[REQ] Radar feedback needed.

[Xrundel]

Originally Posted by Zedi

On rare occasions players will end up playing after 41. I played a lot after 43 and is impossible to play with real nav because the radar is not working, at least none will report any contact until you get into visual contact range. And thats already late because you will get detected by the enemy.

The radar has the same bug as the hydro had.. you have to be very precise to locate a target on the screen and you cannot see if is only 1 or more contacts. I miss a round radar screen, is much more easy to locate a target when you scan manually.. but I dont think this part can be fixed.

Overall, radar is useless thus making playing the game after 41 more and more difficult, if not impossible. This and the missing snorkel is one of the biggest problem needed to be solved in SH5. The rest is pretty much fixed already.

Thank you for detailed explanations.
I guess TheBeast right now in process of making snorkel to work properly (I did not even knew it's not working in the game) .
And yesterday I have major break-through of fixing radar wheel to show correct bearing which was a major setback on any further progress. Rangers and VOF are practically determined at this point, all that left - to find really usable relation between speed of auto-scan and size of detectable arc.
Radar unlike hydrophone does not have steady beam - it sends signal, then get it back in couple of seconds. If radar wheel spins too fast and detection arc is too narrow - it's easy to miss contact. Widening arc makes it less probable but bearing accuracy suffers then. Slow spinning wheel also have very slow reaction to the mouse wheel after you detected target and switch for manual mode...
I have to find most playable compromise.
But all work is delayed right now because I got feed up with CTD's and frozen game screen at every second restart - so I completely uninstalling everything and restoring my computer system at this point.

If everything will go as well as in last couple of days (and nights ) - you will have playable radar station very soon.