Subsim Video: New Manual TDC Video in HD (2/13/10)

[Lanzfeld]

Thanks for the video Neal!

Seems to me you really messed up the AOB but you still hit the target? Ahhhh..you fired a big spread thats why.

Also...after you put in the AOB the range changed....very strange.

I DO NOT care for all that junk blocking the view of the scope.

[razark]

Originally Posted by Lanzfeld

I DON NOT care for all that junk blocking the view of the scope.

It seems to me they could have put the dialog boxes off to the left, where the map was, instead of blocking the scope view.

I'm not familiar with u-boat range finding. Did they use this sort of stadimeter, or was there another method?

[onelifecrisis]

Originally Posted by razark

I'm not familiar with u-boat range finding. Did they use this sort of stadimeter, or was there another method?

Yes, they used it. They could also turn it on it's side to get the AOB (it was called a Rotatable Split-Prism Stadimeter) but that feature doesn't seem to be in the game.

[Frnocom]

Originally Posted by Lanzfeld

Seems to me you really messed up the AOB but you still hit the target? Ahhhh..you fired a big spread thats why.

I was going to say the same thing....messed up AOB?

[IanC]

Well at least there's manual TDC! I was starting to get worried there..

[Galanti]

Originally Posted by Frnocom

I was going to say the same thing....messed up AOB?

Nah, old One-Eye put the right numbers in accidentally.

Setting aside my epic loathing for the GUI in general for the moment, I can see the merit in this approach, as far as modelling the torpedo firing chain of command goes. But the hyperlinks need to go...

BTW, congratulations to my Yank cousins for their first Olympic gold medal!

[Nordmann]

I can't really say I'm overly enthusiastic about the GUI, it seems far too minimalistic. Where the hell are the panels, dials, lights, switches etc etc we had in SH3, and to an extent SH4? They're all gone! Modders please step forward, you always do a much better job than the so called "professionals", this minimalist rubbish has to go.

[brandtryan]

FYI: from Blair's "Hitler's U-Boat War" pp. 43

"In submerged daylight attacks the captain, who had sole access to the attack periscope, conducted the approach, assisted by the first watch officer at a plotting board, then aimed and fired the torpedoes. The night surface attack, the captain conducted the approach at the plotting board in the control room, but he did not fire the torpedoes. That task was delegated to the first watch officer on the bridge, using the high-power Zeiss binoculars mounted on a gyro-scope compass repeater. It was a more efficient system, but not many captains willingly delegated the torpedo firing to the first watch officers. No other navy adopted this technique."

[FIREWALL]

Thx Neal

That was what I was the most concerned about of the whole sim.

I've never played or bought a RPG. And I won't start now.

I buy Simulators or as close as they can get.

Imo this doesn't cut it as a Sim.

I will buy it. But at the Ebay bargain bin someday to add it to my Sub game collection.

I'm happy with SHIII\GWX3

[mookiemookie]

I don't mind this. The captain was not turning the TDC dials himself, but rather his subordinates. It looks like it works pretty close to how it was really done. Good work!

[capthelm]

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

Thx Neal

That was what I was the most concerned about of the whole sim.

I've never played or bought a RPG. And I won't start now.

I buy Simulators or as close as they can get.

Imo this doesn't cut it as a Sim.

I will buy it. But at the Ebay bargain bin someday to add it to my Sub game collection.

I'm happy with SHIII\GWX3

bye then no more posts from you then on sh5