Some questions about the game, sorta New | Forums

[captain_mcloud]

Hello,

I am new to this forum and SH4, but I have played a decent amount of SH3 and loved it. I have a few beginner questions about the game that I do not understand. Note that I have vanilla MK 1.4

1. Just started a career and I am learning how to put in my own firing solution. My Sonar man picked up a acoustic sound bearing 358. I went to the hydrophones to bearing 358 i couldnt hear anything. even when the target went from 5000 yards away to 2500 yards and closing. I didnt hear him until he was pretty close about 1200 yards. Note i was at periscope depth and engine off. because i couldnt listen to him myself, i couldnt ask the range from my sonar man who kept saying, "no target selected" all i could do was ping with the indicator.

2. Radar. Its always off and I cant turn it on? why cant i use it at all is it because its 1941? or am i doing somthing wrong?

3. That same acoustic target turned out to be a small gun boat so i let it go, however i must have forgot to go to silent running or something because he picked up my scent and circled me for hours. it was near daylight and i was getting worried because i was under water for about 8 hours and i usually run underwater during daylight hours to avoid air recon. However i noticed that as i stayed submerged my electric batteries did not decrease. they remained 100/100. ???? i ran for 2 days submerged to test it and it did not deplete? note i have the option checked to ADD the realism with the batteries to use them historically. whats up?

4. Fuel. I have moved from Pearl to northern Japan to Saipan and my fuel is 100/100. ??? again the option is checked for historical fuel levels. whats up?

[captain_mcloud]

Hello,

I am new to this forum and SH4, but I have played a decent amount of SH3 and loved it. I have a few beginner questions about the game that I do not understand. Note that I have vanilla MK 1.4

1. Just started a career and I am learning how to put in my own firing solution. My Sonar man picked up a acoustic sound bearing 358. I went to the hydrophones to bearing 358 i couldnt hear anything. even when the target went from 5000 yards away to 2500 yards and closing. I didnt hear him until he was pretty close about 1200 yards. Note i was at periscope depth and engine off. because i couldnt listen to him myself, i couldnt ask the range from my sonar man who kept saying, "no target selected" all i could do was ping with the indicator.

2. Radar. Its always off and I cant turn it on? why cant i use it at all is it because its 1941? or am i doing somthing wrong?

3. That same acoustic target turned out to be a small gun boat so i let it go, however i must have forgot to go to silent running or something because he picked up my scent and circled me for hours. it was near daylight and i was getting worried because i was under water for about 8 hours and i usually run underwater during daylight hours to avoid air recon. However i noticed that as i stayed submerged my electric batteries did not decrease. they remained 100/100. ???? i ran for 2 days submerged to test it and it did not deplete? note i have the option checked to ADD the realism with the batteries to use them historically. whats up?

4. Fuel. I have moved from Pearl to northern Japan to Saipan and my fuel is 100/100. ??? again the option is checked for historical fuel levels. whats up?

[captain_mcloud]

well i figured out the cause of the battery and fuel questions

after i set my custom realism settings they change after i start a career to different stuff. I have tried a few things, saved and exited and checked to find it altered everytime.

Is this some sort of bug?

[Yooperbacker]

Hello captain mcloud,
Welcome to the forum.
I can't answer your first question because I use auto targeting.
The 2nd question is your right. It is just 1941 and that option has not yet be offered for your sub.
The Battery and Fuel setting and all your options setting have to be made again when you do a career. This is done when you are in the Office. In the office view look to the left at the book case and move your mouse around to the left and a book will come out with Options. Go there and setup your career.

[captain_mcloud]

hey thanks yooper, i didnt see that in the office part of the career that fixed me right up. and let me tell you it was getting quite frustrating to not have some realistic settings.

I lost a good career but its ok, again i thank you.

Thanks for the Radar update too, I figured that just needed it confirmed. I guess the poor radar man has nothing to do for a while!

I started to play this game on autofire like i did for so long with SH3 but i decided to try manual with all the great tutorials and videos found on this sight to help me as the instruction manual was no help at all.

However, i like to be able to hunt targets without visual contacts, just sonar and the video tutorials on that are great. I just dont understand about the hydrophones, why they are not quite working for me as they are crucial for sonar only hunting???