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Originally Posted by poetic hunter
I did...and that's the problem! As I explained in that long post, the tutorial videos are useless, and some of the academy lessons are still difficult to complete for a new player because many things aren't explained at all. There is help available online, but much of it seems geared towards people who are already familiar and not for complete newbies.
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From only starting playing this game a few weeks ago the best advice I can offer you is to play around with the game itself by this I mean make career and use tactics that intentionally get you killed. The more you play the more you learn, Ive went from knowing absolutely nothing in two weeks to enough to survive a career. As far at the hunt page, if you look farther in the posts of that page a man posted a very easy to read diagram which I copied and referenced every time I needed an intercept (used different colors for each step and such) He didnt explain WHY you used the steps just what to do, which is what I think your looking for. All I can say is that after days (yes at the moment I have time on my hands) of playing and interceptions (successes and failures) it has become second nature to me to intercept ships now and I rarely ever need to use the diagram, save for when I have a small brain fart. Its like muscle memory, do what youre shown (especially if it's simple) enough times, and your body does it without thinking, I caught myself yesterday catching report of a convoy and instantly almost in my head Id figured out around where (within a few kilometers like 30 or so) Id need to intercept. The best advice I can give you is to keep on trying and if that isnt working out keep on asking questions, if you need help with seeing things in a simpler manner (ie. Interception) I might be able to help explain them to you, just send me a PM. However things like manual targetting I cant do, I keep auto targeting for now, and soon I shall turn that off and use the W/A (pretty much like auto, just you have to get your officer to range and set it all in, so in actually its auto with a few more button presses, at least I believe so some one correct me if I'm wrong)
PS: Another thing I'd do is start learning tactics, again by getting yourself killed, I just made a new career and took a Type IX down to about 260 Meters for a few minutes just to see how long I'd survive and how deep I could dive.
Hope that helps and best of lucks Herr Kaulen
