Weapons Officer's help not wanted . . . but I get it anyway.

01-21-08, 11:30 PM

This has been bugging me for a while, so I finally decided to ask.

My realism settings, vis-a-vis game-adjustable (I do other things outside of the game mechanics, like only loading externals while at dead stop and calm seas) are usually either 100% (save the external camera; what can I say? I'm an eye-candy/screenie junkie :p ) or 80% (ditto). For the former, everything is selected (save the external camera) and for the latter everything except manual targeting.

I never have the Weapons Officer selected to help me. Yet, if I have manual targeting deselected, when I look at a target through 'scope or UZO the ship is still identified. It's only when I have manual targeting selected as well that the target is not auto-identified.

So what's the point of deselecting WO assistance if the game will still identify ships?

01-21-08, 11:30 PM	#1
Albrecht Von Hesse Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Weapons Officer's help not wanted . . . but I get it anyway. This has been bugging me for a while, so I finally decided to ask. My realism settings, vis-a-vis game-adjustable (I do other things outside of the game mechanics, like only loading externals while at dead stop and calm seas) are usually either 100% (save the external camera; what can I say? I'm an eye-candy/screenie junkie :p ) or 80% (ditto). For the former, everything is selected (save the external camera) and for the latter everything except manual targeting. I never have the Weapons Officer selected to help me. Yet, if I have manual targeting deselected, when I look at a target through 'scope or UZO the ship is still identified. It's only when I have manual targeting selected as well that the target is not auto-identified. So what's the point of deselecting WO assistance if the game will still identify ships?