HELP REAL UBoat 1.44 Help cant find ships hydrophones

Originally Posted by wg_emevet

Well I just did a patrol were I did not hit a single ship I use the sonar operator and look at the map and all i see is 4 dashes when I lead ahead of the sound i never reach a ship any tips guys? Other than that I love the mod. also I cant find any ships in the harbors I thought the mod had increased harbor traffic all i find is 2 DD's I was orderd to AN 23 in Dec 1940 in a VII

If i've got this right:-

Q1) You've just done a full patrol and not found a single ship/convoy?

Q2) You use Hydrophones to locate ships but can't find anything?

Q3) you sneak into harbours but don't find anything worthwhile.

To answer these in turn:-

A1) Did you stay out until you were low on fuel? or did you go to the patrol grid for 24 hrs and return to base? If the latter, stay out longer and use your convoy routes map to target likely area's for high activity.

A2) The way i stalk with Hydrophones is submerge-listen, Surface and sprint on the bearing given by the hydrophone operator. Then after about 20 mins game time submerge and repeat until i find the ship.

A3) Harbours don't always have lads of targets in them. After all you are supposed to be hunting convoys at sea. If you do want to play in very shallow waters you could try Loch Ewe or Scarpa Flow. At certain times in the war you can get carriers there. Gibralter can have juicy targets as well sometimes.

Did i get the right answers? If not try to split different questions/problems into different sentences/paragraphs as it makes it easier for none english first language speakers to help you.