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[Grey004]

I have completed 60 missions and have had 42 of them,were the weather has been overcast,raining and heavy fog,also the sea state has been heavy with gale force winds.

If anyone has ever sailed before you'd know that if there is gale force wind the likelyhood of bloody heavy fog is unlikely.

Is this a bug that requires patching and has anyone else experienced it.I know its only a game but these so called weather conditions are cabbaging my head.

[blue_76]

yeah, i've noticed most of this foul weather in the north seas.. specially close to ireland.. i think its exaggerated, but some will argue that thats the way it is in real life..
with the fog, my guess is that they're trying to simulate the poor visibility during bad weather, not that there is fog in such gale conditions.. whats more frustrating is the conditions when you encounter a convoy, seems most of the time i stumble on a convoy, i get poor visibility..

[Jose.MaC]

I love this poor visibility! I rely more on hidrophones and can sneak easily. The DD's cannot see me, neither, and I can get lots of shoots at 400 meters.

So is not so bad. You even can do a quickguess of the size of the enemy ship: the more far you see it, the bigger it is!

[Fodderstompf]

Y'know, initially I hated the foul weather.
Seeing my carefully fired eel's premature, my lovingly crafted keel shots go to hell, then I entered the year 1944. In my current career, I really appreciate some medium fog. It keeps those godd*mn bombers away from my boat

But otherwise, it sure is weird getting gale force winds that last for 13 days off the coast of cuba! fair enough, typhoons do happen, but not 3 patrols in a row

[g8rk0k]

I am in mid '43 and I absolutely LOVE foul weather, I wish fog would stay nasty all the time. Anything is better than having to deal with getting reamed by aircraft every 10 minutes. This and plus the fact that I am getting pretty good at nailing ships in heavy fog. I use my radar to track their position and setup a line through them as they move. Then I use the compass to make 2 circles on their course line (both circles on top of each other) as I move out ahead. I make the size of one circle 300 meters and the other 400 meters. I dive to periscope depth and set my course to run through dead center of this circle and stop just shy of a point between the two circles at nearly 350 m. I set my torp for slow/impact, put up the scope and find my target in the manual. I open the tube door and wait. Only thing is it is nearly time to fire as soon as you see him so you have to set where you want to hit him and lock in fast. If you fire manually you might be better off setting torp to magnetic and aiming at keel depth. It isn't too hard to shoot from the hip at this range.

[Krupp-Atlas]

Good tactics g8rk0k. Got a question. I have been wondering if the use of radar could give your own position away to a "sniffing" destroyer. Annybody know if this in implemented in the game,
or maybe this sort of radar detection equipment was not developed yet?

[Fossa1999]

I've been wondering about the weather system. in the 8 patrols between sept 39-may 40 the weather has been atrocious on all except one patrol in February. Winds at 15 m/s + heavy fog most of the time. Visibility 300-400 meters. Maybe it's realistic (I doubt it, though) but it certainly is not fun.2 times I've hidden inside Scapa for 5 days to wait for the fog to lighten up at least. The same weather is of course present at protected harbours with waves at 5 meters/ no visibility. Thank God for the inefficiency of the RN, at least.

Right now I'm on patrol, it started out good but as soon as I left Denmark behind the winds started blowing. Ruins the game for me, having this weather ALL THE TIME

[Fossa1999]

Any chance of manning the deckgun yet?

[g8rk0k]

Enemies using your own radar to find you is definitely installed in the game. If I think I am anywhere near where air patrols exist and the fog is light or none I turn the radar off unless I am sure the enemy knows where I already am and I am not ready to dive yet. If this is the case I will end up diving sooner or later and setting a new course different to the one I was on when they saw me. Then I will get at least 120 km away from the area if I can swing it because the planes will keep finding you no matter what if they know where to look and you are on the surface. Destroyers will pick you up also but I think they need to be closer than planes because of the whole line of site thing. Thier radar recievers sit way higher than you from the waterline so they probably smell your radar before you pick them up with it but in medium to heavy fog I leave it on all the time anyway. I would rather have them see me and get a warning of them then have them zero in on my engine noise in heavy fog and pop out 300 meters on my rear. In cases where this has happened before 360 degree radar was available I have almost always died. Also... I think the 360 degree radar is not as effective toward the aft because planes coming from that direction have failed to be detected sometimes.

[Blabaer]

If I think I am anywhere near where air patrols exist and the fog is light or none I turn the radar off unless I am sure the enemy knows where I already am and I am not ready to dive yet.

My radar guy have the bad habbit of turning the radar on as soon as I turn my back...(he must be using the equippment to dry his socks or something) whenever I do a surprice inspection he's got his nose glued to the **** green line on the radarscope....and I have NO IDEA how to get it to stay off..starting to fantasice of borrowing one of the scuttlecharges to blow the radarset to teach him....

(anyone else have this problem with self starting radar??)