I have few notes about manual TDC.
1. Point to Shoot problems in SH4
You know how in SH3 sometimes you would to setup your solution for point to shoot? Where in sh3 you would setup speed to 0 and then basically you would have it set for point to shoot, wherever bearing you look with periscope thats where torp would go? Very good for finishing disabled ships or good quick choice for a destroyer closing in below 1000m head on etc...
Well in SH4 things are very bad with this. You cannot setup point to shoot easily at all. Yes you can set speed to 0 etc... but even if you move periscope bearing to any location (makes no difference if you have position tracking keeper on or off) the firing solution will not adjust until you click send data to all 3 range, AOB and speed parts . Then and only then solution will reflect to shooting torpedo directly towards where you looking. If you move periscope a bit in any direction you cant fire to where you see until AGAIN you click all of those 3....very annoying. Remember I am doing that with speed to 0. I wish someone fixed this!
Conclusion I am afraid based on this observation, when you setup a solution for a locked target and click send to TDC on all 3 inputs, then if you unlock to maybe intuatively fire using the solution a bit ahead or behind the ship, I bet the solution wont use the bearing of periscope you using any more unless you reclick all 3 send to tdc buttons...very very annoying and compared to SH3 inferior.
I hope someone can fix this with a mod maybe so that we can click only 1 button to have data sent to tdc at once so that solution is updated based on where we point periscope.
2. Attack map problems and lack of features
In SH3 you seen all the TDC dials when you were in attack map... in SH4 you cannot see them except for torp tubes... If we had all the TDC dials there THEN you could not only visually check your firing solution but at the same time adjust speed etc... Currently you have to go through all the hoops clicking back to persicope to reinput stuff, WHY NOT HAVE STADIMETER/AOB/SPEED available at same time in attack map? come on. Maybe someone can mod this in? And come on why arent things like attack map binded to a button? Its annoying to have to click it to get to it. Buttons like F G H R are not used why not use them for few things that are in those sub menus? I know we can bind ourselves but come on!
Thanks for your time all, keep up this good TDC discussion thread up.
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