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Originally Posted by bottomcrawler
The Oscar is a huge sub! The size of the sub affects the size of the return in the game (but it's based on a lookup table, not any kind of ray tracing).
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Yes, to use the Oscar detection ranges in that table would be unnecessarily conservative. Even playing as an Oscar, it's generally too restrictive. Those numbers are with as many variables eliminated as possible, including the calmest sea, a rock bottom ocean, and no layer. Change the bottom type to mud and increase the sea state and all of a sudden, these active detection ranges become greatly reduced. I can't particularly recall a time when an A.I. surface pinger had counter-detected me, and their ability to detect you is even worse in rough sea states since their sensors are where the waves are actually crashing and rolling.