merchant spotted...what bearing?

Keelbuster · 04-05-07, 11:39 AM

Merchant Spotted! Yay! What bearing? Is there no longer a way to have the watch officer call out the nearest contact? I have encountered a merchant at night, and i can't see him because my watch officer is being coy with his sighting - he doesn't want to cheat me of the fun of finding the ship myself...

AVGWarhawk · 04-05-07, 11:45 AM

Sorry, you get one chance at bearing and that is it. Not like SH3 where you could click the WO all day and he would call it out. Kind of sucks. Sometimes I have to dive and use my sonar to pick it up. When I surface the WO will call it out again.

Keelbuster · 04-05-07, 11:50 AM

That's ridic. But wait - one chance? Try no chance - I got the merchant spotted pop up, with those familiar options (attack, dive, continue). I don't think there was any bearing info in that generic screen, and scrolling up now in the message window there's no record of any ship spotted. Did they forget to include visual bearing information in the game?

tedhealy · 04-05-07, 11:52 AM

Install the keyboard mod, use control-v, problem solved.

Edit: here's the link too

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=108015

Keelbuster · 04-05-07, 11:57 AM

THANKS!

mookiemookie · 04-05-07, 12:14 PM

Man, that mod has saved my butt so many times already. Now if we could just get them to add this already existing functionality to the UI!

04-05-07, 11:39 AM	#1
Keelbuster Ace of the Deep Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: BA 72 Posts: 1,092 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	merchant spotted...what bearing? Merchant Spotted! Yay! What bearing? Is there no longer a way to have the watch officer call out the nearest contact? I have encountered a merchant at night, and i can't see him because my watch officer is being coy with his sighting - he doesn't want to cheat me of the fun of finding the ship myself... __________________

04-05-07, 11:45 AM	#2
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,282 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Sorry, you get one chance at bearing and that is it. Not like SH3 where you could click the WO all day and he would call it out. Kind of sucks. Sometimes I have to dive and use my sonar to pick it up. When I surface the WO will call it out again. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

04-05-07, 11:50 AM	#3
Keelbuster Ace of the Deep Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: BA 72 Posts: 1,092 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	That's ridic. But wait - one chance? Try no chance - I got the merchant spotted pop up, with those familiar options (attack, dive, continue). I don't think there was any bearing info in that generic screen, and scrolling up now in the message window there's no record of any ship spotted. Did they forget to include visual bearing information in the game? __________________

04-05-07, 11:57 AM	#5
Keelbuster Ace of the Deep Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: BA 72 Posts: 1,092 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	THANKS! __________________

04-05-07, 12:14 PM	#6
mookiemookie Navy Seal Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 9,404 Downloads: 105 Uploads: 1	Man, that mod has saved my butt so many times already. Now if we could just get them to add this already existing functionality to the UI! __________________ They don’t think it be like it is, but it do. Want more U-boat Kaleun portraits for your SH3 Commander Profiles? Download the SH3 Commander Portrait Pack here.

04-05-07, 11:52 AM	#4
tedhealy Grey Wolf Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: St. Louis, MO, USA Posts: 772 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	Install the keyboard mod, use control-v, problem solved. Edit: here's the link too http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=108015