Is there a fix for gun range resetting

[1Patriotofmany]

When you are looking at a target ship from the uzo, you find the range, then go down to the main gun, dial in the range adjust for your movment and the other ships making progressively different range shots. If it's a destroyer or other fast maneuvering or distant ship you eventually lose the range usually and have to go back to the uzo to establish the correct range. When you go back down to the main gun, the range has reset itself and it takes you that much longer to readjust to get back on target! That few seconds could be the difference between being hit hard/fatally and getting a couple more shots off.


Is there any way to keep the gun range where it last was when you leave to check the uzo range again?

[KaleunMarco]

Originally Posted by 1Patriotofmany

When you are looking at a target ship from the uzo, you find the range, then go down to the main gun, dial in the range adjust for your movment and the other ships making progressively different range shots. If it's a destroyer or other fast maneuvering or distant ship you eventually lose the range usually and have to go back to the uzo to establish the correct range. When you go back down to the main gun, the range has reset itself and it takes you that much longer to readjust to get back on target! That few seconds could be the difference between being hit hard/fatally and getting a couple more shots off.


Is there any way to keep the gun range where it last was when you leave to check the uzo range again?

none that i am aware of.
in fact, there are times when the default range on the deck gun changes during the mission.
i have the same issue with it as you do.
to combat the deficiency, i always compensate with less range based on speed. it is not hard to set up a table of yds per second at speed. you might even be able to use the speed-distance-bearing template on the nav map, depending on which modder built it. i keep my own settings and most of them are committed to memory.
30 kts is roughly 17 yds/sec. 30 secs @ 30 kts is 30 times 17 yds or 510 yds.
15 kts is half of that distance.

so, take your uzo distance, head over to the deck gun train over to the proper bearing, run up the elevation and take appropriate number of yds from the uzo distance. open fire.

keep mind that you CAN change bearing and elevation at the same time.
i have also modified the elevation speed such that it takes a few less seconds to get to 10 or 12 k.

good luck.

[razark]

1. Get initial range on the target.
2. Set the gun.
3. Fire the gun.
4. Observe impact.
5. If impact is behind target, decrease range.  Goto 3.
6. If impact is in front of target, increase range.  Goto 3.
7. Goto 3.

I base my deck gun shooting completely on the fall of the shell, aside from an approximate range at the beginning.
If I have to resort to the deck gun, I'm usually either very close in, or the situation is desperate enough that I don't have time to check for an accurate range.


I don't have to deal with the resetting issue, either, because once I switch to it, I'm on the gun until the target is gone.

[1Patriotofmany]

What about programming someone at the uzo to give range to nearest warship or closest target, like sonar does? I play dark waters so sonar only works when submerged.

[KaleunMarco]

Originally Posted by 1Patriotofmany

What about programming someone at the uzo to give range to nearest warship or closest target, like sonar does? I play dark waters so sonar only works when submerged.

that's a great idea.
to do that there has to be a command already in the Commands.cfg file, built by Ubi, that does something like: Send_target_range_to_deckgun.
unfortunately, there is no command like that and i am unaware of a user-capability to create/program additional commands.

a while back a modder was playing with the radar unit and trying to get it to slave to the deck gun (or vice versa) to do essentially the same thing as you suggested. since there is no mod of which i am aware, i must conclude that the modder either:

1. gave up
b. confirmed that it could not be accomplished
d. some other result of which i am not aware that caused him to stop

there is only one command that involves the Uzo and that takes the player to the Uzo unit. that's it.

do not feel bad about this. many great ideas lie fallow because of Ubi's lack of competence.

[1Patriotofmany]

Yeah I'm full of great ideas and no abilities