One of the menu buttons has one of the officers IDs the ship for you but that's all you can also get a range estimate from the sonar man.But there is no auto solution in SH4 unless you play with manual targeting off in which case if you lock on to a ship if does an auto solution then with manual targeting off you are on your own but the US subs TDC has position keeping as well which helps you in solution process.
the game play settings at the start of the career only effect what is or is not checked you can click on the radio which is on a filing cabinet to the left of the desk in there you can change the difficulty the hard, medium,easy only effects what is checked you can only change this in port it does not effect the enemy AI in any way and you might wish to use a mod to change the AI because stock AI is in Japanese Kindergarten.
In the stock game there is "no max distance at current range" every mod adds this back in though the tab menu it is under varies from mod to mod.You can also speak to certain officers in SH4 for certain actions.
I predict that you will quickly wish to load up a super mod after playing stock for a few days if not hours.By the way do you have SH4 with U-boats mission aka SH4 Gold Edition? You will need it for most mods also there are quite a few errors in SH4 stock some of the ship data is wrong in the targeting manuals a few of the merchants actual draft is several feet less than listed.
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