How do you find your prey?

hi

i am a beginner in SH3. some time ago i joined this forum by (naturally) asking noob questions. i was gladly surprised at the speed and quality of the replies and in general how "welcome" you feel in this forum. so thanks all.

now i can for the first time give an answer (even though it basically has been said before). yes, my experience has been that by far hydrophones are more efficient than "eyesight" when finding ships. you will get feeds from BdU from time to time but think of these as a "bonus" to the ones you find yourself. as for spotting ships,
since sound travels much better through water the best thing is to dive to periscope depth from time to time (every couple of hours, or in every leg of your coyurse, as has been said), stop and listen. i mean listen manually: press h, steer the wheel yourself and listen carefully. actually it is not that bad; periscope depth (or a bit more), all stop, one whole turn, and surface again. this DOES make a huge difference on the number of contacts you make. it is also useful to get familiar with the chunk-chunk of merchants as opposed to the shink-shink-shink of warships - sorry for the sounds

good hunting!

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by plastik

hi

i am a beginner in SH3. some time ago i joined this forum by (naturally) asking noob questions. i was gladly surprised at the speed and quality of the replies and in general how "welcome" you feel in this forum. so thanks all.

now i can for the first time give an answer (even though it basically has been said before). yes, my experience has been that by far hydrophones are more efficient than "eyesight" when finding ships. you will get feeds from BdU from time to time but think of these as a "bonus" to the ones you find yourself. as for spotting ships,
since sound travels much better through water the best thing is to dive to periscope depth from time to time (every couple of hours, or in every leg of your coyurse, as has been said), stop and listen. i mean listen manually: press h, steer the wheel yourself and listen carefully. actually it is not that bad; periscope depth (or a bit more), all stop, one whole turn, and surface again. this DOES make a huge difference on the number of contacts you make. it is also useful to get familiar with the chunk-chunk of merchants as opposed to the shink-shink-shink of warships - sorry for the sounds

good hunting!

Great sounds man! In all reality the hydrophone should be better than eyesighting ships. Some whales can be heard over 40 miles away make those whale noises whales make. Anyway, I cannot see over 40 miles so yeah, hydrophones should be better at finding ships and as far as I'm concerned the hydrophones in the game are modelled pretty well.

[Corsair]

Not 40 miles with the WWII hydrophones... I would think something like 8-10 nautical miles is what you can expect by good weather, which is already a lot more than eye sight, specially considering that in SH3 you have a lot more time with heavy/medium/light fog than with no fog at all...
PS : whales with their personal original mk1 "hydrophones" can communicate over 100s of miles in the low frequencies.