Is there a way to ask the WO for a solution?

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

Maybe I'm missing something, but what was the difference between WO assistance and AUTO TDC in SH3?

From what I remember, in both cases you are spoon fed a solution, the only difference is that with WO assistance, you can pretend you are still using manual TDC.

It was not a matter of pretending to use manual. It takes away the fully automated targeting system. With WO assist, he did some of the rudimentry calculations for you. Look at this way, in SH4 you simply are the captain and the WO at the TDC. Since we can't scream out AOB, speed and range, we have to manually put these values in as if we were talking to the WO. It has been a while for SH3 for me and I do not remember what the WO did to assist and possibly the uboat TDC could lend itself to having WO assist where the US version of TDC does not lend itself to having assist in the game. It is either all manual or let the computer do it for you by just locking the scope. What is needed and discussed in another thread (also had pictures and documentation), the US scope and TDC had a button to send information to the TDC. We are missing this here. That button in SH3 (locking the target) fed the TDC for the WO office to assist in solution.

I'm sure some will say there was not a feed to the TDC in the US version but I have seen the documentation and I know Run Silent, Run Deep is just a movie but one scene in the movie is on the bridge with a person clicking the button on the TBT. Also, I believe SH2 had the button as well. Correct me if I'm wrong.