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Originally Posted by A-Ganger
Should have been; I'll have contacts at say 345 (and I'm going course 230 or so) on Sphere and/or TA. Read between the lines..geeze lol
It is very tricky to say the least and I say it IS buggy. Some examples.
S1 on Narrowband on TA. Will not show up in tracker until I click it a million times, then I have 4 tracker letters on the same contact, yet none of the trackers show S1 on Daemon nor do they show ABCD/EFGH/JKLM.
The whole reason sonar assigns tracker letters is to easily identify which array the contact is on.. ABCD - TA, EFGH sphere etc..
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As has been said already, deamon only works with trackers assigned to contact in broadband. Narrowband trackers will not show up in deamon display.
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Just now had a contact show on 010 Narrowband TA. 2 bright lines. Hit Assign target, nothing happens. A few second later the Sonar Crew (which is off) says new contact on 006?? And 006 has 2 bearing lines are half as bright as they are on 010. Crew is turned off and contact gets logged/reported on different bearing.
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Are you sure that new contact wasn't an active intercept received at the same time? It surprised me yesterday as I played this scenario. I got a new S-contact without tagging it. Also note that the bearings of the active intercept do seem to be a bit buggy. The bearing is recorded at the edge of the beam instead of the center. Or atleast it's display on the screen is buggy. But in my experience this bearing offset is carried over to the TMA screen. Yellow line solutions by the TMA crew never seem to match with show truth exactly.
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New contact on 169 Narrowband TA. Click Designate target, nothing happens. Few seconds later, it has a J on top window on freq line (still nothing on Daemon). Few more seconds later, now it's S3 and now has letters, JKL all on same contact. Still nothing on Daemon and it was never reported by the crew voice.
Now I hit Tracker review. Have S3 and S4 on map. Now there is nothing on tracker review?
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I will admit it takes the sonar crew a bit of time to respond to your tracker designations and report a new contact issued. (Not very strange if you have time compression going on at 4x.) You seemingly can also assign more than one trackers to the same contact (even frequency). It that a bug? Maybe, might also be a legitimate function as-designed. You can run out of them soon with only 4. And other contacts loose their tracker if you clicked too often and there are no free trackers left. I will also admit that this tracker user interface is a bit wonky. With I,J,K and L it is easy to mistake them as they overlap the same frequency line or bearing. The I is easily hidden by the J and L. And there is no sure way to select the tracker you want to untag from a contact on a bearing in broadband or frequency in narrowband. But it does what it needs to do and stick to contacts. It doesn't go awol and wander off to a whole different bearing, unless there is a mirror among the signals or a faint signal that got the tracker assigned instead. Trackers are reliable to keep bearings.
Ok, but the button does what it says. It reviews the trackers assigned in narrowband. If you search the bottom B(earing)-scan display it shows the sonar contacts it knows at that bearing. Even if that has a broadband tracker. Is that a bug? I'd rather call it a feature to enhance situational awareness.
And no, this does not only happen in this scenario map. The contact locations are such that a bunch can be found on nearly the same bearing. Because they are still far way. Making it hard to differentiate the signals from eachother. But many scenarios have this curve-ball built into them.