Undocumented Keyboard keys!!!!

[Farinhir]

Originally Posted by Packerfan

Sweet Jeebus, my good man, thank you!! I can't count how many times I've accidentally pressed the Enter key and fired off a precious torp.

Hmm. I did that last night. I was sneaking up on a convoy when I accidentally hit the enter key while trying to increase time compression. I figured that it was gone and was hoping to not have any negative side effects from it (there were 4 matsuki destroyers around and I did not want to meet them). Well, I continued to sneak up behind the merchants to get lined up for a kill when I see a message telling me that a torpedo impacted. I was surprised since this was several minutes after it should have hit any of the merchants. Turns out that it critically hit one of the destroyers on the far side of the convoy. Made for an interesting mission I thought. Most lucky shot ever. lol. BTW. I plan to use those shortcut key edits... thanks for the code.

~F~

[Phantom Mark]

Originally Posted by LukeFF

You can also use the mouse wheel to rotate the radar, which to my knowledge, is something new.

It is to me, thanks

[Kaleun Klink]

Saaay... Can anyone tell me which command in the .cfg file is the "estimate range at current speed" order (as in SH3)? It should be somewhere in the Navigation Officer section, but I can't seem to find it...
Thanks!

[odjig292]

Has anyone found the key that wipes out the TDC contents and fires a torpedo where my periscope in looking (automatically switching from bow or stern tubes according to the direction)???? I've been looking for that one for some time and am going to give some IJN destroyers a rough time when I find it.

[keelhauled]

Found this by accident. Center your sub on the navigation map by pressing Ctrl and clicking the left mouse button at the same time. Helps when you're just wanting to follow along.

[LukeFF]

Originally Posted by odjig292

Has anyone found the key that wipes out the TDC contents and fires a torpedo where my periscope in looking (automatically switching from bow or stern tubes according to the direction)???? I've been looking for that one for some time and am going to give some IJN destroyers a rough time when I find it.

???

There is no such key.

[Rockin Robbins]

Just about every change you lust for is already and has been in Trigger Maru. Maybe I should just host the keyboard layout that I use, containing the whole TM keyboard scheme plus shift-i for CE Identify Target. TM has had ctrl-enter for fire torpedoes since May when I first tried it. You RFB guys should really be nice to Ducimus and use his whole keyboard scheme. You should also look at some of his control key assignments, which are more similar to SH3 than SH4, but have the incredibly necessary attack map mapped to the F6 key. That alone puts me in the TM camp. Thank you for listening to this shameless hucksterism. You will now be returned to your regular programming.

[@Lantis]

I recently found a useful command (albeit not a keyboard command), try using the mouse scroll wheel while in the Sonarstation, you can use it to 'aim' your sonar (ping) very accurately. Very useful when making a bad-weather 'sonar-only' attack.


greetz,

@Lantis

[Kaleun Klink]

Originally Posted by Kaleun Klink

Saaay... Can anyone tell me which command in the .cfg file is the "estimate range at current speed" order (as in SH3)? It should be somewhere in the Navigation Officer section, but I can't seem to find it...
Thanks!

For those of you keeping track at home, the command is CMD_Report_time_to_turn in the Navigation Officer section. Which does not immediately jump out at me as the command you'd issue for an estimated range at current speed, but there you have it.

[FIREWALL]

A little history lesson to all you keymap impaired Captains.

CCIP posted the first mod for SH4 on SubSim namely " setkey mod"
which mapped the keymap to SH-3 The same day we preorder Capt's got our grubby mitts on it.

It also included new keys for most if not all functions you've posted and a few more. All are shown on F-1 key.

This keymap is also used on TM.

We can all thank CCIP for makeing SH4 easier and better from day one.

[Front Runner]

Originally Posted by MONOLITH

This is good stuff. Thank you.


Ditto on the 'enter' fire key. I keep trying to move the exterior camera quickly with the shift key, and accidently hitting the enter key.

"Firing Tube One"

Huh? What? WAIT!

Movie with Sidney Poitier.
Near the end of the movie the US Destroyer Captain says..."If they fire one, we'll fire one...."

Weapons station responds "Fire One!" and fires off a subroc (tactical nuke, I think.)

The Soviet Sub responds with their own tactical nuke torpedo and both the Destroyer and Sub are vaporized...end of movie.

[John Channing]

The Bedford Incident.

A great B/W Cold War movie.

JCC

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by wetwarev7

I'm surprised noone has mentioned the "crash to desktop" a key before the patch...

Well since this has been reserectued all I have to say is LOL... :rotfl:

Cant belive this one went un noticed.

[steinbeck]

Originally Posted by MudMarine

Skippers,
I think this post could be of some small use. So far I have found through other posts two undocument keyboard Keys and thier fuction.

1. Sonar/hydophnes usin home and end keys at deepth
of atleast 60 feet.

2. Set course to periscope heading using the = key.

Are there any other undocumented keys please post them and thier function. This would beof great helptous new skiipers out there.

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I have always used these keys for these functions both in SH3 & SH4. They aren't so marked on the pullout reference cards listing the key functions which come with the game though.

steinbeck

[Sledgehammer427]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Well since this has been reserectued all I have to say is LOL... :rotfl:

Cant belive this one went un noticed.

somehow i managed to miss that one, i dunno how, but i got version 1.0 and it never happened to me (yes, i tried)