Decks Awash toot (TEC)

[merc4ulfate]

SH4/Data/Sounds :
then there are 9 folders with varying speakers for each related vocal response. So far I have been able to find Snorkel Depth but never in the game. I have however found not a single reference to Radar Depth. There are Radar destroyed, repaired and damaged but no Depth. I have looked through all the mods I am running and still there is no reference in them to Radar Depth.

[CapnScurvy]

Kids,

I've been watching you for over a week now....I can't stand it any longer.

Data/Menu/Menu.txt.......version 1.5, try 1033 entry.

[Sniper297]

We're just getting warmed up, wait til we start selling tickets!

Turned the voices back on, I get "yes sir" followed by another "yes sir" in a different voice with "CE snorkel depth" on the message screen. Hitting the ' key I get "CE rudder amidships" on the message, voices "yes sir" followed by "rudder! rudder!". With all the other bugs in this game those are merely minor annoyances, easily cured by turning the voices off. When these lubbers persist in saying "yes sir" where they should be saying "aye aye sir" I don't really want to hear them anyway.

[merc4ulfate]

That is like a script reading a note card scurvy. Those functions in that part of the txt are for calling subtitles. Sure there is an address for function but where is the actual audio file? I have yet to find the audio file for "Radar Depth". I know that the noted function Snorkel Depth and Radar Depth are there but the only audio file I can find is the one for Snorkel Depth.

Ever instance where the function is called it uses the audio file saying "Radar Depth" when it should be using the audio file saying "Snorkel Depth".

This Radar Depth audio file must be called something different because in a system wide search I have found no audio file that is verbally saying "Radar Depth" and it is this file I wish to find and change to say "Bring the boat to Decks Awash, Aye Sir".

Even the files concerning snorkel depth all say snorkel depth I have not found a single one that is called snorkel depth to actually say radar depth. Where is the game pulling the audio file itself in saying, "Radar Depth" when the key stroke for Snorkel Depth is depressed?

I had thought that all speech files were in the folders numbered 1-9 but if there are other speech files where in this Radar Depth audio file may reside please let us know.

[hughesjr]

Sorry to necro .. but .. does the decks awash setting (using snorkel depth as outlined in post 1) actually reduce your detection profile .. either from Radar or Visual.

Or is this just aesthetic only?

I suppose I can try some tests .. but I am not really interested in doing it if the only impact is it looks cool.

Edit:
OK .. some things I would consider 'critical' to decks awash, that we don't get:

1. Can go almost normal speed surfaced speed, not dive max speeds. (In testing on the Porpoise, I went for 18Kn to 12Kn for 8.5m .. I can live with that (propulsion is still on the diesels. At PD I get 9kn it seems)
2. I need to be able to have watchstanders on the bridge. It seems I can't .. they rig for dive and leave, I do not see any way to put them back on the bridge .. I can go to the bridge though. This might just be a misunderstanding of how I can control the crew for now. (It seems I CAN see the ships on the map as if I had lookouts on the bridge, even though they are not there.)

So, basically, it seems to me that the only real thing this does is allow me to charge the battery and I can ride on the bridge, but no lookouts. It also seems no sonar working .. no sound contacts. Only what I personally see on the scopes or on the bridge can I target. So this gives me a way to charge the battery, looks kind of cool .. but leaves me completely blind. I would only do it if I could prove it reduced the ability for people to see me as I lost all my crew target finding (at least it seems to me).

Not for me I think.