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Hi,
I was playing a simple sub scenario as my first experience of the game (Belgrano vs Conqueror sub) and noticed a few things that made me want to post. I'm breaking the "one issue per post" just to test the ice on responsiveness. Happy to break them down if there is a desire.
1. Passive Sonar - the probability box is often deadly accurate on range whilst being very wide in heading. For passive sonar, as far as I ever remember, and this includes from playing subsims, harpoon old days and my own reading/common sense, the Heading is the one thing you can get from a sound contact, within a couple of degrees, and the range is the harder thing to fix, requiring movement laterally across the heading in order to get TMA over time. I find this an absolute immersion killer that the game gives it a rough heading between 30 degrees and a range that is fairly accurate. Surely this is an inversion of an X and Y and it's actually a bug in code? Detections via passive sonar should be spikes in the direction.
Other stuff:
2. Why doesn't the detection method show in the Contact report box as a new tab? Instead its in the message log. If I detected a unit I think it's reasonable to put how it was discovered and the details into the contact report. {ENHANCEMENT}
3. Active Torpedo's are conveying detections back to the launch platform. Whilst I know some are wire guided, i wasn't aware that torpedo's were datalinked in this way and it seems to me (needs some more work) that the torpedo is a bit super intelligent in this way. In fact weapons in general are not something tracked as well as they are represented in game. Often they have pinpoint accuracy displayed, I'd vote heavily for a sense of immersion where you don't know exactly where the weapon went or what it can see.
I had some other technical observations on aircraft behaviour but I'd like to see what the uptake is on this post first. Thanks for reading. If you need a mission or video to demonstrate, I am happy to do the legwork to go through it.
< Message edited by Sunburn -- 7/4/2017 10:24:15 AM >
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[Q] Passive SONAR Detection query and other first thoughts - 
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