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Originally Posted by Linton
My question was on whether people in the game actually bother to work out run time or just use the auto side of the game?
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They probably don't most of the time, if MP games are any indicator. From what I've seen is that they rely on their intuition and wire guidence to shoot. If you assign a target to your torpedo it will automatically calculate the intercept course for that one torpedo.
The trick is, that's not necessarily the best solution unless you're already fairly close, you're not using autocrew, and the target does a lousy job of evading. Ideally, the torpedo should acquire the target almost as soon as it enables.
For a longer ranged shot, where time late for the torpedo can be significant, particularly if the target does everything he can to evade, as soon as he hears the TIW call, by the time the torpedoes actually arrive at the calculated intercept point and activate, your target might be long gone!
That's where firing a spread of 2 or 3 becomes smarter, and to figure out how wide an arc you want to shoot them over, you need to know the torpedo run time.