Radar in SH IV

qvcatullus · 02-21-08, 10:50 AM

Hi, all!
I know that there has been a bug history with SH IV, but I'm also new to the game, so I'm not sure what all is going on. Running 1.4 stock game -- one of the bug fixes mentioned is to a problem with the radar not turning on/off properly.
I'm having some trouble working the radar. Specifically, two major problems and an annoyance. I've been on a career and using the air search radar since forever, but I just took my first patrol with surface radar.

The annoyance has been that I couldn't tell which 'setting' of the radar button was actually turning it on and asking it to run a continual sweep, because every time I would go to the actual radar station it would switch to focus and sometimes it would be off when I thought I had it on; etc.

My first problem is that I have no idea how to interpret the PPI (fuzzy line) radar. I had thought that it just shows a cross-section of wherever the roundy-round radar is pointing, and the line will have spikes at distances where there are returns on that vector, but I have pointed the focus at ships that I know are there and seen nothing on the fuzzy-line. If it is related to the air radar, then why is it 'blank' until I get surface radar installed?

My second problem is that once I got the surface radar and the new, improved air radar installed, my air radar coverage has gone all spotty. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, which is a bit annoying as it's supposed to be 'improved' now. I am particularly confused because I started getting air returns when I knew for a fact that the radar was turned OFF. Does air radar only work when surface is not turned on, is that a strange coincidence, or am I crazy?

Finally, a radar question, rather than a problem... I would imagine that running around with active radar is going to get me detected, otherwise there would not be an option to turn it off. Do only certain types of ships (escorts, capitals, etc.) have a chance to detect my radar emissions? Will they be more likely to do so at a certain year or a certain range? Can they detect my air search radar beam, since I don't seem to know how to control that?

02-21-08, 10:50 AM	#1
qvcatullus Nub Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 3 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Radar in SH IV Hi, all! I know that there has been a bug history with SH IV, but I'm also new to the game, so I'm not sure what all is going on. Running 1.4 stock game -- one of the bug fixes mentioned is to a problem with the radar not turning on/off properly. I'm having some trouble working the radar. Specifically, two major problems and an annoyance. I've been on a career and using the air search radar since forever, but I just took my first patrol with surface radar. The annoyance has been that I couldn't tell which 'setting' of the radar button was actually turning it on and asking it to run a continual sweep, because every time I would go to the actual radar station it would switch to focus and sometimes it would be off when I thought I had it on; etc. My first problem is that I have no idea how to interpret the PPI (fuzzy line) radar. I had thought that it just shows a cross-section of wherever the roundy-round radar is pointing, and the line will have spikes at distances where there are returns on that vector, but I have pointed the focus at ships that I know are there and seen nothing on the fuzzy-line. If it is related to the air radar, then why is it 'blank' until I get surface radar installed? My second problem is that once I got the surface radar and the new, improved air radar installed, my air radar coverage has gone all spotty. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, which is a bit annoying as it's supposed to be 'improved' now. I am particularly confused because I started getting air returns when I knew for a fact that the radar was turned OFF. Does air radar only work when surface is not turned on, is that a strange coincidence, or am I crazy? Finally, a radar question, rather than a problem... I would imagine that running around with active radar is going to get me detected, otherwise there would not be an option to turn it off. Do only certain types of ships (escorts, capitals, etc.) have a chance to detect my radar emissions? Will they be more likely to do so at a certain year or a certain range? Can they detect my air search radar beam, since I don't seem to know how to control that?