elite escort will drop them much futher ahead of you, so if you go flank you run right into them. So dang hard escaping the large patterns by the Type escorts.
Course playing this way I try to only attack with strong winds.
I really think sound plays more of a role as I play with the settings. I put my speaker set up correctly with rear speakings behind me, all in proper place for surround. I'm sure I hear charges hitting the water and paying attention to the props can better gauge the pattern.
It would be nice if you could turn the sonar lines on without the contacts, so submerged you could keep up with where they are, since the sonarman does such a poor job.
I've tried different settings with aircraft. The only problem is playing with the settings can change so much more in mods like RSRD that I'm not sure how much it effects it. I know Webster air patrol mod screws RSRD up, so that's out. Lurker is aware of it and hopefully will tone it down.
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