Is there a way of setting the range without stadimeter?

[Fincuan]

[QUOTE=Reece]

I haven't found Hydraphones, only sonar & radar stations, I tried to press H but does nothing, if they have how do you get to the station?

LMAO Reece, you haven't even looked at the manual, have you?

Sonar is the device used for pinging, and it's accessible from the respective station. Watch the WernerSobe video on manual targeting with sonar-only, and you'll get the idea.

[Reece]

Yes I read the manual through a few times & yes it has Sonar, I have used (SD I think, cost me 500 renown), but that's not hydraphones, I would love to be able to rotate the wheel to hear the various underwater sounds, capitation etc! Must be only on U-Boats!

[tomoose]

Reece;
I don't believe the manual really differentiates between Sonar and Hydrophone as their use (in the context of these games SH3 and 4) is essentially the same. Hydrophones were basically forerunners of Sonar albeit the technology was different.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonar

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Reece

Yes I read the manual through a few times & yes it has Sonar, I have used (SD I think, cost me 500 renown), but that's not hydraphones, I would love to be able to rotate the wheel to hear the various underwater sounds, capitation etc! Must be only on U-Boats!

You can. Go to the sonar station and use the "home" and "end" keys to turn the hydrophone head.

[Reece]

Ah, I didn't even try listening, I just thought it was purely sonar, sends a signal out & recieves a reflected signal back! I will check it out!
The "Home & End" keys were not marked/mentioned in the manual or ref card, this must have been in a later patch, I've just gone from 1.1 to 1.4, I should have read the "revision update notes", probably mentioned there.
Thanks.

[AVGWarhawk]

Not only that, it you have a mouse wheel you can turn the sonar head.

[Reece]

Not only that, it you have a mouse wheel you can turn the sonar head.

Cripes right at my finger tips and didn't even know it, thanks AVG!

[Powerthighs]

Regarding the stadimeter, you can't manually set range to much more than a thousand yards, and you can't even use the stadimeter unless you are looking at a ship. So you basically have to learn to use it sometimes if you want to start tracking while the ship is still at some distance (the only other way to get range is to send from the hydrophones).

[DrBeast]

Originally Posted by Reece

Cripes right at my finger tips and didn't even know it, thanks AVG!

Also, clicking anywhere on the perimeter of the hydrophone/sonar "bearing" circle will "point" the hydrophone to that spot. That's how I do it: click in the target's general bearing, then fine-tune/follow the target with the mouse wheel.