Do we need to wait 10.000 years to reach our destination ?

[Dacian Rider]

or is there some way of speeding things up a bit ?

[Horcerer]

In my experience it only takes some 5-10 minutes to locate and get visual contact with my convoy.

[Dacian Rider]

not for me and ma' pals. we've been drifting towards our patrol zone for nearly 40 minutes, with an overall estimated time of arrival of 1h+ & zero contacts along the way.

[Horcerer]

Origineel geplaatst door 1stAL «T/4» C. Blyatman:

not for me and ma' pals. we've been drifting towards our patrol zone for nearly 40 minutes, with an overall estimated time of arrival of 1h+ & zero contacts along the way.

What speed are you going at? And do you know how to locate the convoy?

[Dacian Rider]

full speed with the diesel, you move towards the reference grid from the mission brief, right?

[Horcerer]

Origineel geplaatst door 1stAL «T/4» C. Blyatman:

full speed with the diesel, you move towards the reference grid from the mission brief, right?

First, make sure all your tanks are empty for max speed (You should be getting about 18 knots like that). When you spawn in, look around on the bridge to make sure the convoy isn't in sight and you know the weather. After that, dive if you don't see it to 12-20 meters and find your target using the Hydrophone. Simply go to the magnetic heading the target is at on the hydrophone.

That should be getting you to your target pretty quickly. I don't know about the briefing or what it means, but this always works well for me.

[Dacian Rider]

Well, yeah. I was just trying to follow the mission parameters. also, about the hydrophone.. I can't really tell when I'm picking up another ship's engine or my own sub's propeller. ( I mean, is it even possible - picking up my own propeller like a blind dog.. or is it a separate boat every time ? )
Btw. I'm a noob at this game, and I'm not into uboat porn like some hardcore people, I just like WW2 in general and really enjoyed the movie " Das Boot " + I've played a bit of Silent Hunter back in the day... don't really remember much.

[Horcerer]

Origineel geplaatst door 1stAL «T/4» C. Blyatman:

Well, yeah. I was just trying to follow the mission parameters. also, about the hydrophone.. I can't really tell when I'm picking up another ship's engine or my own sub's propeller. ( I mean, is it even possible - picking up my own propeller like a blind dog.. or is it a separate boat every time ? )
Btw. I'm a noob at this game, and I'm not into uboat porn like some hardcore people, I just like WW2 in general and really enjoyed the movie " Das Boot "

You can turn your engines off while submerged so you have absolutely nothing getting in the way of your hydrophone. Once you get the hang of it it shouldn't take you long.

[Dacian Rider]

Right, so in a nutshell, if I don't find anything straight from the get-go with the hydrophone, I'll set coordinates for the mission patrol area and activate the hydrophone periodically, in hopes of finding something?

[Horcerer]

Convoy will always be well in range of the hydrophone, you'll just have to used it properly. The starting gain/volume/high-low-pass settings on the hydro work fine, so you can just rotate the hydro slowly to locate the target without fiddling with anything.

And the hydrophone only works submerged.

[grambo]

As soon as you load in, dive and get a bearing to the enemy using the hydrophone. Blow your main ballast tanks, surface, and head for that bearing with your diesel engines on full power. You should find the enemy within 5-10 minutes.

One trick that works due to a bug at the moment - when scanning for enemies, look with the corner of your screen. You can see further, especially through fog, at the left and right edges of your screen. This doesn't work with binoculars or through the periscope, only with the naked eye.

[Dacian Rider]

Right, I'll keep trying thanks for the assist guys!

[wolfe]

Do you want to be put in the path of ships like in a arcade game or do you want to play a sim game where you have to find the ships ?

[boris.glevrk]

Origineel geplaatst door grambo:

As soon as you load in, dive and get a bearing to the enemy using the hydrophone. Blow your main ballast tanks, surface, and head for that bearing with your diesel engines on full power. You should find the enemy within 5-10 minutes.

One trick that works due to a bug at the moment - when scanning for enemies, look with the corner of your screen. You can see further, especially through fog, at the left and right edges of your screen. This doesn't work with binoculars or through the periscope, only with the naked eye.

One more thing to the OP:
Before you come complaining about can't hear a damn on hydrophone, make sure you set the gain (the knob on top right) to 3 or 4, or you won't hear a thing.
also remember to exclude the sound you hear from directly behind you (about +- 20 degrees), that's your own propeller noise.

[Dacian Rider]

Origineel geplaatst door boris.glevrk:

Origineel geplaatst door grambo:

As soon as you load in, dive and get a bearing to the enemy using the hydrophone. Blow your main ballast tanks, surface, and head for that bearing with your diesel engines on full power. You should find the enemy within 5-10 minutes.

One trick that works due to a bug at the moment - when scanning for enemies, look with the corner of your screen. You can see further, especially through fog, at the left and right edges of your screen. This doesn't work with binoculars or through the periscope, only with the naked eye.

One more thing to the OP:
Before you come complaining about can't hear a damn on hydrophone, make sure you set the gain (the knob on top right) to 3 or 4, or you won't hear a thing.
also remember to exclude the sound you hear from directly behind you (about +- 20 degrees), that's your own propeller noise.

ye, ye aha, already done.

[Dacian Rider]

Origineel geplaatst door wolfe:

Do you want to be put in the path of ships like in a arcade game or do you want to play a sim game where you have to find the ships ?

ye, ye aha, aha, ye, ye...