[Captain Wreckless]

Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980

I am confused as to what is happening, as this is not my experience in TMO.



Were you on silent running? What range were you when he detected you ?

Keep in mind Narwhal is a large, noisy boat.

May not be that he heard you, but that his active sonar got you. Basically,
a flaw in SH 4 is the AI is nearly always pinging, even when you can't hear it. Basically you only hear the ping when its focused on your or very close to you. AI has two "moods" , one is normal, other is alert, obviously alert happens when player is detected or reported by others nearby.


A escort sailing along "normal" is pinging, if you get within range, and in his "sonar cone" of his beam and gets a contact will detect you. Your profile to the beam, depth, skill of enemy, type of active sonar he has plays in. 200 ft , his beam will probably get a reflection if youre within the cone.


See the original TMO manual in the TMO Update download, search it for explanation of enemy sonar in TMO)


Also DD patrol vessels etc on patrolsand guarding harbors etc are typically set to ELITE skill level, so best to give them a wide berth.

I was motionless Zero speed. I was probably about 5 miles off the harbor entrance tracking various merchies and this DD. Must have been 2 hours game time.

It's just weird that all of a sudden it started a DC run on me. It was at long range when it started the run. I have no idea what the game considers long range or medium and short for that matter.

I'm guessing it was at least over 5K or 6K yards away.

I never seen this before. All other times I was deep and not moving, DDs wouldn't find me. I've even had them pass over head without as much as a ping from them,

Sounds like I'm complaining, etc... Don't mean for it to sound that way. I'm actually enjoying the mod. Weird this will happen.

I will have to tell the crew not to break out the drums and brass instruments during down time.