Help identifying merchant ships please

badb0y · 05-31-07, 03:00 PM

any help please? ta

AVGWarhawk · 05-31-07, 03:06 PM

Hi - three problems.

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1 - how do i reset the TDC? In the manual it says "hit the X button on the notepad". Great, er, where the hell is this??

Note pad is found when at the sonar station. I know of no other note pad. No need to reset the TDC because you set up for each new ship anyway.

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2 - How can i identify merchant vessels? All i have in the ship identification book are fighting vessels. Therefore this means i can't complete step 1 of "using the TDC" when it comes to blasting freight. It follows that i can't pass bearing and range info to the TDC. As i can't reset the TDC then i have the previous shot saved and can't shoot straight ahead.

Your manual of ships...there are left and right arrows to scroll through the choice of countries and there is one that just says merchants. Click on the book when you get there. It will open to merchants. If you are using auto TDC the TDC should reset every time you lock a target. If in manual, lock the target and set up the TDC. No reason to reset the TDC.

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3 - I can't seem to find the hydraphone lol. ??

Two place to get to the hydraphone, task interface at the bottom, click twice or I believe the F8 key. Once there use the up/down/left/right arrows on the keyboard. Use HOME and END key to rotate the head of the sonar.

MONOLITH · 05-31-07, 03:57 PM

"Click the X on the notepad"

That's from the SH3 manual. Remember the notepad next to the SH3 periscope?

Please tell me there's not SH3 reprinted directions in the SH4 manual.

Also, when you open the recognition manual, click on the left arrow once, goes right to Merchants.

Joe S · 05-31-07, 04:02 PM

May I make a suggestion?

Someone has uploaded a printable version of the ID manual. find it and print it and forget about the in game version. It is way too difficult to flip through it when you are in a hurry and due to the fact that visibility is short in SHIV you dont get that much time to ID the target. The only reason you need to ID the target is to get the mast height. Mast height on many classes of ships are almost identical. Since range is the least important element of a firing solution I often will input an average mastheight. You can also let sonar or radar send the range to the tdc if you want. I intend to print my own custom version of the recognition manual with pages from original WWII recognition manuals. One of the things I will be doing is computing the average mastheight for each class of target and not the major exceptions. I hope you find this idea usefull. Good luck and Sink em all! Joe S

ReallyDedPoet · 05-31-07, 05:13 PM

Welcome

badb0y

RDP

popeye · 05-31-07, 05:46 PM

where the hell is the recognition manual??

AVGWarhawk · 05-31-07, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by popeye

where the hell is the recognition manual??

Press the N key while in scope/TBT view.

ATR-42 · 05-31-07, 06:47 PM

sounds crazy, but i found looking in the recognition manual to be getting a bit tedious, it started to feel like busy work... "okay, i know im going to find you, i just need to flip to the stupid page..." after a while i was just memorizing the designs...

so it got to the point where i modded the config file so all you need to do in order to identify your target is hit SHIFT + I . done deal. yeah its not ultra real but it keeps the action going and saves me 15 seconds of my life each time i ident a target.

05-31-07, 03:57 PM	#3
MONOLITH Grey Wolf Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 997 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	"Click the X on the notepad" That's from the SH3 manual. Remember the notepad next to the SH3 periscope? Please tell me there's not SH3 reprinted directions in the SH4 manual. Also, when you open the recognition manual, click on the left arrow once, goes right to Merchants. __________________

05-31-07, 05:13 PM	#5
ReallyDedPoet Canadian Wolf Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canada. The one and only, East Coast Posts: 10,885 Downloads: 946 Uploads: 5	Welcome badb0y RDP __________________ Back in the Day

05-31-07, 06:47 PM	#8
ATR-42 Commodore Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Jersey Shore Posts: 606 Downloads: 20 Uploads: 6	sounds crazy, but i found looking in the recognition manual to be getting a bit tedious, it started to feel like busy work... "okay, i know im going to find you, i just need to flip to the stupid page..." after a while i was just memorizing the designs... so it got to the point where i modded the config file so all you need to do in order to identify your target is hit SHIFT + I . done deal. yeah its not ultra real but it keeps the action going and saves me 15 seconds of my life each time i ident a target. __________________

05-31-07, 03:00 PM	#1
badb0y Swabbie Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 14 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	any help please? ta

05-31-07, 04:02 PM	#4
Joe S XO Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 409 Downloads: 28 Uploads: 0	May I make a suggestion? Someone has uploaded a printable version of the ID manual. find it and print it and forget about the in game version. It is way too difficult to flip through it when you are in a hurry and due to the fact that visibility is short in SHIV you dont get that much time to ID the target. The only reason you need to ID the target is to get the mast height. Mast height on many classes of ships are almost identical. Since range is the least important element of a firing solution I often will input an average mastheight. You can also let sonar or radar send the range to the tdc if you want. I intend to print my own custom version of the recognition manual with pages from original WWII recognition manuals. One of the things I will be doing is computing the average mastheight for each class of target and not the major exceptions. I hope you find this idea usefull. Good luck and Sink em all! Joe S

05-31-07, 05:46 PM	#6
popeye A-ganger Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 77 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	where the hell is the recognition manual??