Is using periscope underwater cheating?

endlesswick · 03-19-10, 08:17 PM

Hi all.

In SH3 and 4 I would have external views on so I would have something to do while I was waiting for something to happen. However I often could not resist the urge to use the external views to give me better situational awareness (obviously cheating). Since you can now walk around your submarine, I feel that this can give me something to do while waiting for something to happen, so I turned off external views for greater immersion.

Finally to my point.

Now I find myself using the periscope underwater to give me better situational awareness. While my periscope is underwater, I can see ships and the ground very clearly, even at night. I have personally not spent much time underwater, so I am not sure of the actual translucency. Underwater photography does show that in the day time, you can see a good distance, but I would think at night everything would be black.

So my question is did real submarine captains use periscopes underwater (submerged periscope), and is using the periscope in such a way cheating?

03-19-10, 08:17 PM	#1
endlesswick Swabbie Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 5 Downloads: 12 Uploads: 0	Is using periscope underwater cheating? Hi all. In SH3 and 4 I would have external views on so I would have something to do while I was waiting for something to happen. However I often could not resist the urge to use the external views to give me better situational awareness (obviously cheating). Since you can now walk around your submarine, I feel that this can give me something to do while waiting for something to happen, so I turned off external views for greater immersion. Finally to my point. Now I find myself using the periscope underwater to give me better situational awareness. While my periscope is underwater, I can see ships and the ground very clearly, even at night. I have personally not spent much time underwater, so I am not sure of the actual translucency. Underwater photography does show that in the day time, you can see a good distance, but I would think at night everything would be black. So my question is did real submarine captains use periscopes underwater (submerged periscope), and is using the periscope in such a way cheating?