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Old 07-19-17, 12:30 PM   #16
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Subs were previously able to use the surface ships' datalink to coordinate attacks with the surface escorts and amongst themselves. Hunter/killer refers to one sub tracking the target while another intercepts at high speed, maintaining contact through the other boat. Obviously not possible without a datalink between vessels.

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Cool that the AI is no longer getting a God's eye view but without improved AI tactics, wouldn't it lower the difficulty?
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Old 07-19-17, 01:17 PM   #17
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Hang on, though, how does side-scan sonar work, if the sound is only being reflected off the air/water interface? It seems able to detect wrecks easily enough... Eg. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ean-floor.html

So clearly, SOME sonar can detect wrecks, but why can some sonar detect wrecks but not others?
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Old 07-19-17, 01:33 PM   #18
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Is it actually released? I'm not seeing it as a download option. Thanks.

EDIT: Never mind, opted out of the beta and opted back in and it updated to 1.06.
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Old 07-19-17, 04:17 PM   #19
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Improved AI depth keeping to prevent submarines from hitting seabed or going below crush depth
Had a Juliet on the '68 'kill subs 200 miles north of iceland' that evaded below crush depth and blew up in front of me.
In the same mission, the November briefly spent some time on the surface.
I should note this was my 'neverending' save game... a campaign that never seems to resolve started in 1.05 and just throws the same 5 missions at me.
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Old 07-20-17, 08:34 AM   #20
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Submarines no longer use Hunter/Killer logic... wonder what that means
One unit tracks, the other unit prosecutes. Submarines don't do this, since they can't communicate with other units, like air or surface units can.
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Old 07-20-17, 10:40 AM   #21
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Had a Juliet on the '68 'kill subs 200 miles north of iceland' that evaded below crush depth and blew up in front of me.
In the same mission, the November briefly spent some time on the surface.
I should note this was my 'neverending' save game... a campaign that never seems to resolve started in 1.05 and just throws the same 5 missions at me.
+Yes the 1.05 campaign takes quite some time to resolve given how much longer the devs made it. You do get there eventually, it'll just take a while, and if you fail any missions it makes it just that much longer as well.
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Old 07-20-17, 11:06 AM   #22
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Is it actually released? I'm not seeing it as a download option. Thanks.

EDIT: Never mind, opted out of the beta and opted back in and it updated to 1.06.
Does anyone know how to force an update in Steam? My version keeps saying v1.05b. When I click "View All News" for Cold Waters v1.05b is shown as the latest update.
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Old 07-20-17, 11:10 AM   #23
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Does anyone know how to force an update in Steam? My version keeps saying v1.05b. When I click "View All News" for Cold Waters v1.05b is shown as the latest update.
EDIT -> v1.06 is actually listed as a BETA so I had to enable BETA download. Once I did that the update started downloading
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Old 07-20-17, 03:59 PM   #24
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Had a bug in the single player mission where I hit the ship with torpedo and it flipped over and the game showed it as "sunk" yet it was still moving with propeller power and dropping noise makers...

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Old 07-20-17, 05:03 PM   #25
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I have mine on auto update and all I see is 105b..So I op out of that then reopened and still at 105b no update...What have I done wrong this time???
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Old 07-20-17, 06:10 PM   #26
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I have mine on auto update and all I see is 105b..So I op out of that then reopened and still at 105b no update...What have I done wrong this time???
It's in beta. You have to opt-in to the beta branch.
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Old 07-20-17, 08:06 PM   #27
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I open steam right click on cold waters right click on properties left click on beta it shows that I am on auto update go to beta code right click.....Nothing happens. How big is the file/update??
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Old 07-21-17, 12:56 PM   #28
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You must opt out of beta and then enable beta again. Silly, but that's what does it.
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Old 07-23-17, 10:51 AM   #29
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Hang on, though, how does side-scan sonar work, if the sound is only being reflected off the air/water interface? It seems able to detect wrecks easily enough... Eg. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ean-floor.html

So clearly, SOME sonar can detect wrecks, but why can some sonar detect wrecks but not others?
Side-Scan is a HF active with a relatively short range... IE, it's a specialized application. Your standard longer-range MF active works as described earlier.
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Old 07-23-17, 07:38 PM   #30
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Side Scan is like creating an image from sound so it's more about combing the area over and over and building up a picture chunk by chunk. Even with interference you're probably going to see some kind of pattern emerge that a human can identify as a wreck or whatever.
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