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Originally Posted by Arlo
I think I'm missing something here. What's the point of celestial nav in SH if the map is spot on?
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Well, I think I can put it this way....
When I started playing SH series and was introduced to the TDC I was puzzled at first. After using auto-target I got bored. It was simple point-and-shoot. Just lock, wait for at least a yellow or preferably green triangle on the target and fire the fish. After some patrols the game kind of lost its glamour to me. After joining subsim and reading a lot about manual targeting, I've decided to perform a simple target interception in real time. After lot of plotting and some math I fired and scored 2 hits out of 3. Then ran for my life from 2 DDs. That took at least 2 hours of depth charge attacks and praying not to be hit. The self-pride I had from doing everything on my own plus the successful escape (plus my almost breakdown from the charges) were things that I hadn't experienced in a long time from a PC game. So I've kind of felt what those submariners had to endure for real.
So manual target is still a learning tool. I'm not 100% there but I'm on the way. Same thing for Cel nav. I was only doing Navigation with our zero error navigator and I felt that it was too perfect even for real life with GPS. After doing some research again I decided to try it out with Stellarium and I was offset just a few miles from my DR. So I am more immersed now in the sim than before. I am currently doing the cel nav calculations using an iPad app but in the future will try to do it by hand. The good thing is that Cel nav is optional. I am even complaining that in Dangerous Waters you can't align your SINS. The SINS is always 100% accurate.