Sub Skipper's Bag of Tricks

[Tshark]

Really looking forward to your new videos. I have watched and printed out your tutorials on manual targeting and it is one of my go to references as I learn. Thank you so much for all your efforts!

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by Tshark

Really looking forward to your new videos. I have watched and printed out your tutorials on manual targeting and it is one of my go to references as I learn. Thank you so much for all your efforts!

Thank you Tshark! Guys like you are what keep me going on this stuff eight years after this game hit the market. The special emphasis of my techniques has been to educate the beginner who is just making the step from auto targeting to manual targeting because that is the critical point in any player's history. If he survives the change he'll play for a long time. If not he'll get bored quickly and leave for Borderlands 2 or other FPS game. I'm trying to prevent tragedy here!

So far I have three videos on deck. First, because it was promised first, will be a Stadimeter Targeting Video showing what most are calling "conventional" targeting, because it is the type described (poorly) in the SH4 manual. There are some important wrinkles in actual practice that are worth covering and bringing together in one place. This video will be accompanied by a written tutorial and flash card just like all my constant bearing attack methods.

Then I'm going to extend the Stadimeter Targeting Video with a separate video and tutorial on Divergent Spreads. This will show how to actually use the spread dial in a scientific way, helped by a nifty keen chart and some in your head mental gymnastics so you can twiddle that spread knob with panache and aplomb, not to mention confidence.

Finally, a video to accompany the above tutorial on the Dick O'Kane Blindfolded technique, where you complete your setup, position the sub and dive to 90', from which you unleash the fires of hell, shooting blindfolded! This will be extended slightly from the existing tutorial by the application of the principles in the Divergent Spread tutorial and video.

Stay tuned! I hope this will be a very interesting place. But you're the judge. If you sink ships you wouldn't have sunk before then I've accomplished something. My achievement is measured by your results. It's as simple as that.

[DrBeast]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

...So far I have three videos on deck...

Really looking forward to those videos! I'm an SH4 old-timer myself, but with all the extended breaks I take from the game, it feels like the first time every time I come back (having the memory span of a goldfish doesn't help, either), so these videos really help getting me back in the saddle again (auto-targeting is SO boring!). Plus your commentary is just as hilarious and entertaining as your posts