Finding merchants

Twitchy · 10-16-05, 12:42 PM

I'm having trouble finding merchants unless I get a radio contact. Is there a specific way to find ships without stumbling upon them by dumb luck? And no, don't tell me to use the hydrophone. I can't use it even when my sonar guy tells me he has a fix on someone and I go and check it out.

The Avon Lady · 10-16-05, 12:57 PM

Use your hydrophone.

Oh.

Twitchy · 10-16-05, 01:40 PM

Is the sonar guy better at using the hydrophone than a human?

The Avon Lady · 10-16-05, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Twitchy

Is the sonar guy better at using the hydrophone than a human?

No. The player is much better - unless he/she has been listening to heavy metal for 10 years with headphones at full volume.

For best results, stop engines and maximize hydrophone volume by clicking on the top side of the hydrophone's volume knob.

Turn in 10 degree increments. You will pick up things that the AI don't ever catch at the same distance.

Twitchy · 10-16-05, 03:12 PM

is there a hydrophone faq somewhere around here? I can't tell whether or not I hear my own motor or not.

slow_n_ez · 10-16-05, 03:22 PM

There's a volume control too at lower right of the wheel ... turn it up all the way

Twitchy · 10-16-05, 03:35 PM

I found an "ambient volume" knob but i cant turn it.

The Avon Lady · 10-16-05, 03:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Twitchy

I found an "ambient volume" knob but i cant turn it.

Like I said, click on the upper part of the knob.

don1reed · 10-16-05, 03:48 PM

point the hydrophone's arrow to 180Â° with your e-motor running.

Place your cursor on the upper end of the vol control (the game cursor will turn red when you're on the correct spot), clicking the left button on your mouse until you hear the vol increase.
Now, come to "All Stop". With your engines stopped click onto the hydrophone arrow and slowly drag it thru 360Â°...eventually you'll begin hearing the chugging of target ships.

Caveat: make sure you're below 10m when you do this or it won't work properly.

SubChief · 10-16-05, 03:58 PM

If you got the improved convoy mod the number of merchants was reduced a lot from the original game, even in -39/40. So if you are jumping around the North Sea in a type II in 1939 you are lucky if you find a fishing boat :rotfl:

Twitchy · 10-16-05, 04:03 PM

LoL i AM in the north sea.

SubChief · 10-16-05, 04:23 PM

Twitchy, if you are in the North Sea head for AN16 or the area just east of Scapa Flow. Dive and use your hydrophones. You will always pick up something there, merchants and even more warship activity. But remember it isnt deep there, i had to crash dive once and killed myself colliding with the bottom

Twitchy · 10-16-05, 04:39 PM

nah im at AF-87 am i hydrophoning in vain?

FAdmiral · 10-17-05, 02:01 PM

Hang around the center of BF13. Much traffic thru there going
both ways....

JIM

10-16-05, 12:42 PM	#1
Twitchy Navy Dude Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 177 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Finding merchants I'm having trouble finding merchants unless I get a radio contact. Is there a specific way to find ships without stumbling upon them by dumb luck? And no, don't tell me to use the hydrophone. I can't use it even when my sonar guy tells me he has a fix on someone and I go and check it out.

10-16-05, 12:57 PM	#2
The Avon Lady Über Mom Join Date: May 2005 Location: Jerusalem, Israel Posts: 6,147 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Use your hydrophone. Oh. __________________ "Victory will come to us from the wombs of our women." - Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria, Speech before the UN, 1974

10-16-05, 03:48 PM	#9
don1reed Ace of the Deep Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Valhalla: Silent Generation Posts: 1,149 Downloads: 910 Uploads: 0	point the hydrophone's arrow to 180Â° with your e-motor running. Place your cursor on the upper end of the vol control (the game cursor will turn red when you're on the correct spot), clicking the left button on your mouse until you hear the vol increase. Now, come to "All Stop". With your engines stopped click onto the hydrophone arrow and slowly drag it thru 360Â°...eventually you'll begin hearing the chugging of target ships. Caveat: make sure you're below 10m when you do this or it won't work properly. __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ~ George Orwell

10-17-05, 02:01 PM	#14
FAdmiral Pacific Aces Dev Team Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Atlanta, GA, USA Posts: 1,079 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	Hang around the center of BF13. Much traffic thru there going both ways.... JIM __________________ If you\'re not taking losses, you\'re not doing enough. RAdm. Kelly Turner, USN ********************************** www.fairtax.org

10-16-05, 01:40 PM	#3
Twitchy Navy Dude Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 177 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Is the sonar guy better at using the hydrophone than a human?

10-16-05, 03:12 PM	#5
Twitchy Navy Dude Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 177 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	is there a hydrophone faq somewhere around here? I can't tell whether or not I hear my own motor or not.

10-16-05, 03:22 PM	#6
slow_n_ez Officer Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Astoria , Oregon Posts: 246 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	There's a volume control too at lower right of the wheel ... turn it up all the way

10-16-05, 03:35 PM	#7
Twitchy Navy Dude Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 177 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I found an "ambient volume" knob but i cant turn it.

10-16-05, 03:58 PM	#10
SubChief Watch Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 28 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	If you got the improved convoy mod the number of merchants was reduced a lot from the original game, even in -39/40. So if you are jumping around the North Sea in a type II in 1939 you are lucky if you find a fishing boat :rotfl:

10-16-05, 04:03 PM	#11
Twitchy Navy Dude Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 177 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	LoL i AM in the north sea.

10-16-05, 04:23 PM	#12
SubChief Watch Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 28 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Twitchy, if you are in the North Sea head for AN16 or the area just east of Scapa Flow. Dive and use your hydrophones. You will always pick up something there, merchants and even more warship activity. But remember it isnt deep there, i had to crash dive once and killed myself colliding with the bottom

10-16-05, 04:39 PM	#13
Twitchy Navy Dude Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 177 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	nah im at AF-87 am i hydrophoning in vain?