SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - View Single Post - Wow, fun game! Couple newbie questions....

mwe1967 · 01-28-06, 02:24 PM

Wow what a cool game. Would have bought it a lot sooner except it was only for sale in stores on a DVD ROM and I don't have one in the computer! But just happened to see it for sale on download a couple days ago. Reminds me of years ago with the old Silent Service game. I wish I didn't have to be the Germans though, would be nice to see this game re-created as an American sub hunting Japanese shipping.

Anyways couple of newibe questions, sorry if they have already been covered...

How am I detecting these ships that are so FAR away? Every now and then one will pop up on the navigation map. Can the guys really see that far?? I mean these things are thousands of meters away. I don't have any sound contact for them and I head for them and they sometimes they disappear but sometimes I see them again a little closer.

How can I tell the depth of the water I'm in? A couple times I tried to dive deeper to avoid an enemy ship and I start taking damage but I don't know if it was from scraping the bottom or from depth charges. I've seen when he says "depth charges in the water" but this time he didn't say anything.

I'm still playing on pretty low realism, not even going to try the manual targeting yet. I still can't hit the easy way hardly, heh....

01-28-06, 02:24 PM	#1
mwe1967 Swabbie Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 6 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Wow, fun game! Couple newbie questions.... Wow what a cool game. Would have bought it a lot sooner except it was only for sale in stores on a DVD ROM and I don't have one in the computer! But just happened to see it for sale on download a couple days ago. Reminds me of years ago with the old Silent Service game. I wish I didn't have to be the Germans though, would be nice to see this game re-created as an American sub hunting Japanese shipping. Anyways couple of newibe questions, sorry if they have already been covered... How am I detecting these ships that are so FAR away? Every now and then one will pop up on the navigation map. Can the guys really see that far?? I mean these things are thousands of meters away. I don't have any sound contact for them and I head for them and they sometimes they disappear but sometimes I see them again a little closer. How can I tell the depth of the water I'm in? A couple times I tried to dive deeper to avoid an enemy ship and I start taking damage but I don't know if it was from scraping the bottom or from depth charges. I've seen when he says "depth charges in the water" but this time he didn't say anything. I'm still playing on pretty low realism, not even going to try the manual targeting yet. I still can't hit the easy way hardly, heh....