Yep. Soon as you take the responsibility for sinking ships upon yourself it gets way harder. It's easy to get target speed, distance and AOB with map updates on. Much harder to make observations in a heavy sea with the scope flying up and down and plotting it yourself on the map. Just came away from an encounter with a TF in the North Sea. Managed to sneak quite close to make speed and heading obsevations thanks to nightfall....but could I ID the buggers....? So some guesswork came into play. Since it was my first TF encounter I didn't anticipate how quickly I'd have to set up the target info and missed them. Then detected!.....and that's where I left off. If I had auto targeting, map updates or WO help I'd never have had to rush things so much and would have probably made a sinking.
Point is when you have to do it all for yourself it becomes much harder. At first I used to play with map updates on, ex cam on and auto targeting. When I felt more confident I turned off auto targeting and used the fast 90 method as described in Wazoo's guide. This got quickly boring, however, since it's easy to get speed and heading with the map updates on. One patrol later I'm at full realism bar the ex cam (which I can never bring myself to do away with for fun's sake rather than for info) because it was too easy with map updates. Now it's bloody hard! If you're finding it too easy, as for any other game: up the difficulty.
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