Hydrophone question

finchOU · 05-28-12, 10:32 PM

How are single merchants rendered in the game....are they always out there? Or do they spawn at a certain distance. Why the change in Hydrophone range from 34km to 20Km for a single merchant from SH3 to 5? Is the 20km range from uboat.net or uboataces taken as gospel? It also says Convoys could be heard from 100km away..when I thought it was something around 50km?

Also anytime I pick up a single merchant it seems to have a constant volume until it gets pretty close .....or basically ....I remembering being able to pick up very faint hyrdophone contacts SH3 that would get louder as you got closer....right now it just seems very easy to hear contacts when they are in range. 20 Km seems very close to me...you should be able to actually see contacts masts (maybe) and smoke (fo sho) over the horizon in good conditions at that range.

05-28-12, 10:32 PM	#1
finchOU Samurai Navy Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 571 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 0	Hydrophone question How are single merchants rendered in the game....are they always out there? Or do they spawn at a certain distance. Why the change in Hydrophone range from 34km to 20Km for a single merchant from SH3 to 5? Is the 20km range from uboat.net or uboataces taken as gospel? It also says Convoys could be heard from 100km away..when I thought it was something around 50km? Also anytime I pick up a single merchant it seems to have a constant volume until it gets pretty close .....or basically ....I remembering being able to pick up very faint hyrdophone contacts SH3 that would get louder as you got closer....right now it just seems very easy to hear contacts when they are in range. 20 Km seems very close to me...you should be able to actually see contacts masts (maybe) and smoke (fo sho) over the horizon in good conditions at that range. __________________ Intel i7-2700K-3.50GHz, 16 GB RAM, 2 xGTX 560,2GB,SLI,2 TB HD The Wolves of Steel 1.06 The Wolves of Steel 1.06 Update 05c