Photo Reconn issue

[thegrindre]

Hi all,
Listen, I'm having trouble triggering this one. I've sailed all around this port and even straight through that star but still can't seem to trigger it off. Even sunk a couple ships for the fun of it but all to no avail. It's my 6th outing to the far East.
What do I need to do here?

Thanks

[ReallyDedPoet]

Have a look at this older but still useful post

Here

Also from an older post:

Well you gotta get within a couple thousand yards.
Find the ship you are supposed to photo and lock the periscope on it.
In the peri menu bar there is an icon to take the picture, it should light up.
You may have to take photos of several different ships.

DON,T SINK THE SHIPS TILL AFTER YOU HAVE THE PHOTOS.

I did this once and could never complete the mission.

Magic

[thegrindre]

Oops! OK, thanks for the info. I'll re-do this one...

[fireftr18]

You need to use your observation scope

[HertogJan]

Originally Posted by thegrindre

Oops! OK, thanks for the info. I'll re-do this one...

Seeing you sunk them you'd better redo it

[thegrindre]

My last save was about half way across the huge pond unfortunately, but on my way over this time, I picked up a large convoy and sunk three ships with six torpedoes... two per ship. It usually takes 3 to sink a ship of any size. I was surprised, although the last ship did take awhile before it finely dove for Davy Jones' locker.

[Sniper297]

"You need to use your observation scope"

I haven't seen that, in stock game either scope will work because both have a camera icon that lights up when you lock one of the mission targets, but the TBT has no icon so it has to be one of the periscopes. It also has to be in the daytime, defined as "when the red lights are off". If it's 0540 and you can see clearly for miles and miles but the sub is still rigged for red because the game considers it "night time", the camera will be INOP.

[HertogJan]

Idd... using attack scope should work too

[thegrindre]

Yes, thanks for the help, guys. Issue solved.