Speed and Hydrophones

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by onelifecrisis

I think it does affect the SO, cos I tested it once. Ages ago. He got a contact, I told him to track it and then went faster and he lost it, then I slowed down and he re-aquired. It was just the one test - since then I've always had him listen for new contacts on "ahead slow" just in case.

BTW, the contact wasn't in my deaf zone.

That would be nice if it's true. I know AOD did that, with contact lines disappearing at higher submerged speeds. I didn't know SH3 did it. I hope so.

[onelifecrisis]

From sensors.cfg:

;Hydrophone
Hydrophone range factor=1 ;[>=0]
Hydrophone fog factor=0 ;[>=0]
Hydrophone light factor=0 ;[>=0]
Hydrophone waves factor=0.2 ;[>=0]
Hydrophone speed factor=0.5 ;[>=0]
Hydrophone enemy speed=0 ;[>=0]
Hydrophone aspect=0 ;[>=0]
Hydrophone noise factor=0.4 ;[>=0]
Hydrophone sensor height factor=0 ;[>=0]
Hydrophone already tracking modifier=20 ;[detection probability modifier]
Hydrophone decay time=150 ;[>0] already tracking bonus decay, in seconds
Hydrophone uses crew efficiency=true ;[true or false]

I reckon "speed factor" might be the speed of the enemy ship (my first guess was "enemy speed" for enemy speed but that is set to zero suggesting that it does nothing :hmm so "noise factor" presumably is your own engine noise?

[Sailor Steve]

You da man!

[Jimbuna]

The speed of your sub should have no bearing on the hydrophones listening capability/range unfortunately.

For realism I always go to ahead slow or stop