no lock at fair distance?

are you playing stock or GFO? because the super mods will dumb down or reduce the ability to use the lock at distance or bad weather or even if you do lock on at distance, its only for a few seconds.

sometimes the lock can be done by simply raising depth a meter or so to get the scope a little higher

[Rockin Robbins]

Actually it's the environmental mods embedded in the supermods that makes locking targets a problem. I remember when we were testing RFB 2 that it was nearly impossible to keep a lock in fog or at a distance over 1500 yards. First they wanted to say that it was a feature, but couldn't keep from laughing as they explained.

Finally they ratcheted back the environmental tweaks enough for locking to work, but still not as well as the stock game.

Environmental mods introduce lots of things like that and a disparity between what you can see and what the crew can see. For every effect you want there are three more that you didn't intend. Two of them are bad. It's the law of unintended consequences.

The actual game developers were playthings in the claws of the Law of Unintended Consequences too.

[LCQ_SH]

Originally Posted by Webster

are you playing stock or GFO? because the super mods will dumb down or reduce the ability to use the lock at distance or bad weather or even if you do lock on at distance, its only for a few seconds.

sometimes the lock can be done by simply raising depth a meter or so to get the scope a little higher

TMO RSRD env. mod and OTC.

Does that happen with you GFO mod? If it doesn't I think I will dump everything and stay with only RSRD and GFO. I like hard but realistic escorts though hehe.

[ColonelSandersLite]

What exactly is "env. mod"? This is probably the source of your problem. The TMO sensors are carefully balanced for use with its own built in environment mod. It's also possible that RSRD has altered sensors and this is causing problems with the TMO Envrionment mod as well. I don't really know, I don't use RSRD (not a fan).

Using straight TMO, I definitely don't have this problem, though there is an annoying tendency for the lock to be lost after a few seconds if the target is over a certain distance away. It's usually pretty far though. It can be worked around by just re-locking the target quickly after lock is lost. I don't know what the default keyboard control is for that, but knowing what it is for your setup makes it pretty easy to do.