Very few enemy ships spotted.

Redjac · 05-16-14, 01:36 AM

I used to play Silent Hunter 3, the stock version. I used to find all my sonar contacts myself. My sonar man rarely found them. So I will stop a lot and listen myself. I will keep an eye out for the glitches. If I can hear them in game then my sonar man should too.

If I get surface radar i will stay on the surface more.

Redjac

Sinkmore · 05-16-14, 03:22 AM

One more thing: RSRDC changes (deletes) the stock campaign merchant routes, which are pretty random, with millions of targets, and adds actual historically accurate routes, but there are perhaps too few of them (due apparently to not enough historical data). So plan on longer hunt times with RSRDC than other mods. I think it's totally worth it for the realism, just a little more time compression, and no consecutive convoys with multiple Yamato's. (Yamatoes?)

Even with duds, it's still pretty easy to rack up 5 or more kills per patrol, which is a lot more than real subs ever got.

razark · 05-16-14, 06:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Redjac

If I get surface radar i will stay on the surface more.

Stay on the surface as much as you can anyway. You can travel faster on the surface, which means you can search a larger area. Your hydrophones are mounted on the bottom of the boat, so they will work on the surface as well.

bumper678 · 05-16-14, 07:36 AM

The mods you installed significantly alter the stock shipping lanes and number of vessels. This was done to more accurately depict what was historically eencountered by our boats during the war. Most of the patrol reports I've read from the first few months of the way only had a handful of contacts.

Surface patrol, as our CO's discovered during the war, was the most efficient method for finding contacts. The sonar of the day was not very good, and the sound characteristics of the pacific changed dramatically. The greater speed of surface patrol with a sailful of lookouts spotting smoke from ships funnels made contacts easierto locate. Unfortunately the lookouts in game seem to have a max range beyond which they are blind. I tend to believe the soundman has a similar limitation as i have picked up contacts manually that the ssoundman didn't find. I am unsure if crew with better ratings would improve this or not.

05-16-14, 03:22 AM	#2
Sinkmore Shore leave Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Pacific Coast, North America Posts: 70 Downloads: 129 Uploads: 0	P One more thing: RSRDC changes (deletes) the stock campaign merchant routes, which are pretty random, with millions of targets, and adds actual historically accurate routes, but there are perhaps too few of them (due apparently to not enough historical data). So plan on longer hunt times with RSRDC than other mods. I think it's totally worth it for the realism, just a little more time compression, and no consecutive convoys with multiple Yamato's. (Yamatoes?) Even with duds, it's still pretty easy to rack up 5 or more kills per patrol, which is a lot more than real subs ever got.

05-16-14, 01:36 AM	#1
Redjac Nub Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 4 Downloads: 31 Uploads: 0	I used to play Silent Hunter 3, the stock version. I used to find all my sonar contacts myself. My sonar man rarely found them. So I will stop a lot and listen myself. I will keep an eye out for the glitches. If I can hear them in game then my sonar man should too. If I get surface radar i will stay on the surface more. Redjac

05-16-14, 07:36 AM	#4
bumper678 Nub Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 3 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	The mods you installed significantly alter the stock shipping lanes and number of vessels. This was done to more accurately depict what was historically eencountered by our boats during the war. Most of the patrol reports I've read from the first few months of the way only had a handful of contacts. Surface patrol, as our CO's discovered during the war, was the most efficient method for finding contacts. The sonar of the day was not very good, and the sound characteristics of the pacific changed dramatically. The greater speed of surface patrol with a sailful of lookouts spotting smoke from ships funnels made contacts easierto locate. Unfortunately the lookouts in game seem to have a max range beyond which they are blind. I tend to believe the soundman has a similar limitation as i have picked up contacts manually that the ssoundman didn't find. I am unsure if crew with better ratings would improve this or not.