No more Active! Instantly made the 1968 Campaign more fun!

Skyhigh · 07-21-17, 12:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Kazuaki Shimazaki II

In 1968, I tend to manage to keep my numbers below that critical +10 fairly easily until I can get into his baffles.

Yet still other subs than the one you are chasing will ping and you know where they are = not fun.

Why on earth should they ping at all? They are subs. Secret service of the deep. Silent but deadly etc.
And don't tell me it was doctrine. Not in 68 for sure. Its just a bit silly.

Mitchmaker · 07-21-17, 01:24 AM

Well i must say in the years i spend on a conventional submarine we never used the active sonar once. It simply didn't happen, we the sonaroperators finally joked about the useless active base in our nose sometimes. For my understanding active sonar on a Sub doesn't make sense, well at least in the way the enemy uses it in the game at this moment. Because in nearly every live exercise we had, as soon as a Sub or a ship went active we had a perfect firing solution a few seconds after.
I would say the active sonar should be more effective and accurate but it should less often be used. Thats my opinion.

Kazuaki Shimazaki II · 07-21-17, 04:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Skyhigh

Yet still other subs than the one you are chasing will ping and you know where they are = not fun.

Why on earth should they ping at all? They are subs. Secret service of the deep. Silent but deadly etc.
And don't tell me it was doctrine. Not in 68 for sure. Its just a bit silly.

Because the enemy is quieter than they are.

To take a point more to your side though, KFG might do well to come up with a passive only AI for when the "Soviet Campaign" goes active. Imagine the screaming when otherwise undetected American submarines give themselves away by active pinging.

Skyhigh · 07-21-17, 05:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Kazuaki Shimazaki II

Because the enemy is quieter than they are.

Think about this for a second.

My sub is louder than my enemy's.

So let's SCREAM AND SHOUT by pinging, because hey, they could hear us anyway right, and if they hadn't, well they hear us now!

07-21-17, 01:24 AM	#2
Mitchmaker Sonar Operator Join Date: Jul 2017 Location: Central Europe Posts: 20 Downloads: 71 Uploads: 0	Well i must say in the years i spend on a conventional submarine we never used the active sonar once. It simply didn't happen, we the sonaroperators finally joked about the useless active base in our nose sometimes. For my understanding active sonar on a Sub doesn't make sense, well at least in the way the enemy uses it in the game at this moment. Because in nearly every live exercise we had, as soon as a Sub or a ship went active we had a perfect firing solution a few seconds after. I would say the active sonar should be more effective and accurate but it should less often be used. Thats my opinion. __________________ DBF