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Originally Posted by tater
Planes can spot you at night that deep?
I'd have thought the light factor would make that virtually impossible. Hmm.
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Yeah me too.
Mind I had already researched all of this before I posted, but just had to vent. Not really Ducimus's (or any other modder's fault), but rather Ubi's and their laziness. Yeah it might take another man-month for them to properly tweak aircraft detection abilities to take into account sea state, visibility, aircraft angle to the sub, etc. etc., but IMHO it was something which was a core gameplay feature and they basically stuck some simple little algorithm in there which then leads to all these impossible spotting scenarios (and I include the TC "feature" in there too-many times I come out of high TC after my radar guy spots a plane and their course is dead-on to my boat-at 22 miles...).
My take is that yes a plane might be able to spot a submerged sub, but it would take an almost perfect combination of viewing angle, sun angle, light conditions, & sub depth (yeah 60 feet down might not be deep enough). A helicopter or blimp would have a much better chance, but a plane is either zipping along at 100 feet above the ocean, where it has a small fraction of a second to spot the sub 160 feet below, or is at 5,000 feet and any sub down there will blend into the shadows enough that they won't see it. IMHO it should be/was rare enough not to bother with as a simple little workaround after Ubi has already ensured that it is too much of a simplified black/white issue.