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Originally Posted by mido
I was able to reproduce the situation where I could hear a ship with the hydrophone as long as it was out of sight. Way before it could be seen, the sound disappeared. BTW, I am using SH4 1.5 with OM+OMEGU.
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Without knowing more details about the particular ship you ran into I can't say for certain what happened in your particular situation.
I
can look into mission files from Lurker and see what's what. So I did. One of two single missions that he adds with his OMEGU_300 mod is called "RUM 430430 U515". It has the U-Boat 515 attacking an allied convoy on April 30, 1943. Taking a look at the convoy makeup and speed, I see a potential problem with some of the ships. Several are of the KSS or Kasagisan type (Small Old Split Superstructure). OM-OMEGU has the KSS class freighter "NKSs.sim" file listing the "Max_speed=11" knots. The following mission file has these ships cruising at 5 knots:
It's my opinion these ships
will not be heard using the hydrophone manually. There are other ships in this convoy that
can be heard because their "Max_speed=" parameter is set to only 10 knots.
As I said, I don't know all the particulars with your situation. I've only looked at this one mission, but it's the first mission I looked into.....However, this oversight in having ships travel at less than 50% of their maximum speed will cause not hearing the ship with manual hydrophone use.