TDC Issues

cwelt · 02-11-08, 12:24 AM

Alrighty... where to start. I have been sub simming for some time with SH3 and been using manual targetting for some time now but in SH4 I can't hit a barn at 50 meters :P For some reason when I activate the position keeper my target goes from being at bearing 330 (for example) to some bearing way out to lunch. I can spot it through the scope, lock onto it, refeed the data into the TDC but the position keeper throws it all out to lunch!! granted I am not always at a perfect 90 degree angle to the ship I am pursuing or locked onto but I do try to make it as close to 90 as possible but for some reason this darn thing keeps screwing up my solutions. Does anyone have any ideas as to what may be going wrong... I have watched WernerSobe's videos so many times to see if I could spot what I am doing wrong that I can prbably recite them word for word, but as of yet I can't get a solution that will hit a ship to save my life.

Grrrr... I love this game to death but I can't sink battleships with my deck gun, they seem to get me first :hmm:

Anyways, if anyone has any thoughts on what I may be doing wrong please oh please let me know...

here's my general walkthrough

1. sonar track's bearing to target
2. raise scope and ID the target, take a reading with the stad meter
3. drop the scope and set torps/open doors
4. raise scope and do second stad meter reading to get speed estimate
5. set AOB to match units course
6. activate position keeper
7. lock scope on target
8. update the range to target
9. check attack map to ensure solution looks good (this is when I notice the ship went from a bearing of about 340 to some wacked out bearing way off to the side of my ship)

I am confused very much... what I am doing should work no??? Sorry to ramble guys, this is buggin me sooo much as I know it should work, but my 12 misses with 12 torp's says I am missing something

02-11-08, 12:24 AM	#1
cwelt Mate Join Date: May 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 52 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	TDC Issues Alrighty... where to start. I have been sub simming for some time with SH3 and been using manual targetting for some time now but in SH4 I can't hit a barn at 50 meters :P For some reason when I activate the position keeper my target goes from being at bearing 330 (for example) to some bearing way out to lunch. I can spot it through the scope, lock onto it, refeed the data into the TDC but the position keeper throws it all out to lunch!! granted I am not always at a perfect 90 degree angle to the ship I am pursuing or locked onto but I do try to make it as close to 90 as possible but for some reason this darn thing keeps screwing up my solutions. Does anyone have any ideas as to what may be going wrong... I have watched WernerSobe's videos so many times to see if I could spot what I am doing wrong that I can prbably recite them word for word, but as of yet I can't get a solution that will hit a ship to save my life. Grrrr... I love this game to death but I can't sink battleships with my deck gun, they seem to get me first :hmm: Anyways, if anyone has any thoughts on what I may be doing wrong please oh please let me know... here's my general walkthrough 1. sonar track's bearing to target 2. raise scope and ID the target, take a reading with the stad meter 3. drop the scope and set torps/open doors 4. raise scope and do second stad meter reading to get speed estimate 5. set AOB to match units course 6. activate position keeper 7. lock scope on target 8. update the range to target 9. check attack map to ensure solution looks good (this is when I notice the ship went from a bearing of about 340 to some wacked out bearing way off to the side of my ship) I am confused very much... what I am doing should work no??? Sorry to ramble guys, this is buggin me sooo much as I know it should work, but my 12 misses with 12 torp's says I am missing something Last edited by cwelt; 02-11-08 at 12:36 AM.