If a sim is hard, it is realistic? NO. I hate the sensor programming.

Catfish · 05-19-08, 10:04 AM

Hello,
just have to vent a bit. After i said a thousand times the game is much too hard i made another similar experience again.

I have GWX2.0, with 2.1, and OLCE2, with the 1.2.5 Gui installed.

Yes i know the sensors in SH3 are screwed up, bad programming, one interacts with another etc. etc. So no we can not change the sensors for good, much too complicated, i do not know what i ask for. It seems we can only make them harder and more difficult. Ahaa.

Here goes:
It is still late 1939, black night and i would not see a mole in coal without Gamma set up to 2.5 with aTuner on my screen. Sure they must have had that in WW2. I just got the message that U-47 sank the Ark Royal and the Repulse. Nice. Next moment my lookout spots a convoy at roughly 11.5 kilometers. This could have happened, dark silhouettes against a horizon that is not quite as black as the sea, ok.

I overtake it at a distance of more than 10 km, the two escorts does not seem to see me. Since i know they and all merchants will see my 3 meter conning tower in a pitch black night and a distance of 8 km in SH3 (realistic eh) i go in submerged, silent running, slow.

I am at roughly 600 meters away from a freighter (submerged!), and since i want to get a bit closer i lower the 'scope and set the speed to "3". Instantly all hell breaks lose, not only are starshells going up, as well all the freighters turn on searchlights and someone is firing at me, hitting my conning tower and damaging the Flak. Next destroyer is 2000 m away as far as i can see. Back to slow alright.

Those freighters must have really advanced hydroscopes. Remember it is pitch black night, my periscope is lowered and i am submerged at 12-13 meters.

If this is realistic all books i ever read about the tactics and victories of U-boats are complete crap: U-boats ran into convoys surfaced, at night, between escorts and close to them whithout ever being seen. Now can't we somehow tweak this sim to be a bit more realistic without making it ridiculously hard ?

Grrr. I hate it. I am feeling better now. Thanks.

Greetings,
Catfish

05-19-08, 10:04 AM	#1
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 17,767 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	If a sim is hard, it is realistic? NO. I hate the sensor programming. Hello, just have to vent a bit. After i said a thousand times the game is much too hard i made another similar experience again. I have GWX2.0, with 2.1, and OLCE2, with the 1.2.5 Gui installed. Yes i know the sensors in SH3 are screwed up, bad programming, one interacts with another etc. etc. So no we can not change the sensors for good, much too complicated, i do not know what i ask for. It seems we can only make them harder and more difficult. Ahaa. Here goes: It is still late 1939, black night and i would not see a mole in coal without Gamma set up to 2.5 with aTuner on my screen. Sure they must have had that in WW2. I just got the message that U-47 sank the Ark Royal and the Repulse. Nice. Next moment my lookout spots a convoy at roughly 11.5 kilometers. This could have happened, dark silhouettes against a horizon that is not quite as black as the sea, ok. I overtake it at a distance of more than 10 km, the two escorts does not seem to see me. Since i know they and all merchants will see my 3 meter conning tower in a pitch black night and a distance of 8 km in SH3 (realistic eh) i go in submerged, silent running, slow. I am at roughly 600 meters away from a freighter (submerged!), and since i want to get a bit closer i lower the 'scope and set the speed to "3". Instantly all hell breaks lose, not only are starshells going up, as well all the freighters turn on searchlights and someone is firing at me, hitting my conning tower and damaging the Flak. Next destroyer is 2000 m away as far as i can see. Back to slow alright. Those freighters must have really advanced hydroscopes. Remember it is pitch black night, my periscope is lowered and i am submerged at 12-13 meters. If this is realistic all books i ever read about the tactics and victories of U-boats are complete crap: U-boats ran into convoys surfaced, at night, between escorts and close to them whithout ever being seen. Now can't we somehow tweak this sim to be a bit more realistic without making it ridiculously hard ? Grrr. I hate it. I am feeling better now. Thanks. Greetings, Catfish