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Old 01-01-06, 07:14 PM   #1
Schpeedy
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Default A cheat? to get range of ship...

Even with full realism on...

With the time at 1x, i click the (-) button... game pauses...

Do this while looking thru periscope or UZO with the range part...
and ya can actually cheat the rolling of the ship effect.

Line the bottom part up and then pause, then yer free to put the top. Then unpause, tada, you have best range estimate.

Since I discovered this, I haven't been able to not do it.
I play with full real, but this is wrong!
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Old 01-01-06, 07:32 PM   #2
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yeah you could say that is a cheat....

I'm wondering about the rolling effect....I know for a fact that on the surface a boat really moves around hence a sablized UZO (I think anyways from what I remember reading) ....but once under the water I would think it would be very stable (except extremly rough seas of course)..and obviously any use of zoom would magnifly the rolling effect plus the pengilum effect of a raised periscope (think of climbing the mast of a ship in heavy seas)...still find the hardest part of the game is taking acurate distance readings under a time crunch (such as trying to get distance at an exact time for course and speed calculations)...the rolling effect while submerged is a bit of a nusence ...but if that is how it was...I'll shutup and step off the soapbox.

as of now I do most of my calcuations on the surface it being early war times...but later on, all of this will have to be done at P-scope depth due to radar.
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Old 01-02-06, 11:54 AM   #3
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There is a worse cheat.
I can get the range of ships at 30,000 meters by clicking on suspected areas until it locks onto to something in the UZO. When it is locked click the watch officer for the range and he can tell you in a blinding rain. You need to be surfaced and with the radar detector fix you will likely be submerged and not have to use it but this is a cheat and not at all real.
I only stumbled on to this by accident and then tested it at long range. If you dive in front of a reported convoy and can hear them you can surface and use this if winning by methods impossible to real Kaleuns is desired.

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Old 01-02-06, 07:56 PM   #4
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To break all cheating, one must have self restraint, or self inflicted punishments...

For example: Slap oneself across the face if one feels the need to pause the game and take measurements. Want to lock an enemy ship at 30km away? Bang one's head with a frying pan... Or one could even strap a pair of alligator clips to one's nipples and connect it to a car battery -- Hmm, feel like cheatin today? -- ZAPP!


Hey, if it works for me.... Might work for you? :hmm:
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Old 01-02-06, 08:47 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Marhkimov
Or one could even strap a pair of alligator clips to one's nipples and connect it to a car battery -- Hmm, feel like cheatin today? -- ZAPP!


Hey, if it works for me.... Might work for you? :hmm:

That kinky stuff belongs in the General forum... :rotfl:
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