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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
Yes, my sonarman is an idiot. I have to jump on the HP and find the noise and click the check mark, then he pipes up. Another thing is he will call out merchant blah blah blah and then SCREAM Warship!!!!! What happend to my merchant?????? Oh, sorry chief, it was a warship..... 
Anyway, I'm working on a blue crewman with renown and he seems to be getting better. I doubt this is GWX related as the deaf dumb and mute sonarman has been around a while. Patch 1.4 was to help with him but he is pretty much like Bernard...stupid.
Anyway, I work the HP and direct the boat as needed. Pretty easy actually. |
I never said that it was GWX-related. I merely mentioned that to inform what the current version/platform of the game I was running.
I, too, sit in the hydrophone room and manually listen in. Howver, my question wasn't about differentiating between merchants and warships, or about detecting correct headings and bearings; it's regarding correctly indicating whether a contact is moving away, constant distance or closing.
Currently my sonarman will indicate the nearest contact as moving away even when it's 600 meters away and directly bearing down on me. And although I can manually listen in on the hydrophone, and detect the bearing of the sound contacts,
I've no way of determining if said contact is moving away, constant distance or closing on my own just by listening to the sound.
This has never been an issue before (needing to correctly identify the direction the contact is moving) for me until now. By that, I mean evidently it hasn't effected what I've chosen to do. However, now that the escorts are being demoniac and diabolic
I find it rather important and critical to be able to properly --and
correctly-- identify the direction the sound contact is moving.
Needless to say, it rather sucks to be told the nearest warship is moving slow, moving away when, in fact, it's steaming directly towards you.
The occassional 'not-heard' contact, or 'lost-and-not-redected' contact doesn't bother me (well, not
much, anyway :p ) but being misinformed as to the direction of travel of the contact
is upsetting my digestion a wee bit.