Not sure how to make changes

[JScones]

Originally Posted by the.terrabyte.pirate

1) I only get verbal warnings from my crew (eg sonar contacts, radio contacts) at 1x TC. Anything above that, and I get a message on the log only, and a drop to 8x TC. There is no change to the background sound. Is there a way to have the game verbally tell me that the sonar guy has picked up a contact etc, and have the game drop back to 1x TC as standard?

Raise SoundEffects TC ("Sound effects" in SH3Cmdr) and lower EnemyDetected to 1 ("When enemy ship(s) detected" in SH3Cmdr). This may do it; I'm just not sure now if SH3 treats verbal messages as sound effects or something else altogether.

Originally Posted by the.terrabyte.pirate

2) Is there a way to stop received messages from dropping my TC back to 1x? I'd prefer if it didn't.

Increase RealTime TC ("Real time" in SH3Cmdr). Just be mindful though that this is a global event so any change may impact somewhere else - indeed, you may find that if the SoundEffects change above doesn't work, then changing this setting may.