Surface ships cruising half underwater in scopes

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by Romb

Also the UZO magnification from 6x back to 1.5x very often doesn't work (Obs and Att scope are fine)

the UZO only has one scope power - 6x. It's a game 'hiccup' that it sometimes lets you choose a lower power than 6x.

[Romb]

Ah ok, thanks. So having UZO 1.5 is actually a bonus

Now only those semi-sub merchants

[Trevally.]

You should also update to UI v5.0 as Trevally Automated Scripts v0.2
requires v4.9.3 or later to work.

[Romb]

Thanks will do.

Just ran game without any mods and still have weird semi-sub ships through scopes so guess something got fishy and need fresh install.


On sidenote; pretty weird game design : in Main Menu you can customize gameplay settings to your personal prefences (a.o. map settings) but when actually starting a campaign you can only select one of 4 predefined game settings; medium, hard etc. which overwrites the Main Menu settings.

So you can not have a fully realistic game with external cam enabled. For external cam you can only select 'hard' (or lower) setting when starting campaign but this automatically also enables map updates.
In short, the custom settings in Main Menu are useless as any user specific settings will be overwritten anyways.

By the way; what is difference between tactical and nav map ? Look pretty similar to me ...

An diff between Obs and Attack scope ? Also look pretty smilar to me.

Newbie here

[Romb]

Nevermind Obs versus Att scope question :

Wiki:
"The observation scope, used to scan the sea surface and sky, typically had a wide field of view and no magnification or low-power magnification. The targeting or "attack" periscope, by comparison, had a narrower field of view and higher magnification."


So diff is magnification and field of view (guess in SH5 magnification of the two is equal though).

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by Romb

Nevermind Obs versus Att scope question :

Wiki:
"The observation scope, used to scan the sea surface and sky, typically had a wide field of view and no magnification or low-power magnification. The targeting or "attack" periscope, by comparison, had a narrower field of view and higher magnification."


So diff is magnification and field of view (guess in SH5 magnification of the two is equal though).

obs scope doesn't stick out of water as high as attack scope either

[Romb]

Yeah, also noticed that difference but that is a diff that imo doesnt justify adding a whole 2nd scope to a boat (less is more).

I mean the longest scope does not necessarily needs to be extended to its max. So in that respect only one scope would have sufficed.

Also diff of magnification does not seem to justify the extra engineering efforts of adding a whole extra scope; I mean, again, the scope does not need to be necessarily magnified to its max (also a lower magn could be chosen I guess).

Only diff that seems somewhat substantial seems the field of view. But I don't really see why a more narrow view would be more beneficial than a more broad field of view. Especially considering that via magnification levels the view field can be narrowed down.


But anyways, that's just me newbie lay-man first impression on the matter. Of course there must be a good reason for placing two scopes (maybe it is also not too much extra effort in terms of cost, weight, space etc) otherwise they would not be there, so I am of course wrong, but on firts sight I do not immediatley see the extra benefits of the Attack scope above the Obs scope.


Maybe the diameter of the scope itself is also a factor where the attack scope is thinner resulting in less wake resulting in less chance of detection.