Green Lamp on Hydrophone?

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Originally Posted by Major Johnson

On the subject of the hydrophone, is it supposed to be available while on the surface?? I'm noticing in my latest career that I can only use it manually when I'm submerged, but yet I still get contact reports from my crewman while I'm surface running. Is this just another one of those leftover bugs that never got fixed?? The only mod I'm using is RSRDC. I noticed that with FOTRS that I couldn't work it manually at all in the Tambor and Gato class subs.

Fleet boats had hydrophones mounted under the hull, so they could use them while surfaced. They wouldn't be anywhere nearly as effective as they are in the game, and would only be usable at slow speeds on the surface. You wouldn't have been able to run flank speed surfaced and hear anything on the hydrophones like in the game.

Thanks for the info on the magic eye. I'd seen reference to it somewhere, and I was wondering what it actually was.