Ping button....

Bulkhead · 03-16-10, 05:14 PM

Sorry if this have been covered in another thread, but i didnt find any. Where is the ping button to estimate the non-visual range? Is it modeled in the game at all?

SteamWake · 03-16-10, 05:25 PM

It probably is in the code there somewhere check some of the keybind mods they might have it.

Sailor Steve · 03-16-10, 05:50 PM

You can only ping for range if you have active sonar. U-boats certainly didn't have it in 1939. I'm not sure when they got it, but until then they couldn't ping a target's range. And by the time they had it there were plenty of escorts listening in.

SabreHawk · 03-16-10, 05:54 PM

Yeah by the time they did have this, it was best not to use it. You do away with the only real advantage you have, stealth.

codmander · 03-16-10, 06:04 PM

sh3 has one

Hanomag · 03-16-10, 06:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by codmander

sh3 has one

Natch..

Bulkhead · 03-16-10, 06:52 PM

Ok, i am at the end of 1940 now. Thats why i wondered, i remember it from SH3. Its nice to have if a lonley merchant shows up though. A few years and maybe the snorkel also will be an option...

LukeFF · 03-16-10, 11:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

You can only ping for range if you have active sonar. U-boats certainly didn't have it in 1939. I'm not sure when they got it, but until then they couldn't ping a target's range. And by the time they had it there were plenty of escorts listening in.

The VIIC was originally designed to have active sonar (S-Gerät), but it wasn't ready at the time. IIRC it only came into use with the Type XXI.

SteamWake · 03-17-10, 10:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bulkhead

Ok, i am at the end of 1940 now. Thats why i wondered, i remember it from SH3. Its nice to have if a lonley merchant shows up though. A few years and maybe the snorkel also will be an option...

A few more years and the war will be over

03-16-10, 05:14 PM	#1
Bulkhead 中国水兵 Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Norway, Hordaland Posts: 279 Downloads: 153 Uploads: 0	Ping button.... Sorry if this have been covered in another thread, but i didnt find any. Where is the ping button to estimate the non-visual range? Is it modeled in the game at all? __________________ KHJ

03-16-10, 05:25 PM	#2
SteamWake Rear Admiral Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 13,224 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	It probably is in the code there somewhere check some of the keybind mods they might have it. __________________ Follow the progress of Mr. Mulligan : http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=147648

03-16-10, 05:50 PM	#3
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	You can only ping for range if you have active sonar. U-boats certainly didn't have it in 1939. I'm not sure when they got it, but until then they couldn't ping a target's range. And by the time they had it there were plenty of escorts listening in. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

03-16-10, 05:54 PM	#4
SabreHawk Captain Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Seattle, Wa. USA Posts: 530 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Yeah by the time they did have this, it was best not to use it. You do away with the only real advantage you have, stealth. __________________ "Chance favors the prepared mind"

03-16-10, 06:52 PM	#7
Bulkhead 中国水兵 Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Norway, Hordaland Posts: 279 Downloads: 153 Uploads: 0	Ok, i am at the end of 1940 now. Thats why i wondered, i remember it from SH3. Its nice to have if a lonley merchant shows up though. A few years and maybe the snorkel also will be an option... __________________ KHJ

03-16-10, 06:04 PM	#5
codmander Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: cape cod mass. Posts: 678 Downloads: 59 Uploads: 0	sh3 has one

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