Very important modding issue

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Albrecht Von Hesse

2) EnemyDetected and AirEnemyDetected won't automatically drop your time compression. Your watch crew has to first actually spot it. Which is why you'll often have an aircraft make its attack run and bomb or depth charge you while still running at a high TC. Also why a DD or escort will sink you like a stone in bad weather/low visibility: the compression doesn't drop until the action is already over and you've taken damage.

In regards to AirEnemyDetected, when your on the surface, you're correct, your watch does have to spot the plane first. Only fair really. The point of auto pausing the game is to give you a chance to do something if you leave your computer chair and come back to it later. The thing is, in high enemy air traffic areas, your going to have not NOT use a higher TC setting. It's just the way the game is. As long as i dont go past 512 or 1024 if im really pushing my luck, (my max is 2048 ) im never surpised and always have time to react. Another key thing here is you have to pause yourself whenever you renable time compression. Human nature wants to mash the TC increase button to kick it back up to max to move forward with the game. Ive lost a couple games doing that. Thesedays i push the button once, wait a second, push it again, and so on until i max TC again.

As an aside, AirEnemyDetected of -1 Submerged, is something of a cheat. YOur watch crew doesnt have to spot it. Just pop the scope and twirl it real fast. If theree a plane about, even if you can't see it (and most of the time you won't, its a flyspec) the game will pause.