Picking up Survivors

[DeepSix]

Originally Posted by SnowCajun

... Here's my question, how do you pick up survivors? Can you pick up Japanese as well as American's. Sometimes I see a survivor icon like a ship icon on my map, but can't see a soul in the water at all. Toss me a clue please!

Thanks,
SnowCajun

Picking them up is easy, it's locating their precise position that seems tricky. On the map, you'll sometimes get a "survivor" icon (blue is friendly, red is enemy, just like ships). The trick is, sailing to that icon doesn't mean you'll necessarily arrive at the exact spot where the survivors are. This seems to be some sort of bug.

Anyway, like Torplexed said, you can't pick up Japanese survivors. In the case of the friendlies, sail toward the survivor icon. Once you get to its general area, look around from the bridge for reddish colored smoke on the water - there's your survivor. There may actually be several of them. Sail toward toward the marker smoke until you get to within about 500 yards; once you get to him (he'll be bobbing in the water near the smoke and - at night especially - may be hard to see), open the binocs tab at lower left. Look at him through the binocs or the TBT and when the crosshair is over him, the "rescue survivor" life-saver lamp will light up at lower left of the screen. Click it and the survivor is rescued.