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Originally Posted by Stealhead
In the confines of the game AI I dont think they "see" the wake that you see graphically.For example it has been stated many times that they are not effected by camo so you could have a bright orange submarine it would not effect the AI vision they either "see" or they do not "see" based on different factors.I think that they have a chance to "sense"(that simulates visually seeing the wake) torpedoes that have a wake usually it is too late to matter but sometimes they manage to evade.
Bubble claims that they can not detect torpedoes by hydrophone but I am fairly sure that they can only very few cargo ships have a hydrophone I have seen escorts pick up torpedoes on the hydrophone before I know this because they were mk18s I have also seen small cargo ships detect torpedoes by sound again because they where mk18s .It seems that usually only the small cargo ships have a chance of carrying a hydrophone.
Also the skill variation has a factor in detection as do weather and light conditions.
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That was my guess, that the wake is eye candy, but I couldn't say for sure. It's been a long time, but they're are numerous values regarding the wake in torp files, so I wouldn't rule the wake out, unless someone knows for sure or simply deleted the wake, which I can't do being out of town.
I don't know that IJN merchants carried sonar, except a rare few acting as Q ships, maybe a few others.
As long as I've played the game, I've never seen any behavior that any ship picked up torps on sonar, nor have I seen any values for such. Not saying it's not possible, but I've never seen that behavior.