Radar and Sonar are unfinished stations? (solved)

[Prientje]

Originally Posted by gronbek

Hi,

I just started one of the quick missions.
According to manual they should be operatable, but they really are not.
Radar could not detect a merchant vessel that I had targeted and the crew was busy shooting with the deck gun at. I was circling around target and there was no detection with Sonar either. Some buttons at radar station are highlighted with mouse cursor but have no function. It is also not possible to manually use the direction handlers at the stations.
This is really shocking. Either I am a complete idiot who cant discover the controls or this game is not finished.
Please have a look at the manual page for radar and sonar. Pictures in manual are so small it is impossible to read the information. Probably because the stations really dont work.

<edited by Drebbel: It is not allowed to publish parts of the manual in this forum, just describe what you are referring too, if needed include the page numbers>

BR Anders

we have 5 radar types for us subs

1.SD
2.SV
3.SJ
4.PPI
and periscope radar ST

is it possible that you only had the SD Radar ?


The earliest radar installed in the fleet boats was the SD air search radar. This was a very basic unit. Operated from the conning tower, the SD radar was only vaguely directional. It was capable of warning that a plane was within about 6 miles of the boat, but couldn't really pinpoint a bearing, or give much in the way of information.

[John Channing]

The drop down arrows would imply that you can select a different boat other than a Porpoise.

Is this not the case?

JCC

[gronbek]

Originally Posted by John Channing

The drop down arrows would imply that you can select a different boat other than a Porpoise.

Is this not the case?

JCC

Sorry nope.

[jeff lackey]

In my first missions, from Pearl in a Porpoise (career,) I only have the SD air radar on the boat. But I still get regular radar reports on surface ships (this is with realistic sensors turned on.)

The sonar, on the other hand, seems pretty flaky (or, perhaps I just haven't gathered the nuances of the U.S. sonar and the SH4 system.)

[Prientje]

Originally Posted by jeff lackey

In my first missions, from Pearl in a Porpoise (career,) I only have the SD air radar on the boat. But I still get regular radar reports on surface ships (this is with realistic sensors turned on.)

The sonar, on the other hand, seems pretty flaky (or, perhaps I just haven't gathered the nuances of the U.S. sonar and the SH4 system.)

thats a bug with the sd radar...

[castorp345]

Originally Posted by jeff lackey

I only have the SD air radar on the boat. But I still get regular radar reports on surface ships (this is with realistic sensors turned on.)

same here (in the s-class).
again, is this a feature (ie could the sd actually pick up surface contacts), or perhaps another item for the bug list?

'in whichever case it certainly has come in handy on the luzon approaches...

and i can confirm that home/end do in fact rotate the hydrophone heads. thanks for that undocumented key assignment info!

cheers
hc

[akdavis]

This is...disconcerting.

[gronbek]

Originally Posted by akdavis

This is...disconcerting.

Many things are in SH4, that is my experience. For example I was shooting more then 50 AP shells at an enemy destroyer and it did not even get a scratch.
Then I rammed it with my sub on 100 realism and nothing happened on the hulls of both ships.
There are so many things.
I am sure of one think though, and that is that I have had it with this sim.

BR Anders

[Prientje]

Originally Posted by castorp345

same here (in the s-class).
again, is this a feature (ie could the sd actually pick up surface contacts), or perhaps another item for the bug list?

'in whichever case it certainly has come in handy on the luzon approaches...

and i can confirm that home/end do in fact rotate the hydrophone heads. thanks for that undocumented key assignment info!

cheers
hc

no its a bug sd radar can not pick up surface contacts

[THE_MASK]

Isnt sh4 like sh3 . You have to go to the 3D captains room at the start of a patrol to add radar etc if tis available ?

[Onkel Neal]

Watch as I effortlessly yank this thread back on topic... yank!

Radar, Sonar explained

[THE_MASK]

What about the geting target speed thread too .