merchant spotted...what bearing?

Keelbuster · 04-05-07, 11:39 AM

Merchant Spotted! Yay! What bearing? Is there no longer a way to have the watch officer call out the nearest contact? I have encountered a merchant at night, and i can't see him because my watch officer is being coy with his sighting - he doesn't want to cheat me of the fun of finding the ship myself...

AVGWarhawk · 04-05-07, 11:45 AM

Sorry, you get one chance at bearing and that is it. Not like SH3 where you could click the WO all day and he would call it out. Kind of sucks. Sometimes I have to dive and use my sonar to pick it up. When I surface the WO will call it out again.

Keelbuster · 04-05-07, 11:50 AM

That's ridic. But wait - one chance? Try no chance - I got the merchant spotted pop up, with those familiar options (attack, dive, continue). I don't think there was any bearing info in that generic screen, and scrolling up now in the message window there's no record of any ship spotted. Did they forget to include visual bearing information in the game?

tedhealy · 04-05-07, 11:52 AM

Install the keyboard mod, use control-v, problem solved.

Edit: here's the link too

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=108015

Keelbuster · 04-05-07, 11:57 AM

THANKS!

mookiemookie · 04-05-07, 12:14 PM

Man, that mod has saved my butt so many times already. Now if we could just get them to add this already existing functionality to the UI!

Keelbuster · 04-05-07, 12:24 PM

Amazing - yea - without this mod the game is unplayable - i can't return to course either without some lucky magic of clicking the set course button on an existing waypoint. It's glitchy as hell. Getting keyboard mod now.

AVGWarhawk · 04-05-07, 12:36 PM

Nice one! I'm installing that tonight

Ducimus · 04-05-07, 01:00 PM

Hey keelbuster. Nice to see you in the pacific. Water's are nice and warm

if you want, check out my mod pack, I got that the nearest visual contact command, and a and other such misisng commands mapped to the command bar; and a whole lot more. Jut thoguht id mention it, cause id hate to see you go insane with frustration and run back to the atlantic.

You'll find the "nearest visual contact" in the watch officer menu bar.

thread link in sig.

Keelbuster · 04-05-07, 01:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Hey keelbuster. Nice to see you in the pacific.

Thx - good to be here. The Pacific is beautiful; reminds me of FarCry. I've got it running on a work machine because my home system isn't strong enough. I'm keeping the atlantic experience at home. I'll check out your mod pack - glad you guys are working out the details. Can't wait for a realism mod - right now i'm finding it easier to take on convoys with the deck gun than torpedoes

Ducimus · 04-05-07, 01:17 PM

Quote:

Can't wait for a realism mod - right now i'm finding it easier to take on convoys with the deck gun than torpedoes

Yeah i know. Ive tweaked the AI a wee bit. Still have more work to do on it, but its alot better then stock.

Oh ya, also for your own sanity. The torpedo speed selection to "FAST" is bugged. Something screwy with the TDC and torpedo's not traveling at the rate they should. (think of it as the exact opposite of the Gyro angle not udating in SH3 when moving from a T1 to a T3 torpedo) In otherwords, just shoot at the slow setting, and you'll be fine. The devs are aware of this problem and working on it.

SKurj · 04-05-07, 02:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Keelbuster

Amazing - yea - without this mod the game is unplayable - i can't return to course either without some lucky magic of clicking the set course button on an existing waypoint. It's glitchy as hell. Getting keyboard mod now.

Look in Ducimus's post... the fourth Icon a dotted line with a solid upside down V above it is return to course... no mods needed for that one

Keelbuster · 04-05-07, 02:21 PM

Buggy, disappointing end to my career. Patrol 1 - hit by aircraft. Flooding to stern. That compartment flooded completely because I couldn't tell if my repair crew was working or not - i 'deployed' them more than once, and wasn't sure they were on it (no activity indicator). Anyway, eventually, with time compressioon, and enough clicks on the deploy repair crew indicator, I had the boat back in shape. The stern was no longer dragging, and we were underway - headed for home. On the way home I encounter a convoy in my path. I decide to attack - drop to PD, and the boat starts sinking. The rear end pulls down like crazy and we start to plummet. I blow ballast and go ahead flank. The boat stops at around 250ft, and starts to rise. Ok - weird - why would she sink? Then i start to die - screen goes black in the command room. As it zooms out of my boat in the death cam, i hear all sorts of calls of broken equipment as the camera goes out to the sky; my XO spoils the reverence of the moment by calling out broken equipment reports dutifully, as the boat is crushed. I think - damn, well, let's pretend that the boat had a critical failure from early damage, and I bought it. Fine. Then I get this message saying I'm going to be court-martialled for attacking our own. Not sure what they're referring to here - I sunk two Jap freighters on my way out. Maybe I was court-martialled for sinking my own boat. Dishonor, even in death. Maybe my XO survived, launching himself out a torpedo tube, pissed, because I was too drowned to listen to his damage reports, and he surfaced, pulled an indiana jones and stowed away aboard a Jap ship, escaped somehow, contacted headquarters....i dunno. My imagination is stretched hard here. I'm really trying to bend this into an acceptable sim experience.

