First time the "report contacts" button worked for me | Forums

[Diamond_Head]

A few minutes ago I was in my '41 campaign. Suddenly I recieve a radio message about a radio contact (convoy). Accidently I pressed the "report contacts" button and to my surprise the radio guy tells me "Next radio contact on course 019 distance 1161 km" (see picture below).
At first I thought this was related to the convoy message I have recieved minutes earlier but then I recognized that this thing the radio guy told me about is more than 1000 km away of my position and at a completely different bearing than the convoy! See second picture.

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So my question: Has anyone else experienced this before? I mean did the report contacts button work and in which context??

[Diamond_Head]

A few minutes ago I was in my '41 campaign. Suddenly I recieve a radio message about a radio contact (convoy). Accidently I pressed the "report contacts" button and to my surprise the radio guy tells me "Next radio contact on course 019 distance 1161 km" (see picture below).
At first I thought this was related to the convoy message I have recieved minutes earlier but then I recognized that this thing the radio guy told me about is more than 1000 km away of my position and at a completely different bearing than the convoy! See second picture.

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Picture 2
So my question: Has anyone else experienced this before? I mean did the report contacts button work and in which context??

[Jose.MaC]

Wich mods do you have in your game? Never have seen anything similar.

[Diamond_Head]

I have Silent hunter III with patch 1.4(b), Real Uboat 1.43 and "16 km basic atmosphere mod v1.0".
I have installed them in this above order, so the atmosphere mod overwrites some files of the Rub mod but I think thats not a big issue, because these are only the files which make the water darker and so on.

[WilhelmSchulz]

A quirk in the game??? Notce its gray.(unknown contact) Not red or green.

[W.Irving]

There's an old saying in aeronautics:
"Don't point the nose in a direction where your mind hasn't been five minutes ago."

Diamond_Head adapted this saying for the Kriegsmarine with his telepathic funker:
"Don't report a contact you haven't seen 2 full days journey away."


Or perhaps he and a fellow funker onboard another u-boat picked up the transmission from the ship and they managed to triangulate the ship's position!

[Jose.MaC]

Anyway, was way too far to be intercepted. Crapy, crapy, crapy.

Will try the bottom, to see if it works or was just a quirk, as said by WilhelmSchulz.

[macker33]

Agreed,its too far away.

You could always find a narrow straight that ships have to pass through and hang around there.

[Mylo42]

I gave up on the "Report Contacts" button a long time ago.


Mylo42

[Diamond_Head]

@WilhelmSchulz: the gray contact symbol is not a quirk but a feature of the Real Uboat mod.

@all: I dont mind a 2 day journey to a contact, but I doubt that I will be able to get visual on the contact as they might surely change course.

Back on topic: I am really quite excited by this issue.
I think I will savegame and investigate the position my radio guy told me about.
But I'm still awaiting an "official" response to this occurence.

@Mylo42: I gave up the report contacts button too - but as I wrote I hit it accidently