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Old 09-17-19, 01:12 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Sniper297 View Post
One thing I haven't seen mentioned - Open outer doors.
If the outer door is already open the torpedo leaves the tube a second after the fire command is sent. Unlike real life, if you forget to hit the Q key to open the outer door, the game opens it automatically - and takes about 5 seconds between firing command and actual firing. That means your gyro angle is ancient history, which results in a lot of misses.

True dat!
Early in my SH4 career I missed that "detail" and couldn't figure out why the torpedoes were passing aft of the target, with an occasional hit near the stern... Somewhere in SubSim I read a post and the light came on... Now hitting the "Q" key is part of my setup routine... When it doesn't get done, I am rewarded with one or more lost torpedoes...
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