Time compression question

SilentSnake · 10-15-10, 04:01 AM

I was reading an amazing silent hunter 3 story on another forum and it stated that setting the game at full time compression is not as realistic because planes can miss you. Is this true and would this happen with mines too. I.e the game cannot compress them quick enough.

Herr-Berbunch · 10-15-10, 04:07 AM

It's not worth the risk, if you did hit one it'd all be catastrophic in an instant.

Captain Nemo · 10-15-10, 07:56 AM

Above TC x128 there is the possibility that you will miss contacts. At TC x128 and lower you miss nothing.

Nemo

SilentSnake · 10-15-10, 08:13 AM

It seems strange though to have a compression where you can miss contacts. Its almost like a cheat.

Jimbuna · 10-15-10, 08:18 AM

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Originally Posted by SilentSnake

It seems strange though to have a compression where you can miss contacts. Its almost like a cheat.

Nothing is rendered in your 'SH3 world' beyond a range of approximately 40/50km around you therefore any tc above x128 would mean that the distance travelled by a high speed airborne object would not/cannot be rendered accurately by the game engine and certainly far too quickly for the human senses to react.

SilentSnake · 10-15-10, 08:48 AM

i understand. So it seems best to actually play at x128. I think im gonna start doing that now. Is this how you guys play?

frau kaleun · 10-15-10, 08:15 AM

At higher TCs there is also the good possibility that even when you don't miss a contact, so much "game time" will have elapsed in the split second of real time that it takes to drop out of TC and react that an armed enemy contact will not only have spotted you but will be in full attack mode.

Especially dicey later in the war when Allied radar may give them your position when they are still out of your contact range... by the time they are close enough for you to see them they may already be making full speed right at you with their claws out.

10-15-10, 04:01 AM	#1
SilentSnake Seaman Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 38 Downloads: 86 Uploads: 0	Time compression question I was reading an amazing silent hunter 3 story on another forum and it stated that setting the game at full time compression is not as realistic because planes can miss you. Is this true and would this happen with mines too. I.e the game cannot compress them quick enough.

10-15-10, 04:07 AM	#2
Herr-Berbunch Kaiser Bill's batman Join Date: May 2010 Location: AN72 Posts: 13,203 Downloads: 76 Uploads: 0	It's not worth the risk, if you did hit one it'd all be catastrophic in an instant. __________________

10-15-10, 07:56 AM	#3
Captain Nemo Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: London, England Posts: 1,144 Downloads: 54 Uploads: 0	Above TC x128 there is the possibility that you will miss contacts. At TC x128 and lower you miss nothing. Nemo __________________ "I'm afraid there is no disguising the fact that King's obsession with the Pacific and the Battle of Washington cost us dear in the Battle of the Atlantic". Sir John Slessor GCB, DSO, MC, DL AOC-in-C Coastal Command RAF ___________________________________________

10-15-10, 08:13 AM	#4
SilentSnake Seaman Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 38 Downloads: 86 Uploads: 0	It seems strange though to have a compression where you can miss contacts. Its almost like a cheat.

10-15-10, 08:48 AM	#6
SilentSnake Seaman Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 38 Downloads: 86 Uploads: 0	i understand. So it seems best to actually play at x128. I think im gonna start doing that now. Is this how you guys play?

10-15-10, 08:15 AM	#7
frau kaleun Rear Admiral Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Skyri--oh who are we kidding, I'm probably at Lowe's. Again. Posts: 12,706 Downloads: 168 Uploads: 0	At higher TCs there is also the good possibility that even when you don't miss a contact, so much "game time" will have elapsed in the split second of real time that it takes to drop out of TC and react that an armed enemy contact will not only have spotted you but will be in full attack mode. Especially dicey later in the war when Allied radar may give them your position when they are still out of your contact range... by the time they are close enough for you to see them they may already be making full speed right at you with their claws out.