We were spotted by a Granville at over 8000m away!

[Paul Riley]

Originally Posted by ralphnader23

I'm getting there. I just turned of periscope stabilization yesterday. The noise meter will be the next thing to go...then the God's even map updates..and then maybe those fun cinematic movies of the torpedo impacts.

The only ones I leave at the moment are-

map updates - (one day I would like to play without this)

periscope stabilization - (there was once a debate about this subject and many actually leave it on to simulate what were at the time 'very good German optics',and most of them would probably have been as steady as a rock.

external view - I still like to look at my U-Boat at times and when trying to get a good screenshot,but any time I am tracking or attacking a ship or any other similar task I adopt a strict 'no external view usage'

[Jimbuna]

Always bear in mind that whatever range of sight you have, the ships have also.

Similarly if you were to up the damage rating of your 20mm flak for example, the same rating would apply to every 20mm gun in the game.

Now the argument about large platforms being more noticeable than small platforms takes another twist because the game engine takes so many parameters such as sea state, light conditions, cross dimensional profiles etc. I sometimes think the game engine struggles a bit to 'get it right'.......we use what we have available to us

[Sailor Steve]

One of the funny quirks with AOTD was that escorts would spot you at very long distances, but if you dove while more than 10 km away they would lose interest and go back to the convoy.

I like the programming in SH3 (or at least in GWX) that lets some of them come over to look for you and then look in the wrong place.

Originally Posted by Paul Riley

The only ones I leave at the moment are-

map updates - (one day I would like to play without this)

I use the Assisted Plotting Mod. They only appear one at a time and only if you highlight them. It feels real to me.

periscope stabilization - (there was once a debate about this subject and many actually leave it on to simulate what were at the time 'very good German optics',and most of them would probably have been as steady as a rock.

In SH3 I have it on, in SH4 I have it off. SH4 gives an accurate split-image rangefinder that lets you determine range even when things are bouncing around. With SH3 this is impossible, so off it goes.

external view - I still like to look at my U-Boat at times and when trying to get a good screenshot,but any time I am tracking or attacking a ship or any other similar task I adopt a strict 'no external view usage'

Me too!

[Platapus]

I simply can't give up the event camera. Watching the hull of my target loom into view is one of the more enjoyable aspects of the game for me.

I have never used the External camera though. But I love me some event camera action.

[pickinthebanjo]

I use map updates at the moment, but I usually don't. The reason is this mod I'm using that disabled my watchman's godlike ability to tell me the range of the ship I was looking at.

I don't use external view since the mod I'm using allows me to move around the deck, so I can still get screenshots.

I like to use the hydrophone to hear if the torpedo hits/detonates so I turn off event cam

I use stableized optics (or whatever it's called) as well

[FIREWALL]

I use the honor system and only use external cam to take screenshots.

In Single Missons which, I use as U-Boot School I use it all the time to try new different tactics.

And see where I make mistakes.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Platapus

I simply can't give up the event camera. Watching the hull of my target loom into view is one of the more enjoyable aspects of the game for me.

I have never used the External camera though. But I love me some event camera action.

I'm exactly the opposite. I turned the Event Camera off the first time I saw it. But like Firewall I use the External Cam to look at the cools stuff and take screenshots, but in combat only when fooling around with single missions.

[ralphnader23]

What all does turning off "god's eve mode" do on the map? Do you just not get the periscope updates that show you where the boats are on the navigation map?

I'm just guessing that, because that feature makes it easy to double check your range calculator by using the ruler...

[timmy41]

bernard was drying his underwear in the parascope, they were spotted.

Originally Posted by ralphnader23

What all does turning off "god's eve mode" do on the map? Do you just not get the periscope updates that show you where the boats are on the navigation map?

I'm just guessing that, because that feature makes it easy to double check your range calculator by using the ruler...

There will be nothing on the chart but you.

It's a scary step, but once you take it you'll never want to go back.

[Paul Riley]

Originally Posted by Snestorm

There will be nothing on the chart but you.

It's a scary step, but once you take it you'll never want to go back.

Having them on doesnt exactly seem that big an issue anyway for me,it would seem feasible (in real life) that the watch officer and the watch crew would be providing as much positioning data as possible for the captain during an attack procedure.I DO like gathering all my own attack data though (manual targetting) as I never use a weapons officer,the only role he has on my UBoat is to assist in loading the torpedoes and supplying me weapons management.
Most of the time the captain would probably be in his bunk reading 20,000 leagues under the sea or something,or sifting through the huge pile of German pin up girl magazines under his bed