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Originally Posted by jcope
I would like to be able to use the external cam on a few tests to get a feel for how visible I really am in various conditions. I wish there was a way to go to a distant position, pull out binoculars and do try to see the sub. I often wonder whether I'm not spotted because of crew inexperience on the enemy's part or because the sub is really that hard to see.
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The problem with that idea is that it is after all only a computer simulation. What you could see is what the computer renders on the screen. What the enemy can see is what the computer tells them they can see. This has been show countless times by players complaining that their watch crew spots a ship but they can't see it, or by the opposite - they can see a ship plainly but complain that the watch crew must be blind. Likewise the sonar - you can hear things the soundman can't, because of the way the program translates things to the screen or the speakers.
The only way going to the enemy ship and looking through his binoculars could work is if the program is adjusted perfectly so that what you see and what the AI sees is the same. As far as I know they haven't been identical yet, in any of the games.