Keelbuster · 04-05-07, 02:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SKurj

Quote:

Originally Posted by Keelbuster

Amazing - yea - without this mod the game is unplayable - i can't return to course either without some lucky magic of clicking the set course button on an existing waypoint. It's glitchy as hell. Getting keyboard mod now.

Look in Ducimus's post... the fourth Icon a dotted line with a solid upside down V above it is return to course... no mods needed for that one

Aye - thanks - my bad. I was getting pessimistic.

Ducimus · 04-05-07, 03:54 PM

>>Aye - thanks - my bad. I was getting pessimistic.

Try not to get pessimistic, i know its easy to do.

Theres a number of mods that address alot of issues whilst we wait for the next patch. if not mine then someone else's. Use them and you'll be alot happier.

04-05-07, 11:39 AM	#1
Keelbuster Ace of the Deep Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: BA 72 Posts: 1,092 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	merchant spotted...what bearing? Merchant Spotted! Yay! What bearing? Is there no longer a way to have the watch officer call out the nearest contact? I have encountered a merchant at night, and i can't see him because my watch officer is being coy with his sighting - he doesn't want to cheat me of the fun of finding the ship myself... __________________

04-05-07, 11:45 AM	#2
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,281 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Sorry, you get one chance at bearing and that is it. Not like SH3 where you could click the WO all day and he would call it out. Kind of sucks. Sometimes I have to dive and use my sonar to pick it up. When I surface the WO will call it out again. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

04-05-07, 11:50 AM	#3
Keelbuster Ace of the Deep Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: BA 72 Posts: 1,092 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	That's ridic. But wait - one chance? Try no chance - I got the merchant spotted pop up, with those familiar options (attack, dive, continue). I don't think there was any bearing info in that generic screen, and scrolling up now in the message window there's no record of any ship spotted. Did they forget to include visual bearing information in the game? __________________

04-05-07, 11:57 AM	#5
Keelbuster Ace of the Deep Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: BA 72 Posts: 1,092 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	THANKS! __________________

04-05-07, 12:14 PM	#6
mookiemookie Navy Seal Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 9,404 Downloads: 105 Uploads: 1	Man, that mod has saved my butt so many times already. Now if we could just get them to add this already existing functionality to the UI! __________________ They don’t think it be like it is, but it do. Want more U-boat Kaleun portraits for your SH3 Commander Profiles? Download the SH3 Commander Portrait Pack here.

04-05-07, 11:52 AM	#4
tedhealy Grey Wolf Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: St. Louis, MO, USA Posts: 772 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	Install the keyboard mod, use control-v, problem solved. Edit: here's the link too http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=108015

04-05-07, 12:24 PM	#7
Keelbuster Ace of the Deep Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: BA 72 Posts: 1,092 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	Amazing - yea - without this mod the game is unplayable - i can't return to course either without some lucky magic of clicking the set course button on an existing waypoint. It's glitchy as hell. Getting keyboard mod now. __________________

04-05-07, 12:36 PM	#8
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,281 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Nice one! I'm installing that tonight __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

04-05-07, 01:00 PM	#9
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	Hey keelbuster. Nice to see you in the pacific. Water's are nice and warm if you want, check out my mod pack, I got that the nearest visual contact command, and a and other such misisng commands mapped to the command bar; and a whole lot more. Jut thoguht id mention it, cause id hate to see you go insane with frustration and run back to the atlantic. You'll find the "nearest visual contact" in the watch officer menu bar. thread link in sig.

04-05-07, 02:21 PM	#13
Keelbuster Ace of the Deep Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: BA 72 Posts: 1,092 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	Buggy, disappointing end to my career. Patrol 1 - hit by aircraft. Flooding to stern. That compartment flooded completely because I couldn't tell if my repair crew was working or not - i 'deployed' them more than once, and wasn't sure they were on it (no activity indicator). Anyway, eventually, with time compressioon, and enough clicks on the deploy repair crew indicator, I had the boat back in shape. The stern was no longer dragging, and we were underway - headed for home. On the way home I encounter a convoy in my path. I decide to attack - drop to PD, and the boat starts sinking. The rear end pulls down like crazy and we start to plummet. I blow ballast and go ahead flank. The boat stops at around 250ft, and starts to rise. Ok - weird - why would she sink? Then i start to die - screen goes black in the command room. As it zooms out of my boat in the death cam, i hear all sorts of calls of broken equipment as the camera goes out to the sky; my XO spoils the reverence of the moment by calling out broken equipment reports dutifully, as the boat is crushed. I think - damn, well, let's pretend that the boat had a critical failure from early damage, and I bought it. Fine. Then I get this message saying I'm going to be court-martialled for attacking our own. Not sure what they're referring to here - I sunk two Jap freighters on my way out. Maybe I was court-martialled for sinking my own boat. Dishonor, even in death. Maybe my XO survived, launching himself out a torpedo tube, pissed, because I was too drowned to listen to his damage reports, and he surfaced, pulled an indiana jones and stowed away aboard a Jap ship, escaped somehow, contacted headquarters....i dunno. My imagination is stretched hard here. I'm really trying to bend this into an acceptable sim experience. __________________

04-05-07, 03:54 PM	#15
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	>>Aye - thanks - my bad. I was getting pessimistic. Try not to get pessimistic, i know its easy to do. Theres a number of mods that address alot of issues whilst we wait for the next patch. if not mine then someone else's. Use them and you'll be alot happier.