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Old 08-20-15, 10:46 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by FuriousEagle View Post
Is it possible to ask the sonarman to follow an specific ship that is not a warship? I mean i've spotted this merchant that was the last of the queue (so isolated) but the options that i had was only to follow the closest ship or the closest warship (TMO) even if the merchant was clearly distant from others (so not a high noise overlap).

Thanks in advance
I believe the answer is "No." There are commands:

[Cmd485]
Name=Follow_nearest_sound_contact

and

[Cmd486]
Name=Follow_nearest_warship_sound_contact

in the file Data/Cfg/commands.cfg. But there is no command to follow some other ship.

Commands listed in the commands.cfg file (including many which are not active in stock SH4) can be activated just by assigning them to a keystroke. But if the command is not already defined in the sh4.exe, then it can't be implemented. New commands could be defined by a machine-language patch to the sh4.exe. This has been done for SH3. But I don't think anyone has yet disassembled sh4.exe. That would be a significant technical task.
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