Yeah, aircraft are screwy in SH4. They were also screwy in SH3, just differently.
Tater, I don't know what similarities exist between SH3 and 4, but NYGM did a great job with getting aircraft to strafe you. Perhaps you could ask? Pardon me if you've already done so - just trying to be helpful!
All of this brings home to me how irritating it is that SD radar is so horribly done in SH4. It was one of THE most crucial tools US subs had (well, both SD and SJ in fact). I keep saying it, to no avail, but SD should:
- be A-scope.
- never give a bearing to a contact. It never did in any version in WWII US subs.
- the report you receive should be "SD contact, 'x' miles, closing/steady/moving away". As things stand now you do one of 2 things:
1. dive every time you hear 'radar contact' and know it can't be SJ radar (either because you haven't got SJ or you can't find anything on the screens), or
2. turn on map contacts, in which case the contact will be plotted exactly and show as 'extremely fast'. This helps in that you know it's an aircraft, but is completely wrong in every other respect.
If the developers want to work on something that is egregiously wrong and crucial to the whole experience, here is a good place to start. That they've not addressed it makes me think they can't.....
If you've not guessed, this is one of my pet hates about SH4. Sure, the German radar was crap, so getting it right isn't such an issue, but radar was arguably the single greatest advantage USA subs had in their war against Japan....for it to be so screwed really ticks me off!!! (consider that Dick O'Kane relates encountering one, ONLY ONE, escort with radar in his entire career in Tang, while even corvettes in the Atlantic had radar at a comparable time....think of the implications of that for the submarine attacking a convoy - it's pretty staggering!)
Getting back to the original topic....I also encountered the aircraft bonanza around Midway in a career....I just rolled my eyes and spent the best part of a week in game submerged, popping up for air periodically.
Cheers
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