Ship Helicopters

XenonSurf · 01-14-18, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Delgard

I can accept the décor answer, I just don't detect helos very much.

I adjusted the missions as I mentioned earlier and I do have to be more careful now. I played a campaign late last night and this morning.

But there is no mean you can detect helos, that is: with your sensors (Ok, you can use periscope and active radar/esm, but you are not playing that suicidal, are you?). Also you can hear planes or helos, but then you are in bad shape already

You can cheat and look around your sub from the depth, look for small white circles on the water surface , that's where they drop their dipping sonars. Or you can press F4, or you can use right mouse button to pan around your sub, you will for sure 'see' them if they exist.

What you will detect - without cheating - are the torpedos that splash in the water at some distance from you, they are dropped from planes or helos if not dropped by missiles fired from ships, so you are warned about air activity around you.

Delgard · 01-15-18, 06:23 AM

I am usually in the 1984 Campaign. The mission files rarely have a fixed-wing or more than one helo. Looking at the immediate location of each mission and whether it is close to land, I added one of either. Being wartime, I think there would be increased air patrolling.

I tested it out with a Virginia and found that I need to keep a little more distance from the red task force which raises the difficulty and I assume that it will have a touch more "reality".

Instead of starting at 10k yards and being a "gunslinger", I have to start a bit farther out, fire torpedoes at max depth and range, do more sonar analysis, and get away from my launching point without alerting air and/or sea escorts. I do pay more attention to the mission screen and the weather and what my bearing is to the initial contact.

I understand the cheating techniques via the camera, but I avoid it. I found that I turn up the volume on my headphones and keep my screen on my sub more in order to listen for helos/fixed-wing aircraft at my sub's location. I can't just have my camera following my torpedoes all the time. It seems my listening is associated with where my camera is and staying with my own sub lets me hear when aircraft are overhead.

All-in-all, I am finding that I can't do other things while in a mission. It is a bit more immersive. Just finding that an extra helo or IL-38 keeps me on my toes.

01-15-18, 06:23 AM	#2
Delgard Captain Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: AZ & DC Posts: 487 Downloads: 48 Uploads: 0	I am usually in the 1984 Campaign. The mission files rarely have a fixed-wing or more than one helo. Looking at the immediate location of each mission and whether it is close to land, I added one of either. Being wartime, I think there would be increased air patrolling. I tested it out with a Virginia and found that I need to keep a little more distance from the red task force which raises the difficulty and I assume that it will have a touch more "reality". Instead of starting at 10k yards and being a "gunslinger", I have to start a bit farther out, fire torpedoes at max depth and range, do more sonar analysis, and get away from my launching point without alerting air and/or sea escorts. I do pay more attention to the mission screen and the weather and what my bearing is to the initial contact. I understand the cheating techniques via the camera, but I avoid it. I found that I turn up the volume on my headphones and keep my screen on my sub more in order to listen for helos/fixed-wing aircraft at my sub's location. I can't just have my camera following my torpedoes all the time. It seems my listening is associated with where my camera is and staying with my own sub lets me hear when aircraft are overhead. All-in-all, I am finding that I can't do other things while in a mission. It is a bit more immersive. Just finding that an extra helo or IL-38 keeps me on my toes.