[REL]Visual and Hydrophone detection issue: a new workaround

[P_Funk]

You can't do a thing for even the hydrophone operator?:p

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Originally Posted by P_Funk

You can't do a thing for even the hydrophone operator?:p

@P_Funk

The hydrophone works fine in GWX when using the 16 km mod and a qualified crewman.

I just ran another quick test that you can duplicate.

Open the single mission "Gibralter."

Select Type VIIC 1941

Go ahead slow.

Submerge to say 40 meters...

Use low (64x) time compression a bit if you like.

Select "normal sweep" for your hydrophone operator.

You will soon have a hydrophone contact to the north.

My crew detected it 24 km away. (This is well beyond visual range capability in SH3/GWX.

(DO NOT FORGET that the GHG hydrophone has a "dead zone" directly ahead!!! It is perfectly realistic for you to not to detect targets in this dead zone as it was a limitation of the GHG in RL.) There is also a dead-zone / cone of silence to the stern as well.

The KDB also had directional limitations that are also modelled correctly in GWX... However, since having to replace my PC... much of my info is difficult to find, having been bundled for backup. ATM I cannot be more specific.

[P_Funk]

Originally Posted by Kpt. Lehmann

My crew detected it 24 km away. (This is well beyond visual range capability in SH3/GWX.

Thats interesting since I'll routinely recognize merchant screws on the Hydrophone before my operator detects it. I'll hear it, then switch back to the Command Room, then ask for a contact and he says "No Sound Contact". One of them was rather easy to hear too. Although I was only at Periscope depth. Is there any merit to those people that say you should go down to 30 meters?

[Wilcke]

Rubini,

Thanks for all your efforts, I am sold on the 8k mod works very well. Great work and we all appreciate your efforts to improve this really great sim.

Thanks to all the other modders also, its really made SH3 a lot of fun.

Wilcke

[Jimbuna]

Thanks for the time and effort Rubini

[Umfuld]

8K for me as I doubt my system could handle the 16 and I just ran my first patrol with your mod.

You literally saved my life twice.

During the Norway battle my watchmen twice spotted DDs 8000+m away. Never would have happened before and I'd probably be very depressed having to start a new career already.

Thanks and good hunting mate!

[Maraz]

Thanks Rubini for investing tour time in this project

Maraz