Is "target lock" based on range or visibility?

prowler3 · 10-26-08, 02:31 PM

Here's an old question which has come back to haunt me. I am on my 5 day shakedown patrol and the crew is training . I am on the surface and tracking 2 Brirish merchies for targeting practice. They are at long range, 5,000+ meters, but I can see them plainly with the naked eye, binocs and UZO...but they won't stay "locked" in the UZO. I don't suppose there is any way to make the target lock "stick" at this range? I remember this issue as one of those little bummers I had with SH3. From a reality standpoint, if I can plainly see the target visually, I should be able to maintain a "lock" on it but I seem to recall this was an SH3 limitation. Anyone ever found a way to modify this little discrepancy?

10-26-08, 02:31 PM	#1
prowler3 XO Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Colorado, for now. Any RED State, ASAP. Posts: 401 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 0	Is "target lock" based on range or visibility? Here's an old question which has come back to haunt me. I am on my 5 day shakedown patrol and the crew is training . I am on the surface and tracking 2 Brirish merchies for targeting practice. They are at long range, 5,000+ meters, but I can see them plainly with the naked eye, binocs and UZO...but they won't stay "locked" in the UZO. I don't suppose there is any way to make the target lock "stick" at this range? I remember this issue as one of those little bummers I had with SH3. From a reality standpoint, if I can plainly see the target visually, I should be able to maintain a "lock" on it but I seem to recall this was an SH3 limitation. Anyone ever found a way to modify this little discrepancy?