bizarrely pathetic bug.... in version 1.4 on the American subs ...
If you set AoB to 0 and set position keeper it wobbles clicking away like its alive. i wanted to hit it like a real mechanical object! It usually goes quiet after a while but if you change solution it pipes up again. I think its rather cute actually! [Edit, now im doing it on purpose to keep me entertained whilst this destroyer buggers off and leaves me!]
But the thing that REALLY gets on my goat and think its by design so im calling it a major annoyance until someone corrects me...
To get a solution updated if you are manually entering really is awful. Firstly manually entering details is limited to a range of 1225. No idea why, just swinging it round only goes that far. Secondly, to get a manual solution to update bearing to target you have to update from the range page. Now i KNOW it says that it the mouse over but i have no idea why the update button needs to be seperate for bearing/range, speed and AoB, why cant it just be integrated so you dont have to switch to that page on the wee round circle in the top corner. And whilst we are at it, repeatedly pressing the position keeper could perform the same task... If anything ive found times when i wanted the bearing to be updated but not the range when im doing point blank firing because it resets the position keepers range when you press to update bearing.... :s (its taken me a week to work out the targetting!)
The other thing is that when you set to fire on bearing 000, AoB at 0, range 500 (or anyhting) and no speed the position keeper's little arrows showing the relative courses of the torps leaving your boat and arriving at target are not always correct. Sometimes it doesnt correctly switch between bow and stern tubes and gives point blank shots from your nose coming out of your arse! And you should see the tiz it gets in if you run over your target!
A feature request:hmm: .... I would dearly love to hear pings through my hydrophones as well as through the hull. Since i dont have surround sound i would like to know which of the sound contacts is pinging me.
Oh and on the subject of pings. Why are there such gross differences between asking for a distance from the sound man and asking him to send it to TDC? and it jams too. you can repeatedly hit update range and it sticks to one range. to clear it you have to get him to estimate it again. And he actively pings it. so he's cheating really
Then states 1500 when you ask for an update it goes more accurate to something like 950....totally weird.
Heck maybe i just like uboats